MAGA Party equals Destruction of the Republican Party

Everyone who has ANY perception of political news these days who are well-informed knows that the Republican Party has evolved into what is now known as the MAGA Party. The original thought was that it stood for “Make America Great Again”, which is a term that is the motto now of the very far right, so-called Republican base. But if you really understand what that statement falsely admits, you can conclude that Donald Trump never understood that America has always been great. Case in point, what does ‘Again’ mean in that statement?

The slogan first showed up in the political campaign of Trump when he first ran for president in 2016 and 2017. What he conveyed to his followers is that the nation is in decline, and that he and he alone would make America great again. Now, in his latest post in his social media site called ‘Truth Social’, Trump admits that ‘MAGA’ is a cult.

Donald Trump’s supporters continually go down his rabbit hole of the MAGA cult as they continue to support his conduct during his present campaign to try and win back the White House in 2024.

But what the MAGA party truly stands for now is not for what it once stood for . Now as a whole, they are in the process of destroying their country.

MAGA extremists like Margarie Taylor Green, and Matt Gaetz are in position now to make sure that the House is not capable of passing desperately needed laws to keep the government open at the end of the month.  With complete control of the Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, the MAGA leaders will use him as a scapegoat as to why the government is shut down. McCarthy did everything to concede power to these MAGA extremists, so he could become the speaker. Now he is leading these extremists to impeach President Joe Biden because the MAGA’s demanded he do so, on which they have no grounds to do. Most importantly, they are doing this under the direction of their MAGA leader, Donald J. Trump.  This extreme party has now become a threat to democracy. They intend to stomp out everything that really makes this country great, including their present president, Joe Biden. But unfortunately for Speaker McCarthy, they will use the shutdown and the problems that are owned by the MAGA party, as an excuse to fire him from his job. That makes Speaker McCarthy the most ignorant man in America, soon to be one of the most disgraced after attempting to fight so hard for these MAGAs in attempt to keep his job which even he knows he could not keep because of their demands of him.

 

In a statement by President Joe Biden, he summed up what he believes what the slogan ‘Make America Great Again’ believers are. In a speech he made in Philadelphia on September 1, 2022 in Philadelphia, he stated the following…

“There is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country,” Biden said. “MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people.”

The country is poised to put up with the beginning of the long list of court battles that Donald Trump faces for the next few years. Regardless of the facts, the MAGA followers of Donald Trump will continue to support him with their votes and their money, so they can help Trump pay all of his legal bills he now has.

First, MAGAs believe that the last election that Trump lost was stolen. They believe that COVID-19 was a bioweapon from China. They blame the riots at the capitol the work of antifa. They are now blaming Democrats in attempting to remove Trump from the campaign by using the Actual 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

In all actuality, Trump supporters should blame themselves for support such a criminal mind as Donald Trump. Nothing good can ever come out of their support for Donald Trump. They cannot make America great again or actually keep American from not being great by continuing on a path to destruction of their own party.

Can the country survive with a destroyed Republican party. I argue that it cannot. This county was built on a belief that people have a right to their beliefs and no man has the right to take rights away from others. There needs to be two healthy parties, ones that can disagree with each other, but can come to a common resolution to their differences. One thing is for sure. The Republican party can not exist in it’s true and intended form with the addition of the MAGA party. That puts democracy at stake here.

Elections matter. Will the country re-elect an honest and decent president such as Joe Biden, or will the country elect a failed president, twice impeached, 4-times indicted monster of a man, someone who will continue to tear down the country in every way possible because he will then have nothing to lose. The U.S. Constitution for once may be responsible for saving the country by eliminating Donald Trump from ever running for political office again.  I predict a jail term for Trump. It most likely will be drastic. For the felonies he is charged and all can be proven, he stands to spend the rest of his life in jail. On the other hand if re-elected, he cannot be up for re-election if he is serving his second term in office as president. If you think his accusations against everyone that he doesn’t agree with are bad now, just wait until he gains a second term.  He will attempt to pardon himself. He will acquire a MAGA person, such as Majorie Tayor Green,  to be his vice-president, just in case something happens to him, the MAGA party will continue to exist and havoc in the county will persist. Democracy and our lives are at stake in the upcoming election. There will not be a more important election than the presidential election of 2024. If Biden wins, the country will continue to thrive. If Trump wins, freedoms as we know it today will no longer exist. America will no longer be free. A second civil war will erupt.

Fallout to Republicans and Criminal Defendant Trump because of the 14th Amendment

Now that criminal defendant Trump really is disqualified to run for President under the 14th Amendment, Section 3, will the Secretaries of the States now remove Trump from their state ballots?

