What’s sadder and more horrific than the “Border Trail of Tears”?   Where ICE gestapo troopers rip children from their parent’s arms and place them in separate internment camps, even “Tender Age” camps for babies!  For those who have never seen the movie: Sophie’s Choice — rent it.  In Nazi-occupied territory, Sophie has to choose which child to give to the Nazis; she got to keep one, for awhile.  Children being loaded on train-cars to be shipped somewhere, reminds me of  Nazi Germany,  where — men, women and children were loaded on train-cars and shipped to death camps.  ICE officials supposedly told children they were going to get baths — in order to separate them willingly from their parents; it was a trick.  Reminds me of Jews, led into gas chambers, having been told they were showers. Our country is becoming increasingly authoritarian under Trumpian ideals.  He recently tweeted, “Democrats are the problem.  They don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our country, like MS-13.  They can’t win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters!”  He is constantly spewing his hateful propaganda.  The MS-13 gang started in Korea-town, in LA, USA.  And Democrats are in the minority in the House and Senate; Dems are not calling the shots in Congress.   People are pouring across our borders to flee violence and certain death in El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, the Congo, elsewhere.  What can the international community do about these situations?  What global fixes can we employ, without creating further devastation? In 1883, American-born Emma Lazarus wrote the sonnet, engraved on the Statue of Liberty, also known as the Mother of Exiles:  “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.  Send these, the homeless, the tempest-tossed to me,  I left my lamp beside the golden door”.   This was the ideal for America; we are a nation of immigrants.  I ask all the Pro-Life people to have compassion for the world’s children.  And more biblical than obeying man-made laws is obeying God’s Word.  Isaiah 43: “Fear not for I am with thee. I will bring thy seed from the east and gather thee from the west”.  Exodus 23:9 “Do not oppress a foreigner, because you were foreigners”.   And Jesus beseeched us, “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God”.

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Before his tardy-entry at G7 Quebec meeting, Trump told the press that he feels that Russia should be allowed back in to ‘what was G8’.  After insulting our allies with his ‘my way or the highway’ tariff plans, Trump departed early.   Trudeau/Macron hinted that the Summit might become G6, was definitely not interested in letting Putin back in.  At the summit’s close, Trudeau announced that “the leaders had managed to agree on a statement highlighting the importance of free, fair and mutually beneficial trade and investment and to continue to fight protectionism”.  Trump, hearing the announcement on Air Force 1, tweeted that he withdrew his endorsement of the summit communique, stating Trudeau “is dishonest and weak”!   Trudeau responded, “We Canadians are polite and reasonable, but we will not be pushed around”, and stated they would move forward with retaliatory measures.

A spokesman for Trudeau called Trump “a pathetic, little man-child”.  Trump’s  trade advisor Peter Navarro said, “there’s a special place in hell for weak, dishonest Trudeau …. trying to stab Trump in the back”.  Trump “told Macron that the EU is worse than China” on trade!  John McCain tweeted, “To our allies: bipartisan majorities of Americans remain pro-free trade, pro-globalization & supportive of alliances based on 70 years of shared values.  Americans stand with you (allies), even if our president doesn’t”.

Trump must feel that Kim Jong Un will respect his tough stances with our supposed allies, but he always goes back on his words.  Lindsey Graham was shown on television Sunday, asking Dems to back an “authorization of force against North Korea and China, in case the (Trump-Kim) talks fail”.  Rand Paul told Wolf Blitzer, “Lindsey Graham is a danger to the country by even proposing ideas like authorizing war with North Korea; he believes war is always the answer and that also means that expenditures for war are always the answer, and I think that’s bankrupting our country”.  This was the day before the Trump-Kim nuclear summit.

“Two liars walked into a room” …. who besides the totally brain-washed are going to believe anything that is said about this meeting?   Some Republicans are very upset about the proposed tariffs, which aren’t going to be positive for our country.  What are they going to do?   My favorite ‘recovering republican’ Steve Schmidt said, “The Republican majority is filled with cowards who are servile supplicants to the most unfit POTUS ever!”

