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Chaos reigns in wake of WH reporters shooting

Chaos and confusion, along with some alleged prevarication, has erupted in the wake of the White House correspondents’ dinner shooting in D.C.

All we know for sure is that a lunatic opened fire in the room. I won’t mention his name on this blog, following a tradition I set some time ago. The Secret Service, which was there to protect Donald and Melania Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, did its usual great job of clearing the room and securing the reported targets of the moron. These individuals are well-trained and once again, they earned their salary.

No motive is clear. Nor do we know how this heavily armed goon get so close to the party. There seems to be confusion over Trump reacted. Trump spoke to “60 Minutes” after the event and got many TV viewers confused over what went down.

Trump did declare that violence of this type is unacceptable and that it must end. Yes, Mr. POTUS … you are so right. How about some legislation that could bring this kind of violence to an end?

Trump wants to reschedule this event. Hmm. Not so fast, sir. We have plenty of questions that require thoughtful answers.

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Trump headed for an impeachment

With this blog post I am venturing tenderly onto a tree limb that is getting fuller by the hour with individuals who have said what I am going to declare.

Donald John Trump is insane! He may be certifiably so. He has gone mad. Bonkers,

I mean, can you name a president of the United States who ever has said he wanted to wipe a civilization off the face of the Earth? Can anyone find a historical reference to such utter madness? Trump said that if Iran doesn’t comply with his demands to end the war that Trump launched against Tehran that he would annihilate the population. They would be gone. All dead.

That is genocide in its rawest form, kids. And Trump has declared that he would be willing to drop the bombs to do the job.

We have established that the POTUS has made the declaration. That is an unlawful order if one has ever existed. No flag officer worth his or her honor would follow such an order. But you get my drift, yes? Of course you do!

Donald Trump need not say another word for the rest of his miserable life. He has established clearly his intention as commander in chief. He has gone ’round the bend!

Now comes the real hard part. Invoking the 25th Amendment to the Constitution that enables Trump to be removed from office. Such an act requires Republicans to join their Democratic colleagues in moving such an act forward. Based on what we all have witnessed, there aren’t enough GOP members of Congress or members of the Cabinet to say that “enough is enough!”

I feel better now that I’ve gotten it off my chest. I take no pleasure in joining the growing chorus. But, dammit! … the guy is beyond redemption.

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Bondi is now a ‘former U.S. attorney general’

Allow me to join the millions of Americans who today are cheering the news that Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi from her post as U.S. attorney general.

I would say that “Pam, we hardly knew ye,” but that wouldn’t be true. We got to know a lot about Bondi during her year-long stint as AG. None of it good, from my perspective.

She proved to be every bit the sycophant that Trump sought when he plucked her from the ranks of Florida elected officials. She was so good at it that she should have embarrassed Trump with her hideous performances testifying — if you want to call it such — before congressional committees on matters involving Jeffrey Epstein and Trump’s pardon of the Jan. 6 traitors who sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

My favorite moment came when she lied under oath to a House committee, was called on that lie by Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., and then bellowed “Don’t you ever accuse me of committing a crime!” Wait a sec, Mme. AG. The nation just heard you commit perjury when you said the record contains “no evidence” accusing Trump of committing a crime.

It damn sure does! Lieu brought it out for public display.

If the POTUS had an ounce of shame, he would be embarrassed by Bondi’s performance as AG.

Hit the road, Pam. Me? I’m going to watch the Artemis II mission head for the moon and cheer on those four brave astronauts as they continue to bring smiles to our faces.

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Corruption anyone … anyone?

Let us revisit one of the chief concerns some of us — including yours truly — raised about whether Donald Trump’s real-life experience qualified him for the public office he sought in 2016.

I said then that Trump’s only professional experience was aimed at enriching himself. He had no public service experience under his belt. His sole aim was to make lots of money, no matter how he managed it.

Now comes this latest allegation of deep-seated corruption within the Trump administration. It has been alleged that someone within the White House is using insider-trading information to enrich themselves just prior to major policy decisions coming from inside the West Wing.

