David W. Rudlin

Is the fact that seditious Trump can still be a presidential candidate proof that the American democracy is deeply flawed and needs to be reformed? (You might want to get comfortable for this one)

Trump’s utter lack of shame and decency have shown that a lot of things we thought were laws are actually just norms that every other president adhered to, but Trump simply ignores. That needs to be cleaned up. And his endless frivolous lawsuits intended to do nothing more than delay his inevitable conviction show that our legal system needs to be improved to protect against serial criminals with the money to delay justice.

But we the real problem is… us.

It is beyond belief that a man out on bail in four different jurisdictions, a man who had to fly back from winning the Iowa caucus to a NY courtroom where a jury will decide how much he has to pay the woman he raped, defamed, and then defamed again. It is beyond belief that the leading candidate for the Republican nomination is also the biggest single threat to our national security, a man who now admits that yes he did have “papers” he stole from the White House — despite having sworn the FBI must have planted them. It is beyond belief that crazy Rudy owes $148 million for his job in destroying the lives of two Georgia poll workers by telling baseless lies about them, but the man he did it for — a man who spread those same lies from the biggest bully pulpit in the world — is thinking about the Oval Office and not the poor house.

Let’s not blame this on democracy. To end the Trump infestation, all we have to do is say — with apologies to Nancy Reagan — NO. If you believe the various insider accounts, 80% of Congressional Republicans hate the fool, but they pretend otherwise because they know if they don’t they will get primaried and pilloried by the Cult. People of courage and conviction like Liz Cheney are thrown out of the party and shunned. All because 1/3 of the country has somehow decided that the greatest crime spree in American history shouldn’t be disqualifying for the highest office in the land.

We have looked the enemy in the eye, and it is us. Democracy may need a little sprucing up, but it is we the people who need reformation.

It seems the radical right wing trump lovers missed the point or more likely choose the pretend it is not real..

The ability to throw enough money to avoid justice has been a fact of life for trump from the age of his first gift making him a millionaire at the age of 8.. daddy gave him all that in order to gain a tax deduction and still control the money.. donnie was well schooled in the art of stringing out the courts..

It has worked dozens if not hundreds of times to out spend the law or buy out the injured.

Now at a time of crisis in America he uses the same tactic of burning time as long as possible and avoiding a trial, at least until after the election.. he thinks winning the office will absolve him of prosecution. but that is another item.

This is about the ability to string out the justice coming for him endlessly buy the frivolous appeals and motions to the court as was pointed out by slatten and the writer..

No way is that the concept that the founding fathers intended when they spock of justice in the America they created.. All such attempt are only to avoid facing the charges of his misdeeds.

we need to cut the foolishness and lock the SOB up... sooner rather than later..

Hello to you permafrost.Been a long time sharing with you...Lets get real and remember I still love ya.

Perhaps what was in debate and not unknown was whether Trump had a plan to replace the shortfall in Social Security funding in the event that he "eliminated payroll taxes." ? I don't
know, do you? Would you be kind enough to submit what you have on this proposal in budget cuts of social secrity. I mean if he did each year certainly there is something to refer to, yes?

You know how things get blown out of proportion perhaps the co mingling of such made good headlines?
Trump did not explicitly vow to terminate Social Security, as those headlines claimed, but one of several plans he mentioned in an Aug. 8 press conference involved eliminating payroll taxes a move that would, as things stood, remove the overwhelming majority of funding for Social Security and likely pose a threat to its continued existence. Of ocurse there was not further discusion in that interview or whatever it was to determine how he would off set that loss and what he intented to do to correct the deficit of Social Security since its always one of the largest fear mongering tactics used especially in election cycles specifically.. I don't know- good thought to it all.


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-terminate-social-security/

Slatten49
No matter what you want to believe Trump has not been tried and found guilty of sedition or insurrection! Flying back and forth from speeches to court to Iowa caucus back to court then New Hampshire only proves this mans stamina, that Joe Biden could never even attempt! Trump has nothing to feel ashamed of no matter how you slur him! He is for America and the American people!
When Joe Biden became President all he had to do was nothing! But he chose to open the Southern Boarder and let in by now the count is 9 million illegals! They have brought in disease, drugs, and are the cause of 100,000 Americans dying of Fentanyl poisoning. Besides the trafficking of human beings!
The woman who accused Trump of raping her in 1994,1995, or 1996 does not remember the date, time, or whether it was winter, spring, summer or fall! And she claims to be wearing a particular dress that had not even been made at that time! She deleted e mails that were subpoenaed by the court which would exonerate Trump that she was being berated and received death threats before Trump started berating her on social media!
It would behoove you to find out the facts before you accuse anyone of things that they never did or never said.
The truth is incontrovertible no matter how you twist the facts or make up stories that are false!
You may one day be on the receiving end of a subpoena because you made up lies or untruths about someone and caused them harm! Is that how you live your life?
I sure hope not!