Trump – Monumental Waste and Corruption in Washington D.C.

Senators Richard Blumenthal and Representative Robert Garcia co-chaired a hearing detailing allegations of systemic corruption, cronyism, and mismanagement of federal funds by the Trump administration.

This discussion focused on several “vanity projects” in Washington, D.C., and their impact on public institutions, veterans, and taxpayers.

Donald J. Trump, urbanized his office for profit, collecting over $2 Billion in his first year in office alone. His family is following suit, as they are looting billions more from the American taxpayer.

Trumps obsession with rebuilding DC as a monument to his own ego is happening as no president in American history has done before.

  1. The Reflecting Pool saga…

There is currently a $14 Million dollar renovation happening on the historical pool that’s plagued by algae and a bottom that’s chipping away and falling apart. It’s been drained twice in just 3 months for repairs. But the incompetence is staggering. On top of all the incompetence, they are putting the blame for the algae in the pool on a Olympian biker who stopped by the pool to check on the water, because it was the color green instead of blue. They have attempted to put this man in jail to cover up their shoddy work with contracts going to Donald Trump friends and donors. This is a complete disgrace and completely shameful.

2. The East Wing demolished…

There was barely any public notice for the demolition of the East Wing of the Whitehouse and to make way for what?

How about a Donald J. Trump ballroom that’ll cost up to $1 Billion funded by American taxpayers and shady corporate donations, so that Donald Trump and his family can host balls and dinners and galas for himself, and for his rich friends and donors. Presently, there are 200 workers rushing to finish the project, as they are working just about around the clock to finish the ballroom before the project gets shut down completely. Congress only has the right to authorize the tear-down of the East Wing, and Congress only has the right to authorize the build of anything at the peoples house, the White House. But Trump doesn’t follow rules, nor the Constitution. He makes rules as he goes.

3. The Trump takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The Kennedy Center is the only living memorial for President John F. Kennedy. Trump not only tried to take over the Kennedy Center board, as he installed himself as chairman, and then he does what he does best. He fires good people, then he put his name on the building, turning a cultural institution, a memorial to a great man, President Kennedy, into some sort of warp vanity project to himself. What a sicko.

Some of the courts are doing everything possible to stop these horrific and illegal and corrupt actions. He was ordered to remove his name, but has the building name covered and the place is closed. Many of the performers there have decided to quit, never to return.

4. A Triumphal Arch between Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery…

Reporters asked Trump who the arch was for, and his answer… “ME”…

I’m not making this up. In front of cameras, that question was asked, and he specifically stated that the arch was for “ME”.  What other president in American history would have done such a thing? The answer is no other president, in the past and in the future’ if our democracy still stands after this felon president.

With Trump, it’s all about Me, Me, Me, Me, Me. It’s like nothing should be standing in Washington without his name on it. Trump is pathetic. He is a lonely man who is trying to turn America’s monuments into monuments for himself. And in the process, he’s destroying institutions and property that belong not to him and his family, but to the American people. He’s using our tax dollars without Congress’s permission.

He’s dishonoring our history, and he’s dishonoring our veterans. He dishonors the rule of law, and acts like a king, and is responsible to no one but himself.

He claims he wants to honor a former great president, while he’s dishonoring the American people. What makes this all unbelievable is that every single project is marked by corruption and actual incompetence.

He uses no-bid contracts, unqualified companies, including campaign donors, and blatant violations of the law halted by the courts, but doesn’t listen to courts. He loves lawsuits, as no other president in history has received as many as Trump for his acts of corruption.

Then he looks at himself, with an ego that reaches the moon and outwardly professes that he’s the biggest, most successful builder of all time. But then again, he can’t even refurbish a pool without the water turning green with algae.

Trump also likes to talk about vandals and crime in D.C. and all the vandalism that he sees wherever he goes. Anyone who is sane knows that the biggest vandal in Washington, D.C. is DONALD J. TRUMP.

He is corrupt.

He is incompetent.

He is ripping off the American taxpayer.