These only are allegations, but with so many of swirling around the POTUS, given his proven history of self-enrichment, they seem to have this ring of validity. They need careful examination.

The Iran war is an example of the kind of insider trading that seemingly is going on. Just prior to the president making a key announcement regarding peace talks or the suspension of bombing of Iranian targets by U.S. and Israeli jets, we hear about thousands of oil-related shares changing hands. Just like that — boom! — huge profits are taken by traders who act just prior to these announcements being made public.

Coincidence? Hmm. Seems like a huge stretch to me.

The question to which I will demand answers is this: Does any of this involve Donald Trump and his family?

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Trump’s heart is MIA

This likely isn’t an original thought, but I’ll treat it as one since it just popped into my noggin … which is that whatever is pumping blood through Donald John Trump’s overfed body cannot possibly be a human heart.

The POTUS is shown himself to be a heartless cretin with not a single ounce of decency, of compassion, of empathy toward those who are suffering over the loss of a loved one.

It’s now known throughout Planet Earth what Trump stated minutes after learning that former FBI director Robert Mueller had died: “Good,” Trump wrote on social media, “I’m glad he’s dead.”

The POTUS’s critics have been all over this ghastly statement. You can take this to the bank as well: Someone — probably many folks — are coming up with prepared remarks to deliver the day Trump leaves this world … and they likely will mirror much of what Trump said about Mueller.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sought to give justification for this hideous act by suggesting that “no one knows” about the pain that Trump and his family have endured. What the hell … ? That’s supposed to justify what a president of the United States says about the death of an American patriot, a war hero and the second-longest tenured director of the nation’s federal investigative agency?

Donald Trump’s heartless behavior has been put on full display and he deserves every bit of scorn that will be thrown his way.

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Hey, Donald: Shut the f*** up!

There he goes again, exhibiting world-class boorishness before the entire world and embarrassing millions of Americans who have to live with the notion that he is our commander in chief.

He said the following today, through social media, of course, about the death of former FBI director Robert Mueller: Good, I’m glad he’s dead.

Mueller, appointed to lead the FBI by President George W. Bush and who served under President Barack Obama, died today of conplications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 81 years of age. Mueller served with distinction and high honor as a lawyer and then as FBI director, changing the agency’s mission to fighting terrorism in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

He also led the investigation into allegations that Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential election. He determined the Russians did so but declined to prosecute the case because the evidence was lacking for a conviction. He drew Trump’s scorn throughout the probe.

Now this response to his death. Donald Trump once again has proven he is a disgrace to the nation.

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Nothing to hide? Show us!

A thought keeps rattling around in my noggin that I just cannot shake loose … and it has everything to do with Donald Trump and his one-time bestie, the late sex trafficker and child molester Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump keeps insisting he and Epstein only were pals, that he took no part in the sexual escapades of which Epstein was convicted. Fine, Mr. POTUS. But why in the name of full disclosure do you keep resisting calls to show us the entire catalog of files that have been dug on Epstein? If there is no “there, there,” then show us for real, Donald.

We’ve waltzed down the pea patch with Trump already. He said he broke no laws in filing his income taxes, but won’t allow us to see them. Now we hear that his name appears in those Epstein files thousands of times. He once pledged to release them all. Then he backed away.

Look, I am willing to give Trump the tiniest benefit of the doubt on this matter. I do not believe he diddled underage girls along with Epstein and any other of the perverts who’ve been singled out.

The overarching question in my mind is … what did Trump know about Epstein’s behavior and when did he know it? I believe it is important for Americans to know when a man who would become president was a BFF with a guy who would be convicted of horrifying sexual crimes against girls.

He won’t tell us anything about that. He won’t allow the public to see files that well could clear him of any criminality. He is engaging in a coverup on a scale that seems set to dwarf anything that the Nixon administration did during the Watergate scandal more than five decades ago.

Come clean, Mr. POTUS.

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Randy Andy heads for the slammer

A friend of mine who hails from Great Britain recently told me of a nickname the Brits have placed on a — now former — member of the Royal Family.

They call him Randy Andy, because the former Prince Andrew had a lengthy and time-honored reputation of being a bad boy.