Lawsuits now showing up to get Trump removed from running for President in 2024..  Thank GOD, because I need him out of my life!

Trump SCREWED

More than likely, Trump will be removed from EVERY Democratically controlled ballot across the country. That means that even if Trump still runs in every Republican controlled state, he could never receive the required number of electoral votes – 270, to become President.

The question I have, will the Republican controlled states now go against the U.S. Constitution and still leave Trump on their ballots in November 2024? If you are a follower of the Constitution and believe what it stands for, then all the states will remove Trump from their ballots.

Now, all the news media on both sides of the aisle will talk about this, and I wonder how long it will take for the Republicans to realize that the longer they support criminal defendant Trump for re-election as President, the higher the possibility that they will not be able to produce a candidate that the country could follow as a Republican candidate.

Actually, the boat has already sailed. It really makes no difference what the Republicans do now. Trump is toast. The Republican Party is toast, because of their leaders who fail their constituents because of MAGA. The longer the MAGA Republicans support Trump, the more certain that Joe Biden will win re-election. The best chance they have to beat Joe Biden is to have another candidate, someone other than criminal defendant Trump as their candidate that will run against Biden.

The Republican Party is ignorant and most definitely blind. The Republican legislators in Congress that still support Trump for President, a criminal defendant that Trump is, the so-called Republican Party will not only lose the Presidency to Joe Biden but will be swept clean regarding seats in the Senate and the House, meaning that the Democrats will take COMPLETE control of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government.

Maybe, this is what it will take to get the Republicans to take their blinders off, or not follow a criminal man just because you feel it’s your only way to stay in your position. On the contrary, the members of the House and Senate that support Trump will start losing their re-elections in a historical fashion. There is a possibility the House and Senate will be highly controlled by Democrats in 2024.

Trump – Disqualified by the Fourteenth Amendment to Run for President

The 14th Amendment of The U.S. Constitution is clear.

DONALD J. TRUMP DOES NOT QUALIFY TO BECOME PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Here is what the Amendment says, and I quote section 3…

Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

So now is the question of why Donald J Trump can run for any office. The Fourteenth Amendment is absolute. It stands by itself, and it is clear. Never mind the four indictments facing him, the disgraced president still barrels on as the front-runner candidate for the 2024 Presidential election.

This article in the Constitution forbids Donald Trump from holding the office of the presidency again because of his conduct before, in and after of the January 6th, 2021, insurrection of the U.S. Capital. He furthermore is not qualified because he came to the aid and comfort of the rebellionists who took part in what he wanted, and that was to stop Mike Pence and Congress from certifying the Presidential election. Trump therefore now is ineligible to serve as president ever again.

So why is disgraced Trump still allowed to run? He is in violation of the 14th Amendment, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, right?  Should he not be running?  The disqualification clause operates by itself. Any prosecution that Trump has pending that are a result of the four indictments against him are of no consequence of the U.S. Constitution 14th Amendment, Section 3.

But who is to enforce this law which is clearly being violated by Donald Trump? Who made the decision that Donald Trump can run for President?

The officials that decided to put in his nomination decided that he can run. The Secretary of State in the 50 states must make that call. If any of them overturns Trump’s qualification to run, he/she will be challenged in court. This decision to disqualify Trump will now have to go up to the U.S. Supreme Court that is heavily favored as Conservative, but it is my belief that the high court will rule against Trump, and he would be removed from the ballot for the 2024 Presidential election.

The bottom line here is that Donald J. Trump, disgraced President of the United States, is in violation of the 14th Amendment, and it will be up to the Secretaries of State and the Supreme Court to make this egregious error right.

I am not making this stuff up. J. Michael Luttig and Laurence H. Tribe have confirmed this in their article published in a publication known as ‘The Atlantic’.

I am providing a link to that article in The Atlantic here…

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/donald-trump-constitutionally-prohibited-presidency/675048/

Trump Indicted a 4th Time

Now with ninety-one felony charges hanging over his head, accused defendant Donald Trump now has a serious problem. The fourth indictment is in the State of Georgia and accuses Trump with racketeering and is named as one of eighteen criminal defendants charged with the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act). A ninety-eight-page indictment has been handed down by a grand jury in Georgia, and now defender Trump must do one of two things, to keep himself out of jail.

First, Trump must surrender himself for arraignment, which is a court hearing that will formally accuse him of the charges as outlined in the indictment pending against him, and his so-called racketeering partners. The prosecuting attorney, Fani Willis, wants to see all those charged to appear at the courthouse on the same day, which is August 25th.