He is obsessed with himself and only himself, and he’s willing to destroy important American institutions for his own grievances and his own vanity and narcissism.

He literally destroyed the East Wing. He doesn’t care about real priorities of the American public.

In the next U.S. Congress, all of these things will get investigated.  In my opinion, Donald J. Trump is looking at least a dozen impeachments in the future. But it’s up to the Senate to convict and remove him from office which requires 60 Senators voting to convict to be successful.

In the future when Democrats take control, hopefully of both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, the investigations into Donald trump will commence. Congress will want to see the contracts, and the documents and communications, the payments the paper trails and find out who has been profiting from all of this corruption. It won’t be hard to find all the grift and waste.

The new Congress is going to be demanding of the facts. They will get their hands on evidence of corruption because it has costs. It has costs and consequences for everyday Americans.

The monumental waste of Donald J. Trump will be documented. Trump will own being the worst president in U.S. history. Even with his ‘immunity’ claims, he will eventually have to pay the cost for his crimes and corruption. Who knows, with Leticia James back on the warpath with Trump, his name may be removed from Trump Tower soon. He’s been already convicted of fraud in the case of that property before he became president a second time.

Since last November, more whistleblowers have come forward with documents that demonstrate even more corruption and self-dealing, from multiple no-bid contracts going to preferred contractors to rushed jobs that need to be redone to management telling staff to do whatever it takes and not to worry about the repercussions because we’ll deal with the lawsuits later. And to what end? All this waste occurred in the service of gratifying the President’s monumental ego.

Trump is already a lame duck president, and when Congress flips and lead by Democrats this November, it will be the beginning of the worst final two years any president could have in office.

Supreme Court Sides with Trump against Free and Fair Elections

We have this breaking news from the United States Supreme Court, which has sided with the Trump administration and against free and fair elections.  Is Democracy coming to an end?

The Supreme court said that the Trump administration’s anti-voting executive order that had been blocked by the lower court, a lawsuit brought by various states, should not have been blocked.

Essentially, they found that the states that had brought this lawsuit did not have standing and the claims were not ripe for adjudication.

So what legal mumbo-jumbo is this?

The following is an explanation of adjudication by the Cornell Law School…

Adjudication refers to the legal process of resolving a dispute or deciding a case. When a claim is brought, courts identify the rights of the parties at that particular moment by analyzing what were, in law, the rights and wrongs of their actions when they occurred.

To be decided, a case has to be “ripe for adjudication.” This means that the facts of the case have matured enough to constitute a actual substantial controversy warranting judicial intervention. Indeed, Article III, Section 2, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution does not allow courts to decide hypothetical questions or possibilities but only actual cases and controversies.

Adjudication also refers to the judicial decision itself. The effects of a judgment are determined by the doctrine of former adjudication. Under this doctrine, a final judgment in a prior action serves to bar re-litigation of the issues relevant to that determination. There are two types of former adjudication: collateral estoppel and res judicata.

In March of this year, Donald Trump issued an executive order that did a few things.

First, after denouncing what what was said in lower court, now the Department of Homeland Security was going to create a master list of citizens, who it believed were eligible to vote, and that it would share those with the states.

Simultaneous with that, it orders the Department of Justice. to take action to criminally prosecute people who are either non-citizens who vote or who knowingly allow non-citizens to vote, which would potentially put in harm’s way election officials, state government officials, who would now have to worry that if they made a mistake or if there was an allegation made that somehow a non-citizen had voted, that they could be under investigation. Or worse.

How many non-citizens actually vote?

Until Trump raised the issue, voting by noncitizens had never been a major factor in campaigns. According to an April article in The New York Times, nationally, “The Heritage Foundation’s database of documented cases of voter fraud includes 100 cases of noncitizens voting from 1982 to 2025. That is about 0.000008% of more than 1.3 billion votes cast in presidential elections during that time.” (Note that The Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank often supporting Trump’s positions.) Over time, various states have examined their voting rolls to determine how many noncitizens have registered to vote or actually voted. The state of Georgia, for example, conducted a citizenship audit of its voter rolls. In 2024, more than 5 million people voted. Of those, the audit found 20 noncitizens on the rolls, and nine of those people cast ballots in previous elections. In the 2016 election in Nevada, a statewide audit found that of the more than 1.1 million people who voted, 100 noncitizens had registered (likely due to a Department of Motor Vehicles office error) and only three had voted.

