jobs
numbers which are off the charts, the Fake News & totally dishonest Media
concerning me and my presidency has never been
worse. Many have become
crazed
lunatics who have given up on the TRUTH!...
...The Fake News Media in our Country is
the real Opposition Party. It is truly the
Enemy of the People! We must bring honesty
back to journalism and reporting!
Chris Wallace Fox News Sunday [11/6] interview of White House
spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders on the administration’s false claim that
thousands of terrorists are using the southern border to gain entry to the
U.S.:
WALLACE: The State Department says that there
is, quote, their words, “no credible evidence of any terrorist coming across
the border from Mexico.”
SANDERS: We know that roughly nearly 4,000
known or suspected terrorists come into our country illegally, and we know that
our most vulnerable point of entry is at our southern border.
WALLACE: Wait, I know the statistic. I didn’t
know you were going to use it, but I studied up on this. Do you know where
those 4,000 people come, where they are captured? Airports.
SANDERS: Not always.
WALLACE: Airports. The State Department says
there hasn’t been any terrorists that they’ve found coming across the southern
border.
SANDERS: It’s by air, it’s by land, it’s by
sea, it’s all of the above, but one thing that you’re forgetting is that the
most vulnerable point of entry that we have into this country is our southern
border, and we have to protect it, and the more and more that individuals know
that ...
WALLACE: But they’re not coming across the
southern border, Sarah, they’re coming and they’re being stopped at airports.
SANDERS: They’re coming any number of ways,
they’re certainly, I’m not disagreeing with you that they’re coming through
airports.
Fox News is Trump country, but
Wallace seems to be interfering with Donald Trump’s contemplation of invoking a
declaration of “national emergency” – powers not well-defined in the enabling
National Emergencies Act of 1976 – to justify tapping the military budget to
build his medieval castle wall along our southern border to keep that “invading
horde” of “terrorists” out of the country. Apparently, our President is not
acquainted with the notion that federal spending bills originate in the House
of Representatives, a body that is controlled by the Democrats.
Sorry Tsar Donald, you really must
deal with the fact that you are living in a constitutional democracy, not the
autocracy you dream about. Shutting down a quarter of the federal government to
circumvent the democratic process to get what you want? Really? The press is
the real “enemy of the people”? Damned First Amendment! Downright un-American!
Donald Trump has a habit of bootstrapping
his policies either by making up facts or embracing some wild pseudo-fact
manufactured on some conspiracy-driven right-wing website. Truth left the build
a long time ago, with The Washington Post telling us that the White House
issues an average of 18 lies a day. Impressive but disturbing. That his base
votes and believes as Trump dictates. Anything that contradicts fearless leader
is seen as fake and part of a massive conspiracy to unseat America’s “savior.”
Trump’s plastic, lock-step legal team
has repeatedly stated that “collusion” isn’t a criminal act. Maybe if we used the
word “conspiracy,” the criminality would be clearer. But Mueller’s team has
stated that their inquiry is not intended to see if there is sufficient basis
to indict a sitting president, so “collusion” is as good a word as any. Mueller
is following the Department of Justice standing policy of not issuing such presidential
indictments at all. Note that there are no constitutional or federal statutory
prohibitions against such indictments; the DoJ just doesn’t do that.
But Donald Trump is an autocrat
facing a Democrat-controlled House of Representatives with his honesty,
veracity and transparency in their crosshairs. Some Dems want more, but nothing
is likely to happen in any form of meaningful impeachment efforts until Mueller
completes his report. His appointment has another roughly six months to go.
The autocrat President, who has successfully
bullied virtually the entire GOP into subservience, has drawn a line in the
sand, a showdown if you will, to put the Dems in their place. He wants that
concrete wall, and he has contradicted every member of his administration,
every Republican politician, who has stated that Trump is not committed to a
“real concrete and steel wall,” just to enhanced border security which will
involve some new physical barriers. No, says Trump, he wants a real concrete
and steel wall! And if you have an invading horde at your gates, voila, the
basis for declaring a national emergency. And no, Mr. President, building the
wall out of steel only is not a compromise!
He says he has strong support for his castle
wall, but outside of his base and the
half-hearted endorsement of most Republicans in Congress, most Americans just
want border security and not a wasteful wall. “President Donald Trump's recent claim that his
predecessors endorsed his idea of a wall at the Mexican border got no support
from the ex-presidents' club… Trump stated in a Rose Garden news conference
Friday [11/4]: ‘This should have been done by all of the presidents that
preceded me. And they all know it. Some of them have told me that we should
have done it.’
