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OK, Maybe Controversial, But Trump Is Owed a Second Term
A friend of mine says, “Of course, the NeverTrumpers were right after all. Trump had so alienated suburban women by his personal behavior, he couldn’t possibly have won a second term.”
This person was Trump-resistant but voted for him nonetheless and was pleasantly surprised at all he accomplished. In the end, however, after he lost, my friend returned to type. Trump was icky all along and deserved all he got.
The recent indictment of Hilary Clinton lawyer Michael Sussman, and the even more recent arrest of Michael Steele consigliere Igor Danchenko, along with the naming of various other high ranking Democrat conspirators, including Jake Sullivan, who works in the State Department at this moment, revives in me deep anger, fear, and a certainty that Donald Trump is owed four more years in the White House.
What I tell my friend and what I will say to you now is that Donald Trump was the victim of the most significant political crime in the history of our country. He came under assault from this crime and these criminals every day of his four years. This assault was perpetrated by a criminal political class within our government and was nothing less than a coup d’état unlike we have ever seen in our history.
And yes, it is likely Trump won anyway.
Consider what has been revealed in recent days by the team surrounding prosecutor John Durham.
Michael Sussman was a lawyer with the Washington DC firm of Perkins Coie, a Democrat, and Bill and Hilary Clinton legal redoubt. Have you heard about the secret connection between a Trump organization computer and a Russian bank? Supposedly this was the backchannel of communication and cash that proved Trump was owned and even an agent of Vladimir Putin. It was all made up. It was totally false. Sussman cooked it up along with a top-ranking tech executive, a major American university, and others.
In a private meeting with the General Counsel of the FBI, Sussman presented this fabrication in hopes the FBI would investigate, which they did. Sussman et al. also peddled this lie to the news media, which happily reported it. Some of them still do. It was all a lie.
In even more recent days, a Russian national named Igor Danchenko has been arrested and indicted for making false claims to the FBI. Danchenko was one of the primary sources for the so-called Steele Dossier used by nefarious figures in the FBI and the Department of Justice to invade the Trump campaign, lie to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to spy on the political opponents of Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton. The Steele Dossier was the report that roiled our politics for every minute of the Trump administration. Every minute of his administration was spent in fighting this complete fabrication.
Do you remember the Steele Dossier charge that Trump hired prostitutes to urinate on the bed in the Presidential Suite of the Ritz Carlton-Moscow? He supposedly did this because it was where Obama and his wife once slept. Danchenko totally made it up. It had no basis in fact. Of course, most of us knew that at the time. It made no sense. This alone should have been enough to stop federal agents from persecuting Donald Trump and his staff.
I will repeat that Trump and his team had to deal with this every single day for more than four years. Even now, a close friend of mine is convinced the Russians have something on Trump. And this person is highly placed in Washington DC circles.
Besides all the fabrications, it was the Clinton campaign that was hip-deep in Russians. Danchenko was a Russian national. Charles Dolan, identified at PR-Executive 1 in the Durham indictment, has been a longtime advisor not just to the Clintons and the Democrats but also to the Russian government.
Even though Donald Trump and his team had this millstone around their necks every day for more than a year, they accomplished a great deal. I covered this in detail in my book The Catholic Case for Trump.
Trump destroyed the physical ISIS Caliphate that occupied more land than Great Britain, something Obama could not do. Trump made the U.S. energy independent, an energy-exporting country, something frittered away in months by Joe Biden. Trump utterly remade the federal judiciary and the Supreme Court. It is irrelevant that he had advisors helping him. All presidents do. Trump was the most pro-life president the United States has ever had post-Roe v. Wade. He initiated pro-life policies that someone like George Bush never even considered. Instead, Bush sacrificed the pro-life issue for his forever war in the Middle East.
Trump did all this and more even though wicked men and women in and out of the federal government came after him with lies and fabrications that had to have occupied a great deal of his time and mindspace.
I understand that many conservatives may have Trump fatigue. Consider this, though. Much of that Trump fatigue had to have been related to the poisonous Steele Dossier and all that came from it. He was a man cornered by liars, and he reacted, sometimes badly. Imagine what might have happened if the FBI had done the right thing and recognized the Russian hoax for what it was? What might have happened if the FBI and the Justice Department had not acted like criminals? What might have been if Trump had been given an open field to lead the country? Sure, Trump would have been Trump, and a lot of folks do not like Trump. But at least he would have been given a chance.
My view after reading the Durham indictments of Michael Sussman and Igor Danchenko is that Trump is owed four more years. I know this will likely not happen. Nonetheless, we owe him that.
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You got what you were damned well owed. You keep talking about all Trump’s wonderful policies. You got them. But Trump just couldn’t stop handing ammunition to the enemy and that is what brought him down. I kept hearing, “He fights”. Well, he fought like a fool. Next time choose someone who fights like an adult.
People were so disgusted with Trump they elected Brandon! Most people I think, believe there was cheating but once again Trump fought stupidly. People didn’t care there was cheating! They were just glad he was gone. Even more so after his ridiculous behavior after the election.
People like you should expect more from a President. It is more like “Move along, plenty to see here, but we sure as heck don’t want a sore loser again.” Give me a President that knows how to handle the jackals. Trump ain’t it.
Right back at you.
Whom are you trying to convince with your media-approved story?