But the part of the executive order that I’m concerned about is that is says that the U. S. Postal Service is to create a new set of rules for delivering mail balance.

Under this new executive order, the Postal Service was ordered to create a new set of rules that makes it more complicated, that both specifies exactly what ballot envelopes will look like and requires a barcode that is generated, that is unique to the individual voter.

But most importantly, it also says that nobody can get a mail-in ballot or deliver it unless they are on an approved list of people submitted by the states in advance to the U. S. Postal Service.

So how many voters that are citizens of the United States will be disfranchised in the November elections with the new rules set by the Supreme Court, thanks to Donald Trump?

This is not just a wild intrusion on state power. It is not just an unconstitutional effort by the president of the United States to force the Postal Service to restrict mail-in voting where the president has no authority. (But at the same time, the President gets to vote by mail when all other citizens of the United States become restricted.) It is OK for him to vote by mail, but not the American people. That’s pretty sick.

But it’s also quite clearly an effort by this administration to get their hands on those voting rolls. Trump makes up his own hoaxes, none of them are real. He’s getting away with it for now, but the November election will prove whether we still live in a Democracy or not.

Trump is Not Helping the Republican Party – He Bailed Out on John Cornyn

Anyone with common sense would not understand why Trump would not even support people in his own party. He has been campaigning against Republicans, and it’s based purely on vengeance. Donald Trump’s one and only consistent pursuit in his second term as president so far has been vengeance. And his principle aim in his second term is revenge. Trump is consumed in his second term with revenge.

His first target was Senator John Cornyn. Cornyn lost his Texas re-election primary to Donald Trump’s endorsed candidate, Ken Paxton, in May. Paxton is so scandal-playing that he is trailing in the polls in Texas to Democrat James Tallarico. So Donald Trump’s lust for vengeance could cost Republicans a Senate seat in Texas and control the United States Senate in November. John Cornyn is not corrupt, but Ken Paxton is.

Trump is also directly responsible for these following Republicans who lost their primaries…  Mike Lindell, Catalina Lauf, and Darline Graham.

Donald Trump’s lust for vengeance could cost Republicans the House of Representatives, because Donald Trump’s lust for vengeance has left him and the Republicans in Congress completely lost on the political issue of the year, which is now a two-pronged issue. It began as the struggle of affordability in this country, which has only been worsened by Donald Trump’s war in Iran, which has rocketed up gasoline prices and made life all the more unaffordable.

Things that should be important in this election year are the furthest away from Trump’s mind. For example, Donald Trump getting James Comey indicted for posting a photograph of seashells even if the indictment is thrown out. To Donald Trump, vengeance is its own success, but voters do not see it that way.

Trump Slump in Texas Polls – Hot race in Texas Race coming in the fall will bury Ken Paxton

The current political trajectory in Texas indicates a significant erosion of Republican support, driven by underwater approval ratings for Donald Trump and mounting ethical scandals surrounding ultra-extremist MAGA candidate, Attorney General Ken Paxton.

The trend doesn’t look good for Republicans. If the election was held today, Democrats would take control of the U.S. Senate by 4 seats.

Who do Democrats in Texas have to thank for the erosion of support of the Republican candidate in Texas?  The answer is easy, Donald J. Trump. All Trump can do in November is hinder Republican opponents instead of helping them.

Donald Trump endorsed the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, the definition of corruption, over his incumbent and long time friend John Cornyn in the primaries, so ultimately Ken Paxton won. Trump bet that he could keep his streak going in an attempt to put as many corrupt people in Congress that he could. But this time, it will work against him, at least finally in the state of Texas.

