Special Council Bob Mueller – Most Powerful man in D.C.

The fact is that even when Special Council Bob Mueller, the attorney and person in charge of the Federal investigation of Republican party practices with cooperation with Russia in an attempt to defeat Hilary Clinton, is working very hard to hold people accountable with their actions, originally centered around people cooperating with Russia.

To this date, he has indicted prior aides such as Paul Manafort, who surrendered to the F.B.I. and pleaded not guilty to charges that he laundered millions of dollars through overseas shell companies — using the money to buy luxury cars, real estate, antique rugs and expensive clothes. Rick Gates, Mr. Manafort’s longtime associate as well as a campaign adviser, was also indicted , and turned himself in. The bombshell announcement about George Papadopoulos,  came shortly after indictments against former campaign chair Paul Manafort and Manafort associate Rick Gates were unsealed, alleging financial crimes that predated Trump’s candidacy. Papadopoulos, secretly pleaded his guilt for lying to the FBI and is working with Mueller providing evidence against Manafort and Gates. It is still unknown as to what all else he has handed over to Mueller.  Eventually, you might believe that all will eventually lead up the money chain to the ‘main fish’ of the story, Donald J. Trump. It may do just that, but the fact is that you cannot indict a sitting President of the United States. You cannot serve him papers accusing him of a crime and have him arrested.

The accusations of a crime committed by Trump can build up to eventually cause his impeachment from office which would involve the Congress of the United States, but the U.S. Congress doesn’t even have to be involved if the Vice-President of the United States, in this case Mike Pence would carry out the powers of the 25th amendment, whereas he would only need a few key members of Congress to remove the President if he, the Vice President decides to.

The presidents prior to Donald Trump have ALL been thought of as having very high moral standards, except for the 37th President of the United States – Richard Nixon, who left office under his own will in disgrace.

 

Donald Trump Incriminating Past – Caught on Hollywood Tape – Unedited

The following is a unedited transcript by Penn Bullock of The New York Times. Donald Trump making vulgar comments about women to Billy Bush who worked for ‘Access Hollywood’ on the set of “Days of Our Lives”. Trump was making a cameo appearance. These words were spoken by the man we elected as the 45th President of the United States.

DONALD J. TRUMP: You know and ….

UNKNOWN: She used to be great. She’s still very beautiful.

TRUMP: I moved on her, actually. You know, she was down on Palm Beach. I moved on her, and I failed. I’ll admit it.

UNKNOWN: Whoa.

TRUMP: I did try and fuck her. She was married.

UNKNOWN: That’s huge news.

TRUMP: No, no, Nancy. No, this was [unintelligible] – and I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping.
She wanted to get some furniture. I said, “I’ll show you where they have some nice furniture.” I took her out furniture —
I moved on her like a bitch. But I couldn’t get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden I see her, she’s now got the big
phony tits and everything. She’s totally changed her look.

BILLY BUSH: Sheesh, your girl’s hot as shit. In the purple.

TRUMP: Whoa! whoa!

BUSH: Yes! The Donald has scored. Whoa, my man!

TRUMP: Look at you, you are a pussy.

Trump: All right, you and I will walk out.

[Silence]

TRUMP: Maybe it’s a different one.

BUSH: It better not be the publicist. No, it’s, it’s her, it’s —

TRUMP: Yeah, that’s her. With the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case i start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to
beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss, I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it.
You can do anything.

BUSH: Whatever you want.

TRUMP: Grab’em by the pussy. You can do anything.

BUSH: Uh, yeah, those legs, all I can see is the legs.

TRUMP: Oh, it looks good.

BUSH: Come on shorty.

TRUMP: Ooh, nice lets, huh?

BUSH: Oof, get out of the way, honey. Oh, that’s good legs. Go ahead.

TRUMP: It’s always good if you don’t fall out of the bus. Like Ford, Gerald Ford, remember?

BUSH: Down below, pull the handle.

TRUMP: Hello, how are you? Hi!

ARIANNE ZUCKER: Hi, Mr. Trump. How are you? Pleasure to meet you.

TRUMP: Nice seeing you. Terrific, terrific. You know Bill Bush?

BUSH: Hello, nice to see you. How you doing, Arianne?

ZUCKER: Doing very well, thank you. Are you ready to be a soap star?

BUSH: How about a little hug for the Donald? He just got off the bus.

ZUCKER: Would you like a little hug, darling?

TRUMP: O.K., absolutely. Melania said this was O.K.

BUSH: How about a litle hug for the Bushy? I just got off the bus.

ZUCKER: Bushy, Bushy.

BUSH: Here we go. Excellent. Well, you’ve got a nice co-star here.

ZUCKER: Yes, absolutely.

TRUMP: Good. After you.

[Break in video]

TRUMP: Come on, Billy, don’t be shy.

BUSH: Soon as a beautiful woman shows up, he just, he takes off. This always happens.

TRUMP: Get over here, Billy.

ZUCKER: I’m sorry, come here.

BUSH: Let the little guy in here, come on.

ZUCKER: Yeah, let the little guy in. How you feel now? Beter? I should actually be in the middle.

BUSH: It’s hard to walk next to a guy like this.

ZUCKER: Here, wait, hold on.

BUSH: Yeah, you get in the middle, there we go.

TRUMP: Goood, that’s better.