These days, the ex-prince is in custody of British law enforcement authorities because of his relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein, the noted sex trafficker who wheeled and dealt with underage girls.

The plot is thickening beyond anything King Charles and his kin could have ever wanted.

Blood certainly isn’t thicker than the royal standing with the public. His Majesty the King ordered Randy Andy arrested. I think the royals are done with him. Nice knowing about you, Andrew.

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ICE needs to lose the masks

I am going to make another run at a topic I raised a while ago, but it’s important enough to repeat.

What’s more, I have found some help in a high place to further the argument I want to make … which is that Immigration and Customs Enforcement thugs need to get rid of the masks and start enforcing immigration laws with humanity, not brutality.

Gordon Sondlund was U.S. ambassador to the European Union from 2008 to 2020. He supports Donald Trump’s view that immigration laws need to be enforced vigorously. Frankly — and don’t be surprised — so do I. However, the implementation of that policy has gone far into the weeds, off the rails. ICE agents have gone too damn far in enforcing the law.

They are hiding behind masks. “A confident nation does not hide its face when it enforces its laws,” Sondlund writes in an essay published today by the Dallas Morning News. “It does so openly and stands behind what it does.”

ICE goons are deployed in Democratically controlled cities by Trump to ferret out what Trump says are criminals who are here illegally, preying on innocent victims. They have beaten U.S. citizens, arrested them, separated children from their parents. They have shot at least two Americans to death. They are donning flak vests, camo outfits, all the equipment they need to restrain individuals. They are behaving like bullies.

Homeland security officials say the agents are covering their faces to protect them from reprisals. What an utter case of bullsh**!

Sondlund writes, “If officer safety is the concern, the solution is professionalism, not concealment. ICE agents should display their names or badge numbers clearly. All operations should include body cameras with audio, activated as a matter of policy. Local police … operate under these standards every day. Federal immigration enforcement should do no less.”

U.S. law enforcement operates in the open, Sondlund writes. “Authority is not hidden,” he states. An open approach to law enforcement “is not a concession to critics; it is a core feature of legitimate governance,” he declares.

He said, though, that “masks erode that legitimacy. They transform lawful enforcement into something that appears secretive and militarized. They invite comparisons the administration does not want and does not deserve.”

There you have it. Just lose the damn masks, ICE, and treat the people you serve with humanity. I could bet real American money such a change would bring far more cooperation than condemnation.

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It’s the masks, man … the masks

Of all the issues surrounding the deployment of federal goons disguised as immigration agents, one issue stands out as particularly troubling to this American patriot.

It’s the use of masks to hide the identity of these brutes as they arrest folks on suspicion that they might be here illegally or worse, up to no good at all.

I heard a Donald Trump administration official explain the reason for the masks, which generally are pullover cloths meant to cover all but the eyes. You’ve seen ’em, right? They cover the faces of heavily armed men who are packing guns, stun devices, cuffs and/or zip ties and are wearing flak jackets under their camo shirts. They wear the masks to protect officers against angry protesters,  the explanation goes.

They present a frightening profile of individuals on orders from the top of the federal chain of command to round up crooks, killers and assorted bad guys. Except too many of them have been law-abiding U.S. citizens. And, yes, a couple of them have died after being shot by these goons.

I am trying to square this method of policing by intimidation with what I see every day in the North Texas community where I live and in neighboring cities and towns throughout the area. I see officers engaging in what they call “community policing,” where police interact one-on-one with residents, building trust between taxpayers and The Man. Princeton police engage in a regular session that includes walks through neighborhoods with residents, giving them a chance to ask questions of the cops.

I want to draw that parallel because we are told that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are being deployed to “enforce the law.” Their tactics, though, run totally counter to the type of police work I see almost daily in the city where I live. We’re on a first-name basis with many of the police who patrol our streets. In places at this moment like Minneapolis, ICE agents are hiding behind masks … and presenting an image of intimidation and fear.

The ICE presence is, to say the least, an astonishingly bad look for the agency and the officers who now are feeling the rage of a community under siege.