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But before you spend it, remember, some of you fell for similar broken promises.  

The $5,000 checks he promised as a DOGE dividendnever arrived. Neither did the $2,000 tariff-dividend checks he promised. 

Consider Trump University. Many hopeful folks paid thousands of dollars to learn the secret to Trump’s real-estate strategies (but not to his strategies for the six projects he filed into bankruptcy). With a criminal fraud suit hanging over his head, he settled by paying Trump University customers $25 million. 

Then there’s Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill that gave America’s wealthiest a $4.5 billion tax cut. Trump promised middle- and low-income earners that they would gain “at least $13,000 a year” from the bill. Of course they didn’t. His promise was based on his heavily inflated, i.e., false, projections for economic growth. Indeed, Trump and his Republicans had already fooled us five times, when they promised their tax cuts would generate enough economic growth to cover tax revenues lost to tax cuts for the wealthy. They never did. 

Now Trump wants to gull voters into believing another extraordinary financial promise – or more accurately a bribe: Elect Republicans and you’ll get $5,000. It doesn’t bother him that many of the checks will go to Democrats, including Democratic candidates for Congress and state governments. It doesn’t bother him because he knows he’ll never send out any checks.

So before voting on the expectation that Donald Trump is going to send you $5,000, ask yourself one question: Where are the checks from his last promises.

Perhaps more importantly is the question: do you want to keep the Republicans in Congress who enabled his dismantling of our government? 

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The Trump administration has joined in. It:

• Made it easier to discriminate against blacks in housing, employment and education by weakeningthe ability to challenge policies that disproportionately harm racial minorities.
  
• Made it more difficult for Blacks to get jobs with government contractors by ending long-standing affirmative action requirements that applied to them.

• Dismantled federal race diversity programs and pressured federally funded institutions and private employers to do the same. 

• Threatened to withhold funding from schools that consider race in their admissions, hiring, scholarships, and other programs. 

• Canceled research grants to investigate disparities in disease rates among races, including Alzheimer’s, which is disproportionately  suffered by Black Americans.

• Eliminated initiatives that address the continued consequences of slavery and racial discriminations, and

• Is investigating medical school Black admission programs.

So, it’s crucial that Blacks and Hispanics vote in masse in the midterms. 92% of 1,600 registered Black male voters in six battleground states said that voting is important and 74% said they were almost sure or probably going to vote in the midterms. Only 25% said they were uncertain or unlikely to vote in November. Sadly, that’s probably not enough to negate the racist Supreme Court Republican majority’s unconstitutional greenlight to racially gerrymander and the administrations hostility against people of color. 

But suppose Black and Hispanic voters together make up 25% of the electorate in a competitive district or state. If 90% of them vote Democratic, it would deliver an 80-point net margin and dramatically improve their battle for the House and Senate.

Pew’s July 2026 polling has Democrats leading Republicans 68%-8% among Black registered voters and 49%-26% among Hispanicvoters, with the rest undecided or voting for someone else. 

Bringing Black voters closer to the 92% who say voting is important could flip close races to Democrats in Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina.

If Democrats win a majority in the House, they would control investigations, subpoenas, hearings and appropriations, and subject the administration to Congressional scrutiny and constraint it has not faced with Republican majorities. And, importantly, Congress could no longer pass Republican-only legislation which would give Democrats more leverage over Republican-sponsored legislation.

If Democrats win majority in the Senate, they could prevent Trump from putting another Justice on the Supreme Court and filling other federal judgeships.

But the Black and Hispanic turnout has to be large. Although nearly all Black voters believe voting is important and are still politically engaged, they’re being misread and ignored. Democratic messaging hasn’t bombarded them enough with the brazen racism resident in the White House, the Supreme Court and Trump-enabling Republicans.

Blacks aren’t getting compelling-enough messages through texts, mail, or TV ads. 90% of young Black men get their politics from YouTube, and 44% they get it through social media. Those platforms need to be prioritized. 

It’s hard to believe that the Senate would ever convict Trump after he’s impeached, given that it requires a two thirds vote and their shameful fealty to him. But Republican dissatisfaction with him is growing rapidly. 

Some Republicans say they’d vote to convict if there were a secret ballot. Outgoing Republicans have used their remaining time in office to vote against Trump’s legislative agenda, challenge his foreign policy, or openly criticize his conduct – both clear reflections of their and probably other sitting Republicans’ true feelings about Trump. 

So, would they vote to convict him if he had been fired from the Presidency based on compelling and publicly reported evidence of shameful and egregious use of his office? 

That would depend on how much influence Trump would have over voters after he’s no longer President, i.e., whether Republicans would still fear being challenged by Trump-backed candidates. 

His influence over voters would diminish if the evidence for conviction is ugly enough to make him an electoral liability. Moreover, if other Republican Senators are prepared to vote for conviction, i.e., the rats are leaving the ship and Trump-tarnished Republicans don’t want  to be left behind, conviction becomes more likely. 

Most importantly, 67% of voters want the return of bipartisanship and many Republicans want to regain the popularity of the Reagan era. But Trump needs to be removed to reach those goals. Only then could the bipartisanship that solved the country’s most difficult issues for centuries reemerge from America’s political parties that have never been so hostile to each other until Trump came on the scene. 

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Trump’s abysmal Covid record, so they picked on Dr. Anthony Fauci. 

To start with, Trump ignored two years of warnings that America was not equipped to handle a pandemic and that his neglect would lead to the loss of lives. 

At the end of Trump’s first administration, America, the world’s richest country with the strongest economy, had more coronavirus cases and deaths from Covid than any other country, including China, whose population is more than four times larger. 

The U.S. then accounted for just 4.2 percent of the world’s population but a shameful 30 percent of COVID-19 cases and 19 percent of COVID deaths. The virus’s spread had slowed in 12 other countries and China was already returning to work while the U.S. remained shut down.

Just like today’s Republicans are scouring irrelevant documents, such as Fauci’s diary, to find the slightest Fauci transgression in order to distract voters from Trump’s dismal Covid performance, Trump tried to shift the blame for failing to stop the spread of Covid cases and deaths to Obama, state governors, all sitting Democrats, the media and, most bizarrely, the WHO. 

