OPINION:
Donald Trump, Criminal Candidate
OPINION:
Donald Trump, Criminal Candidate
D. S. Mitchell
The Biggest Flag Wins
When all the votes for 2020 presidential election were counted, Joe Biden won 81,283,098 votes, or 51.3% of the vote. Donald Trump won 74,222,958 or 46.8% of the vote. Miscellaneous other candidates captured a meager 1.8% of the vote. In other words, Joe Biden, kicked Trump’s butt, besting Trump by over 7 million votes. But, those numbers were obviously against Trump’s plan. Votes were counted and recounted and lawsuit after lawsuit brought by Trump challenging the election were dismissed. Everyone from the bloated and lawless Bill Barr to Cybersecurity Director Chris Krebs called Trump’s claim’s of voter fraud, “bullshit.” But, still you see signs saying, “Biden Lost!” usually accompanied by an oversized American flag.
As It Plays Out
We should be celebrating that more people turned out to vote in the 2020 election than at any other time in history. But, we aren’t. In fact, because of Trump’s lies our country is more divided than ever. Instead of the bloated orange fruit fly conceding the election, to Joe Biden like every man before him has, he chose to create chaos.
More Violence and More Lawsuits
In 2016 the Trumpers told us “elections have consequences” as we progressives huddled in our fetal positions, terrified of a Trump presidency. It is now 2023 and those same Trumpers are telling us that despite Trump’s staggering loss both in the Electoral College and the popular vote we libs should sit down and shut up, ‘because it’s obvious Trump won’. If Trump becomes the Republican nominee in 2024 I am sure we will see more armed election observers, more lawsuits, more threats of violence, more white supremacist saber rattling, and more talk of Trump as a lifetime president.
Is It That Bad?
A majority of Americans, especially Black, Brown, Native Americans, Asians, and other marginalized communities, who are at the mercy of this country’s historic, systemic, police abuse and seemingly incurable racism, voted Donald Trump out of office. I want us to celebrate that so many Americans voted to oust his criminal ass, but there is much need for introspection and intense soul searching about those who continue to feverishly support him in his fight to propagate the big lie. My god the brazen fucker is running for president again.
A Cup Of Coffee
I’m ready this morning to have a cup of coffee, eat an apple and reflect on why more than 74, 000,000 Americans would chose a man like Donald Trump to lead this country? His incompetence and stupidity is legendary. We’d already seen the chaos in operation, day after day, over four years in office. Some close to him have called him a “fucking moron.” These words come from those who know him best, yet these voices are ignored by his minions. Or should I be calling them cultists.
Nothing Moves His Base
For the last several days I’ve scoured old newspaper and magazine articles putting together a list of the known criminal activities of Donald Trump. Although well-known to his followers, his criminality seems to have no effect on their loyalty or their intoxicated enthusiasm. Monster flags whipping off the back of pickup trucks advertise their loyalty to Trump, not the United States. Wake up guys. Trump is a fraud and you, his small donors, are his biggest suckers. Recent reports indicate $40 million dollars of donor money has been spent so far this year on Trump defense attorneys. Get real, please, Trump and his whole crew belongs in Sing-Sing, not the Oval Office.
The Habit Of Corruption
Trump is no stranger to corruption and criminality. He has been embedded in it his entire life. As President, he took it to a new level. The Trump administration was without a doubt the most corrupt presidency in American history. No wonder he keeps screaming “fake news” when responding to reporter’s questions. Trump desperately needs to undermine the legitimacy of the fourth estate. Donald John Trump has so much to hide. If his devout followers would listen to the information that is available everywhere, they would drop him like the proverbial hot potato. But, for some reason they are both deaf and blind to the truth. Truth matters, and Trump couldn’t find truth with both hands. Just to refresh the reader on Trump’s criminal history:
It All Started With Daddy Trump
1.) Donald and his father blatantly participated in housing discrimination against people of color and they were sued by the Justice Department.
2.) The Mafia and Donald worked together through the construction trades in New York city.
3.) He hired undocumented Polish workers to rehab the Trump Tower and then refused to pay them.
4.) Trump was fined $750,000 for anti-trust violations during his attempt to take over a rival casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
It Just Keeps Coming
5.) Trump has used and is currently, according to multiple sources, using undocumented Mexican and other Latin American workers to work as maids and landscapers at his hotels and golf courses. Additionally, each year he brings 100’s of overseas workers to work at his resorts based on the phony claim, he “can’t find Americans to do the work.”
6.) Donald does not pay contractors, whether they are architects, attorneys or brick layers and most end up suing him.