Ken Paxton’s opponent in the Democratic party come November in the midterms is James Tallerico. the Democratic opponent of Paxton has increased his win probability from 19% in January to 45% currently. Tallerico campaign is successfully capturing independent voters, largely fueled by high-profile bipartisan defections from the Republican party.

The Republican party defections are led by John Cornyn’s former deputy legislative director, Jacob Smith, a Republican. He has been up to now a Republican life-long staffer, but he decided to cross the isle to support Tallerico as a deputy policy director. This changeover signals a significant shift in coalition building, which Cornyn defended as a necessary outreach strategy for the GOP rather than a personal betrayal from Donald Trump.

So for the first time in many years, the Democrats actually have a very good chance to win another seat in Texas, and it may just take this one seat to put the Democrats up to with a lead in Congress that even a tie vote by party lines and a tap for Republicans in the final vote by the Vice-President to put Republicans up on top for voting may not be able to happen. Tallerico is not the only Democrat that is challenging Republican Senators nationwide.

In Texas, Trump thought that his Gerrymandering success of getting more Republican seats would insure that Republicans would still win elections, but now in Texas, that’s not necessarily true.  Trump is thinking with the Gerrymandering that he and the Republican Governor succeeded in the state, Republicans have a chance to keep the state of Texas in the Republican column during elections.

Even with Trump’s Gerrymandering success, polling data reveals a COLLAPSE in support for Donald Trump within the Hispanic community, both nationally and specifically in Texas. The Hispanics will have the ability to bury the Republicans in the fall and in 2028 during the national election.

Latinos may rule the day in November 2026. What’s driving the shift for Latino voters is disapproval of Trump, primarily anchored in the economy. Trump now holds a net negative 46% approval rating on economic issues within the demographic, a near 50 point movement against him compared to 2024 by Latinos.

Another reason for the shift is because of Trump’s overall job approval among Latino voters. His approval among Latino voters have dropped 18 points from 46% record share to a 28% rating. But Trump could care less.

So, corrupt felon President Donald J. Trump doesn’t really care about the party he actually belongs to. He selects bad candidates like Paxon to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate. Paxton’s record is absolutely one of the worst any candidate could have or every have had, but yet Trump has supported him anyway, because Paxon is a corrupt MAGA, just like him, through and through.

Paxton’s record, specifically his vote against animal abuse accountability and allegations of protecting research labs linked to the torture of over 400 puppies is something that votes will not take a blind eye to.

And if you haven’t noticed, Ken Paxton rapid wealth accumulation, including millions earned from hospital board positions and cell phone tower deals, which lead to his previous impeachment by Texas Republicans are just a few reasons why Paxton will not have the support in November to beat Tallerico.

In Texas, there is growing local opposition to the “data center capital” initiative pushed by Governor Abbott and Trump. Critics highlight the disruption of residential areas and the provision of full tax breaks and free electricity to these centers at the expense of local taxpayers is just some of the corruption that Trump continuously pushes out on the American people. But it’s not going to work.

Approval Ratings of 7 Presidents, including Donald J. Trump

Here is a little chart that shows the popularity of seven U.S. Presidents with approval ratings. As expected, Donald J. Trump is firmly located at the bottom of the list. This is a Roper Center poll. Others follow…

President Highest Recorded Approval Lowest Recorded Approval Source
George W. Bush 92% 19% Roper Center
Harry S. Truman 87% 22% Roper Center
Franklin D. Roosevelt 84% 48% Roper Center
John F. Kennedy 83% 56% Roper Center
Barack Obama 76% 37% Roper Center
Joe Biden 63% 31% Roper Center

Donald J. Trump

 49% 29% Roper Center

As of August 20, 2026, Donald Trump‘s approval rating is hovering between 33% and 39% across major polling averages, marking a record low for his second term.  The Reuters/Ipsos poll reports a specific low of 33% approval with 64% disapproval, tied with his lowest rating from his first term in 2017.

Polling Averages and Specific Results Different aggregators and pollsters show slight variations within this low range:

  • RealClearPolitics averages his approval at 39.2%.