Republicans intensified their war on Covid vaccines by blocking vaccine mandates. All  27 states  that asked the Supreme Court to block vaccine mandates were Republican-led, and 12 of them had already banned them at the state level. The outcomes of their attacks, ironically, proved that the vaccines saved lives. Even the Department of Health in Texas — a solidly Republican state —  concluded that the unvaccinated were 20 times more likely to die from COVID.

In counties that voted heavily for Trump, monthly COVID deaths per 100,000 peaked at 35; seven times the peak in counties that voted heavily for Joe Biden. Every Senate Republican voted to overturn Biden’s vaccine mandates. Senator Ted Cruz introduced a bill to block Covid vaccine mandates for public schools.

Republican Representative Madison Cawthorn warned that Biden’s door-to-door vaccine efforts could morph into a door-to-door confiscation of guns and Bibles. And Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted, “People … don’t need … medical brown shirts showing up at their door ordering vaccinations.” Tucker Carlson at Fox News called the Biden vaccination plan “the greatest scandal in my lifetime.”

Trump shamefully abandoned the leading global role America played over the seven decades in fighting infectious diseases. Instead, he told governors they were on their own to find the equipment needed to fight Covid, admonishing them that the federal government is “not a shipping clerk.” 

Yet, in all these headwinds, Dr. Anthony Fauci supported research that led to effective Covid vaccines and urged Americans to take initial Covid vaccines and Covid boosters. Their effectiveness was overwhelming. Indeed, the nonpartisan Commonwealth Fund found that COVID vaccines likely prevented 1.1 million deaths.

Tragically, these Republicans forced Dr. Faci to take the Fifth Amendment — not because he had something to hide – but because it was the only way to avoid fabricated charges and to protect himself and his family from the violence Trump has greenlighted against the people he falsely accuses.

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Three lower courts had issued injunctions blocking Trump’s executive order as unconstitutional. At that time, the injunctions were universal, meaning they prohibited federal immigration officials from enforcing the executive order anywhere in the United States. 

On June 27, 2025, Trump asked the Supreme Court to limit the broad scope of the injunctions against him, arguing that individual district judges lacked the authority to issue universal injunctions and that their injunctions could bind only the parties covered by the litigation. 

The Court accommodated him and limited the scope of the preliminary injunctions to parties covered by the litigation. It also stayed the three injunctions that blocked Trump’s executive order and sent them back to the lower courts to reconsider the scope of their holdings in light of the Supreme Court’s decision. 

The Supreme Court did not address the constitutionality of the executive order challenging birthright citizenship at that time, even though every court that had considered the issue had found it to be unconstitutional.

The administration is now free to enforce executive orders that were held unconstitutional or otherwise illegal against people throughout the rest of the country who were not protected by the injunction, including those who can’t afford legal representation or join in lawsuits seeking relief. 

Instead of a single decision avoiding a nation-wide illegal policy, civil rights organizations and other plaintiffs must file multiple repetitive cases in different federal districts. Even then, the administration can enforce its illegal policies in districts where judges have not yet ruled.

Nationwide injunctions have stifled many of Trump’s illegal efforts through executor orders, such as cutting domestic financial assistance and freezing foreign aid to name a few.  Unthinkably, most injunctions against Trump’s illegal executive orders no longer apply beyond the limits imposed by the Supreme Court. 

The results of limiting the scope of injunctions also seem unworkable. First, it will give Trump the choice of where to and, more importantly, where not to enforce his unconstitutional executive orders. That will open the door to requiring donations to his campaign to accommodate the interests of different parties.

Tragically, this is a part of a pattern of the Supreme Court majority Justices abdicating their Constitutional duty to act as a check and balance on the President. 

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In an effort to put the final nail the VRA’s coffin, the Supreme Court sent back to lower courts two cases that had suggested that only the Justice Department could bring enforcement actions under the law barring racial discrimination in voting. That was a 180 degree turn away from its prior holdings. Indeed, the Supreme Court has heard VRA cases brought by voters. 

If Republican voters choose democracy, they should not vote for the candidates forced upon them by the Supreme Court’s racist majority. Otherwise, they accept the brazen rigging of elections and tear up our democracy by its roots – the right to vote.

Democracy gives voters the choice of who governs them. It cannot exist if elected politicians are allowed to make that choice. But that’s what Trump’s majority just allowed.

There’s a history behind why and how the Supreme Court majority is willing to pervert the Constitution, the VRA, and America’s other core values.

Republican extremist Leonard Leo, as chairman of the ultra-conservative Federalist Society, armed it with $1.6 billion to stack the Court with a majority that butchered the Constitution to turn their personal policies into law. Justice Thomas once joked (remember, humor is a vehicle for truth) that Leo was the “number 3 most powerful person in the world.”

Leo’s Supreme Court appointees — Justices Roberts, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Thomas, Alito, and Barrett — were promoted by him and the Federalist Society to place their proxies on the Court. Holding that the Constitution and the VRA allowed states to racially gerrymander was at the top of their list.

It didn’t stop there. Leo and the Federalist Society had other priorities that his majority turned into law:

Keeping Trump in office:
• Trump’s majority gave him broad immunity and delayed his D.C. criminal trial until after the 2024 election so voters wouldn’t know if they were voting for a convicted felon.

• The majority struck down Section 4(b) of the VRA, which required states with histories of suppressing minority voting to clear voting-law changes with federal authorities. They relied on the 10th Amendment, which doesn’t mention elections. The 15th Amendment, which they hardly mentioned, expressly prohibits racial gerrymandering and gives Congress the power to enforce that prohibition. Requiring federal pre-clearance for states with a history of racial voter suppression would seem to fall directly within that power. Instead, the Court’s majority invoked the antiquated theory of equal sovereignty (“ES”), which requires the federal government to treat states equally. But ES is nowhere in the Constitution; it’s not even a law. It was originally invented to prohibit different criteria for admitting states into the Union.