ZUCKER: This is much better. This is —

TRUMP: That’s better.

ZUCKER: [Sighs]

BUSH: Now, if you had to choose honestly between one of us, Me or the Donald?

TRUMP: I don’t know, that’s tough competition.

ZUCKER: That’s some pressure right there.

BUSH: Seriously, if you had — if you had to take one of us as a date.

ZUCKER: I have to take the Fifth on that one.

BUSH: Really?

ZUCKER: Yup — I’ll take both.

TRUMP: Which way?

ZUCKER: Make a right. Here we go. [inaudible]

BUSH: Here he goes. I’m gonna leave you here.

TRUMP: O.K.

BUSH: Give me my microphone.

TRUMP: O.K. Oh, you’re finished?

BUSH: You’re my man, yeah.

TRUMP: Oh, good.

BUSH: I’m gonna go do our show.

ZUCKER: Oh, you wanna reset? O.K.

Accusers of President Trump

Here you will find a list of 18 women that have accused President Trump of sexual misconduct. They came forward just before the presidential election. President Trump has been accused by more than a dozen women of sexual assault and inappropriate advances prior to his election as the 45th President of the United States, which has severely damaged his numbers in the US election, but still did not stop him from winning the presidency. To this date he denies that all accusations by these women. Senator Al Franken, a Democratic senator, has now been accused of harassing or groping 2 women, and he most likely will loose his Senate seat after an investigation takes place by the Senate ethics committee. Should an ethics committee investigate Donald Trump? Should he be removed from office because of his sexual assault and inappropriate advances to women?

THE LIST….

1) Ninni Laaksonen – former titleholder of Miss Finland (2006)

2) Jessica Drake – an American pornographic actress and sex educator

3) Karena Virginia – a New York yoga instructor

4) Melinda McGillivray – photographer assistant at event at the Trump                 Mar-a-Largo resort

5) Summer Zervos – Apprentice contestant

6) Kristen Anderson – groped by Trump at a nightclub

7) Lisa Boyne – a health food business entrepreneur

8) Jessica Leeds – a business woman at a paper company

9) Natasha Stoynoff – PEOPLE writer went to Mar-a-Largo to interview               Donald and Melania Trump

10) Temple Taggart McDowell – Utah Miss USA pageant in Shreveport, LA                recounts an unwanted kiss from Trump

11) Cassandra Searles – Miss Washington 2013 – was invited by Trump to               his hotel room and he groped her

12) Jill Harth – a makeup artist

13) Mariah Billado – former Miss Vermont Teen USA pageant – Trump                    walks  through her dressing room

14) Cathy Heller – at a Mother’s Day brunch at the Mar-a-Largo estate

15) Bridget Sullivan – Former Miss New Hampshire, Trump walked through         her dressing room

16) Tasha Dixon – Former Miss Arizona, Trump walked through her                         dressing room

17) Rachel Crooks – worked in his building and was kissed against her will

18) Jennifer Hawkins – Former Miss Australia, was sexually humiliated in             front of a huge crowd

Has Trump never apologized to anyone, especially any woman who has accused him? Of course not. Instead, on camera he stated that he planned to sue every one of his accusers for lieing. Of course now that statement by him was a lie also, as he never attempted to sue his accusers, but that most likely will not stand in the way of them suing him.
With the accusations swirling around former Alabama judge Roy Moore, and the admittance of Al Franken with an outright apology to his accuser for forcible kissing and groping of LeeAnn Tweeden before he became a Senator on a USO tour, Donald Trump represents the , and even after the allegations, it didn’t keep him from becoming President of the United States.
But with all of these cases now coming out in the open, it looks as if the ethics committees are going to be fairly busy, as more and more women are coming forward to tell their stories. Now that Trump is President, he now feels that he has the right to say the following, even though he has a very incriminating past, and with the following comments about Al Franken, he now sparks a debate. Donald Trump jumped into the sexual harassment debate about 10 p.m. on Thursday. “The Al Frankenstein picture is really bad, speaks a thousand words. Where do his hands go in pictures 2,3,4,5 & 6 while she sleeps?” So Trump tweets about Al Franken, but says nothing on Twitter about Mr. Moore, who has been abandoned by many Republicans and no longer receives monetary support from the Republican party.

Donald Trump’s Promises

Donald Trump has stated that he will make good on his promises. But the 45th President has made so many promises that he apparently will never be able to keep, you wonder why anyone would support him. One by one, he is distancing himself from his own party, namely the Republicans in the U.S. Congress. As of October 8th, as will be discussed in detail in a future article, the number of people from his own party that is not supporting him now is rapidly growing.

Five of the promises that Donald Trump has made are listed immediately below, but this article highlights many of his promises that he made, some of them kept, but most of them either not kept or still in pending status.

1) Repeal Obamacare

2) Guarantee – New 6-day work week

3) Build a wall, and make Mexico pay for it

4) Suspend immigration from terror-prone places

5) Stop TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership)

The following is the status of these promises and many more…….

Promise #1 : Change the name of Mount Denali back to Mount McKinley

President Obama changed the name of Mt. McKinley to Denali. But President Trump stated that he wanted to change it back. He did not keep his promise as he backed off his promise to change the name.

Promise #2: Balance the federal budget ‘fairly quickly’                                                                       (AN OUTRIGHT LIE!)