Second, which will fail, will try to move his case in Georgia to a Federal Court, instead of being tried in a state court. Why? Because he believes in his own mind that if he became president again in 2024, he could pardon himself from charges from a federal court, but not from a state court.

Regardless of what he believes he can do, it is clear that a few of these upcoming court hearings will commence before the 2024 election. Trump calls this political interference, and it is his method to try and halt the hearings until after the election where he is hopeful that he will win, and then he will nullify any charges against him. He believes that this is the one way he can stay out of jail. If he could ever pull this off, he may have been right. But I don’t believe that even the Supreme Court, who is overwhelmingly Republican biased, with 3 of the members of this high court chosen by Trump himself, would allow Trump, even as president, to be able to pardon himself.

Trump has no shame. He doesn’t care that even in his mind that he caused the insurrection where people were injured and killed because of rioting, he is now running for president. It is his way to clear his name, and only Donald Trump would do it. But if he is convicted in Georgia, he could never pardon himself from the RICO charges he is accused of and will be found guilty of. Trump is staring at a jail sentence if found guilty in Florida. Most likely, Trump will spend the rest of his life in prison. But then the judge can elect to put Trump under house arrest instead. Trump has never faced accountability. He has always evaded it. But in Georgia, especially if the case is held and determined in a state court in Georgia, Trump will finally receive justice. This is my belief.

In a week, the Republicans will hold their first Republican debate. Originally, Trump claimed he would not attend, because he believes in his mind that he is so far ahead of every other contestant in the polls. This is the one thing that Trump is telling the truth about. He is leading in the polls, but now with the indictments held over his head, he must do a few things to be able to qualify for the debate.

Trump is a coward. Trump is quoted as not attending the debate because he will not support any other candidate per the rules of being to attend the debate.  But the rules for attending the debate claim that he must support the nominee.

What are the requirements that FOX News states to be able to attend the debate?

1) Candidates must poll at least 1% in three national polls or 1% in two national polls and 1% from an early state poll from two “carve out” states recognized by the committee.

2) Candidates must also have a minimum of 40,000 unique donors’ part of their presidential campaign committee – with at least two hundred unique donors per state – AND SIGN A PLEDGE AGREEING TO SUPPORT THE EVENTUAL PARTY NOMINEE.

Trump will support no one. He in his mind could only support himself. No other candidate matters, except the person he chooses as his running mate for Vice-President, if he becomes the Republican nominee for president. He believes he is better than any of his political candidates. He may just show up, so he could denigrate other candidates. Then again, he may not show up so he could put on a show of his own, during the same time as the debate on Fox.

It is very unlikely that Donald Trump will be able to get all or any of the felony charges removed from any of his court cases. Trump stands to spend the rest of his life in a jail cell.

 

 

Trumps Defense is NO Defense

As mentioned in the last post, I have stated that Trump has no defense for what he has done to democracy. Since that last posting, Trump has been criminally indicted (accused) for the 3rd time, as Jack Smith, the prosecuting attorney appointed by the Justice Department, accused Trump of more crimes, specifically centered around the January 6th Insurrection at the Capitol. The tally is now up to 78 criminal charges.  Of course, defendant Trump is considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. In this latest formal accusation, defendant Trump will find out that he finally met his match. Regardless, the defendant will put on a defense, or at least his attorneys will. Trump himself will attempt to stay out of court for every crime he is charged with, because he is a coward. He will use every stall tactic to delay proceedings and will not testify unless he is finally compelled to, and to be honest here, the defendant doesn’t have a chance in hell unless he testifies. When he does, Trump will incriminate himself. If he pleads the fifth, that will work against him. As if this wasn’t enough, Trump will be indicted a 4th time in Georgia. Details on that will be displayed here at a later date.

In prior indictments, there was the Stormy Daniels/Hush Money Case, the Mara Largo Documents Case in the southern district of Florida Federal Court, and now in Washington D.C.’s district court.

Another upcoming indictment, Trumps fourth, will be coming from the State court in Georgia, where Trump will be accused of trying to steal the election in that state.

Trump faces other lawsuits, as the State of New York is attempting to sue defendant Trump of 250 million dollars and bar Trump from ever doing business in New York state again.

But what will Trump claim as his defense? The following defenses are what defendant Trump will use in a court of law, but in each case, just won’t fly in court. Since I consider Trump out of character as a previous president, and because he belittles and defames everyone who is not on his side, I will never use the word President with the word Trump every again. He will be called ‘Defendant Trump’ instead.  He will lose his case, and he will be convicted of felonies in a court of law and faces the rest of his life in prison. So, Trump has nothing to lose here. In every indictment, Trump has claimed he is ‘Not Guilty’, so it will be up to the prosecuting attorney’s job to prove guilt beyond any doubt. But Trump knows, and his attorneys know, that Jack Smith is ready for court. It’s showtime for Jack Smith. It’s stall time for defendant Trump.

