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The Sump Pump that is Trump<\/b><\/p>\n

Garbage in, Sewage Out<\/b><\/p>\n

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

March 30th<\/sup> 2022<\/i><\/p>\n

In any other Democracy, and at nearly any other time in US history, Donald Trump would be in prison by now. In a place like China or Russia, he might well have been executed.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s career has been an amazing journal of privilege and contempt for people, a rapacious and degrading odyssey of greed, venality, and lawlessness. Historians will never understand how anyone as openly tawdry and corrupt as Donald Trump somehow became President. While the ensuing events have historical parallels, his ascent to office does not.<\/p>\n

The open treason against the country that created this monster was pretty much inevitable, but the reaction of the country, like his ascent, defies reason and logic.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Trump came up with the most tone-deaf statement he\u2019s uttered to date, In an interview on some right wing outfit that was widely spread on social media, Trump called for Putin to release dirt on the Biden family right now since now “he’s not exactly a fan of our country” during an interview with Real America’s Voice.<\/p>\n

You read that right. He\u2019s counting on what he hopes is Putin\u2019s rage and malice toward America\u2019s reaction over the Ukraine invasion to do his buddy Trump a solid and smear Hunter Biden and by extension, his family. Hey, people who aren\u2019t \u201cexactly a fan of our country\u201d gotta stick together, right?<\/p>\n

The GOP is dead silent on this, but I expect that from the cowardly and craven pack of goosesteppers who sold out America in favor of power under Trump. But the Democrats and the Justice Department and mostly just wringing their hands and dithering over how it would look if a former President had to be punished for the things he said and did.<\/p>\n

We experienced this lack of resolve disguised as higher tone in 1974, when Gerald Ford decided it would look bad and demoralize the country if Nixon were held to account and tried in public. So he preemptively pardoned Nixon…which looked bad and demoralized the country. Justice never was perfect in America, but this high-sounding lack of resolve and determination has turned it into a corrupt joke, a system that favors the rich over the poor, the powerful over the powerless, white over black, and flag waver and bible pounders over people with self-respect and dignity.<\/p>\n

So we look at the mountains of evidence and prima facie<\/i> guilt surrounding Trump, and we wonder why he hasn\u2019t been indicted yet, let alone tried and convicted. Siding with an adversarial leader in hopes of gaining political favors and attacking the President\u2019s family would get him hanged in some countries.<\/p>\n

The January 6th<\/sup> committee released the phone logs from the date in question, and there\u2019s a mysterious 7 \u00bd hour gap in them. Part of it can be explained by the fact that Trump was riling up the goons and loons, promising the nutsis and natsis that he would lead them to shut down Congress and prevent certification of the vote. (He lied about leading them, of course). But what of the remaining five hours? We know that at least a dozen members of Congress spoke with him during that period. We know he called at least a half dozen. We know the contents of some of those calls. But they aren\u2019t in the logs. Perhaps Trump used a burner phone. He claimed that he didn\u2019t even know what a burner phone was, but John Bolton promptly said that he and Trump had discussed using burners in the weeks prior to the assault on the Capitol. The lies never stop, do they?<\/p>\n

We\u2019re seeing similar weakness regarding Clarence Thomas. Most Dems rub their knuckles and say, \u201cOh, he really should consider recusing himself in cases where his wife may be criminally complicit. But we don\u2019t want to pressure him.\u201d And a handful\u2014AOC and Elizabeth Warren, for example, say he should resign or be impeached which is what is supposed to happen to judges that are openly corrupt.<\/p>\n

If Trump gets away with it, if Clarence Thomas gets away with it, the US is done as a functioning country. It\u2019s just an empty shell, nothing but flags and bibles and bigots, and will sink, slowly and painfully.<\/p>\n

Still there is some hope. The select committee has been doing an admirable job of holding the right feet to the right fires. And the Justice Department, which had been so quiet people were openly wondering if the Department had been hopelessly compromised by the foul and venal previous administration, showed signs of movement today.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/em> on Wednesday published a major new report on Attorney General Merrick Garland’s investigations. The paper reported, “The criminal investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has expanded to examine the preparations for the rally that preceded the riot, as the Justice Department aims to determine the full extent of any conspiracy to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden\u2019s election victory, according to people familiar with the matter. In the past two months, a federal grand jury in Washington has issued subpoena requests to some officials in former president Donald Trump\u2019s orbit who assisted in planning, funding and executing the Jan. 6 rally…”The development shows the degree to which the Justice Department investigation \u2014 which already involves more defendants than any other criminal prosecution in the nation\u2019s history \u2014 has moved further beyond the storming of the Capitol to examine events preceding the attack,” the newspaper reported. “Grand jury subpoenas are a legal mechanism used by prosecutors to gather information for a criminal investigation, and a subpoena in and of itself doesn\u2019t mean any particular recipient is under investigation or likely to face charges. But the subpoena demands issued in recent weeks do indicate that the aperture of the investigation has widened, after Attorney General Merrick Garland pledged in a speech this Jan. 5, the day before the first anniversary of the attack on the Capitol, to follow the evidence wherever it leads.”<\/i><\/p>\n

OK, that\u2019s what we want to hear. We don\u2019t want mob justice, or political vendettas. But we do want justice. Real justice. Without it, you don\u2019t have a Real country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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