HATRED, KILLINGS, AND THE DUBIOUS DONALD TRUMP

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree

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HATRED, KILLINGS, AND THE DUBIOUS DONALD TRUMP

Yet more killings have taken place in Texas. This time it was in Odessa, Texas. According to the Midland, Texas police, 5 people have been killed and 21 wounded on the highway, and at the Cinergy Movie Theater in Odessa. The Cinergy shooter was killed, but they suspect 2 more shooters to be at large shooting at people at random on the highway. One of the shooters is driving a gold/white Toyota truck, and the other a hijacked U.S. Postal Service Van.

It’s no accident that the repeated violence that’s breaking out around the country is happening on Trump’s watch. The entire country seems to be taking on his unstable personality. An individual has to be mindlessly immature, ignorant and angry to support such a man in the first place, and then, when you add the hatred he spews on a daily basis to compensate for his glaring ineptitude, it turns the nation into a ticking time bomb.

In an interview with Breitbart, Trump said,“You know, the left plays a tougher game, it’s very funny, I actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they don’t play it tougher. I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad."

All delusions aside regarding his having the support of the military and police, what kind of president in his right mind even talks like that? He's essentially threatening the American people over being investigated by congress.  That alone warrants invoking the 25th amendment. He sounds like a kid in a sandbox telling the other kids, "You better be nice to me, because my big brother is the leader of the Crips." The man is a geriatric 8-year-old. 

But of course, Trump, his supporters and the NRA are going to say, “You can’t blame Trump for these shootings; you have to blame the people pulling the trigger”. That's a weak argument when you consider the fact that Osama Bin Laden didn’t fly any of the planes during 9/11, and neither was Charles Manson at the scene of the Manson killings. But we held them responsible for both atrocities nevertheless, because they inspired them, and there is absolutely no doubt that Trump is also inspiring the upsurge in right-wing terrorism currently taking place in America. 

So, Trump has got to go. His gross instability, complete distain for the law, and his total ignorance of the Constitution and how government works is infecting the entire nation. In a previous article, "About DonaldAbout Trump's Brand of Mental Illness”, I point out the following:

“Being rich can contribute to mental illness just as easily as poverty. Those very conditions you described can lead to a bratty and dysfunctional personality so pronounced that it led to Trump never having a real friend or anyone who really cared about him in his life. The loneliness and desperation to prove himself worthy resulting from that can lead to his becoming the narcissistic sociopath that he is.

“All through life Trump's had to convince himself that people hated him because he’s so brilliantly special that the average person is incapable of understanding him. He HAD to indulge in that delusion just to maintain his self-esteem. That’s why he’s always bragging and promoting himself, because for Donald Trump, the only thing important in life is trying to get the world to embrace his delusional vision of himself, or who he'd like to be - even if he has to bring down America, and the entire world, to do it. That explains his intense hatred of Barack Obama. Barack represents everything he's always wanted to be - and rubbing vinegar in the wound is Barack is Black. It's just killing Trump that the man he most envies in the world is a Black man, and what makes it worse is the more he tries to out-shine him, the bigger fool he makes of himself. 

“Just imagine going through life where every single person you ever came into contact with hated your guts (the guy's wife doesn’t even seem to like him). He's so arrogant, delusional, and self-absorbed that he's just not the kind of guy that anyone can like or want to be around for any extended period of time. Can you imagine being his friend and having to agonize through endless stories about how wonderful and brilliant he is all night? It must drive Melania absolutely insane.

“So, even his so-called supporters and staff don't really like him; they’re simply opportunists like himself - that's why his White House leaks like a sieve. He's just a useful idiot who allows his "supporters" to promote their own agendas - bigotry for some, and power and greed for others. But in private, they talk about him like a dog – an ignorant and incompetent dog, who could either inadvertently, or in an attempt to save face, destroy America and the world.”

And that’s exactly what’s happening. This is Trump’s last stand.  He’s even melting down with Fox News for not standing up for him.  He sees the polls, and they’re ugly. And he knows that if he loses the 2020 election and the Republicans lose the senate, he and all of his adult children are going to prison, and he’s gonna lose everything he’s stolen.

And the man doesn't care anything about America - he's incapable the thinking about anything but himself. So he's a clear and present danger to this nation. America is in the exact same position as the passengers in a 747 whose pilot put the plane on autopilot and left his 8-year-old son in the co-pilot's seat while he goes to pee. Actually, we're in worse shape, because Trump won't stop touching things he doesn't know anything about - like the economy, and international diplomacy, for example.

And he's so desperate to escape justice that I predict that if worse comes to worst on election night, he’ll resign between election night and the inauguration of the new Democratic president and elevate Mike Pence to the presidency to pardon him. But there's problem with that plan -New York Attorney General Letitia James is several steps ahead of him. As soon as she walked through the door as New York's AG she started charging Trump with violating one state law after another - and since he's spent his entire business life in New York, there are a ton of things to charge him with. She's been charging him with one violation after another every 2 weeks. At this point she has 17 charges against him and his family - and state charges can’t be pardoned away.

So, like Former CIA Director John Brennan warned Trump, the "protective cocoon" that's protecting you is "only temporary".

Eric L. Wattree

Http://wattree.blogspot.com
Ewattree@Gmail.com
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WHY A TRUMP PARDON OF HIMSELF OR HIS ASSOCIATES WOULD BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

WHY A TRUMP PARDON OF HIMSELF OR HIS ASSOCIATES WOULD BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL
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Legal scholars all over the country are debating whether or not Trump has the power to pardon himself. The answer should be clear but it seems that the experts are looking in the wrong place. Most legal scholars keep looking at Article II Section 2 of the Constitution which says, "The president “shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment." But they’re overlooking another part of the Constitution that overrides that - the Presidential Oath of Office.  Article VI, Clause 3, of the Constitution requires the President to "be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution."  And the Presidential Oath of Office says the following:
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"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."
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Thus, based on the Presidential Oath of Office, Trump cannot pardon himself, or any member of his extended crime family, because the case involves himself and it's a possible cause for impeachment. It's also a direct violation of the Presidential Oath of Office. He cannot pardon crimes in pursuit of self-service because it violates his oath of office in which he swore to “faithfully, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution ."  In addition, his successor cannot come in and pardon him later for the very same reason - he'd be failing to "faithfully, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution” as well. 
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Yes, a precedent has been set by previous Republican presidents of pardoning their cohorts and beneficiaries in crime  - Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush - but because we’ve been stupid in the past doesn’t mean that we should continue to be.  
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Continuing to adhere to such a corrupt policy is exactly what has led to the illegal abuse of presidential power that presidents have engaged in ever since Richard Nixon, so it is time to challenge that policy in the courts and make it clear that it’s illegal.
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Allowing  a president, or his successor, to pardon either himself, or his fellow conspirators, in order to protect and/or absolve himself of crimes committed in office is a corruption of the intent of the United States Constitution, and it’s a direct violation of his Oath of Office.  Failing to recognize that fact will eventually lead to despotism, if it hasn’t already.  George W. Bush and Dick Cheney had no compunction against lying the nation into Iraq, torturing prisoners of war, are outing C.I.A. agent Valerie Plame because they knew they had a "get out of jail free" card in their back pocket, and Donald Trump seems to be acting on the same assumption. So both, the legal need, and justification for addressing this issue is clear and simple, and anyone who can't see that is either dumb, or simply doesn’t want to see it.

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Eric L. Wattree
Http://wattree.blogspot.com
Ewattree@Gmail.com
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)
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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.

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