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Current polls show that if the Presidential election was today...a major
percentage of Republicans and most Independents would not cast their ballots in
a general election for Donald Trump. Would they vote for Hillary Clinton? For
the Independents, many more would indeed cast their ballots for the former
Secretary of State. Others would stay home, as would a huge chunk of
Republicans...who would never vote for Mrs. Clinton, but who would not now pull
the lever for Trump.
Meanwhile, the latest Quinnipiac University Poll - released on Tuesday, April 4th, 2017 - shows that Donald Trump has an approval rating of only 35 percent...which matches a recent Gallup Poll.
The chaos of the Trump Administration has caused Donald Trump to be a losing President after just over 10 weeks in The White House. Much of his lunacy stems from his raving rants on Twitter. On Monday, April 3rd...Trump regurgitated his vindictive vomit...that former President Barack Obama committed a felony...by wiretapping Trump Tower during the Presidential campaign. Trump tweets with no regard for truth...no regard for facts. He cannot admit fault. He cannot admit that he was wrong...even when the FBI, the House Intelligence Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee have definitively concluded that there is no evidence whatsoever that President Obama bugged Trump's home and offices in his midtown Manhattan skyscraper.
In my Friday, March 17th column - TO DONALD TRUMP: LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE! - I made a statement that I feel is worth echoing here today.
"Donald Trump is the biggest conspiracy theorist since those individuals who thought President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by somebody other than Lee Harvey Oswald."
Now Trump has added another conspiracy to his repertoire, as he and other Republicans point the finger at President Obama's National Security Adviser Susan Rice...claiming she deliberately gathered classified intelligence information about members of the Trump campaign...and then leaked the names of those people to the press. But Rice has categorically denied the accusations. She says not she...nor anyone in the Obama White House...ever - for "political purposes" - "unmasked" the identities of Trump or anyone associated with him. Rice is being blamed for revealing the name of retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Michael Flynn...who was fired by Trump as his National Security Adviser...after Flynn's communications with Russian officials were somehow leaked to the media.
In an exclusive interview on the Tuesday, April 3rd edition of MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports...the NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent went one on one with Susan Rice...who forcefully and firmly stated..."I leaked nothing to nobody...and never have and never would."
But Donald Trump - with no evidence at all that Rice is responsible for any leaks - re-tweeted a message that Matt Drudge sent...promoting his conservative on-line column titled..."RICE ORDERED SPY DOCS ON TRUMP?" A link to the Drudge Report website was included in Trump's re-tweet.
Once again - as he did with his wiretapping allegations - Trump took the word of a right-wing publication...with no proof whatsoever. It was Breitbart News and Fox News who Trump accepted as fact when he went on a tweeting firestorm on Saturday morning, March 4th without first consulting with the FBI, the NSA or any of the government's intelligence agencies. And nobody...including Congress...has found any truth to Trump's tirade of tweets.
Nearly
five months have already sailed by since the November 8th, 2016 election...and yet Trump's
viciousness and vulgarity remain, as if he feels obligated to be that
way.
And where
has any of this gotten the United States of America? The bedlam in Washington,
DC is thrilling Moscow. With obscene jubilance, Vladimir Putin accomplished
what he set out to do. There's turbulence and turmoil in our nation's capital
and havoc across our country. The Russian President and his crooked, Kremlin
cronies...are undoubtedly cackling villainous squawks like birds in a parrot hatchery.
There is no dignity...no credibility...in America's White House. And the
people's palace is crumbling in front of our very eyes. The United States is in
shambles, as Democrats and Republicans are at each other's throats...while Putin
maliciously smirks with a grin that emulates that of the Cheshire
Cat.
In the
topsy-turvy insanity of 2017 American politics, Donald Trump may end up
bottoming out the United States to its most dismal low in history. And our
nation just may sink deeper than a prairie dog's basement. I just hope we don't
get bombarded with depth charges...as we drown.
And that's The Controversy for today.
I'm Gary B. Duglin.
"We'll talk again."
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Why do you hate him so much? Is it because you and the left picked a bad candidate and lost? The questions of the lefts hate goes on and on. I won’t comment on the polls you quote, polls are so easily manipulated based on the way they word the questions and who they question. Remember on November 8th all the polls showed Clinton winning many by double digits. Just remember that much his support has been subjected to months of attacks and lies from the corrupt mainstream media. Let me correct your statement about “the FBI, the House Intelligence Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee have definitively concluded that there is no evidence whatsoever that President Obama bugged Trump's home and offices in his midtown Manhattan skyscraper”, many members of these committees have stated that they have not seen any evidence, which doesn’t mean there isn’t any evidence just they haven’t seen it yet. Now with more and more coming out about what Susan Rice did, more people believing what the President said might be true. Rand Paul is calling for Rice to testify under oath and be asked “And she needs to be asked, ‘Did President Obama ask her to do this? Was this a directive from President Obama? I think she should testify under oath on this.” Senator Paul stated the following "Everybody admits that somebody spied on Mike Flynn, and he was part of the Trump campaign," Paul said. "It sounds like what the president said has already been proven to be true." Many other Senators and Congressmen are calling for her to testify. Let’s all remember Susan Rice is a proven liar. Why don’t you ever discuss the successes of the Trump Presidency, let me list a few: even with the left working against it the economy is growing, the highest consumer confidence in over in over a decade, the stock market hitting new highs, a great Judge soon to be the 9th Justice on the Supreme Court, oil pipelines are being built (finished) making America less dependent on overseas energy, going forward with the wall, if not for left wing States and Federal Judges that disregard the law and the Constitution our boarders would be a little safer but political correctness and politics over rule the law and logic. The list goes on and on of the successes but all you care about is tearing down and destroying a President. There has been NO proof that the President or any of his staff did anything illegal in regards to the Russian hacking of Hillary’s and the Democrats emails, no proof of any involvement. The left doesn’t care about proof all you care about is your agenda, whether it’s good for the country or not, in most cases it’s not. The left believes in party before Country, revenge for a loss before the American people.