Defendant Trump’s defenses call all be debunked. I will list them here and tell you why he will be convicted.

His first defense will be to try to delay all these cases. He doesn’t want to go to trial. Instead, the defendant wants to try his case in the court of public opinion. He feels he has the right to make false statements, accusations, lies and mischaracterizations so that the public thinks he is innocent. The government will test their evidence in court, and that’s what the dependent doesn’t want to happen. Trump wants to get elected and then pardon himself and stop investigations. But Trump will be in court before the election, and the prosecution has the sole burden of proving the case beyond a reasonable doubt.  Hearsay is not allowed. The defense doesn’t have to do anything, but his attorneys will have a chance to poke holes in the government’s case if they want to. If they poke any holes in the prosecutor’s case, Trump will be found innocent because if there is any doubt, the defendant cannot be charged. If it is proven by the defense that what the government is accusing Trump of in ANY instance, the jurors must find Trump innocent.

His second defense will be the venue of the court proceedings. He will argue that he cannot get a fair trial in Washington, D.C. because it is overwhelmingly Democratic and most of the voters there did not vote for him in the last election. So, he already is arguing that the court setting needs to be in another state. Already stated by his attorney, Trump wants the venue moved to West Virginia, one of the most Republican leading states in the nation. Unfortunately, the venue of the court proceedings is always located in the state where the offense was committed. So, Trumps argument will not fly.

He will next try to get the judge off the case. In another stall tactic, Trump will claim that Judge Tanya Chutkan has already sentenced many of the January 6th defendants harshly. He will claim that she should recuse herself. But the defendant doesn’t know this. It is up to that judge to recuse herself, if it is proven that she meets the standard of U.S. code section 455a for recusal, or if the judges’ impartiality can be questioned, she must step down.  But she will not have to step away from this case because her record as a judge is impeccable.

Trump will try to re-litigate the 7 states where he said that he won the election, the False Elector States. He claimed there was fraud and dead people voting, and he went to court and re-litigated over sixty times, stating that the elections in those states should not count in those states. Trumps defense will have to prove that the state electors were legitimate. Jack Smith will have to prove in each state that the pressure campaign was illegal.  Trump will try and delay the cases again, but he will not be successful. The evidence finally will show that Trump tried to get people to commit fraud for him.

Trump will claim that he had a first amendment right of free speech to say things. He called Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger of Georgia and wanted him to find 11,370 votes. He told Mike Pence that he shouldn’t certify the electors results and that he should let the states make the decision to certify. The first amendment’s right to free speech is not absolute. There are things you just can’t say. But it will allow you to lie, in which Trump has lied thousands of times, before, during and after he was in office. But you cannot lie and defame someone, like he did in the E. Jene Carroll, that he never had sex with her, and found guilty in court. He called her names. You can’t lie if it causes fraud. There are limits to free speech. Trump had the right to challenge the election with his words, but he can’t use his words to set in motion a series of events to cause violence in the capital and then try to steal an election.

Trump will claim he got bad advice of counsel in the fake elector scheme. It is a defense that he will use. What it means is if you seek advice from counsel, and they tell you what to do, and you follow that advice in good faith and as a result you inadvertently commit a crime. You cannot be prosecuted for that crime when you get bad advice from counsel. Trump tried to take advantage of this, as he hired lawyers that would go along with his scheme to give him bad advice. The crime fraud exemption takes place here as Trump had lawyers to go along with his scheme, I.E. John Eastman, who is the so-called mastermind behind the insurrection of January 6. All these facts will be proven in court.

The last thing Trump will try to do is preclude his vice-president Mike Pence from testifying because of executive privilege and Pence previously did not want to testify because of this privilege, and there is a speech and debate clause that protects him. The Executive privilege belongs to the current holder of the Executive office, which is President Joe Biden, not defender Trump and presently, Mike Pence in not a holder of an Executive office. So, this will not fly. Mike Pence will have to testify unless he pleads the fifth.

Defendant Trump really has his hands tied trying to defend himself in all these cases, but the Insurrection case most likely will land him behind bars, and he will never be qualified to run from public office ever again. He stands to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

 

Trump has NO Defense – HIS GOOSE IS COOKED!

TRUMPS DEFENSE…

Would you believe that Donald Trump in his crazy, sick mind has the idea that he can declassify any documents that he wants and not return any documents that he wants once he left the presidency?