Deregulation of corporations: The Supreme Court had previously held that courts should defer to the interpretations of executive agencies created and authorized by Congress to issue regulations under federal laws. The Supreme Court’s majority nixed that and transferred the authority to interpret legislation from executive agencies to the judiciary, which sorely lacks the personnel and expertise to do the job. It was the Court’s way of freeing corporations from regulations issued by executive agencies and, not surprisingly, it unleashed a slew of corporate lawsuits challenging agency interpretations. Corporations are now free to ignore regulations issued by executive agencies until the courts decide how they should be interpreted, which could take years – exactly what Leo and the Federalist Society wanted.

Overturning Roe v. Wade: That’s history too well known.

The entire majority is conflicted because it repeatedly rules in favor of the policies of Leo and the Federalist Society rather than as required by the Constitution. In Caperton v. Massey, the Supreme Court held that “every case … which would offer a temptation to the average man … not to be impartial … denies … due process of law.” Would Leo’s appointees feel beholden to the patron and his proxy who got them on the bench and be tempted to favor their agenda? You bet they would.

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The fear of violence is justified. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene received  incited death threats against her and her son when she turned against Trump.Over a dozen Indiana state lawmakers who refused Trump’s request to gerrymander for more Republican seats were targeted with bomb threats.

Republicans have been swatted by Trump zealots. Swatting’s a type of harassment by falsely reporting emergencies to rush police to a person’s home. It can cause long-term damage to children’s emotional and physical health and can lead to long-term nightmares, flashbacks, anxiety, emotional distress, terror and trauma. It can also turned deadly. 

The correlation between Trump’s constant invective and violence against non-accommodating Republicans is undeniable. ABC News identified over 50 criminal cases where individuals explicitly identified Trump as the reason for violent threats. 

After the January 6 Capitol riot, Republicans who criticized Trump for the rampage expressed fear for their lives.” 

A Reuters investigation identified over 30 Republican officials who faced threats tied to their refusal to support overturning the 2020 election.

Liz Cheney was the victim of repeated death threats after turning against Trump. 

Adam Kinzinger received threatening voicemails that warned: “Gonna get your wife… gonna get your kids” and “We know where your family is.”

The Raffensberger family received death threats after Trump’s surprise loss in Georgia.

Republicans’ most pernicious surrender to Trump-incited threats was their  confirmation of the most flagrantly unqualified and dangerous cabinet in America’s history. They risked Americans’ health, turned the Department of Justice and FBI into Trump’s private gestapo, removed rational thought from the decision to attack other countries and debilitated our national security. 

It’s doubtful that the threat of loosing their seats was responsible for confirming a troop of grossly unfit sycophants, especially because sitting Republicans are more likely to lose their seats to a Trump-backed primary challenger or a Democrat. But the decision becomes more difficult when one’s family is threatened.

So how can dissenting Republicans effectively oppose Trump and neutralize the threats he rouses?

Most states make threats of harm a crime punishable by jail . Victims should notify state law enforcement officials with details of threats. They  can track digital threats and subpoena records from social media platforms and Gmail logs, including IP addresses, account activity and can often identify the offender. Calls and texts can also be traced through carriers. Then Republicans can be untethered to Trump.

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Republicans safeguarded the continued existence of the United States before during and after the Civil War. It’s Congressional majority passed the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, and it strengthened post-civil war America by promoting industrial expansion and free labor. Those policies together with Republican President Abraham Lincoln’s leadership pulled America through a crisis that threatened its survival. 

We’re in a different crisis now and need those kinds of Republicans, even if it takes impeachment; although there are less extreme measures.

All Presidents sought Congressional Declarations of war or Authorizations for Use of Military Force before they attacked another country. Trump did neither. 

Nor did he let Congress know what he was about to do. In fact, it wasn’t Trump, it was Benjaman Netanyahu who decided we should bomb Iran. Trump complied without input from Congress or consulting with or informing our European, Asian and  Persian Gulf allies, all of whom spurned Trump’s plea for help in liberating the Strait of Hormuz. 

Yet Trump’s obedient Republicans tolerated all of it, including letting a foreign leader launch the Iran war, and Trump’s brazen contempt for the Constitution. Worse, they enabled Trump’s bombing by confirming the most corrupt, sycophantic, dangerous and unqualified cabinet in America’s history. 

The key components of every President’s cabinet are expertise, competence, experience, high ethical standards, the ability to challenge the president without repercussions and bipartisanship that’s solved the most contentious issues for more than two centuries but is sorely lacking today. Sadly, sitting Republicans confirmed a cabinet that fails dismally on every count.

Republican President Lincoln’s cabinet was intentionally bipartisan, representing different views on slavery. It helped Lincoln unite a fractured nation, and played key roles in the Union’s Civil War victory and the abolition of slavery. 

There’s an enormous amount of damage that needs to be undone and catastrophes that need to be prevented.  Non-Trump Republicans need to:

• Restore the FBI unit that tracks threats from Iran and that Kash Patel gutted days before Trump bombed Iran. 
• Prevent Trump from sending ground troops to Iran that could require the scale of troops in Vietnam and be to Iran’s advantage. Rugged mountains make up half of Iran. Its urban centers are inland and protected by the mountains and uninhabitable deserts.  
• Repeal cuts to Medicare and Medicaid Republicans passed as part of Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax cut that replaced lost revenues with cuts to both safety nets. 
• Narrow our shamefully wide wealth spread. Republicans’ $4.5 trillion tax cut will make it wider.
• Revive USAID which Trump shuttered. A year later, more than 762,000 people relying on medical aid died including more than 500,000 children.  Other crucial defense and economic benefits are now in jeopardy.
• Restore the  guardrails against corruption abolished by Trump . He then built his net worth from $4.3 billion to $7.3 billion, often ignoring bipartisan opposition to his actions. 
• Stem the threat to the dollar’s supremacy triggered by fiscal irresponsibility. Large countries have set up trade relationships using other currencies. The dollars share of reserve currencies is at a two-decade low. 
• Rebuild America’s ability to prepare for disasters hobbled by Trump that could have saved most – maybe all – of the 120 people killed in Kerr County, Texas.
• Restore budget cuts and reduce hostility towards immigrants that’s sent our best scientists and researchers to China. 
• Impeach and replace Trump’s cabinet of the most unqualified dangerous sycophants in the country’s history by not confirming Trump’s picks until he’s gone.
• Restore the two Democrats Trump fired from the NLRB to replace them with sycophants so it could no longer protect workers rights by not confirming his picks for replacements to any agency where Trump intends to replace members with sycophants until he’s gone.