As Trump has stated, “It can be done. … It will take place and it will go relatively quickly. … If you have the right people, like, in the agencies and the various people that do the balancing… you can cut the numbers by two pennies and three pennies and balance a budget quickly and have a stronger and better country. ” So what does he do to balance the Federal budget. Absolutely nothing, in matter of fact, Trump cheered the budget plan that wouldn’t balance the budget, that went nowhere in Congress.

Promise #3: Eliminate the Federal debt in 8 years                                                                                  (ANOTHER OUTRIGHT LIE!)                                                                                 Trump supported the House bill that failed the Senate that                                      would only grow the national debt. Besides it is very questionable if Donald Trump could last 2 years, let alone 8 years. There are already talks of impeachment and a possible conviction of collusion.

As Trump has stated, “We’ve got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt. … Well, I would say over a period of eight years. And I’ll tell you why.” So is he keeping his promise. Obviously not, because he celebrated the Senate budget bill, but it busts his promise to eliminate federal debt.

Promise #4: Suspend immigration from terror-prone places

As Trump has stated, “And if people don’t like it, we’ve got to have a country folks. Got to have a country. Countries in which immigration will be suspended would include places like Syria and Libya. And we are going to stop the tens of thousands of people coming in from Syria.” In response to his promise, a Federal judge blocks all three of his travel bans.

Promise #5: Repeal ObamaCare

As Trump has stated, “Real change begins with immediately repealing and replacing the disaster known as Obamacare.” The Congress refused to pass the Republican version of health-care, but then Trump put out a directive ending key subsidy which threatens Obamacare’s viability.

Promise #6: Call for an international conference to defeat ISIS

As Trump has stated, “As president, I will call for an international conference focused on this goal. We will work side-by-side with our friends in the Middle East, including our greatest ally, Israel.”

What is the status of the Asian Conference of November 2017? Trump has visited Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam,  and the Philippines, after his brief stay in Hawaii, but will he talk about defeating ISIS? The news media which Trump calls “fake news” will accurately report their findings on this matter, but during his second foreign trip abroad, I highly doubt if he made headway on anything that involves ISIS. The fact is that it is now well known that Isis is on the run an rapidly shrinking in size in Iraq, and Donald Trump will take full credit for the progress. But noone is talking about the spread of Isis in Africa and in Asia.  Will there be any evidence that Trump and President Rodrigo Duterte talked about Isis advances in the Philippines? All you might see or hear about is the infamous toast he had with the President of the Philippines during his stay in Manila, a man who executes his own citizens that are suspected to hold and distribute drugs, without any due process of the law.

Promise #7: Repeal ObamaCare

As Trump has stated, ” Real change begins with immediately repealing and replacing he disaster known as Obamacare.”

The Congress could not get the job done, and was unable to get Obamacare repealed. So President Trump’s executive action could erode the marketplace built under Obamacare. The only way for Donald Trump can get rid of Obamacare is to destroy it, which would also put millions of Americans at risk regarding their health care.

Promise #8: Increase visa fees

As Trump has stated ” Increase fees on all border crossing cards – of which we issue about 1 million to Mexican nationals each year (a major source of visa overstays).”

Trump is all talk and no action… No visa fees have been increased for Mexican nationals. A year has gone by in his presidency and still no action.  (ANOTHER LIE!)

Promise #9: Lower the business tax rate

As Trump has stated “The Trump Plan will lower the business tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent, and eliminate the corporate alternative minimum tax.” There has been a proposed corporate and small business tax rate, but it doesn’t fall to 15 percent. If there is any promise that he will definitely attempt to keep, it would be this one, but as of this date he has had no success in doing so. The tax plan that he will support that will pass the House just like the health care bill previously did, will die in the Senate, which means that Donald Trump will definitely not have any major legislation pass in the Republican controlled U.S. Congress his first year in office.

Promise #10: Move U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

As Trump has stated ” We will move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem”

Presently President Trump has signaled he would step back from the Israeli embassy plan.

Promise #11: Renegotiate NAFTA

As Trump promised ” A Trump administration will renegotiate NAFTA and if we don’t get the deal we want, we will terminate NAFTA and get a much better deal for our workers and our companies, 100 percent.”

At the moment, there has been four tries to renegotiate NAFTA, without success. Donald Trump has many more fires to address than more controversy with Canada and Mexico.

Promise #12: Replace J-1 Visa with Inner City Resume Bank

As Trump promised : “The J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth will be terminated and replaced with a resume bank for inner city youth provided to all corporate subscribers to the J-1 visa program.”

After making that promise, he decided not to eliminate the J-1 visa program. He says one thing but does another.

Promise #13: Cut taxes for everyone

As trump has stated ” Everybody is getting a tax cut, especially the middle class.”

Donald Trump mentioned the middle class, but the tax plan appears to favor the wealthiest, not the middle class with no guarantee of cuts for all.  If his plan passes, it will no longer be his plan, as Congress will have to make concessions to get the bill to pass in both Houses, but most likely will never become law anyway.

Promise #14: Eliminate the carried interest loophole

As Trump has stated ” As part of this reform, we will eliminate the carried interest deduction and other special interest loopholes that have been so good for Wall Street investors, and for people like me, but unfair to American workers.” Actually, Trump favors Wall Street investors, and loves to work around big money. He doesn’t really care about the middle class. If I’m wrong, prove it!

