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| The First American Dictator |
Trump is now emboldened. He cannot be impeached anymore. He is above the law. He can commit any crime and must remain in office as long as he is still in his presidential term. The check that the Congress had on him is now defunct. He has in effect, become the first American dictator.
Today was, as Trump described it, "Total Acquittal" day. As before with the Mueller "Total Exoneration" day, Trump was free to celebrate with his accomplices, who he identified by name.
His celebration started by reviewing what he called "unfair treatment" which "everybody wanted to come to an end. " He reminded his audience of the "witch hunt" he had to overcome "ever since I came down the elevator at Trump Tower." He used terms to describe the investigators of his campaign as "evil," "corrupt," "dirty cops," "leakers" and "liars." He explained that they have been after him since the beginning. He complimented himself for firing James Comey stating that he caught Comey "in the act." One of his most atrocious and frequently repeated statements was "this should never happen to another President." He said that Obama would have "jailed people already" giving a hint that Trump may be thinking about jailing his accusers in the near future.
Then he began praising himself for the job he has done as President. He thanked the administration and Republican Congressmen for helping him accomplish so much. He claimed the stock market would have crashed if he was not elected and gave himself credit for it's continued success. He claims that the market responded well recently because it liked his state of the union address. He indicated someone (nameless) who said it was the best state of the union address ever.
He thanked his lawyer staff for working so hard to get him acquitted. "It just worked out" he said. "I did nothing wrong." He holds up the Washington Post with the headlines "Trump Acquitted." He called the Russia investigation "bullshit" and because of the Mueller investigation a "rough campaign" mixing reasons for his impeachment with the reason for his campaign investigation.
He returned to his campaign investigation and called it running against "bad" and "evil" people; "Dirty cops" and a "FISA Court that should be ashamed." He made fun of the results of the Mueller testimony, saying it "didn't work out for the other side" and receiving laughter from his conspirators in the audience. He attacked Hillary Clinton and said "the DNC paid millions for a fake dossier." He claimed even "Steele said it was fake." He thanked his legal team saying they did a great job.
He called Adam Schiff "corrupt" and claimed he made up Trump's statements when on the phone with President Zelensky. He ridiculed Lieutenant Colonel Vindman. He gave credit to Tim Scott for telling him he never did anything wrong. He tells McConnell he did a "fantastic job." He thanks Mitch for getting 191 federal judges approved. Calls him a great guy and says Mitch understands this is crooked politics.
Trump insulted Nancy Pelosi numerous times about her sincerity about praying for Trump. His complicit Republicans applauded his comments condemning Pelosi.
He pointed out Bill Cassidy as a great man and someone he could go to about health insurance and pre-existing conditions. He compliments Mike Brand for an unknown reason. He compliments Chuck Grassley for getting James Comey to "choke."
He mentions Josh Hartley for winning over Claire McCaskill and congratulates himself for the Hartley's win.
He denounced Mitt Romney as someone who uses religion as a crutch. He asked the Congressman from Utah to apologize to Utah for Romney. He complimented Kelly Lafler for defending him.
Trump says 197-0 with no explanation and follows that by "Democrats have horrible policies." He mentions "open borders, raising taxes, getting rid of healthcare." But he says Democrats are "vicious and mean." "Horrible persons." "They stick together like glue. That's how they impeached.", he claims.
Then he announces the poll numbers for the Republican party and himself are the highest ever. He reminds people again that he thinks the impeachment was "unfair to his family and the country."
He returns to the "perfect call". "Think of it" he says, "a phone call." Many people were on the call." He says Ukraine and the United States were supposed to work together to get rid of corruption in Ukraine. He adds that there must be corruption in the Biden's if Hunter Biden worked for so much money. He turns against the European allies by saying they did not pay enough for Ukraine aid. He criticizes the Obama administration for putting up with it and says they did it because they were "righteous weaklings."
He resumed his praise of his willing accomplices by citing Kevin McCarthy as doing an incredible job.
After giving himself credit for winning two house seats in 2018, Trump continues to name his accomplices for congratulatory purposes. He calls them Trump's warriors. He names:
Kelly Armstrong, Jim Banks, Andy Biggs, Bradley Byrne, Doug Collins, Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordon, Debra Lesko, Mark Meadows, Ron DeSantis, Mike Johnson, Devin Nunes, Scott Perry, John Ratcliff, Steve Scalese, Mike Turner, Brad Wenstrup, Lee Zeldin and Louis Gohmert.
The Republican party has allowed a wannabe tyrant to violate the Constitution, abuse his power and obstruct justice into an impeachment investigation. Like the arrogant bullies that they are, they sit in allegiance to their criminal leader and toss insults and false accusations on their political enemies, laughing and applauding at their chicanery.
These Republicans think that their leader will carry them along to future success and prolonged political office, but their fate is sealed. They have chosen the criminal over the country. The criminal expects their loyalty, but does not return that loyalty. The moment Trump does something so unforgivable, that some begin to turn on him, they will be targeted. For those that survive Trump's retaliation, the country will make them pay for their treason.
Good people cannot permit the destruction of our Constitution and democracy. In a worst case scenario, as our government systems falter we will not be able to answer intrusion from adversaries. If our system of government falls, our safety and security will be lost. This will increase the need that our population has for the dictator, ironically making Trump even stronger. Chaos is good for Trump.
In order to hold our democracy together, we need all voters to vote as many Republicans as possible out of office. Forget about party allegiance for 2020. Once we get the corrupt politicians out, we can rebuild a friendlier two party system and work toward a better democracy and more unified country after that.
This is truly our last chance to save democracy.