There are less extreme measures than impeachment. But what demands impeachment is an honest look at Trump’s decisions to aggrandize his power and image instead of benefitting Americans, and his immorality and dishonesty. 

Consider his latest betrayal. Trump told us he’s bombing Iran to achieve regime change, then switched his reason to preventing Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. Both were lies. He had already accomplished the latter by his last attack. His real reasons for the bombing and killing thousands were to distract from the Epstein scandal and his punishing economy, for leverage to declare an emergency as an excuse to deploy American troops on U.S. soil, to delay the midterm elections and prove he can do anything he wants. 

He also told us he was shocked when Iran blocked the Strait of Hormuz – also a lie. Trump’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff warned him that an attack could prompt Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. officials long-believed Iran would deploy mines, drones and missiles to close the world’s most vital shipping lane, and Trump acknowledged the risk. 

His press secretary claimed “The Pentagon has been planning for Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz … well before Operation Epic Fury …” 

Perhaps the most difficult challenge to a new Congress is to recapture the honor, trust and respect that sitting Republicans allowed Trump to diminish a respected global leader to a nation widely mocked, distrusted, and shunned.

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Although injunctions don’t matter to Trump or his enslaved Republicans, these injunctions will matter to the individual ICE agents, members of the military, and other Trump operatives who attempt to deprive voters of the right to vote as they choose. 

It will matter because, specifically, if any individual violates the injunction, they can personally be held in civil or criminal contempt and suffer fines and jail time. Those consequences would provide the strongest disincentive to obey any order to intimidate voters. 

Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and  The Rules for Courts-Martial  an order is unlawful, “if it is contrary to the Constitution or the laws of the United States.

The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the use of federal troops for domestic law enforcement other than in the case of an insurrection.

So, if Trump issued an unconstitutional or unlawful order, the members of the military would be legally obligated to disobey it or be subject to fines and incarceration. 

Even without an injunction, individuals are legally obligated to disobey any command to commit illegal acts or else they’d be personally subject to civil liability and incarceration. 

Trump would probably pardon the ICE agents and other offenders for federal crimes but cannot pardon for state crimes, void civil liability or stop Congressional investigations. Nevertheless, Trump’s roll in ordering the intimidation is likely to be its own crime, and could be the basis for criminal prosecution after he leaves office.

Although the law gives the Attorney General the authority to bring the proceeding for an injunction, it is beyond unlikely that Pam Bondi would do so. Nevertheless, 42 U.S.C. § 1983 creates a way for citizens to bring a civil action  to seek injunctive relief and compensatory and punitive damages against the individuals that deprived voters the right to vote as they choose. 

There are plenty of grounds to believe that Trump will employ ICE agents and the military to engage in such attempts. First, there are the undeserved horrors ICE has inflicted on immigrants and citizens alike, sweeping them off the streets in Gestapo-like fashion and sending them to the most brutal prison in the Western Hemisphere. 

Trump has openly discussed using the military to quell domestic demonstrations, which he labels as chaos, and declaring a national emergency so he can bring in the troops. 

To facilitate intimidating voters, Trump is pressing Republicans from states across the country to give him their voter rolls,  Attorney General Pam Bondi threatened Minnesota Governor Walz that if he wanted a ICE to back off he must give Trump access to his state’s voter rolls, and Bondi has initiated more than 20 legal actions to get them.

Trump obtained a magistrate’s warrant to seize voting records in Georgia, ostensively to prove he won the 2020 election. Many legal experts worry that he’ll use the seizure as precedent to obtain a similar warrant to seize voting machines and midterm ballots before they’re counted. 

Trump may pressure his Republican allies to refuse to seat Democratic winners claiming there are disputes about the results. California, with 54 electoral votes, could be particularly vulnerable, since it takes so long for the state to tally its votes. It’s happened before in a closely contested race.

Trump could repeat his deployment of supporters, pardoned Oath keepers and Proud Boys to stage another Jan. 6 attack on Congress.  

As always, only the Republicans can stop Trump’s treacheries. Whether he rigs the midterms depends on whether they’ll sacrifice their constituents to avoid facing a Trump-backed challenger in the primaries.  

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Although there have been only two outbreaks, and none in the US, Nipah is considered a public health threat because of its high fatality rate, potential for human-to-human transmission and the absence of approved vaccines or treatment. 

So how would Donald Trump come to our rescue if it or when, not if, any pandemic hits the U.S. again? The answer is poorly given his brutal cuts to medical research and his dismal Covid-19 performance. 

Trump recently announced  cuts of $4 billion in medical research funding at universities, hospitals, and other scientific institutions. Researchers have had to drop crucial projects and many consider switching fields due to Trump’s cuts and layoffs. The cutscanceled 383 clinical trials affecting research into COVID-19,  cancer prevention and heart and brain disease. 

Not to mention that Trump has sent our best medical scientists to China, weakening our ability to fend off pandemics and rapidly propelling China’s medical advancement beyond ours. The assault on our health will continue until Congressional Republicans find the integrity and courage to stop him. 

Trumps ruinous actions and failure to stop the Covid pandemic during his first presidency is alarmingly similar to what he’s doing today. At the end of his first administration, America had 4.2% of  the world’s population, 25% of Covid cases and 19% of Covid deaths. Shamefully, he abandoned over seven decades in which America played the leading global role in fighting infectious diseases, including Ebola, tuberculosis, malaria, yellow fever, AIDS, avian influenza and Zika. It was an unconscionable abdication of responsibility. He ignored the Defense Production Act, which gives the president the responsibility to force production and distribution of materials needed to arrest a pandemic. 

In 2014, President Obama coordinated world leaders to stop the Ebola virus at its source, sending more than 3,000 health officials to West Africa as part of a 10,000 team. Cases fell by 80% from peak levels. He also led the fight against Ebola at home, resulting in just 11 cases and two deaths in the United States. 

In sharp contrast, Trump abdicated his responsibility to the states, telling governors they’re on their own to find the critical equipment needed to fight the Covid, admonishing them that the federal government is “not a shipping clerk.” 

