Donald Trump, America's first King
- Dec 6, 2019
- 5 min read
So, been a bit since my last update. The news cycle has been dominated by the impeachment lately, and I didn't want to beat a dead horse by blogging about it every other day.
But the dust is settling a bit and I've had a few weeks to mull over the proceedings, and I've come to the conclusions that Trump is King of America, or soon will be.
Let's start with the obvious: Trump will not be removed from office. He will most likely be impeached by the House, but he will not be convicted in the Senate. There needs to be a 2/3 majority vote for it, and so far not a single republican senator has said they will vote for impeachment, or will even consider it at this point.
As I predicted, they are going to hold Trump's water, despite an overwhelming amount of evidence that he should be convicted. At this point, I have come to the conclusion that a select portion of the Republican Congressmen are compromised by foreign interference, and the rest are going along with it. There's clues abound like the fact that when the DNC was hacked in the 2016 election, so was the RNC. Yet, strangely no emails from them were leaked out.
" FBI director James Comey has now told Congress new details of the Republican prong of those political intrusions, which US intelligence now believe were carried out by the Russian government: The attackers penetrated GOP organizations, and also stole Republican National Committee emails, albeit ones less current than those stolen from the DNC. "
"That Russian hackers did penetrate some Republican servers but never leaked that information was one factor that led US intelligence agencies to conclude that the Kremlin's hacking operation was expressly intended to help elect Donald Trump, according to director of national intelligence James Clapper. "
Who knows what juicy tidbits the Russians found from the RNC servers. We may never know because for some odd reason, Russia didn't leak them. Strange, that.
Another big clue is that the NRA was caught funding millions of dollars from Russia to Republican campaigns for the 2016 Election, including over 30 million to Trump:
"The NRA reported spending a record $55 million on the 2016 elections, including $30 million to support Trump – triple what the group devoted to backing Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential race. Most of that was money was spent by an arm of the NRA that is not required to disclose its donors. "
"Questions about the NRA’s Moscow ties and the gun group’s role in the 2016 elections were also spurred when McClatchy reported last year that the FBI was looking into allegations that Torshin and other Russians may have improperly funneled Russian funds into NRA coffers as part of its record setting $30m in pro-Trump spending. "
And then of course the FEC split 2-2 on further investigating the NRA for wrongdoing after the FBI probe. Take a guess if the 2 that voted no more investigating were Republicans or not.
Here's what one of the non crazy people (aka democrat) on the FEC Chair had to say about her colleagues:
" Weintraub noted that the NRA not only admitted that it had received previous donations from unidentified Russian nationals, but that the NRA likewise saw a substantial spike in its own political donations in 2016, issuing nearly $35 million more in political donations in 2016 than in the previous presidential election. The NRA admitted that Butina had once paid nearly $570 at a 2015 NRA fundraiser, but said it was unable to locate any donations from Torshin or sanctioned Russian official Dmitry Rogozin, with whom NRA officials also met in Moscow in 2015. "
" Some allegations are too serious to ignore. Too serious to simply take Respondents’ denials at face value. Too serious to play games with. Yet in this matter, my colleagues ran their usual evidence-blocking play and the Commission’s attorneys placed too much faith in the few facts Respondents put before us.
As a result, this agency barely lifted a finger to find out the truth behind one of the most blockbuster campaign finance allegations in recent memory….
[The NRA’s] search of its records for foreign contributions in this enforcement context was ludicrously inadequate. Who’s on this list of “known Russian nationals”? We don’t know. Were there any suspicious patterns of transactions that would indicate that contributions were being made in the name of another? We don’t know. The NRA’s effort was hardly more thorough than searching a contributor list for the name “Vladimir Putin” and calling it a day."
But it's fine. We don't need to know any more about if Russian is secretly funding campaigns to one political party. We don't need to care that leaders from that same political party went to Moscow on July 4th to "strive for a better relationship", even after news came out about how Russia had a deep, insidious attack on our 2016 election and is by all the evidence, is doing it again for 2020.
We don't need to know why Devin Nunes, who is on the House Intelligence Committee and has been interrogating witnesses about the Ukraine extortion and impeachment, why he has not recused himself after records surfaced of him having multiple phone calls with Giuliani, as well as the now indicted Lev Parnas, who was arrested shortly before fleeing the country on a one way ticket for, shocker, funding campaign contributions to republicans from foreign governments.
None of this information matters. Because we live in a world where if the other people shout loud enough, their word will be weighed equally against the facts and evidence and witness testimony and FBI investigations. Trump will not be convicted. He held up millions of dollars of aid that was previously approved by congress to a nation that desperately needs the money to defend itself, and he did it specifically to smear his political rival, and he's going to get away with it.
No, he didn't do it to "investigate corruption". Donald Trump could spend a lot more time in his own back yard if he was actually interested in investigating corruption, as opposed to a country he couldn't even point to on a map if he was asked. He didn't even care about actually having an investigation. He simply wanted the Ukrainian officials to SAY on the air on CNN that they were investigating. That's the entire ask he wanted. And it was going to happen, right until someone blew the whistle. The CNN interview was scheduled. If he cared about actual corruption, why was the aid released right after the story broke and they got caught with their hand in the cookie jar (AKA treason and conspiracy)? The Ukrainians never announced their investigation into Joe Biden, as was planned. Yet once Trump was caught, the aid was released. None of this deal was business as usual, none of this was above board.
Again, I'm rambling. Because again, none of this matters. The Republicans in Congress, many of them most likely completely beholden to Russian interests, are going to not convict him. I don't know if even a single one will vote to. Once this happens, Congress, and the American people at large, will prove to Trump that he is allowed to do whatever he wants, with no consequences. Trump will be crowned King, having to hold no accountability to anyone. There is no mechanism to remove him legally beyond impeachment. The checks and balances that the founding fathers put in are specifically being ignored by one party. We have a whole year to go until the next election. And we now have a narcissistic, corrupt, despotic man child as our first King of America in charge, who's proven he's more than willing to tamper with elections. I'm terrified to see what he will try to do in a year. Let's hope his incompetence wins out and enough people show up to vote him (and all of the Republican party) out. Our next election won't be fair or free, but it may just be the last election we ever have if Trump and the majority of the Republican Party is allowed to remain in power.
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