7.) He gave Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi an illegal $25,000 PAC donation from Trump Foundation while her department was investigating his discredited Trump University. After the payment, Bondi squelched the investigation.
8.) Trump used bankruptcy with his multiple casinos, leaving investors high and dry, while he left town with suitcases full of cash.
And On It Goes
9.) Trump claims he “lent” his name to a couple scoundrels that then used his name to rip people off.
10.) The Trump University was another Trump scam. He squashed investigations in Florida and Texas with questionable donations to state authorities. Other states pursued him and recovered $25,000,000 for victims.
11.) A pyramid scheme called Trump Network was another way he ripped off consumers. In this scam people sent in urine samples and were sent “especially formulated vitamins” by return mail.
And Then There Were The Models
12.) Trump Modeling Management brought foreign models to the U.S. to work illegally (lying to custom officials) while housing them in squalid conditions and paying them almost nothing. Just wondering if this is how he met Melania?
13.) According to the NY Times and his niece, Mary L. Trump, Donald and his siblings participated in a tax scam than ripped off the State of NY and the IRS for decades.
14.) Trump was impeached for trying to get the Ukrainians to help him interfere in the 2020 election and then again for “incitement of insurrection. 15.) Trump has been indicted on 40 felony counts by Special Counsel Jack Smith for theft of government documents.
Ramping Up
These are just some of the known historical scams, and unlawful behaviors that Donald Trump has engaged in. The man is a walking crime wave. No shit. During Donald’s administration, corruption ramped up to a level that was head jarring. But for some reason the DOJ believes a sitting president should not be prosecuted, apparently no matter how corrupt. I guess this is where a sitting president shoots some guy on 5th Ave and is never prosecuted. This is a policy that needs serious scrutiny and revision. A president is neither god nor king, just a man temporarily trusted by the American people to conduct the business of government with honesty and integrity.
Boss For Life
The post 2016 election scams, scandals, money laundering schemes, rumored Russian collusion, have been reported on endlessly by the mainstream media and this humble blog (www.calamitypolitics.com). We are not fake news. We are the news. Trump just wants to lie and deflect attention from the truth. He has always been a con-man grifter. Just ask any New Yorker about Trump. Now after being a one term president he has become even more greedy and even more attention seeking. Trump is convinced he should, like Xi Jinping, be boss for life.
We Are Not Fake News
Calamity Politics has been actively reporting on Trump and his corrupt and criminal behavior since 2016. After all we’ve seen with our own eyes and what Special Counsel Jack Smith is uncovering I don’t understand how, or why, so many Americans can continue to support this guy, a known creep and criminal. A multi-indicted criminal, with more charges imminent. Jack Smith with the documents case has brought 40 felony charges against Trump. The January 6th case could likely produce at least that many more charges against Trump. There is a line of prosecutors waiting to file charges on the orange beast, names like Alvin Bragg, Fanni Willis, Letitia James. Holy moly. This is the kind of guy your mother warned you not to associate with.
Immovable Support
Why would so many, mostly white voters idolize and worship Trump? I can’t imagine they are all racists. I can’t conceive that all Trump voters are visiting extreme right wing platforms being radicalized. It looks as if we will need to leave it to the historians, statisticians, and political pundits of the future to dissect and interpret Trump’s immovable 41-47% voter support.
Call Him Out For Lord’s Sake
A few Republicans called Trump out right after the January 6th riot, McCarthy, McConnell. That moment of courage lasted about three days until Trump snapped the whip and they all heeled up nicely. Trump’s refusal to accept his loss is a national embarrassment. His run for a second chance at the White House is not only an embarrassment but a total outrage. The only Republican candidates calling Donald out are Chris Christie, Asa Hutchison, and Will Hurd. The rest of the field seem to be running for VP or Cabinet positions in a second Trump administration, dancing around Trump like he is actually going to make such appointments.
The Outrage Is Not Real
The voter’s spoke loudly in 2020. There was even dancing in the street. Trump lost. Hooray! The pretend king was gone, with his gold tower and plastic wife. Well, not quite so fast, Donald had decided to scream foul and keep screaming foul. Despite the fake electors, despite Cyber Ninja ballot re-counts, despite the Rudy Giuliani -Sydney Powell bullshit, Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. In 2022 the candidates Trump supported lost dramatically. Normal people are ready to move on; that of course does not include the orange cupcake. Re-living the “steal” at every rally has become part and parcel of the Trump “victim” story.
Conclusion
There are trials and court actions awaiting the X- president. Time to get out there Mr. Trump and face your many trials, and leave the campaigning to those in the political world who are not facing multiple criminal and civil lawsuits in multiple states and jurisdictions.