Having failed to control the spread of COVID, Trump turned to massive misinformation and  blamed  Obama, governors, Democrats, the media and, most bizarrely, the World Health Organization, from which he recently withdrew.

Trump predicted the mortality rate “within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero” and would “disappear like a miracle” and that everybody “infected is getting better.” His BS led Americans to abandon caution and suffer more infections and death. 

This man checks all the boxes that medical professionals use to diagnose a sociopath. Whether his claims are lies or delusions doesn’t matter. Either way, he is out of control. Why the hell do we keep him as our President? 

Although Trump can’t help himself, the Republicans in Congress know exactly what they’re doing. They can stop the carnage, but they don’t because the value their Congressional and anatomical seats above their constituents and the country at large. So their complicity will be repeated when, not if, the next pandemic hits. 

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has equated opposition by state leaders and demonstrations with domestic terrorism and insurrection.

ICE’s budget tripled and its force doubled  in 2025 and will double again in 2026. There’s little doubt that Trump pardoned and recruited the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to carry out ICE executions. Who else would willingly and handily execute innocent Americans? They will continue to kill without cause.  

Martial law means the suspension of rights, lower bars for arrests, curfews, checkpoints, restricted travel and surveillance of anybody Trump and odious Stephen Miller want to know more about. Make no mistake, both of them are basking in the chaos and savoring the outcome. Don’t default to an oh-that-will-never-happen safe harbor. Aren’t you closer that you ever thought you’d be? 

The law prohibits bringing in the military and its consequences. But, tragically, we can’t rely on the Supreme Court’s Trump-favoring majority to stop him.

Even more unlikely is that Trump will act rationally – that’s because he’s emotionally unable of being rational. He checks all the boxes that mental health professionals use to diagnose a sociopath: He’s incapable of experiencing guilt, shame, remorse, or empathy. He exhibits aggressive behavior and verbally attacks his critics and won’t admit mistakes. He intimidates and threatens to maintain control, disregards rules and laws, has difficulty controlling impulses, acts without considering the consequences and his dreams are his realities and frequently nightmares for others.

So how do we stop the carnage? We can’t count on the Republicans that Trump has enslaved. There are however solutions. Voters could replace Trump-enslaved Republicans with Republicans not tethered to him in primaries. Democrats can help here. 24 states allow them to vote in Republican primaries.  Democrats can threaten sitting Republican seats more than Trump by threatening to vote for non-Trump primary candidates (and still vote for Democrats in national elections). If sitting Republicans feel the way the wind blows, they’ll seriously consider leaving Trump’s ship.

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An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old poet and mother of three because, according to Trump, she was “disrespectful to law enforcement.” Watch an ICE agent shoots and permanently blind a 21-year protester.

It’s more than likely that ICE hired many of the 1500 January 6 criminals, like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Who else would be capable of such cruelty? Oh. I guess Republicans are because they choose not to stop it.

Republicans “Big Beautiful Bill” widens the wealth gap to a record and takes money from Medicare and Medicaid to replace the trillions lost from their $4.5 trillion tax cut for the wealthiest.

Trump cut 90% of foreign aid that prevented fatal diseases while HIV and tuberculosis spread unchecked across the globe. So what if 14 million die. At least Republicans won’t face Trump-backed primary challengers.

No American President ever corruptly enriched themselves. Then along came the Republicans and Trump who built his net worth from $4.3 billion in 2024 to over $7.3 billion in 2025.

If you’re convicted of perjury, tax or bank fraud, election finance crimes, an insurrection, lying to the FBI, rigging an election with foreign help or impeding a Congressional investigation, Trump will pardon you. He pardoned nearly 1,500 individuals charged with offenses at the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, many of whom had been convicted of violent crimes. Now they are probably employed by ICE. Congress could impeach him if the Republicans would keep their Constitutional oaths to their constituents and the country.

Trump didn’t like Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) weak Jobs Report, so he fired the head of the BLS and released his own data. Reliable data have made of our financial markets the world’s the most reliable. Unreliable data will send them into free fall. Only the Republicans can stop him and sustain global confidence in our markets. But protecting Republican seats is more important to them.

Given the Republicans mission to cut Medicaid and Medicare and Trump’s obsession to undo everything Obama accomplished, Republicans will let Obamacare subsidies expire and healthcare premiums will jump from $888 to $1,904 in 2026.

Trump threatens to cut billions in medical research for cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, Parkinson’s disease and diabetes and has gutted key parts of the Department of Health and National Institute of Health. Republicans won’t oppose the move. I guess they’re more worried about losing their seats than a family member from a disease that could have been prevented.

Trump is paving the way for Putin to invade NATO members. He’s threatened to stop most military aid to Ukraine unless Zalenski agrees to Putin’s outrageous demands including:

• No promise that Russia won’t invade NATO members.
• NATO won’t expand its membership.
• Ukraine won’t join NATO
• European fighter jets will be stationed in Poland where they’ll be easy targets for the Russian military.

• Crimea and Donbas will be recognized as Russian,
• Ukraine to hold elections enabling Putin to install a puppet government and
• Western military aid to Kyiv will be halted during a 30-day cease fire, making it open season on Ukraine.

As former US Secretaries of State and Defense, Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates warned, “ If … Ukraine is defeated, Russia will almost certainly … attack NATO member countries.”

Probably most disastrous, is that Senate Republicans approved Trump’s cabinet picks who are the most unqualified and dangerous cabinet members in American history. They are threats to America’s health, security, governance, global trust, trade relations, economy and we’ve become an international laughing stock and hated at the same time.

Impeachment may be a drastic step, but it is a necessary one. Allowing the Republicans to continue to enable Trump’s treacheries is knowing homicide. Impeachment is the only meaningful way to repair the damage Trump’s wreaked and to restore the honor, trust and respect that Republicans helped Trump strip away from our country by reducing a once respected global leader to a nation widely mocked, distrusted, and increasingly shunned.

The solution: Replace the Trump-enslaved Republicans with Democrats or with Republicans that are not beholden to him. Then we can get back to the bipartisan politics that solved our problems for centuries.

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Although workers in 19 states have received  an increase in their minimum wage to $15 per hour while the rest of Americans will work for a federal minimum wage of $7.25, the increases are not enough to cover middle and low income earners’ basic expenses. Prices projected to keep rising include beef, coffee, eggs, dairy and sugar.