“THE FACTS:
The four living ex-presidents do not back him up on this claim.” Associated
Press, January 8th. Directly or through an official spokesperson,
each of the four living ex-presidents have denied having such conversations.
His short Tuesday, January 9th
televised address to the nation presented statistics his own government
agencies have contradicted, instilled a vision of drugs pouring across the
border, gangsters slipping to our nation threatening decent citizens and citing
a recent shooting of a California police officer by an undocumented alien, to
justify shutting down the a large part of the federal government in favor of a
medieval steel and/or concrete wall across our Mexican border.
Noting the President’s failure to get
Mexico to pay for his wall as promised, Democrats Nancy Pelosi (House Speaker)
and Charles Schumer (Senate Minority Leader) countered, championing a more
modern approach to border security (not a “fourth century solution”), noting
that a bully my-way-or-the-highway president attempt to subvert the democratic
process with a government shutdown was beyond inappropriate. It was, the Dems
maintained, an attempt to distract from a White House in chaos.
Mueller’s investigation was hovering
in the air. An indictment earlier that day of a Russian lawyer, who worked to set
up that infamous Trump Tower meeting, claimed that Trump campaign manager Paul
Manafort disclosed detailed campaign information to this Russian operative. That
was added to Trump’s recent seeming parroting of strange information about
Russia. To understand how off-the-wall – or perhaps connected under the table
to Moscow – Trump can be, on January 2nd, he pulled “information”
that initially seemed to have been generated by one of those esoteric
conspiracy sites.
“In a rare public break with the
White House, top Afghan officials on Thursday [1/3] criticized President
Trump’s praise of the 1979 Soviet invasion of their country and defended the ‘sacrifice
of millions of Afghans’ in the conflict.
“During Trump’s rambling, 90-minute
riff Wednesday before reporters as members of his Cabinet looked on, the
president said Moscow’s invasion — which the U.S. opposed as a violation of
Afghan sovereignty and an attempt to spread communism — was justified because
of the threat of terrorism from Afghanistan.
“‘The reason Russia was in
Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia,’ Trump said. ‘They
were right to be there. The problem is it was a tough fight.’… Trump’s comments
not only broke with the policies of the U.S. government, which under the Carter
and Reagan administrations secretly funneled arms and support to Afghanistan’s
anti-Soviet forces, but they also spread anger through top levels of a country
where the U.S. still has 14,000 service members stationed…
“Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said
in statement that dozens of countries had denounced the invasion and that
Afghans fought to liberate their holy land.’… Adding that ‘all U.S. presidents
since” had supported the Afghan resistance that drove out Soviet forces, Ghani
said his government had “urged clarification through diplomatic sources from
our ally the United States.’
“Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin
Rabbani tweeted that the ‘Soviet occupation was a grave violation of
Afghanistan’s territorial integrity’ and that ‘any other claim defies
historical facts.’… He cited the ‘heroic resistance & sacrifice of millions
of Afghans’ in a conflict that was widely seen as modern Afghanistan’s proudest
achievement.
“The Afghan resistance — covertly
backed by the CIA — sapped Moscow’s finances and morale and is seen as one of
the factors that hastened the downfall of the Soviet Union. Trump used the
historical example to argue that countries should police their own regions but
erroneously said that the Afghan invasion bankrupted Moscow.” Los Angeles
Times, January 4th.
“They were
right to be there,’ Declared Trump. But Putin had been working on his
parliament – the Duma – to make Trump’s statement into official policy,
claiming that non-existent Afghan terrorists had entered Russia: “In
recent weeks, lawmakers in the Russian Duma approved a draft resolution
that retroactively seeks to justify the Soviet Union’s Afghan war.
This measure seeks to void a ‘moral and
political condemnation’ of the Afghan invasion signed in 1989 by Mikhail
Gorbachev, acting as chairman of the Supreme Soviet. The resolution
says Soviet military action was conducted ‘in full accordance with
the norms of international law.’ It adds that troops were sent ‘taking into
account multiple requests of Afghanistan's leadership for direct Soviet
intervention into the conflict.’” Newsday.com, January 6th. Hmmm….
Fake justifications for border security? Russian collusion? See any connections
here? Or is Trump simply living in an alternative universe? Both?
I’m Peter Dekom, and I wonder if Donald is
picturing one of those cool dictator uniforms that we often see at those big
military marches in autocracies.
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