  • Silver Bulletin (Nate Silver) places the rating at 38.1% with a net approval of roughly -20.4.

  • Civiqs tracking shows 35% approval and 59% disapproval, resulting in a net rating of -24.

  • Quinnipiac University recorded an all-time low for their tracker at 32%. 

Key Drivers and Demographics The decline is attributed primarily to rising gas prices, inflation, and public dissatisfaction with the ongoing war with Iran, which 80% of respondents expect to continue indefinitely.  

Support has eroded among Republicans (dropping to roughly 69–80% approval depending on the poll) and remains minimal among Democrats (around 6%).

The rating is particularly weak among millennials (ages 30–44), where approval has slipped to 26%, and in swing states like Florida and Ohio, where his net approval has turned negative. 

ICC Dismantling Plans and DAWN Lawsuit – Is Trump Accountable to the ICC

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has initiated a systematic effort to dismantle the International Criminal Court (ICC), describing the tribunal as a “globalist” threat to U.S. sovereignty and military personnel. This escalation includes expanded sanctions against ICC judges and has triggered significant legal challenges regarding the First Amendment rights of human rights organizations.

Strategic Escalation against the ICC

Rubio claims he would use the “Brick by Brick” strategy. The administration intends to delegitimize the Hague-based court, arguing it has exceeded its original mandate as a narrow backstop for war crimes.
U.S. sanctions now target the Chief Prosecutor, two deputy prosecutors, and eight ICC judges. These sanctions freeze assets and criminalize providing “services” or evidence to the court.

Legal experts suggest the administration’s hostility serves as an “insurance policy” against potential prosecution for current military actions, including operations in Iran and the Caribbean.

The human rights group ‘Democracy for the Arab World Now’ (DAWN) has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the sanctions.  The lawsuit argues that the government cannot punish Americans for engaging with a court or collaborating with international human rights groups. Plaintiffs contend the administration has exceeded the sanctioning authority granted by Congress, which specifically bars the restriction of personal communications and information exchange. Multiple federal judges in Manhattan and Maine have already issued rulings blocking the enforcement of these sanctions on First Amendment grounds.
So Rubio writes these things against the ICC but it is not a defense of American sovereignty against a runaway court. This is an insurance policy against accountability for crimes that the Trump administration is committing in plain sight.
Marco Rubio knows that bombing Iran without Security Council authorization constitutes aggression under the U.N. charter.
Marco Rubio knows that blowing up boats in the Caribbean and killing their occupants without trial constitutes murder.
Marco Rubio knows that rendering migrants to a notorious Salvadoran prison where they were tortured can create criminal liability.
Even our own Supreme Court voted unanimously to tell Trump that he had no right.
Marco Rubio knows that even sanctioning judges and prosecutors for doing their job is itself a crime under the administration, a crime against the administration of justice under the court statute.
So it’s not about American sovereignty, it’s about IMPUNITY.
Trump is a  candidate for the ICC. Trump knows it. Rubio knows it.
Legal experts argue President Trump could theoretically face accountability for ordering killings in international waters, but significant political and legal barriers make actual prosecution unlikely. 
Critics, including human rights organizations and legal scholars, characterize the strikes on suspected drug traffickers as unlawful extrajudicial executions or murder, noting that no armed conflict exists to justify lethal force under international law.
Legal obstacles to accountability primarily stem from the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in Trump v. United States, which grants presidents presumptive immunity for official acts, requiring prosecutors to prove that pursuing charges would not intrude on executive authority.
Approximately 125 countries that are state parties to the Rome Statute could theoretically arrest Donald Trump if he entered their territory, as they are legally obligated to enforce International Criminal Court (ICC) warrants. However, the United States is not a party to the Rome Statute, and the ICC can only exercise jurisdiction over a U.S. president for alleged crimes committed on the territory of a member state. During Trump’s second term, he has attacked the following countries: Iran, Venezuela, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Nigeria.
Only Venezuela and Nigeria are currently under the jurisdiction of the Rome Statute as states parties. Iran, Yemen, and Syria have signed but not ratified the statute, while Somalia and Iraq have neither signed nor ratified it.
 Unless Trump commits a war crime against a member state belonging to the Rome Statute, Trump cannot be accountable by the International Criminal Court in the future.
Venezuela plans to drop out in 2027. Depending what Trump has done in Nigeria, he could be accountable to the ICC in the future but unlikely, because no formal charges have been made by Nigeria to date. 
What Trump does is that he bombs Iran and hardly bothers with the legal justification. He can care less about justifying what he does.
Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth blow up boats and posts the videos. Other past presidents ignored the rules too, but not like Trump. He is not trying to follow the rules, he is trying to destroy them.
Marco Rubio contends that the International Criminal Court has far exceeded its original mandate.  Well for this Executive branch under Trump, the law itself is the enemy.  In Trump’s term in office, the United States has  openly trampled on international law like they’re trampling on domestic law, while they undermine all of the institutions that could get in their way, the courts, the ICC, the journalists and the civil society organizations.
Talk about war crimes, how about bombing of desalination plants?
When it comes to war, the cornerstone principle of the laws of war is that you can only attack military targets. You can never target civilians, and never civilian objects.  Going back to the Geneva Convention, the protection extends to objects that or indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, like drinking water installations. So if you attack a population’s water supply, it would be a war crime. It’s actually a war crime to threaten to attack civilian installations, but Trump publicly threatens that the U.S. would hit possibly all desalination plants. This would indicate his intention of targeting of a civilian population’s lifeline. Any one, including President Trump and the military commanders who carry out these orders could one day face prosecution for these things.