Trump has put Stephen Miran, a close advisor of Trump, on the Fed’s board of governors. Shocking, Miran will stays in the administration as a Trump advisor while he’s a mole on the board for the President.  Trump is also trying to fire Lisa Cook, a Biden-appointed governor, claiming that she’s committed mortgage fraud, but the Supreme stopped him until it hears the case.

And if Trump’s compliant Supreme Court majority allows him to replace Cook, he’ll hold a majority on the Fed. Then Trump won’t need to pressure anyone – he’ll make interest rate decisions himself, and inflation is sure to follow. It always has when leaders exercise control over their central banks.

President Richard Nixon pressured Fed Chair Arthur Burns to keep interest rates low going into the 1972 presidential election. The Fed succumbed, the economy had a spurt, and Nixon got reelected. Predictably, four years after his presidency, inflation rates hit 15%, and the dollar lost 12 percent of its value.

It took painful interest-rate increases under new Fed Chair Paul Volker to get the inflation under control. In 1980, Volker raised rates to a record high of 20 percent. Inflation still shot up to 11.6 percent in March. High mortgage and car loan rates made homes and cars unaffordable, curtailed consumer spending and sent the economy into a severe recession. 

Argentina’s Consumer Price Index started surging in 1946 after President Juan Peron nationalized the central bank and had the banks expand the money supply and lower rates in order to accommodate aggressive public spending. The annual inflation rate reached 18.74%. By the end of 1951, the CPI surged to 50.21%. The accumulated inflation rate in just six years reached 297.57%. Clearly, the main cause of Argentina’s hyperinflation was its central bank’s enabling of political profligacy.

In January 2007, Argentina’s President Christina Kirchner, in a striking similarity to Trump, didn’t like her experts’ consumer price index numbers. So she fired them, replaced them with political appointees and threated prosecution against independent economists who published higher CPI estimates.

Turkey’s another example. Its inflation rates have been in double digits since Trump’s authoritarian idol, President Erdogan, appointed a central bank head to lower rates. Although the bank eventually raised rates, annual price gains were still around 40% as of January 2025.

These are examples of politicians seizing control over central banks for their own political gain while their countries bore the pain of higher inflation. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told a House subcommittee, in referring to Volker’s increase of rates to stem rising inflation, . “No one wants to see that happen again”… except Trump.

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After all, Putin’s popularity only grows with his invasions. His ratings rose to 84 percent during the second war in Chechnya and to 88 percent after he annexed Crimea. Putin has called the Soviet collapse “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.”  The takeover of Venezuela has to evoke the “he-did-it-why-can’t-I” justification to invade NATO members that were formerly part of the USSR. 

Trump’s aggression could also give Xi implied permission to bully its neighbors around the South China Sea and fulfill its historic claim to Taiwan. China has already violated the Hague International Court’s order declaring than Vietnam had the legal right to drill there. But it had to back off citing doubt that America would come to its aid . There’s no doubt that Trump won’t now. 

 Both countries have been trying to carve the world up into their own spheres of influence with each ruled by a single dictator. Trump would like nothing more than to join them. He’s knowingly diminishing America’s status as a superpower and watching as  Putin and Xi supplant the US-dominated world order with one that will give them and Trump the power and leverage to write the rules and intimidate other countries. 

His intensions, if you believe what his declaration says, that “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again” portend more aggression outside U.S. borders. Moreover, Trump’s Security Strategy puts the first priority on the Western Hemisphere, which declares the Americas and their surrounding waters as Washington’s sphere of dominance.

There’s a better way to expand Washington’s sphere of dominance in Latin America. It’s by growing US trust, trade, influence and hegemony  (dominance achieved through political and economic efforts) in the region. 

Sadly, though, it’s not in Trump’s DNA. He’s much more comfortable with cruel force and pernicious power.  But the opportunity is there for a new and rational President or for Republicans with integrity and the county’s best interests at heart. 

Venezuela’s GDP has fallen by 75% in a decade. Oil production has collapsed. Public services can barely function. In seven out of 24 Venezuelan states the food insecurity rate is 99%, and only three states are lower than 90%. Around 82.4% of households live in poverty  and around 50.5% live in extreme poverty. 

So, the better solution is to employ a small Marshal Plan in Venezuela like the US did in Europe after World War II, which built economic and political stability. Given the Venezuelans’ jubilation over Maduro’s fall, the country is likely to welcome one there and cooperate.

After the devastation of Europe in World War II, the Marshall Plan generated a resurgence of European industrialization, agricultural production, brought extensive investment into the region, expanded traded, established financial stability and stimulated the U.S. economy by developing markets for American goods.

Similarly to Europe in 1948, Venezuela’s requirements for foreign food and other essential products far exceed its ability to pay for them. So the country needs significant assistance to prosper, and the US is in a position and has the opportunity to fulfill its needs … and also the needs of the greater region, which ranks as one of the most unequal regions in the world with the poorest 50 percent only holding 0.8 percent of its wealth.

A Marshal-type plan is also necessary to supplant China’s rapidly growing influence in Latin America and Russia’s military aid to Venezuela. It sent nuclear-capable bombers to Venezuela as a show of force in 2018. China ratified a “strategic partnership” with Venezuela last October to establish a platform for spreading its influence across Latin America. China also loaned more than $100 billion to the region over the last quarter-century.

But if US oil companies control  and then export Venezuela’s oil revenues instead of redirecting them back into the country, no government will be able to restore even a modicum of prosperity to the country. 

And a quick disengagement from Venezuela by the U.S. is likely to leave it fatally ungoverned, unstable, and losing people and capital. 

Tragically for Venezuela and the world’s stability, Trump is no Darth Vaderwho, after a lifetime of evil, becomes an unselfish and well-meaning.  

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The decision handed the wealthiest Americans oversized control over how America was governed and planted the seed that grew into the widest wealth spread in American history. For example, Trump’s signed into law a 4.5 trillion-dollar tax bill which provided that the country would recover the lost revenues by cutting the safety nets that lower-earners depend on, such as Medicare, Medicaid and food programs.

