If you need any further proof that Donald Trump needs to be a one term president, just pay attention to his first act after his Attorney General weighed in on the Mueller probe instead of recusing himself for his letter last June that made clear he was not an unbiased decider of facts. Trump lied about the findings of Mueller’s conclusion about obstruction of justice. While Mueller could not decide if what Trump did was criminal, he could not exonerate him of wrongdoing. That didn’t stop Trump from trumpeting that he was completely exonerated of collusion and obstruction — which is a lie. When the entire Mueller findings are released, unless Barr continue’s his white washing technique, Trump’s behavior will be exposed for the troubling, if not criminal actions of someone who has no business being president. Amazingly, Republicans were so enraged that Bob Mueller, who was not elected by ‘the people’, was about to decide Trump’s fate, yet in a surprising twist, William Barr, Trump’s hand-picked Attorney General — not elected by ‘the people’— got to give Trump his get out of jail free card, for now.
If William Barr is new to you, he’s the Attorney General who previously served in an administration where he was instrumental in creating the draconian drug laws that filled up our prisons with non-violent low-level drug criminals whose lives were ruined for using marijuana. These victims of Barr’s previous overreach were mostly minorities despite the fact that whites use pot in roughly similar percentages as minorities. Today, he just signed an order to support a court case that attempts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as ‘Obama Care’, which is the main reason Trump wants it to disappear, even though he has no replacement healthcare. If they are successful in destroying the ACA, over 20 million people will be thrown off their healthcare and over 100 million people will lose their coverage for pre-existing conditions. Children will no longer be able to be on their parents’ healthcare until they are 26, as well as many other negative changes in services that are now covered that will cease to be available without more out of pocket expenses.
It will be chaos, but it just shows how ill-fit Donald Trump is to make decisions that he claims are for the benefit of that minority of poor souls who voted for him. It is a fact that the ACA is very essential in red states and if his legal challenge succeeds, it will potentially cause them to finally see what a fraud he is. It was back in November that Trump was repeating what is now a proven lie — that he was going to protect people with previous existing conditions in healthcare. Today he claimed the Republican Party will be known as the party of healthcare, which he can’t be serious about if that legal challenge strategy results in healthcare mayhem. Everything he does is supposedly for that group of die-hard Trump supporters, yet he doesn’t think of them when he makes these heartless decisions that will adversely affect over 100 million Americans.
The Democrats immediately reacted stating they will not let this happen, but if the judges that decide the case as it moves forward happen to be Trump appointees, we can expect that there will be a new nightmare, another unforced Trump error caused by his rash behavior and his lashing out against anything Democrats or Obama is associated with. Instead of trying to bring the country together, it is clear that he is preparing for all out war against all those who have slighted his fragile ego. He wants to attack the press, get people banned from appearing on TV shows, investigate who started the probe into his presidency (it was Senator Graham of South Carolina who suggested that McCain bring the famous dossier to the FBI — how ironic) and even attempt to remove heads of House Committees!
None of this is going to happen, as these are the threats of a dictator who punishes his opposition candidates and this is a democracy/republic, where these kinds of acts are not sanctioned or tolerated — at least not until now. Thankfully, Mueller handed off many of his investigations to other districts, most notably the Southern (Sovereign) District of NY which will be keeping Trump busy preparing for his worst nightmare. Even his legal team has warned him that the biggest threat to his presidency was not the Mueller probe, but the cases being worked against him in that Southern District of NY.
Then there is there is the head of the House Judiciary Committee, Jerry Nadler, whom I met and befriended last week to get the above picture taken, which I then played with to dramatize my involvement in being at the right place as history is preparing to unfold. Some might think that Democrats are at a disadvantage now that Trump has the bully pulpit and has begun lying and attempting to bully those who he believes he has defeated. When the Mueller report is finally made public, he may find that it is he who will be defeated by the record Mueller has provided in the report where he stated Trump cannot be exonerated. Then it will be up to the House, which may not have been desirous of Impeachment, but if Trump wants all out war, if there is anything damning that gets the American people on board, Nadler is the man for the moment.