FBI Jet and Private Flights

Here is a brief but solid case that proves that the FBI Director Kash Patel is corrupt. He expects to have benefits in his office that he believed his predecessors shouldn’t have had.

It is what simply can be called hypocrisy regarding FBI private jet usage. Kash Patel’s past criticism of the practice shows a complete contradiction between the rhetoric of fiscal responsibility and the recent $500 million allocation for high-end aircraft.

Kash previously complained that former FBI directors, namely Christopher Wray and James Comey, used government-funded G5 jets for personal vacations.

But it appears that it’s now ok for the current FBI director Kash Patel (himself) to use the jet for trips to “Boondoggle Ranch,” the Hockey Olympics, and the “Poodle Lounge” in Las Vegas.

Patel claims that there should be Congressional inquiries that focus on the exact number of personal trips taken by the previous FBI directors on government aircraft.

Now in keeping with his request, should there also be Congressional inquiries on the private trips he has taken using taxpayer dollars for his travel and trips that were not related to his job?

As if these accusations were not enough, now Donald Trump has approved a new jet upgrade for Kash Patel, which costs $500 million.

Military Living Conditions – Legal Rights

Under the tenure of Donald J. Trump, there is an humanitarian crisis aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, and the legal framework leaving service members without recourse. The carrier has operated in the Gulf of Oman for nine months without a port stop, leading to failures in basic living standards.

Imagine that your child goes into service and must live amongst 5000 other servicemen in conditions that were actually illegal in a domestic prison.

Besides the fact that this carrier hasn’t been to shore in at least nine months, the following is what the soldiers abord that ship have to face every day.

SERVICE FAILURES

  • Shortages of food and water.
  • Broken toilets.
  • Lack of laundry services.
  • Lack of mail services.

Mental Health

  • Moral has collapsed, with reports of sailors jumping overboard.

Even with all of this happening onboard an American aircraft carrier, the Naval crew of this ship do not have any constitutional rights to sue over living conditions, a right afforded to incarcerated persons under sanitation and medical care standards.

Is this how we treat our American soldiers who fight to protect us. And to protect us from what? Trump will tell you that these soldiers are fighting to keep Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

Trump claimed that after the first week, the Iranians were annihilated.  He said that they could no longer make a nuclear weapon. So then why are we still there? Why are our soldiers, our own flesh and blood still there, fighting a war that to this point seems to be never-ending. It was not a war that America wanted, and not one that our representatives in Washington wanted us in. But here we are. Our servicemen are suffering and some have mental conditions now that clearly require that they be brought home.