Disavowing 89 years of precedent, the majority labored mightily to justify its finding that corporations and Super PACs – believe it or not — “speak” when they spend money to fund political campaigns. Alas, we all thought that only humans and parrots can speak.

Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in his dissent, “The conceit that corporations must be treated identically to natural persons … is not only inaccurate but also inadequate to justify the Court’s” decision.

The majority justified its holding that corporations can speak because “they are associations of humans, which makes no sense. Corporations often contradict their human shareholders’ beliefs when they fund candidates and policies their shareholders oppose. As Justice Stevens said, “Nor does [the majority] tell us when a corporation may engage in electioneering that some of its shareholders oppose.”

Moreover, the Supreme Court previously held that state corporate law – not federal law —  a corporation’s governing structure, and ordered federal courts to defer to state law.  And it’s been that way for more than two centuries. 

When a state withholds the power to fund political campaigns, campaign funding is unauthorized and void; it doesn’t exist. So there’s nothing to protect. Federal law is mostly regulatory and prohibitory, limiting the exercise of corporate power. It does not bestow powers on  corporations.

Readers have to wonder why the majority labored so hard to reach its conclusion. One answer is that the concurrences of Justices Scalia, Thomas and Roberts, was necessary to carry the decision. Their willingness to stretch the Constitution to accommodate the Republican party was evident when they joined Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett to become the current Supreme Court majority. 

Citizens United was decided by the Republican majority and turned Republican power into law.  The decision was followed by a flood of campaign spending by corporations and Super PACs that spent $1,755 trillion on Republican campaigns in the 2024 election cycle while they spent $.787 trillion on Democratic campaigns. Moreover, two-thirds of business’s (including corporations) spending funded Republican campaigns. It worked. 90% of it went to Republican winners. 

The Court’s majority concluded that large spending on campaigns doesn’t increase corruption or cause the electorate to lose faith in our democracy.  Wrong on both counts. 66 percent of Republicans and 85 percent of Democrats back a constitutional amendment overruling Citizens United. Also, a majority of Americans (55%) consider corruption in government a major cause of their loss of trust. 

Ever since Roberts became chief justice in 2005, his main objectives have been clear: to empower corporate America and help Republicans consolidate power. It wasn’t too long before he added the priority of accommodating Trump’s march to autocracy.

Indeed, led by Roberts, the Republican Majority appears ready to transfer enormous amounts of power from Congress to the Republican President, which would brazenly violate a clear legislative prohibition as well as the Constitutions mandates for separation of powers, checks and balances and three independent branches of government.

Yes, folks. This is where we’ve come – a Supreme Court with pernicious political holdings that rival Constitutional ones, Congressional Republicans who’ve checked their spines at the Capitol doors, and a sociopathic President whose obsession with self-enrichment and self-aggrandizement precludes any focus on what’s best for America.

The only feasible solution is to replace Trump’s enslave Republicans with Republicans not afraid of him, or by Democrats. We’d relish in overdue bipartisan legislating.

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Trump claimed in his brief that countries are paying America trillions of dollars in tariffs. Of course Justices knew tariffs are not paid by the exporting countries, they’re paid by American consumers. Indeed, Chief Justice Roberts, noted that tariffs are a tax on Americans. The Justices are also aware that many countries are avoiding Trump’s tariffs by replacing America with other trading partners.

• Canada imports more cars from Mexico for the first time in three decades.China, the world’s largest soybeans buyer, hasn’t bought any soybeans  from US farmers. They’re now buying them from Brazil and Argentina. Just like in his first term, Trump will have to pay them again. India and China are restoring trade ties to avoid Trump’s tariffs. Peru switched to buying textiles and blueberries from other countries.14 countries formed a trade group that excluded America.The EU is expanding its list of trade partners to avoid Trump’s tariffs. c are joining a common market of South American countries that excludes the U.S.

In his brief, Trump referred to   trade deficits as “losses”.  The Justices know better — when businesses buy goods from foreign countries, they’re exchanging currency for something of value.

Trump told the Justices he’s made “historic deals” with several countries. At best though, Trump’s deals are frameworks for agreement that require much more detailed negotiating and may never become deals. 

The only reason Trump made those inaccurate claims to the Justices, is that Trump doesn’t think he’s lying.

Perhaps Trump’s address to the UN is the best proof that his false claims are his realities. Trump claimed, “I ended seven un-endable wars,” which “were raging, with countless thousands of people being killed.” In fact, two of the wars never existed, two more didn’t end, and the others were short, minor skirmishes in which “countless thousands of people” weren’t killed. 

Trump’s claim to the UN was made to 193 member countries and their delegates, whom Trump knew were knowledgeable about international wars. He believed he was telling the truth.

The whole world watched a mob of Trump supporters: storm the Capitol; 

injure police with bats and chemical sprays; smash windows and doors; force their way into the Capitol; vandalize congressional offices; damage and steal government property; and build gallows and chant “Hang Pence.’

Trump saw what we saw, but later described it as a day of love, said rioters were “hugging and kissing” police, “had love in their heart” and were patriots. 

It may be hard to believe, but our President  is a pathological liar  — a person who believes their lies. Trump’s National Security Adviser observed, “Trump can’t tell the difference between what’s true and what’s false ….Trump [says] what he believes ….”

 While pathological liars may be able to navigate their way through society,  

they should not be the leader of the free world. The 25^th Amendment provides for the President’s removal if he’s unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. If there were ever a need for it, it is now.

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The Democrats settled for a promise that the Senate will vote on a bill to extend the subsidies by the end of the second week of December when Speaker  The Democrats who voted with the Republicans are either stupid or have been corrupted by our Chief Corrupter, President Trump. 

Open Enrollment in ACA coverage for 2026 begins on November 1^st. The subsidies are extremely unlikely to be adopted by then, so the options that millions of Americans will be left with will require higher premiums and lower coverage.

Republicans have been trying to cut health benefits for years and currently target Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

Democrats ignored the fact that Trump’s obscene tax cuts are part of a decades-long sinister plan to increase our deficits and national debt, and create shortfalls so they can throw up their hands and lament that they have no option but to cut America’s safety nets. 