Promise #15: Take no salary

“If I’m elected president, I’m accepting no salary.”

Trump stated it, but it is unknown if he is taking any type of salary or not. Because he has a lucrative realistate business, he is making money as being President while maintaining control of his businesses, as he refuses to divest from his companies, influences foreign leaders and visitors to stay at his hotels and most likely is making private deals with foreign governments like Russia. It’s just my opinion, but I believe the President is making more money on the side than he will ever admit to.

Promise #16: Create a private White House hot-line for veterans

As Trump has statued ” “I will create a private White House hot-line – that is answered by a real person 24 hours a day – to make sure that no valid complaint about the VA ever falls through the cracks. I will instruct my staff that if a valid complaint is not acted upon, then the issue be brought directly to me, and I will pick up the phone and fix it myself, if need be.”

Still, there has been no hot-line created to this date.

Promise #17: Enact term limits

As Trump stated “If I’m elected president, I will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.” With a 35% favorable rating with the American people, do you think that Senators from the House and Senate would ever support term limits on themselves, just because Trump says so.

To date, no constitutional amendment to impose term limits has been made and this amendment would never make it through congress.

Promise #18: Impose death penalty for cop killers

As Trump stated “One of the first things I’d do in terms of executive order, if I win, will be to sign a strong, strong statement that would go out to the country, out to the world, that anybody killing a police man, a police woman, a police officer, anybody killing a police officer, the death penalty is going to happen,”

It’s been almost a year into his presidency, but we have yet to to see an executive order from the president to impose the death penalty for cop killers, although this may be a goal he may eventually keep.

Promise #19: Appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton

As Trump stated “I will ask, to appoint a special prosecutor. We have to investigate Hillary Clinton, and we have to investigate the investigation.”

It is against the law to investigate a competitor of his for president. Trump doesn’t know the law. Still Attorney General Jeff Sessions is debating on whether he will investigate Hillary Clinton regarding the ‘Clinton Foundation.

Promise #20: Enact a temporary ban on new regulations

“We’re going to cancel every needless job-killing regulation and put a moratorium on new regulations until our economy gets back on its feet.”

Trump is killing regulations, but who decides besides him whether the regulation is job-killing? He will not be able to kill all regulations by just administering executive actions, but in many instances, he has ended many regulations with a stroke of his pen new or not.

Promise #21: Make no cuts to Medicare

As Trump stated “I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.”

Trump made the statement, but a bill that he supported from the House would drastically cut Medicare and Medicaid. He really didn’t care at the time, as he just wanted to get some legislation passed. The Senate turned down all the cuts, and Obamacare stands with no cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.

Promise #22: Invest $550 billion in infrastructure and create an infrastructure fund

As Trump has stated “The Trump Administration seeks to invest $550 billion to ensure we can export our goods and move our people faster and safer.”

No money has been funded by Congress at this time, and may never be.

Promise #23: Make no cuts to Social Security

As Trump has stated “I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.”

It still is unknown if he will keep his promise.

Promise #24: Make no cuts to Medicaid

As Trump promised “I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.”

Promise #25: Eliminate Common Core

As Trump promised “We’re cutting Common Core. We’re getting rid of Common Core. We’re bringing education locally.”

Education is still centralized around a common core, and still is not controlled by the states.

Promise #26: Impose a hiring freeze on federal employees

As Trump has stated “A hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health).”

Trump thinks is a great idea to put a freeze on all federal employees, thus to eliminate many jobs in government. The only problem is there is not enough people at the moment to help run the White House, as more federal employees are needed.

Promise #27: Slash federal regulations

As Trump has stated “A requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated.”

Wow, finally there is one promise that he has kept. To this point, regulations are being handled as he has stated.

Promise #28: Place lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying for foreign government

As Trump has stated “I’m going to issue a lifetime ban against senior executive branch officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government and I’m going to ask Congress to pass a campaign finance reform that prevents registered foreign lobbyists from raising money in American elections and politics.”

Wow, a promise kept.

Promise #29: Place lifetime ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections

As Trump has stated, “A complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.”

There has been no word on this promise. To this date, there is no lifetime ban on foreign lobbyists.

Promise #30: Defund Planned Parenthood

As Trump stated “I would defund it because of the abortion factor, which they say is 3 percent. I don’t know what percentage it is. They say it’s 3 percent. But I would defund it, because I’m pro-life.”

Because the President says he is “pro-life”, should not give him the ability to take away one of the only places people go to for medical help.

Promise #31: Approve the Keystone XL project and reap the profits

As Trump stated, “I want it built, but I want a piece of the profits.

Trump will not take a salary, so he states, but would rather take money for his own profit.

Promise #32: Achieve energy independence

As Trump has stated, “Under my presidency, we will accomplish a complete American energy independence. Complete. Complete.”

Energy independence? We are dependent for imported oil to make fossil fuels, There still are no regulations regarding imports of oil, so the price of gasoline goes up and down, and the United States has no control over it. Total energy independence will never happen under this president.                    (This is a TOTAL lie!)