The present and ongoing U.S. Abraham Lincoln tour has set the record books. Never in modern history has any crew been stranded on a boat for nine months without any rest, without taking any shore leave. Many of the soldiers aboard had their tours with the service extended, against their will because they just happened to be on the Abraham Lincoln.

This is very unfortunate. Donald J. Trump, a disgusting human being who dodged the draft himself, is forcing American servicemen to be in harms way, all because he personally started a war that was not approved by our own Congress.

The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the exclusive power to declare war, requiring a majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate followed by the president’s signature.  However, the president serves as Commander in Chief and retains authority to deploy military forces without a formal declaration in response to emergencies, attacks, or under statutory authorizations.

The last part of that last sentence just stated says that the President has the right to deploy military forces without a formal declaration. But in response to what? It’s supposed to be for emergencies, attacks or under statutory authorizations.

None of that exists, except Trump claimed that he had to stop Iran from making a nuclear weapon. If Trump thought that Iran was creating a nuclear weapon, why didn’t he share his intelligence with the U.S. Congress so that they could vote on it and give him the authorization that he needed to carry on with his attack?

The reason is because Trump knew he would never get approval from Congress to attack Iran. That’s the reason why he didn’t go to Congress. He circumvented Congress for his selfish reasons, taking the war into his own hands with no ones blessing, and now look what we have to show for it.

Yes, it’s an endless war, created by Trump, which caused service members to be killed. It’s the reason why the Abraham Lincoln is in the Gulf of Oman fighting a war while putting our troops in harms way,  when we didn’t need to be there in the first place.

Everyone that has enabled Trump needs to go. If they had anything to do with his actions regarding this war, they also need to be prosecuted. 

Trump needs to be in the confines of a jail cell, so he himself can feel like the troops aboard the Abraham Lincoln, a ship that has become their own jail cell. They cannot escape until the boat docks once again. No doubt that many of them will leave service the first chance they get, because they never want to experience these conditions ever again.

Todd Blanch First Interview as Attorney General with ‘Meet the Press’

Todd Blanche sat down with Meet the Press for his first interview since his confirmation.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is not supposed to represent the President personally, but rather represents the United States government and the presidency as an institution in matters related to official duties. The DOJ is an executive department headed by the Attorney General, who reports directly to the President and is a member of the President’s Cabinet, but its attorneys represent the United States, not the individual holding the office.

But in the interview, Blanche refused to commit to keeping DOJ independent from the president. Why, because there truly is a conflict of interest here. Todd Blanche was Trump’s Criminal Defense Attorney and he is totally loyal to him, and he could never represent the Justice Department independantly without Trump weighing in on any situation he wanted to. He was asked if he would pledge that the Justice Department will act independently of the White House, and this was his response…

“No, I’m not going to pledge that. And no Attorney General should ever pledge that.”

Blanche also confirms that he will take direction from Donald Trump about which cases to prosecute. When asked if he’ll consider the president’s opinions on matters like reviving the failed reflecting pool prosecution, he said…

“Yes, of course”.

Blanche also refused to rule out making payments to January 6 rioters using our tax dollars. He said…

“There are other ways they could be entitled to collect money from our government.”

He also refused to condemn the president’s pardons of the rioters who attacked and injured police officers. He said…

“The president is free to pardon whoever he wants, and as Attorney General, he has no problem with that.”

Then he blatantly says that the DOJ will continue to meddle in elections, even though courts in 22 different states have told them to stop. He said..

“We’re not going to stop doing that.”

He then says..

“Americans should be happy about it.”

The the big lie. He promised that Donald Trump would never ask him to do anything illegal or unethical.  He said…

“The president will never ask me to do something unethical or illegal.”

He is TOTALLY beholden to Donald J. Trump. He has no moral compass, and he would not know ethics if they hit him in the face.

