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| Misanthropic Boomer |
On January 13,1898, Emile Zola’s open letter to Felix Faure, President of the French Republic was published on the front page of the Paris daily, L’Aurore. Zola’s missive to Faure accused him, and the entire nation of anti-Semitism as demonstrated by the false conviction and exile to Devil’s Island, off the coast of French Guiana, of Captain Alfred Dreyfus for treason against the French Republic. With deeply felt apologies to Emile Zola, I say to President Donald John Trump, “J’Accuse.”
President Trump, you have presided over the near destruction of the Federal Republic, The United States of America. The calumny began as soon as you were sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. Your first act as president was to ignore the intelligence community professionals when advised of Russia’s interference in the nation’s recent election, which put you in office. Your refusal to accept these facts further led to the refusal to do anything of a positive nature to prevent such interference in future elections.
President Trump, you then went on to suggest lifting sanctions the U.S. government had placed upon Russia for this and other encroachments into the body politic worldwide. This then was compounded by your taking the word of Vladimir Putin over your own intelligence professionals on multiple occasions: additionally you insulted the nation when you held closed door meetings with Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister and Sergey Kislyak, Russian Ambassador to the United States. Interestingly enough, no members of the American press were allowed to attend: the photographic evidence of the meeting was provided by the Russian press. Then, as if to rub the nation’s nose in it, you went on to have a closed door meeting with Vladimir Putin, of which no transcript apparently exists. To this day your lack of candor is, shall we say, somewhat mystifying.
These actions were followed by a war of words with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un that ultimately led to your performing a political one hundred eighty degree turn and visit with Kim. During this time you spoke obsequiously, in glowing terms of your admiration for this madman who murders family members, and anyone else he perceives to be a threat to his total tyrannical control of North Korea.
The ultimate outcome of these meetings was a diplomatic embarrassment. In exchange for your conceding to the cancellation of the annual joint strategic military maneuvers with South Korea and Japan you got us NOTHING...no quid pro quo (that Latin phrase shows up later as well). You did, however, succeed in elevating North Korea’s bargaining position on the world’s stage. We received nothing in return except your worthless word that Kim would cease nuclear development and testing...this Kim vehemently denied. Development and testing continue.
President Trump, you have cozied up to Russian Oligarchs, and oppressive dictators the world over; doling out praise to the likes of Venezuela’s Madura, China’’s President for Life Ping, your good friend, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and of course the aforementioned Kim. But you’ve gone further than mere praise. As previously mentioned you publicly fawned over Kim Jong Un and made North Korea a nuclear player.
Speaking of players in nuclear roulette, you also unwisely pulled out of the non-nuclear research and proliferation treaty with Iran; putting the entire planet in danger. In addition, although you talked a good game, you basically stood idle while Putin continued to bully the Ukraine. Let us not forget that you also attempted to bully the Ukraine by illegally withholding monies allocated to the defense of the Ukraine against Russia. You did this in order to get the President of the Ukraine to publicly announce his intention to investigate your political rival...the quid pro quo you would release money allocated for Ukraine’s defense. Money which was provided by the United States Congress. Money which you had no right or authorization to withhold. The ultimate result of your attempted Blackmail was Impeachment. This unfortunately led to a sham Senate trial and acquittal.
The sham trial was presided over by perhaps the weakest, most transparently partisan Chief Justice in United States Supreme Court history, John Roberts. Compounding the mockery of the Impeachment proceedings were the positions taken by Majority Leader McConnell and the rest of the Republican Senators, who publicly exonerated you before ever there was a trial. McConnell should, at the very least be charged with obstruction of justice for telling the world prior to the trial that he would work with White House lawyers to see that you were found not guilty....even though he, along with his fellows swore an oath of impartiality prior to the actual trial proceedings.
Although this missive is directed at you and your failures President Trump, I would at this juncture be remiss if I ignored the complicit behavior of Senate Leader McConnell and his Republican cohorts in the Senate. As you, and everyone else knows, our government was established as a tripartite system to ensure that the Madisonian “Checks and Balances” keep the nation on an even keel and prevent the dictatorial events such as you have affected during your lackluster term. Without the virtually unexplainable support of the Republican controlled Senate the ignominy that is your time in office would never have been allowed. These men and women are nearly as guilty of damage to the Republic as are you. I could speculate why they have supported a tyrant in the making, but their egregious behavior is more difficult to understand and explain than your own outright sociopathic actions as President of these United States.
Finally, there is the current situation with the Coronavirus. You could not have done more to send the nation on the path to Dystopia had you openly tried. Your cowardice and inability to stand up like a man and take responsibility for your poor decisions are killing not only far too many of our citizens, but you are using the pandemic to attempt to destroy what is left of the nation following three years of deceit, avarice, and traitorous activities all designed to benefit not the nation, but rather yourself.
Because mendacity is the only real skill you possess you have used lies to respond to the people of the nation about the pandemic and all of its’ aspects. Your lies are, as I said killing us and yet even still you refuse the truth as an alternative; an alternative that might help the nation to survive. At this point your only thought is how you can exploit the virus and use it to get yourself re-elected.
Following is a partial list of your Coronavirus statements and activities:
Jan 8th - First CDC warning
Jan 20th - first case of corona virus in the US, Washington State.
Jan 22nd - “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
Feb 2nd - “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."
Feb 24th - “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Feb 25h - “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
Feb 25h - “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
Feb 26th - “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
Feb 26th - “We're going very substantially down, not up.” Also "This is a flu. This is like a flu"; "Now, you treat this like a flu"; "It's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner."
February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
Feb 28th - “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”
March 2nd - “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
March 2nd - “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
March 5th - “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
March 5th - “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”
March 6th - “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
March 6th - “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”
March 6th - “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”
March 6th - “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”
March 8th - “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”
March 9th - “This blindsided the world.”
March 13th - [Declared state of emergency]
March 17th - “This is a pandemic,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
March 18th - "It’s not racist at all. No. Not at all. It comes from China. That’s why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate."
March 23th- Dow Jones closes at 18,591.93
March 25th - 3.3 million Americans file for unemployment.
March 30th - Dow Jones closes at 21,917.16
April 2nd - 6.6 million Americans file for unemployment.
At that point in time the repetition of your lies became so stultifying that there is no point in further listing them except to say that your inability to be honest and forthright has put our nation in the position of being the COVID-19 world epicenter. Your last, best effort to deal with COVID-19 is to unsurprisingly, look for someone to blame: targeting China.
President Trump, finding someone at whom you can point the finger will not solve the problem. Regardless of where the virus originated, or when, the destruction it is causing in the nation is your responsibility. It is you that said we were on top of this when we clearly are not. It was you who maintained that testing is available to every citizen when it clearly isn’t. And, it is you who propose lifting the restrictions placed upon us by the virus at a time when it is obvious that the virus doesn’t care any more about the American People than you do.
President Harry Truman was very fond of the phrase, “The buck stops here,” meaning the president must take ultimate responsibility for decisions both made, and ignored. It is way past time for you to take Harry Truman’s words to heart. Admit your incompetence and step down...resign and take Vice President Michael Pence with you.
Once again, “J’accuse.”