Promise #33: Nominate someone from is list of justices to replace Antonin Scalia

As Trump has stated, “I am looking to appoint judges very much in the mold of Justice Scalia. I’m looking for judges — and I’ve actually picked 20 of them so that people would see.”

Wow, another win for Trump, as he has appointed his first Federal Judge and did it with the help of Vice President Pence with his tie-breaking vote that put him on the bench.

Promise #34: Expand mental health programs

As Trump has stated, “We need to reform our mental health programs and institutions in this country.”

To date, nothing has been done.

President Trump has yet to get any major legislation passed. Presently, the Congress is graveling with proposed tax legislation, which will completely overhaul the tax code as we see it today. But like his other failures, I see no success with this venture, unless the Republicans come together with the help of Democrats to get things done.

The Congress consists of a Republican majority in both the House and Senate. The President is considered a Republican even though for the most part of his adult life, he was a Democrat. All major branches of the Federal government are under Republican control, yet not a single bill of any substance has been passed. Most likely, Donald Trump will have no major legislation passed during his first year in office.

The Decisions and Promises of President #45 is a joke. Not many people have trust in this President, as his job approval rating has hit a new low, under 35%. When do you think that the Republican Congress will wake up and get rid of the cancer in Washington, namely their own President. Vice President Pence can become president under the 25th amendment, as Trump would have to be relieved of office. Will it ever happen? There are calls for impeachment of President Trump, but with the Republican controlled House and Senate, it will never happen unless these lawmakers start thinking about the needs of the country instead of the needs of themselves. They may have a better chance to get legislation passed under Pence than Trump. Unless the Republicans do something soon, they stand the chance of loosing big time in the mid term elections next year.

It’s Time to Visit the 25th Amendment

President Trump seems to have enemies at every turn. He was supposed to build relationships with Congressmen from both the House and Senate which would definitely help him pass his agenda in the governing bodies. But throughout his 274 days in office so far he has criticized and openly spat with members of both the House and Senate. So guess what? There hasn’t been one single piece of legislation passed of any major importance since he has become President, even though his political party owns both Houses of Congress.

But then there are the Twitter statements. Donald Trump continues to make comments on Twitter that takes the air out of what the Congress is trying to do, and that is to pass legislation. Trump seems to want center stage all the time, and he is sacrificing his own party in his desire to continue with his ridicules reteric on Twitter.

For example, Yesterday, Oct 19, at exactly 12:32PM EST, Donald Trump tweeted the following…

” Workers of firm involved with the discredited and Fake dossier take the 5th. Who paid for it Russia, the FBI or the Dems (or all)?”

He has insulted the FBI and the Democrats with that statement. How can he expect to win over any Democrat to get his legislation passed? The answer is that he cannot and will not, especially if he guts Obamacare as he is openly trying to do. 

Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush had an answer for the President. In his own Twitter response he tweeted the following…

“Conspiracy between Russia, the FBI and Democrats? The response to this is clear: Amendment 25.”

President Trump has control of all the nuclear weapons of this country and is the undisputed “most powerful man of the World” but yet does not show any sympathy or concern for world civilization. We may be going to another war, this time with a country that DOES have nuclear weapons – North Korea, and Trump will ultimately be responsible for the millions of citizens of multiple countries that may die in a possible World War III, just because of his mental incapacity.  The dictator of North Korea may start the conflict, but President Trump will end it, but at the cost of millions of peoples lives.

To further explain what is meant by invoking the 25th Amendment, an article on NBC News titled ” the 25th Amendment proves why Trump’s mental health matters” as is stated by Richard Painter’s article..

“Though remote, we cannot rule out the possibility that a president in a downward mental health spiral could destroy important global partnerships, alter centuries-old alliances and leave the United States vulnerable to terror attacks or war.” Painter then asks..”Is America today in need of such an unprecedented intervention?”

The 25th Amendment was adopted on February 10, 1967.

As it stands as we know it today, Donald Trump is not physically incapacitated and there is no way to know if he is mentally incapacitated because no psychiatrist has treated him.

On MSNBC’s nightly show called “ALL IN”, Painter states on how concerned he was for months now. Donald Trump exerts extreme Narcissism, or self-centeredness. The only land properties that he visits are the ones with his name on them. He is extremely focused on himself and the election he won only by electoral vote and not by popular vote. He campaigns as President as if he were still running for the office at various events. More people voted to have Clinton in office as the 45th President of the United States than Trump, as she claimed 3,000,000 more votes nationally that Trump on election day, November 8th. He appoints family members to the White House staff. He also displays extreme anti-social tendencies. He doesn’t seem to show that he has the ability to see how other people feel. A prime example would be that of his dealings with families of fallen soldiers. The same symptoms appeared last summer after Charlottesville. At that time, there were racists running up and down the streets chanting “Down with the Jews” along with swastikas and Confederate flags. The President refuses to apologize for anything, states that he is right, even if there is mounds of proof that he is not. Trump is considered the ‘ultimate liar’ and is the epitome of what he calls “Fake News”. Most people never heard of such a thing until Trump started the claim in his political career over a year ago, and continues to do so to this day.

So why the 25th Amendment. The 25th amendment allows for the Vice President to become president in the event of death, resignation, removal from office or impairment that prevents the current president from fulfilling his or her duties.

I mentioned the 25th Amendment to my fellow workers almost 3 months ago, and now members of both political parties, Republican and Democrat are talking about this same possibility.