REALLY?!??????

In August 2022, Trump claims there was a standing order to declassify, according to the statement immediately below by a spokesperson…

“As we can all relate to, everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time. American presidents are no different. President Trump, in order to prepare the work the next day, often took documents, including classified documents, to the residence. He had a standing order, that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. The power to classify and declassify documents rests solely on the President of the United States. The idea that some paper pushing bureaucrat with classification authority, delegated by the President, needs to prove that the declassification is absurd.”

That statement made by Trump’s spokesperson is wrong. Trump knows better. Proof from the Bedminister recordings is part of an indictment that Trump admitted to on tape that there was no such order. In August 2022, Donald Trump in audio tapes states that these documents that he’s showing, these Iranian War documents, these battle maps that I’m unfurling in front of you, that all documents are classified. Then Trump states that he wished they were unclassified. That is on a audio tape. His goose is cooked.

1st, there is testimony established by Jack Smith, the prosecuting attorney, that there was no such order. The Federal government states that there is no written copy or any copy of a standing order.  Donald Trump cannot automatically make classified documents unclassified. THERE IS A PROCESS. Trump’s process does not exist. When a jury hears the evidence, Trump is going to be convicted.

In a ‘TURNING POINT ACTION’ conference speech, TRUMP SAYS…

“They indicted me. Think of it. You don’t have to be a lawyer to understand those words. It is as simple as it gets. They indicted me! In other words, whatever documents a president decides to take with him, he has the absolute and unquestioned right to do so.  This is a law that was passed and signed. And that’s the law, and that’s the way it is, and it couldn’t be more clear”.

Oh my God!. What an ass. The statement he made is FALSE, and it will not work in a court of law. If he says it exists, then he will have to prove the facts. Those words are written nowhere in any government document. Donald Trump will be proven a liar. It will not work as a legal defense.

At another fund-raiser, TRUMP SAYS on tape and video…

“Whatever documents a president decides to take with him, he has the absolute right to take them. He has the absolute right to keep them, or he can give them back to NARA if he wants to. He would talk to them as we were doing, and he can do that if he wants. That’s the law, and it couldn’t be more clear.”

So, this is proof that now there is a body of evidence, witness statements, tape recordings and video recordings, documents, emails and texts, cooperating witnesses like Mark Meadows, and Rudy Giuliani and others, including the fake electors that have now been compiled that can completely blow a hole in this line of defense. Trump’s goose is cooked!

More Indictments are coming. If he really had the chance to become president again, he would have the ability to avoid all the court proceedings he’s about to be part of right in the middle of the election season in 2024. Instead of campaigning and convincing people that they need to elect him in November 2024, he will be facing a series of judges in State and Federal Courts trying to save his own hide and stay out of jail. But he knows, and I know, and you know, that he will finally become accountable. Unless Trump wins the Presidential election in 2024, HE IS GOING TO JAIL. AND HE KNOWS THAT TOO!. The clock is ticking. He can attempt to delay trials, but he will be in court, facing justice.

In an upcoming indictment, Trump will have to face Jack Smith, and one of the accounts might be that he caused an insurrection. If convicted of that crime, Trump will be forever barred from running for President of the United States ever again!

THE WARNING – By Steve Schmidt

 

Stephen Schmidt is an American political and corporate strategist, media commentator and founder of ‘The Warning’. He is known for working on Republican political campaigns, including those of President George W. Bush, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Arizona Senator John McCain during his 2008 presidential campaign.

He was a Republican from 1988 to 2018. He was an Independent from 2018 to 2020. He aga

in switched to the Democratic party in 2020.

The following comment is from Steve Schmidt’s Podcast that can be found at thewarning.supercast.com

“The country is in trouble because the American people have allowed so many low men and women into positions of great power. Donald Trump may have tried to overthrow the government, but he did not get away with it. And soon, the people of the United States will be represented in a court of law against a former president, to whom they gave the greatest honor that the American people can bestow on any one of us. We gave him the Presidency of the United States, and what Donald Trump had returned is the most disgraceful four years in American History. And during those years, he didn’t just become a criminal, he became a SEDITIONIST.”

Trump is Indicted in the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case

The decisions of Donald J. Trump did not go good for him on March 30, 2023, when it was learned that the disgraced ex-President has now been indicted by a Grand Jury in New York. He is the first President in U.S. history to ever be indicted and now must face what he may want to turn into a spectacle for political reasons and to raise more money. He will raise the money from his followers, and he will use the money for re-election purposes. So in Trumps sick mind, most likely he welcomes this indictment.  His attorneys have stated that President Trump will turn himself into the authorities on New York on Tuesday, April 4th, 2023. The easiest shot any law maker had was to convict him when he was impeached twice, but the U.S. Senate twice refused to vote favorably to convict. In the case of presidential impeachment trials, the chief justice of the United States presides. The Constitution requires a two-thirds vote of the Senate to convict, and the penalty for an impeached official upon conviction is removal from office.

