Friday, June 15, 2018

Commentary copied from a FB post

I didn't write this. I copied it from a friend's FB post

In January 2016, Trump announced that he skipped a debate to raise funds for veterans.  Then, instead of contributing the funds so raised to veterans' causes, he put the money into his own foundation.  Trump then used the foundation to fund his own campaign and to buy things he wanted for himself.  So that's campaign fraud, tax fraud and diverting funds that folks contributed for veterans.  Now many of these veterans and their families have been supporting Trump, and they've been shamelessly used.  I wonder if they'll notice.  In other news, Trump is denying that Manafort ran his campaign.  Manafort did so for 141 days.  Trump said he was barely associated with the campaign for 49 days.  But there's more: the DOJ's Inspector General delivered a report that states that Comey and the FBI were so worried about pressure from the GOP that they trashed Hillary even though they were correct in not recommending that DOJ charge her for using a private email server.  Comey apparently felt that since she was going to win anyway, he needed to throw Trump a bone.  In the process, he forgot that he's the cop and that the prosecutors at DOJ are supposed to make that decision. The IG lambasted him for that. Of course, Trump won and Comey's attempt to protect the reputation of the FBI on a freebee failed.  Now Trump is going around trashing the FBI for bowing to pressure from his supporters to harm Hillary's campaign.  In the meantime, other than Nunes and the Freedom Caucus, the GOP leadership recognizes that the Russians and other foreigners were crawling all over the Trump campaign and that the FBI was justified in running a counterintelligence operation on these foreign agents. Actual GOP conservatives (those who believe in a smaller federal government) are either not running for reelection or getting trounced in primaries by the Trumplicans.  The GOP now stands for huge deficits, tax cuts for the wealthy, no health insurance for the poor, middle class and those with pre-existing conditions, trade wars with China and our closest allies, belittling black athletes who are concerned with police brutality aimed at African Americans, and getting tough on immigration, which means ripping babies from the arms of their asylum seeking mothers, who happen to be overwhelmingly Hispanic.  That will leave the GOP with support from some 35% or so of voters.  Not clear to me why that makes sense to them, but then again, right now I have no idea when and how sanity will return to these United States.  Oh, and if you are one of my GOP friends who dislikes my characterization of current events, I'm in no mood to talk to you today or any time soon about anything other than sports.  How about that hat trick by Ronaldo?

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