It’s just a matter of time that Vice-President Pence will become acting President. If Pence becomes the 46th President, there will be no election for Vice-President. If for any reason that President Pence is incapacitated for any reason and he is evicted from the White House for any reason, including Amendment 25, the Speaker of the House – Paul Ryan will become the 47th President. Then to follow him would be the Speaker of the Senate – Mitch McConnell who is in line to be the 48th President of the United States. Very scary stuff !!!

Yes, it’s going to be a long 4 years until the election of a newly appointed President by the people. But the fact is that in 2020, there will be another person elected, and he could become the 46, 47, or 48 President depending on what happens before the general election in 2020.

 

Puerto Rico, Trump’s Katrina

It has been a month since the island of Puerto Rico has lost power do to a category 5 storm named Jose and another named Maria. The second storm, doomed the island,  completely darkening the island of some 3.4 million US citizens. Still to this day, the majority of the people are short of food and without clean drinking water. 74% still do not have electricity.  The island remains almost virtually dark at night as the entire power grid was destroyed.

In retrospect, Donald J. Trump believes that he as done an excellent job with Puerto Rico  disaster aid as reported by Anderson Cooper of CNN.  In a scale of 1 to 10, he gives himself a 10. In his eyes, he can do nothing wrong. To me, his statements mean  that he could have done nothing better, and that everything is great. Actually what it does mean is that he is incapable of comprehending what it will take to get Puerto Rico on its feet again. Of course, the entire world knows that this is the farthest from the truth. It’s just another falsehood strewed out by this disaster of a president. The infrastructure has been totally destroyed, leaving towns, roads and bridges in total destruction. Only 28 percent of the total population of the island have clean drinking water, while the rest of the population is getting water from wherever they can find it, including from water that is known to be contaminated.  People wait in line for hours upon hours to buy gasoline for their cars and for the gasoline generators that are the only source of electricity many people have. Puerto Rico has turned out to be Trump’s Katrina, but the sad thing this is that he doesn’t even know it yet. His thinking is so far out from reality that many people are now questioning his ability to lead as president.

On the record in a meeting in the oval office with the governor of Puerto Rico, the president asked if the United States did a great job militarily, with first responders and FEMA. He asked the governor the question as Trump expects to receive compliments from just about everyone he deals with. The governor responded that the President was on the phone with him every day since the disaster and he appreciates and praises the Federal government response. So what does that mean? Right out of the gate, everyone knows that it was impossible immediately after the storm passed that the governor could speak to anyone off the the island with a telephone, and with anyone from the island for that matter. The entire phone grid was knocked out.  It was reported that it took days before any kind of telephone service was available to anyone, including the governor.

On the other hand, let’s acknowledge that Puerto Rico is making headway, but what is wrong about this whole thing is that the president is already taking credit for the wonderful job he is doing. For the most part, the people are helping themselves. I would love to hear what the suffering people of Puerto Rico have to say about the President.  It may be a good thing that Puerto Rico does not participate in the general election, because it is a territory and not a state. Puerto Rico’s residents may not vote in federal elections, except for a nonvoting delegate who has an office on Capitol Hill. There are five non-incorporated territories that send delegates to the United States House of Representatives that participate in the presidential primaries but the U.S. citizens of Puerto Rico cannot vote for members of Congress or of President.

In Donald Trump’s eyes, it may be a good thing that the people of Puerto Rico cannot vote, because he would have only 1 vote from the island, the governor, and 3,999,000 other people to vote for the other person.

 

First Post since Trump became a failing President

As the title of this blog suggests, the purpose is to publicly state the decisions of the now 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. When he was elected, I was pretty upset, but not knowing at the time that I would have so much to report, in consistence with the purpose of this blog.

As time has gone by for over 270 days now of his presidency, I purposely held back from reporting one single thing about the decisions of the 45th President of the United States, in hopes that I could at least report something good. To my dismay, I really have nothing to report of any substance that is good regarding the president’s decisions as the most powerful man in the world. Now is the time to openly state the decisions of this president, especially since just about every decision has been very inappropriate as a U.S. President since he has taken office.

But in retrospect, if he is the most powerful man in the world, then why hasn’t he and his fully Republican Congress have yet to pass one single bill of importance or substance? Why is it that he has not fulfilled any promises other than to fulfill ones that hurt the prior Democratic president before him, the 44th President of the United States Barrack Obama, and most importantly the people of this country that he wants to lead. He is hell-bent in destroying Obama’s legacy, while at the same time, destroying his own and at the same time taking the country down with him.

Finally, I have come out of my shell, to begin to openly report on this blog, the decision points of Donald J. Trump. Why? Because after the last few days hearing about the total disrespect to gold-star families and fallen soldiers, namely four that were killed in Iraq by Isis fighters two weeks ago. He finally reached out to the families, but created a firestorm within the media because of how he treated one grieving mother, then outrightly called her a liar, for a statement that was confirmed he said by the parents of the fallen soldier who happened to listen in on the call as they were in transit to the airport to recover the soldiers body.

To begin expressing my anger with Donald Trump, I must state that there is no greater sacrifice to the country than a soldier who dies in combat. There is no greater sacrifice of a soldier than his death for his country. There is no amount of phone calls or letters that a president can make to the family of a fallen soldier that console that family that would make them ever forget their misery they feel and will feel for the rest of their lives because of the loss of their loved one.