Trump is facing the first of four criminal investigations for his actions, prior, during and most likely after his service to the country as the 45th President of the United States. Charges include at least 30 document fraud charges.

Even with that said, Donald Trump can continue to run for President again. He can run again while being indicted or even when convicted. If convicted of a misdemeanor which is likely the sure thing he can be prosecuted of, alone could not stop him from running. Also, if it is decided by a jury court that he committed a felony, he can be sentenced to prison or home confinement, which certainly would not allow him to continue to run for office and if incarcerated, he surely couldn’t act as the President of the United States. He most likely would not be allowed on social media, and for all intents and purposes not be allowed to continue posting on his social media outlets. These decisions would be the sole direction of the presiding Judge in Trumps court case.

Even in better times for Trump, especially when he became president, he did not win with the popular vote, but he did win the electoral college vote. Chances this time around he will not win either the vote count or electoral college vote, as more pending charges will come his way. Presently, there are very limited requirements when running for Presidential election, which are listed below:

  • The candidate contesting for the position must be a natural-born citizen of the United States of America.
  • The candidate must be 35 years or older.
  • The candidate should be a US resident for 14 years.

The only additional exception is that the American Constitution prohibits a tenure of longer than 2 terms of 4 years each. In Donald Trump’s case, he has only served for 1 full term as President, so he qualifies to run again. But what makes it unlikely that he would succeed to become President after being convicted of a felony would be purely political. The fallout from his own party would be devastating to him. If he were to be re-elected, all current and future charges against him would be put on hold, as a sitting President of the United States cannot be convicted of crimes while in office.

Besides all of the very real reasons why Trump was indicted now in March of 2023 is because the Statute of Limitations is running out for crimes that must be proved he committed in the past.

 

 

 

The Ongoing Investigations of Trump – 1st Three

In my lifetime, I have never known a person to have so many major negative issues going on at the same time, let along owned by a previous President of the United States. I am presenting a series of articles highlighting the online investigations of Donald J. Trump. The investigations stated in this article are highlighted below. Other Cases/Investigations will appear in upcoming articles.

The primary and ongoing investigations in this post are as follows…

  1. The Manhattan Criminal Case
  2. The New York State Civil Inquiry
  3. The Georgia Criminal Inquiry

The NEXT two cases will be presented in the next post.

  1. The Classified Documents Inquiry
  2. January 6 Inquiries

Other Cases and Investigations and Lawsuits Trump is Facing

  1. The Trump Organization Payroll Case
  2. The E. Jean Carroll rape and defamation case against Trump
  3. The ‘multi-level marketing’ pyramid scheme case
  4. Michael Cohen’s ‘imprisonment’ case
  5. The Electric Avenue copyright case
  6. Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton – lawsuit filed by Trump
  7. Donald Trump vs. Mary Trump – lawsuit filed by Trump

Even before the Insurrection of January 6th, 2021, Donald J. Trump has made so many poor decisions and most would say he outwardly made bad decisions prior, during and after his presidency.

Presently, Donald J. Trump, who forever will be known as the 45th President of the United States, a one-term president, has violated his own office. The one-term disgraced president is now facing several investigations that pose him serious legal troubles.

Why has it taken so long to come to a head? Everyone would say that the top reason would be that you cannot indict a sitting president. So why would anyone want to indict a sitting president? The main reason would be because of his actions even before he was president.

Starting from the top, the Manhattan criminal case began before Donald J. Trump became president. The Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin L. Bragg is marching forward as he has impaneled a grand jury in January 2023 which may be seeking criminal charges against the president. As recent as last week, the District Attorney’s office has notified the attorneys of Trump that their client has a chance to testify before a grand jury in hopes he would be interested in NOT being prosecuted in a criminal case. This most always means that the prosecuting attorney Alvin L. Bragg has an extraordinarily compelling case against Trump, and that all the evidence against him has been weighed and now the prosecuting attorney now is ready to issue criminal charges against Trump if he doesn’t immediately defend himself.  This will be the very first time in American history that a former President of the United States will be indicted for a criminal matter. As most defendants do, they decline to testify to answer questions in front of a grand jury. In Trump’s case, it’s “damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t.”  So, all bets are in this case that Trump will decline to testify, because he knows the only thing he will do if he testifies is to incriminate himself or plead the 5th.  As of this post, Trump has already denied a request to appear in front of a grand jury. To be honest, Trump’s attorneys would never allow him to testify. The first reason is that Trump can never tell the truth, and it would be proven that he lied in court in front of a grand jury, which is a felony. The second reason is that if he told the truth, he would incriminate himself, and he surely would be indicted.   So, in a real sense, he is professing his own guilt. Trump is known to never speak the truth, thus it’s hard to understand why he calls his website “Truth Social”. I guess it’s just a mockery of words, which is really what the summary of Donald Trump’s entire life has been. Even when he was acting president, he disgraced his office. When you look at Donald J. Trump as a candidate, as a president, as a defender of Democracy, as a fellow Republican, as a father and protector of his family, Donald J. Trump fails on every front.