Critics and analysts note that while Blanche testified under oath during his confirmation hearing that he would not violate his constitutional oath if such a request occurred, his recent assertions imply that the administration considers the concept of Trump making an unethical demand to be “self-evidently absurd.”

Who are we kidding here? Trump has the exact man as his Attorney General now, knowing that he will do anything that the president wants him to, especially to try and prosecute his political enemies.

 Blanche acknowledged he would “of course” take the president’s views into consideration regarding prosecutions, arguing that no attorney general should pledge total independence from the White House.

Critics, including legal scholars and political opponents, argue that Blanche’s refusal to pledge independence marks a departure from the post-Nixon era standards that sought to insulate prosecutorial decisions from political pressure.

Trump Losing Control of Everything

Donald Trump has lost control of everything he thought he could control.

He lost control of his war in Iran as soon as he started it.

He lost control of the Republican legislative process in Congress and is unable to get his bill through the Republican controlled Senate which is the bill that would allow Donald Trump to interfere in our elections.

So what does Trump do, as he obviously knows he lost control. He does the most predictable thing he’s ever done. And that’s to LIE.

Maybe these actions by Trump can be Donald Trump’s neurological decline. so maybe he’s not lying. Or, maybe it’s just that’s he’s hallucinating.

So with what’s going on with the war, what did Trump do this past weekend? You would think he would be desperately trying to find a way to get out of his self-made war in Iran or figure out how he can get his war beaten troops off the the Lincoln Aircraft carrier, Navy service men that now have been away from land almost a year. No aircraft carrier in modern history has been continuously at sea on the same mission as the aircraft carrier, U.S.S Lincoln.  But no! Instead he was down at his Dorrell Golf Course, but when he can break away from golf, he would make public statements on social media. Trump hasn’t a clue on what the soldiers are going through. Trump publicly stated that the troops haven’t been on the war ship very long when he was recently asked what he thought.

Being that he didn’t want to talk about the war, what would be the next thing he would talk about?  Of course it would be about his poll numbers, but knowing that his poll numbers are not good, he never listed any specific poll numbers. He claimed that they are great. Really?./?..!? Or maybe he just wants to say what a great president he is, and that he deserves his name on everything.

This was just Donald Trump’s reaction to his provably terrible poll numbers, again, something he cannot control.

To continue on the report on poll numbers since Trump brought them up, the Marquette Law School poll shows that 70% of Americans disapprove of how Donald Trump is handling the economy.

Donald Trump knows that those poll numbers exist, and Donald Trump knows that there is absolutely NOTHING he can do to control his poll numbers. The only thing he can do is LIE about it. So predictable!

What else has Donald Trump lost control of?

Donald Trump lost the choice of his airplane.

It was widely reported that when Donald Trump left the NATO summit in Turkey last month, he did not use the 747 that the dictator of Qatar gave to him as a gift.

Many news outlets have reported that the Qatari jet does not have all of the security equipment as does the original Air Force One airplane. But the real Air Force one, the plane that Biden used when he was president, arrived in Turkey apparently to take the place of Donald Trump’s favorite new plane for security reasons.

The Qatari jet at the time was known to have threats and the secret service would not let him fly on the plane. The plan was to evade an alleged Iranian assassination threat. He secretly gets off of the plane in a service truck attached to the other side of the plane just prior to takeoff. But unannounced to his staff, and others are left as decoys on the plane and the plane takes off without him. Then the real Air Force One Jet with all of the security protection lands in Britain before heading  back to the United States, Trump secretly gets back on the plane.

For Trump, it’s all about him. He just had to fly in his $40 million jet to prove that he can do what he wants. He wants to fly in a plane larger than any previous president in history. For that, he sacrificed safety.  He put his staff and others in a real serious threat situation and they didn’t even know  until the plane was airborne or when it landed in Britain. They may have never known until the story broke. The real Air Force One, the one approved by his own security was not good enough for him, but he was forced to fly it back to Britain from Turkey. He is spending tax payer dollars to outfit the gifted jet which still does not have all the security measures afforded to the two identical Air Force One’s that regular presidents get to use.