Donald Trump, has the inability to express consistent empathy, not driven by his own success, not because he was forced into it, but what has happened displays in full, the inability for the President to lead this country.

How then are we supposed to judge this President? I would think three basic things… First, leadership, second, integrity, and lastly by intelligence and competence. If you were to ask any political scientist about how Trump stacks up to these basics, you will undeniably learn that the president has failed to attain ANY of these basic traits that we would judge a president.

Empathy, you would not just expect from a president,  but from every human being. Donald J. Trump is incapable of displaying empathy. What does this mean? First he now becomes unfit for the presidency, but also in just being incapable of acting with any responsible capacity and have solace or show comfort for anyone except himself. Donald J. Trump does NOT apologize for anything or to anyone, even if he is proven wrong, especially when he hurts a grieving wife and family of a fallen soldier. He takes it to the next step calling them liars.

For the last three days, the main story has been about Donald Trump and his callousness,  his disrespecting the family and the memory of a fallen soldier. You would think with all of this coverage, the President would make another phone call and apologize for his actions, then make a public statement to the citizens of the United states, and every living member of every family of a fallen soldier.

Donald J. Trump is truly not qualified to be President of the United States. How long must the country bear the existence of Donald Trump as president? The Republican Congress except for a very few accept the actions of this President, who has become the least popular president of all time.

 

 

Decisions Prior and During Trumps Upcoming Presidency

It’s not even the inauguration yet, and Donald Trump appears to be getting warnings from notable people regarding his actions as President-Elect.

Here is what was just reported in the Washington Post titled….

TRUMP’S PRESIDENCY IS DOOMED

“Whether he knows it or not, the specter of Lyndon Baines Johnson haunts Donald John Trump. There are some jarring similarities – two big fleshy men given to vulgarities and gauche behavior, boastful, thin-skinned, politically amoral, vengeful. unforgiving and, most important, considered illegitimate presidents. For Johnson, that took some time to sink in; Trump is already there. Johnson ascended to the presidency upon the death of John F. Kennedy and then won election in a landslide over  Barry Goldwater. Nevertheless, an air of illegitimacy clung to him like an odor….  But Trump ought to pay attention to [Congressman] Lewis and what he represents. The President-elect will take the oath with a minority of the popular vote – a substantial deficit of almost 3 million votes. He enters the oval office with historically dismal poll numbers, lower now than right after he won the election. He has done nothing to woo the majority of Americans who rejected his candidacy…. Lyndon Johnson would no doubt warn Trump that he is already on thin ice and he will plunge through it the moment Congress takes the measure of his unpopularity.”

RICHARD COHEN…

It is a valid statement. Donald Trump still doesn’t get that fact that he will become the most powerful person in the world. Everything he says and does, on Twitter, with the news media, speeches, and personal comments made without serious thought all count and will effect everyone who has the slightest involvement in the topic at hand. But to this point even with his growing power, Donald Trump does not know how to keep quiet when he needs to.. He seems to take pride in taking fights with people. He’s made various comments about his intelligence community, and other leaders of other countries. One notable famous leader – Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, a traditional ally,  has been attacked with his words when he says….

“And nobody even knows where they come from. So I think she made a catastrophic mistake, very bad mistake,” adding that he always had “great respect” for Merkel and that he still viewed her as one of the most important world leaders.

So what’s his motive now, to rule the world with what he believes is right and everyone else may be wrong?

He is going head on with people that will be supporting him, protecting him and the citizens of this country. He behaves in a way that is seemingly non-Presidential. The result is that he is loosing support from a majority of people from the time of the election up to his inauguration. Who does this kind of thing?  Actually, no-one except Donald Trump has ever done this. His popularity is plummeting now to around 40%, while his unfavorable rating has risen to 54%. In EVERY election in the past, the nominee received rising popularity.  He is digging a hole around him that he may not be able to climb out of.

Everyone accepts that Trump won the election, even if he didn’t do it with the popular vote. He did it by the electoral vote, but the majority of voters voted for the other candidate. If Donald Trump continues in this fashion, he will eventually run head-on with his own Congress and if this happens, he will then ‘fall through the ice’ in a sense to loose complete control of his Executive branch and then after that there will be calls for his impeachment.

My last comment, turnaround is fair play. Donald Trump called President Obama an Illegitimate president as he stated he was not born in the United States. All proof has it that President Obama was born in Hawaii, and Obama himself produced his own birth certificate. That was done in hopes that Trump and Obama’s critics would stop spreading the false allegations. Now when civil rights leader John Lewis, now a member in the U.S. Congress as the Representative for Georgia’s 5th Congressional district, has now called Trump an illegitimate president, Donald Trump is the first to use his favorite media ‘Twitter’ to tweet against the civil rights icon, a person who is respected by almost all on the planet who believe in the thought of a democracy and personal freedom.

This is what he has done so far as president-elect, but what does he promise to do when he becomes president? In another column quoted from ‘The Washington Post’, columnist Michael Gerson mention this in his piece….