IF DONALD TRUMP IS EVER ACCUSED OF A FELONY IN ANY TRIED CASE, HE WILL NO LONGER BE ELIGIBLE TO BECOME PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. EVEN IF TRUMP IS INDICTED IN ANY CASE, NOT MUCH CAN KEEP HIM FROM RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT EXCEPT A FELONY CHARGE.  FELONY CHARGES ARE VERY POSSIBLE IN THE MANHATTAN CRIMINAL CASE, WHERE HUSH MONEY WAS PAID TO STORMY DANIELS. IT BECOMES A FELONY IF HE REPORTS THE PAYMENT IN THE BOOKS AS ANYTHING OTHER THAN A LOAN. MOST LIKELY THE PAYMENT WAS NOT SUBMITTED IN THE BOOKS CORRECTLY.

The investigation seeking criminal charges began with a prosecuting attorney by the name of Cyrus R. Vance Jr., looking into the business practices of Trump, and the charge that Trump has fraudulently inflated the value of his real estate to secure favorable loans. But attorney Vance originally decided to not continue the investigation, as also Mr. Bragg did originally, realizing it would be all but impossible to accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing and to indict in office with the strength of the case at that time was not enough to prosecute the president.  But then with the help of New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, working on a hush money case involving payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016, and the help of then attorney Michael Cohen testifying after his own conviction and going to jail against Trump, decided to rekindle the inquiry.

Even before the present possible indictment of Trump, the prosecuting attorney successfully convicted Trump’s company known as the “Trump Organization” of multiple felonies related to a tax fraud scheme.  The CEO of the company, Allen Weisselberg, has recently been convicted of the scheme and is serving time at Rikers Island jail.  So, the bottom line here is that if Michael Cohen and Allen Weisselberg has or is serving jail time for the offenses that Trump is also guilty of, then the president himself needs to be convicted and serve jail time.  Justice matters, and it would only be right for Trump to go to jail if convicted.  It is not easy to convict a President of the United States, but in this case, justice may finally be served.

The second case against Trump would be the New York State Civil Inquiry. This is led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who has sued Trump, along with his family and the Trump Organization. For over a decade, James claims that Trump has been in a pattern of false property value claims that his property was worth more than it was, and then when it came to tax time, he would devalue his property to pay less taxes or receive tax breaks. This involved cheating the government out of millions of dollars in taxes that he failed to pay. This was one of the main reasons why Donald Trump tried for years to keep his taxes secret. Now that he is not a sitting president, his taxes have been revealed, and it is now known what exactly was claimed regarding his taxes. Originally, Trump claimed that all during the time of his presidency, he taxes were being audited. That turned out to be a proven lie. The other reason could be that he didn’t want the world to know how much or how little he was worth. He claimed he was so rich, but his taxes proved exactly how rich he wasn’t. He lied to the world and even to his own Republican Party, who still to this day continue to blindly support his claims and support him to run again for president in 2024. Even though he already stepped into the race for president, he most likely will not be nominated. Even then, Trump will figure out a way to hurt his own party for not nominating him, and that would be to continue to run as a third party, stealing votes away from the Republican nominee.  Why would Trump do such a thing? The simple answer is that he stands to rake in millions by just continuing to run, but at the same time he would be getting funds from his supporters. Trump will continue to receive money in any way that he can, regardless of if he would be helping the Republican Party or not. It’s not about the Republicans winning here, it’s about Trump winning, regardless of who loses.