Just answering questions and comments. I know I won’t convince anyone like you. I hardly think media would approve of my “story”. I voted for Trump in 2020 by the way and I think he is loathsome. Just less loathsome than Brandon. All I want is for people to choose from two better people next time. You want Biden and Trump, Part Deux, where everyone loses.
Well, we may have more in common than you think — or than I thought. I know you didn’t do it for me, but thank you anyway for your vote, supporting Trump even though you found him loathsome.
If I do tell a small secret here, I don’t actually want Trump to run again — I want him to threaten to run all the way up to the deadline. It’s my opinion, which I claim is well supported by facts, that the executive branch mutinied in the first term, and that we are in deeper doo-doo than a lot of people realize. Trump hisself notwithstanding, the monstrous crime committed has put an end to our Republic. Defending Trump against what was done to him — to us — is really defending the Constitution. It’s not the case that (unlike Louis XIV or Fauci) the man is the institution, rather that in order to defeat the man, they had to abrogate the institution.
Trump himself doesn’t matter. What mattered was the means of his failure. I submit that no Republican President could have succeeded at both running an administration and trying to root out the deep state. The deep state has simply become too powerful. Each administration is four years further along this disastrous Emperor’s New Clothes road to Hell. The deep state is the real government now, only troubled and bedeviled by the various administrations — not the other way around.
Four or eight or twelve years from now — or never — when the next Republican takes office, we will see the damage done. Until then it will just look like Democrats in charge, well elections matter. Not anymore they don’t. Obama fully weaponized an already left-leaning bureaucracy. And now here we are.
SO anyway, thank you for your support. Not that my opinion matters — I’m just grateful. We can but try.
If the nation collectively were capable of “voting wisely” Biden wouldn’t be president and Trump would be in his second term.
Trump isn’t worth it. Find someone who is.
Or Rubio or Cruz would be President.
If Rubio had been the candidate, I’d have left the top slot blank, and I’d much rather see Cruz on the SCOTUS.
Rubio was my choice. I don’t understand why anyone couldn’t vote for him. I certainly understand how anyone could not vote for Trump. Rubio actually understands the world. But carry on. I find it difficult to have a discussion with this kind of viewpoint, so I am bowing out.
I guess we each have our perspective. I can understand why people might value different things strongly enough to not vote for someone I think is acceptable. I think we would all be better off if conservatives were more hardheaded about it, and voted for the most conservative person they could get in office. Against any Democrat, that would be Trump, or Rubio, or Cruz, or pretty much any other Republican.
Your lack of understanding is not my problem. It’s yours.
Our country is worth it. It’s worth going to the effort of a Trump presidency.
Of the 17 who were on the stage, I could have voted for most, but not JEB!, Christie, Kasich, or Rubio. I can understand why someone would not have voted for Trump in 2016 and just left the top slot blank, but not someone who would not vote for him in 2020.
Rubio is a sock puppet.
You’re too kind.
Dime would be incensed.
It was then. It is now. But isn’t DeSantis also worth it? And is he better overall, or worse overall? And more or less likely to get enough votes to win past the margins of cheating?
I expect he would be worth it. It’s too early to say whether he would be better or worse than Trump. I don’t know that it’s necessary to decide.
The GOPers who are running a whispering campaign about Cruz for SC are doing it to ensure he doesn’t become either a SC justice or President.
The only way Cruz will get on the Supreme Court will be if he makes a strong showing in the leadup to a Presidential race during a Republican administration. The GOPe is not going to let him get on the SC unless he is a threat to become President, in which case they may want to prevent that from happening so they can have one of their corrupt good-ole-boys in the office. In other words, it’s not going to happen any time soon.
If you’re still re-litigating 2016, why not 2012 or 2008? How bout that schlub Romney? Shoulda been Newt! Or McCain — shoulda been Giuliani!
Oh well.
You mean the Constitution specifically forbids a Supreme Court Chief Justice (I’m assuming Cruz will be Chief) can’t run for the Presidency? I don’t think the Constitution or any federal legislation prohibits this.
I know Trump, and Trump knows the enemies now. De Santis is still in the learning phase.
It would be hard to do the necessary campaigning and fundraising while serving as a justice.
Well, I was kidding, but I’m sure there are those who would in good conscience argue that this is a conflict of interest. More seriously, I do think it would be gauche to sit behind Resolute in his court robes, other than maybe for a photograph or something. I won’t even ask if he can keep his Senate seat while he’s President. Even Maduro hasn’t been able to pull that one off. :)
It ain’t easy being God-Emperor!
That reminds me that I still haven’t finished watching the last film of the late, great Alexei Gherman, completed after his death: Hard to be a God (Трудно быть богом).
It was hard to watch, as was his second-to-last film, the one about the death of Stalin: Khrustalyov, My Car!
You guys do not get it. Power is not given it is taken. Trump let his power be taken and Biden took that power. Heck Biden is one of the few POTUS that took the office on the back of an army. It is his. He will keep it until somebody else takes it. It is how power is always done.
So Biden is Lenin. Or Mao.
Out of respect for those unfortunate souls who actually have lost their political voices through military-backed coup d’état, I’ll point out that the 2020 election dispute was decided through legal means, via the courts and the Congress. In keeping with our tradition, America experienced yet another orderly — if in this case inelegant — transfer of power.