TRUMP HAS STACKED THE DECK AGAINST HIMSELF

“[Trump] has promised a tax cut that will, by one estimate, reduce Federal revenue by $7 trillion over 10 years. He has promised an infrastructure initiative that may cost an additional trillion. He has promised to rebuild the military. He has effectively promised not to make changes in Social Security and Medicare. And he has promised to move swiftly toward a balanced Federal budget. Taken together, these things can’t be taken together. Trump has made a series of pledges hat can’t be reconciled.”

Michael Gerson

So with the intention to bring down the national debt, he will succeed by doing the opposite, which means that his plans as stated above will never get approval through  even the Republican led Congress, as led by Paul Ryan want to do things to decrease the national debt. He still has yet to realize that he needs all the support he can get from Paul Ryan.  It appears that only the self appraised businessman does not have a solid grasp of the outcome if his policies around spending are implemented.

In just a few short days now, President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. My hopes are that with knowledgeable people around him, he will govern without giving the American people all these false hopes that he plans to fix everything. He’s even stated that he now has his own medical insurance replacement, something that even Republicans can tell you that they do not know anything about.

The disarray in Washington has already started, even before Donald Trump has been sworn in, and it’s being felt around the world.

Trump Lies before Intelligence Agencies release Unclassified Report on Russian Hacking

Yesterday, the unclassified version of the intelligence report concerning Russia attacking the U.S. elections was published, and is supposed to teach us a great deal on what the Russians did with influencing our elections in 2016 along with reasons why they did it. The five page document is attached to this article. So what was the report actually about. First, it was not about Russia or Hillary Clinton, nor is it about our election in 2016. One more guess on what or who it may be about. It’s about Donald Trump. It is revealed in the report that our next president will lie about the evidence that was published by the very intelligence agencies that he will be in charge of in just a few short weeks.

Mr. Donald Trump actually put the lie in writing, even though we can read the report by the intelligence agency and observe that he is lying. This is about national security stuff, and the President-Elect will lie to us.

Again, what was published was the unclassified version of the report that is contained in this report. On every single page of the report, there is a box at the top of the page that reads as follows…

“This report is a declassified version of a highly classified assessment; its conclusions are identical to those in the highly classified assessment but this version does not include the full supporting information on key elements of the influence campaign.”

President Obama and the president-elect did receive the classified version of the document yesterday morning. Donald Trump either didn’t read the report or is making up his own assessment of the matter, disregarding what our central intelligence professionals have discovered. He publicly lied what was in the report right before it was released, not thinking that anyone other then himself knew how to read it.

The statement released by Donald Trump after he received the classified version of this report. Keep in mind that he may not have written the statement, but it is the statement published by approval from him, on the President-Elect web page and has not been redacted.

“While Russia, China, other countries, outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organizations including the Democrat National Committee, there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election…”

Donald Trump claims that there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election. But here is what is actually in the report under ‘Scope and Sourcing’ – page ‘i’ of the report.

“We did not make an assessment of the impact that Russian activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election. “

The only conclusion here is that our next to be president of the United States is lying to us.

How about other lies he made in the same statement…

“There were attempts to hack the Republican National Committee, but the RNC had strong hacking defenses and the hackers were unsuccessful”

Actually the report did not say what was published on the President-Elect website. Here is what the report actually says in page 3 of the report.

“Russia collected on some Republican-affiliated targets but did not conduct a comparable disclosure campaign…”

So you can only conclude that Russia was successful in stealing data and documents from the RNC as well, but it can be concluded that they did not outwardly publicize it because their only goal in mind was to influence the election, in favor for Donald Trump and against Hillary Clinton.

The president-elect may think that the American people are idiots, especially that we know so much about him but still elected him President of the United states. Maybe he doesn’t fully grasp that we the people can fact-check his statements, as I will be doing in this blog. It was a decision that Donald J. Trump openly published, so the relevance of it is stated right here, as other decisions by our next president will be.

Donald Trump will give me so much to write about in the next four years. My goal is to update the readers and fans of this blog. Again, when Donald Trump does well, it will be stated here in all of its glory. But in reciprocal, when he does wrong, like lying to the American people, I will highlight it and state its relevance to the American people.

Immediately below is a link to the unclassified report…

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GM to Lay Off Up To 2000 Workers in Lordstown Ohio and Lansing Michigan

 

Donald Trumps main campaign slogan… “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN”. You wouldn’t know it by reading an announcement by General Motors stating at least 1250 workers will be indefinitely laid-off on January 23, 2017 in Lordstown, Ohio, along with another 840 workers on January 16, 2017 at the GM Grand River factory in Lansing, Michigan. Can he save these workers like many believed he did at the Carrier Air-Conditioning Company? Ironically, Donald Trump will inherit the problem during his presidency, even though he claims that he is ‘the JOBS president’. People that work at both of these plants overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump, and now these 2000 workers will be let down by the man they voted into office. Trump is about to find out that even though he is about to become the most powerful person in the world, as POTUS, he will have absolutely no power in situations such as this.

The plant is not moving jobs to Mexico, but claims that because of dropping sales of these particular models of ‘The Chevy Cruise’ and Chevy ‘Camaro’ and Cadallac’ATS’ and ‘CTS’ luxury cars, they can no longer make a profit worth keeping the assembly lines open.

So what will Donald Trump do about this issue. Is he going to tax GM for laying off their workers? In all fairness, GM had already disclosed before Trump became President-Elect that they were furlowing workers at these plants.