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Trump knows that his bid for the Supreme Court to let him scrap the Constitution’s right to birthright citizenship is a loser. But it’s his Trojan Horse to get the Court to limit the scope of preliminary injunctions to the parties to the litigation instead of covering every person and company in the country, as they do now.

Nationwide injunctions have stifled many of Trump’s illegal efforts through Executor Orders, such as drastically paring the government workforce, drastically cutting financial assistance for domestic programs, freezing foreign aid, and ending diversity programs. If Trump gets his way, nation-wide injunctions that block unconstitutional executive orders will have to wait until they are decided by the Supreme Court to determine if they’re enforceable nation-wide.

In the meantime, Trump can continue to enforce unconstitutional executive orders for as long as it takes to get a Supreme Court decision. For example, if a lower court enjoins Trump from enforcing an order to jail journalists who oppose him as a violation of the 1^st Amendment, the case must be decided by the Supreme Court before we know if the order can apply nation-wide.

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court has a track record of delaying decisions to protect Trump. For example, the Court’s conservative majority delayed his criminal trials until after the 2024 election. By contrast, it took the Court just 16 days to decide Nixon wasn’t immune from prosecution and one day to make Republican George W. Bush President in his legal contest with Al Gore. 

The results of limiting the scope of injunctions, as Trump is asking the Supreme Court to do, seems unworkable. First, it will give Trump the choice of where to and, more importantly, where not to enforce his unconstitutional executive orders. That will open the door to requiring donations to his campaign to accommodate the interests of different parties, such as universities with large  international student bodies, who pay higher tuitions than U.S. citizens.

Immigrants, especially pregnant immigrants, will rush to locations where Trump hasn’t challenged preliminary injunctions or where courts have issued injunctions that apply only to litigants or in their districts.  For instance, a group of blue states challenging Trump’s birthright citizenship order win an injunction blocking the order in their states while it remains in place in other states.

There’s reason to worry, however, that the Supreme Court’s favoring of Trump will continue. Although it recently blocked Trump from using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged gang members to a notorious Salvadoran prison without due process, it chose not to decide whether the 1798 law was applicable.

The 1798 Alien Enemies Act allows the president to skip the usual immigration court process to detain and deport anyone age 14 or older from a “hostile nation or government” when “there is a declared war” or when a “foreign nation” threatens “invasion or predatory incursion” against the United States. The law has been used only three times: during the War of 1812 and World Wars I and II – each time satisfying the law’s requirement that a war had been declared.

Trump bizarrely maintains that we are being invaded by Nicaraguan gangs. The Supreme Court could have taken judicial notice (a legal principle that allows a court to acknowledge a fact without requiring proof) of the falsity of Trump’s claim. Had the Justices held that the1798 law was inapplicable, all Trump’s offensive orders would be declared unconstitutional across the entire country.

Also, it seems that chaos is acceptable to Justices Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch when it benefits Donald Trump. For example, the Supreme Court unanimously put Trump back on the Colorado ballot holding that different ballots in different states at different times could nullify the votes of millions and change the results of elections. The Court unanimously held, “Nothing in the Constitution requires that we endure such chaos.”

Yet Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch seem to be willing to tolerate the chaos that attends limited injunctions. They’ve gone public about their preference to limit nationwide injunctions to litigants and to the judges districts even though it would result in chaos. They joined a Gorsuch opinion, warning that “lower courts would be wise to heed that retiring the universal injunction … will lead federal courts to become a little truer to the historic limits of their office, and promote more thoughtful rulings.”

There’s more reason to worry. The Supreme Court let the Trump administration remove, pending appeal, protections from nearly 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants who had been allowed to remain in the United States without risk of deportation under an Obama program. The decision affects the many Venezuelans currently living in the United States legally under the Biden program.

Sadly, the Supreme Court has, for now, evaded its obligation to defend the Constitution’s core mandate of three co-equal, independent branches of government. It could allow courts to hold Trump and his enablers in contempt for violating their orders and prosecute them with an attorney outside the Execute branch.

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Trump’s behavior illustrates his condition. He’s defied six court orders, including the Supreme Court’s. One was needed to restart billions in foreign aid he froze, even though it spreads America’s influence and military might around the world, including the countries installation military bases. Trump’s freeze is enabling China’s and Russia’s military advancements beyond ours. Moreover, foreign aid seeds foreign industries that buy U.S goods. For 10 years, major recipients of U.S. aid were responsible for two-thirds of the growth in U.S. exports.

Trump demonstrated his inability to feel guilt, shame or empathy when he cancelled most of our foreign medical aid, risking hundreds of thousands of deaths and serious diseases worldwide. He also paused all domestic assistance for education, health care, anti-poverty programs, disaster relief, medical research, and prevention of animal cruelty.

His inability to consider the consequences of his decisions is manifest in his most destructive tariffs since President Hoover’s, which extended the Great Depression by a decade.  The tariffs boosted the probability of a global recession to 60%. Worse, Trump could mismanage it into a depression. It was international cooperation that prevented the Great Recession of 2008 from becoming another depression. There will be no international cooperation this time. Trump’s alienation of our trading partners and his obsessive allegiance to Putin that threatens all of Europe has trashed our allies’ trust in America’s government. The cooperation he’ll sorely need in a financial downturn won’t be there.

Moreover, Trump’s cabinet will be useless — they are like school children planning mischief compared to what will be needed, and they’re there only to cheer on his misguided decisions. But don’t worry about Trump. He’s eliminating the anti-corruption guardrails to create  the perfect environment for graft, self-dealing and lucrative influence-peddling. He’ll be fine.

The most compelling proof of his focus away from what’s best for America is his appointment of the most unqualified and dangerous cabinet in our history which threatens America with disease and death (see video), diminished our military prowess, a politicized FBI (see video), intelligence that accommodates Putin and the prosecution of officials who did their job for the country.

So, why are Republicans waiting to impeach and convict Trump? If it’s to keep their seats, they will most likely lose them to a Democratic in the next election or to a primary challenger whose not a Trump devotee.

Why is the Supreme Court is dragging its feet instead of allowing lower courts to hold Trump and his enablers for civil contempt (which the president can’t pardon) and jailing him until he complies with their  orders. It’s time to stop Trump’s delay tactics that the Supreme Court accommodated to save him from multiple criminal trails.

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