DONALD TRUMP IS NOT THE BOSS. I AM. AND SO ARE YOU.

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     Donald Trump has got to start realizing that I'm HIS boss.  He is NOT MINE.  Or YOURS.  The President of the United States works for each and every U.S. citizen.  So whether you are white...or black...or brown...or yellow...or red...the president should be color-blind. But Donald Trump is not.  Whether you're a Republican, a Democrat, or an Independent, the president should give respect to each and every American.  But Donald Trump does not.  Whether you're Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or any other religion...whether you're straight, gay, or bisexual... whether your family heritage stems from anywhere around the world...or whether you're different - in any way - from the commander-in-chief...it is imperative for the president to show compassion and empathy for every one of us in our country.  But Donald Trump does not.  And I don't buy in to the illogical thinking by others who say he can't...that it's not part of his DNA.  Donald Trump is well aware of his actions. With conscious venom, Trump deliberately doesn't care enough to express heartfelt kindness to anyone...perhaps not even to his own family. 

     If a person is going to be President of the United States, he...or she...better be the model of integrity and honesty, and he...or she...better have the proper temperament, demeanor, and character to serve.  Without those necessary qualities, that individual is unfit to sit behind The Oval Office desk.  Donald Trump is, therefore, not suited to be our nation's president.  But that was clear to me - along with nearly 66-million other voters - in 2016.

     According to a new Quinnipiac University Poll - released on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 - 64 percent of Americans think Donald Trump committed crimes before he took the oath of office on January 20th, 2017.  The poll also indicates that nearly half our country - 45 percent of the people - believe Trump has committed crimes while in The White House.

     But despite being a crook - which I have no doubt that he is - Donald Trump lacks humanity...and he is absent of any humane behavior.  And because Republicans and conservative-leaning Independents made a grave mistake 28 months ago, the United States faces a constitutional crisis, a possible impeachment, and perhaps the indictment of a sitting president.  Although indicting a president, while in office, is against Justice Department policy...it is not U.S. law.  

     Judge James Wilson was a Member of the Continental Congress in 1776 and signed the Declaration of Independence. In 1787, Wilson - who was a Pennsylvania delegate to the Constitutional Convention, whose signature is also on the Constitution, and who was one of the original justices appointed by President George Washington to the U.S. Supreme Court - concluded that the president was not immuned from indictment because our Founding Fathers, when framing the Constitution, did not explicitly grant such immunity in the text of our historical document.  Furthermore, in the landmark 1974 case, U.S. v. Nixon, the Supreme Court required President Richard Nixon to provide, as evidence, any Oval Office tapes that he secretly recorded, which were relevant to the Watergate criminal investigation.  Nixon disputed the high court's decision as he argued executive privilege protected him, and that it permitted

him to refuse handing over the tapes.  But the justices disagreed with Nixon and he lost the fight.  The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that "the fundamental demands of due process of law in the fair administration of justice" are more important than shielding the presidency.  Granted, this decision did not rule on a criminal indictment of Nixon, but it did set a precedent that not even the president is above the law.  As with Nixon and all U.S. presidents, Donald Trump swore to "protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." He cannot use our most cherished document as a blanket of protection to hide under.   Upon leaving office, Article I, Section 3, Clause 7 of the U.S. Constitution is very specific that whether the president is impeached and removed from office or not, once he does exit the presidency, the former president "shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law," and, therefore, can be prosecuted.

     No matter what...until Donald Trump is legally removed from the presidency, we, the American people - or at least about two-thirds of us - have to suffer.

     And that's The Controversy for today.

     I'm Gary B. Duglin.

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