The New York civil inquiry is expected to be decided in October 2023, by a Manhattan judge to settle a 220-page lawsuit. The effects of this lawsuit if won by the state would require Donald J. Trump to pay back 250 million, the amount he is believed to have stolen from the government claiming his tax breaks. Also, Letitia James wants to ban Trump and his three eldest children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric from ever running a company in the state of New York ever again. She wants to pull papers of incorporation from the Trump Organization. If she is successful, Trump would no longer be able to draw revenue from New York properties, including the expensive commercial rents from ‘Trump Tower’ that he continues to receive from along with other Manhattan skyscrapers. He would no longer be allowed to do business in the state of New York and would run him out of business in the state. The New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron claims that the trial will start on time, with a date set for October 2, 2023.

Third on the list is the Georgia Criminal Inquiry. This is what would be a ‘slam dunk’ case against Trump. He is directly involved in recruiting of a slate of alternative presidential electors after the 2020 election. At the time, it did not matter to him that the state’s results were recertified by the Republican leadership. He pressured state officials by phone, and one such call that has been made public was to Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger. In this call, you can hear Trump bribing the secretary, that he needed to “find” 11,780 votes, one more than President Biden’s margin of victory in the state. A grand jury, which lasted 8 months in the case, finally came with their recommendations on indictments and relevant statutes. They can only recommend that a defendant be charged, as they have no power to create a formal accusation such as an indictment. These jurors, a total of 23, also concluded that there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election in Georgia that is claimed by Trump.  So this would not be good news for Trump. The district attorney of Fulton County, Fani T. Willis who is leading the investigations against Trump, also is investigating very probable charges of lying under oath against one or more witnesses, and now may be seeking indictments against them.

Updates to the 3 investigations are forthcoming.

 

Everything Trump Touches – CRASHES!

The big announcement was coming! In mid-December, Trump did announce an online store depicting himself as a superhero on his $99 trading cards. Just prior to this announcement on TV, anyone who followed him on his personal social network called the Truth Social website was made aware of something huge coming, and he was going to announce what it was the very next day. Then, it turned out to be nothing more than his announcement of his new NFT trading cards, depicting him as a superhero, or an old west sheriff or an astronaut. Trump designed these cards to be of limited edition, were announced being available for purchase just before Christmas.
Many people fell for his new swindle, as I call it. Whether this NFT scheme was legit or not, just like everything else that Donald touches, crashes. The value of the trading cards initially went up sharply to approximately $125 per card shortly after Trump announced them, with initial sales at $99. But now, just one month later, the value of the cards had now dropped 98%. The cards can now be purchased for around $99 each, but they are hard to find. The idea would have worked if many of these cards were sold. Only a few purchasers made large transactions of these cards, which initially brought up the value of them, and now these purchases may not be worth the card stock they are printed on.
What was the purpose of Donald Trump creating these trading cards in the first place? First, you must believe that he was trying to pump up his own ego. In the video that he made for the announcement, he mentioned how great he was, in a sense “better than Lincoln, better than Washington.” This is what he also proclaimed about himself in the public announcement of these NFT trading cards.
The actual announcement that Trump should be making is that he will drop out of the presidential race, in which he is the only candidate to date that explicitly stated he will be running.
Much to the dismay of the Republican Party, he declared his presidency over a month ago, yet to campaign, have any rallies or speeches. He did this to throw off the Attorney General from the path to continue in the process of his own prosecution. But instead, Attorney General Garland announces that a new prosecuting attorney is now in charge of ‘everything Trump ‘and will be taking over the investigation of himself. Unfortunately for Trump, this new prosecuting attorney will now speed up the investigation into Trump, so Trumps announcement to be a candidate was futile. Now Trump knows he will be crashing once again, against his will of course, to drop out of the presidential race, eventually, but not until he loses more millions of dollars, just like his recently made public tax returns shows.
In all sincerity, most Republicans are hoping Trump will drop out of the race before Ron DeSantis – governor of Florida, announces his candidacy for president. If Trump were as smart as he says he is, he would realize that Ron DeSantis will be the choice of the Republicans to run against Joe Biden in 2023 and 2024 and drop out just like anyone else would if they were known to be less popular than a formidable opponent. But, as always, Trump is too stupid to act on the things he needs to act on (like drop out of the race for president), and acts on the things that he should not, (NFT trading cards). He has people around him that constantly give him bad advice. In a sense, I feel sorry for the man, but then when I think about all the things that he got away with in the past 6 years, I’m rooting for his demise. Most other people in the country feel the same, except for his hard-nosed followers, people like the ones that gave Trump money on his NFT trading card scheme. Every time I think of the people that Trump poisoned with his lies, I think of my nephew. But, to give my nephew credit, he is a smart man, but he still has his blinders on, believing all that Donald Trump puts out. Who’s to say that my nephew is or is not one of the Trump supporters that purchased the doomed NFT cards by Trump.