For a moment, let’s put aside our staunch
political views and examine the current hearing/trial.
Given:
Trump is not the most likeable President we’ve had in a long time. He has a
list of character flaws many of us find abhorrent. Personally, I wouldn’t drink
a beer with the man.
2016
Election: We had two choices Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Many voters held their
nose and voted. Many said it was a choice between the lessor of two evils. That
is a fact! At times he is boisterous, overbearing and flat out obnoxious. He
spends too much time, or one of his staff, on twitter hammering the left. Many on
the right say it’s the only way he can get his message out. I disagree.
Sometimes it’s better to say nothing and let your opponents fall on their own
swords. We all know about his three marriages and infidelities. We are also aware
of Hillary’s husband’s illicit affairs. Maybe not all of them.
When
the country realized, Trump was going to win, the outcry from the left was
immediate. “Not My President” and “Impeach him!” slogans sprang up overnight.
You can’t impeach a president-elect who hasn’t been sworn in. We saw the sudden rise of Antifa. They
purported riots across the country and destroyed property. The left said nothing.
During
Trump’s campaign, of which many News agencies and Hollywood leftists said Trump
wasn’t going to be President- Clooney, Hanks and all the avenger cast, started
getting worried because he kept gaining momentum and one-by-one knocked off his
seasoned political opponents. No one saw that coming.
The
Obama administration authorized surveillance of Trump and his campaign. This is
shades of Watergate. They also opened an investigation, Mueller, into, election
meddling his ties with Russia on potential real estate deals in Moscow.
In
the first case, they did find meddling. The Russians supported both Trump and
Sanders. They despised Hillary. The spent a total of two million dollars.
Fourteen Russian Nationals were indicted which amounted to nothing since they
weren’t legal citizens and went home.
In
the famous Mueller Report, he found no collusion with Russia or Obstruction of justice.
Read the entire report. I’d like to add, I read the Mueller report with an
open, analytical mind. If, like Nixon, I would have found damning evidence that
Trump was a traitor, I’d be right there with a rope!
Yet
here we are with the Ukrainian fiasco- the with holding of funds to an ally or
so the story goes. This all started with the Steele dossier that produced the
FISA warrants to investigate Trump and his associates. We are finding out the
warrants should have never been issued because the supporting evidence supplied
by the FIB for the warrants was at best, faulty and unsubstainiated.
During
the House of Representatives Impeachment hearings, time after time, the
American public was told there was overwhelming evidence to show Trump colluded
with Russia and that the Trump Administration wasn’t going to provide the funds
until the Ukrainians investigated Joe and Hunter Biden with the corrupt
company, Burisma. This story like many, died over night. Why? Is it not worth
looking into? Imagine if any of Trump’s children would have been on that board.
What would the media be writing? What allegations would be flying around?
Trump
is in bed with Putin. How many times has this narrative been vocalized? I guess
that’s why he bombed the Syrian Air Base to stop their aggressive nature. Syria
is an ally of Russia and if Trump was an ally of Putin, do you think the attack
would have been authorized? And why all the gnashing of teeth over Ukraine and
their war with Russia? What did the prior administration do to stop Russia from
invading the Ukraine and Crimea? If you do a search, Obama was meeting with
Putin and made the statement, “We’ll deal with that after I’m re-elected.”
Also, why did Biden/Obama threaten, in public, to withhold one billion dollars
in aid?
Under
Trump, the following has happened: stronger military, NATO paying their fair
share for our military policing, booming economy, higher wages, immigration
laws being enforced, low unemployment, better trade deals with China, Canada
and Mexico, revamping of the VA allowing veterans to choose their own doctor, reeling
in the EPA and regulations without damaging the environment, a flood of
patriotism not seen since 911, the killing of two top terrorists, pulling out
of the Paris accords, pulling out of the Iran Nuclear deal, opening a line of
communication with North Korea and China, two conservative Supreme Court Justices,
moving our embassy to Jerusalem, increasing oil production-#1 producer in the
world and finally, eradicating ISIS. There are more but you can do your own research.
How
many of these achievements are addressed in todays social media world? Let’s
take a look.
News
agencies for Trump-FOX, EIB Network. Against, HBO-Bill Maher, TNT Samantha Bee,
MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC,NPR. Late night shows, Conan, Fallon-not as much and
Jimmy Kummel and Corbet. That is 2 to
12. You tell me who has the power in the media? And how can any network have twenty-four-hour
news that isn’t biased? We as viewers get bombarded, if you watch the drivel
continuously, with nothing but propaganda whether it be the left or right. Throw
in Twitter and Facebook and it’s a mess! Only 16% of the major agencies address
his accomplishments and failures. That’s right, failures. The other 84% only focus on what he’s done wrong as President
or as a private citizen. Imagine if the press would have treated, FDR, JFK, LBJ,WJC
with the same venom? Their list of forays and midnight sorties are well
documented.
This
brings us back to the current Senate trial. What the House of Representatives
is doing is a crime. I’m not talking about the articles of impeachment, it’s
the delivery and the demands the House managers are making. They are telling,
not asking, telling the Senate chamber how to conduct their hearing! Did the
Senate make the same charges to the House during their hearings?
I hate to say it, but this is completely
politically motivated. That is not what the impeachment process is about. That
in itself is an abuse of power from elected representatives! When this process becomes
part of the political power play, no President from this day forward will be
immune from the party in power in the House from endless, fruitless investigations
other than getting their faces in front of the cameras and pushing their own
agendas. THIS IS NOT WHAT OUR FOUNDERS HAD IN MIND!
When
the Republicans went after Obama and his birth certificate, I found it
nauseating. The man was voted into office; let the issue drop. Yet countless
weeks and months of bogus stories filled the airwaves. Yes, FOX got this wrong
and so did Rush. But in our day of twenty-four hour news, we need to be first
then let the facts come out. Negative. Make sure the facts are correct before
reporting the story. Imagine what the press would look like if they followed
that simple rule.
In
conclusion, I get it that people don’t like Trump as a person. That’s a no brainer,
but as a President, he has been excellent. I still won’t drink a beer with him.