ReplyDeleteMy reply to the reader's response above will be in two parts.
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Denial, denial, denial. It amazes me that all you and some other Republicans want to do is deny what is happening. Do you not realize what is going on within Trumpworld? The man is beyond paranoid. He tries to put his own spin on issues, simply to change the dynamic of what is actually factual. As for Trump's "facts" - and yours - they are not at all facts, but falsehoods. What you and Trump think are facts, are in reality, fantasy.
I think I know who you are. Most of my readers - even the staunch conservative Republicans - have refrained from using the "H" word. And that doesn't stand for Hillary. But you...you continue to blame 65 percent of the country of "hate." You continue to accuse Democrats that we are - in some way - angry, sore losers because - as you say - we "picked a bad candidate and lost." Our objection, our criticism, our genuine concerns about Donald Trump as President have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH HILLARY CLINTON NOT WINNING THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
Every poll cannot be wrong. And yes, the polls last October had Secretary Clinton winning the election, but that was BEFORE the FBI Director took it upon himself to ignore Justice Department protocol by issuing a letter to Congress that never should have been written...never should have been sent...never should have been made public. It was a letter that - in many ways -changed the outcome of the election. It was a letter...an investigation...that proved nothing. But it changed the minds of a few people in America...but enough people that it - along with Russia - caused Trump to win the electoral votes in three states that he should never have won.
You can put your own spin on what FBI Director James Comey said...what the House Intelligence Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee have said...but the facts are such that there is ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE...ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF WHATSOEVER...that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. You and Trump can continue bringing it up and thinking otherwise, but all it does is show the ignorance of people like you and by Trump himself. You and Trump can believe what you want, but Susan Rice did nothing illegal. Senator Rand Paul can call for Rice to testify under oath and I am sure she will make the same exact statements that she made to Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC. You are that same person that also likes to say about people - and I know you've done it before when responding to my columns - that they are "proven liars." Susan Rice is in no way a "proven liar."
GBD
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PART TWO OF TWO
DeleteYou really can't claim victory for Donald Trump for the economy. Surveys and polls...and economists throughout the nation and around the world...clear across the board...have shown that the vast majority of Americans credit the growing economy and the stock market highs to President Obama. None of that has anything to do with Trump. As for Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, he may not get confirmed. The "wall" along our southern border with Mexico WILL NEVER BE BUILT. Congress will never authorize funding to pay for it and Mexico will not pay for it. All of your "successes" for Trump are either not successes for him or are ideas that will never become real.
As for Russia...you can kiss Trump's butt all day long, but if not him directly, it will be proven that members of his campaign were directly involved with Vladimir Putin and Russian spies to destroy our election. As Democratic Congressman Joaquin Castro of Texas told Wolf Blitzer on CNN - there will be people from the Trump campaign who will "go to prison" as a result of the Russian scandal. And if Trump himself participated in any way...or if he is involved in a cover-up...Trump will be impeached, convicted and removed from office. Just wait until you read my commentary this weekend. I'm sure you'll flip out over what I have written and what I will publish.
Democrats, liberals, progressives...we all care more about what is good for our country that you apparently do. And Independents all across the nation are admitting wholeheartedly that they are so sorry they ever voted for Trump. And many Republicans are saying the same thing. Democrats believe in the United States of America and we will prevail when Donald Trump leaves The White House in disgrace.
GBD
END OF PART TWO OF TWO
I am no fan of Donald Trump, but I have to honestly ask, if Hillary would have done the same thing (which she advocated for in a public forum just hours before these strikes occurred), would you still be saying they were illegal? My hunch is that you would be saying she was taking actions against a dictator who is killing innocent women and children.
ReplyDeleteSecondly, there are many aggressive actions the government can take, and does take, that are not acts of war. They are very careful to use terminology and euphemisms like "targeted strikes". Obama did this all throughout his presidency with drone strikes in multiple Middle Eastern countries. President Clinton did it in Bosnia. None of those actions were under official acts of war warranted by Congress.
I am guessing that you meant to submit your comments below my column about Donald Trump's military strike on Syria. However, I appreciate you reading The Controversy and hope you will see my response here.
DeleteHillary Clinton did, in fact, say - before Trump's strike in Syria - that she would attack Assad's airfield. BUT...and this is the important but...Secretary Clinton said she would get approval from Congress. That is the crux of this entire matter.
If you read my column carefully, I strongly believe that such action was necessary, but it needed Congressional authorization...which it likely would have received. But Trump did not present the plan to Congress beforehand.
GBD