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“President Trump could have shot Comey, and not be indicted”, said Rudolf Giuliani; and  “Trump could self-pardon, but would lead probably to an immediate impeachment.  The president can terminate any investigation, whenever”.  Donald Trump said, “As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to pardon myself, but why would I do that, when I have done nothing wrong?  In the meantime, the never-ending Witch Hunt, led by 13 very Angry and Conflicted Democrats (& others) continues into the midterms!”  And added falsely, “the appointment of the ‘Special Councel’ is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL!    White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders repeated nearly a dozen times in one briefing, “The president has done NOTHING WRONG!”

We are everyday drawing closer toward a constitutional crises, which I believe the Trump lawyers are trying to push forward now .… before the fall elections.  They are ‘banking on’ the majority in THIS House and Senate finding Trump ‘not guilty’ on any articles of impeachment drawn up against him, which would also be under the purview of Congress.   The Supreme Court could be called upon to decide some factors regarding pardon powers, but “PARDONS ARE FOR CRIMINALS!”

Giuliani is continually stirring up the muck, purposely trying to muddy the waters, especially for the Trump base and the low-information crowd.    Many folks weren’t around 45 years ago to actually hear and remember how President Richard Nixon made some similar announcements saying, “if the president does IT (whatever), that means IT is not illegal”.   He obstructed justice by bribing some people and having others fired, namely special prosecutor, Archibald Cox.   Jill Wine-banks said, “If Trump is above the law, you have a dictatorship”.  The Democrats warn Trump, “You are not a king!”   In the beginnings of our democracy, we had (those constructing it) the Patriots vs the Loyalists, those loyal to the Crown.  Today the fight is between the patriots (those loyal to the Constitution) and the loyalists (those loyal to Donald Trump).

Giuliana stated, “Our recollection keeps changing; this is the reason you don’t let this president testify”.   Some note that “recollections are either accurately or inaccurately” declared.   How would this all go over with our citizenry, if a mobster under investigation publicly mused about shooting or killing a former FBI Director?   How WILL they feel about a corrupt, ruthless, “mobbed-up” president, who colluded with Russian mobsters to highjack and plunder our Democracy and our country?

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Byron York recently dismissed the importance of the “first” Trump Tower meeting stating, “unless some startling new evidence appears, the notorious Trump Tower meeting seems more like a clumsy attempt to interfere with a presidential election”. Startling new evidence was revealed on March 20th; we learned of a July 2016 Trump Tower meeting, arranged by Erik Prince, (founder of Blackwater, his private military company, now known as Academi)  for Donald Trump Jr, who met with George Nader, a gulf emissary for United Arab Emirates and Saudi crown princes, and Joel Zamel, Israeli expert in social media manipulation, who Nader supposedly paid $2 million to pitch a presentation showing how effective his marketing plan could be to influence the election.  “It is illegal for foreign governments or individuals to be involved in American elections.”  Nader is cooperating in the Mueller investigation . There are a multiplicity of sins to be discovered, and most will be.

There was the April 2017 meeting between convicted felon, Charles Kushner, Jared’s father and the Qatari finance minister in an attempt to secure investment for the financially troubled Kushner property, 666 Fifth Ave, Manhattan.  Qatar refused to invest in Kushner’s firm, then in June 2017 the White House supported a blockade of Qatar organized by Saudi Arabia, whom Trump and Kushner are strongly allied with.  Qatar is a sovereign country that hosts the biggest U.S. military base in the Middle East, and is strategically important to us.  Qatar is the world’s third largest producer of natural gas, and shares the huge North Gas Field with Iran.  “The U.S. wants to secure geopolitical control over Qatar’s gas reserves.  Russia’s geopolitical control  over gas pipelines going to Europe has been reinforced as a result of the blockade”, which continues, but there might be a resolution soon.   A deal is in the making for Charles Kushner to sell that property on which he owes $1.2 billion — to “Brookfield, a publicly traded company, headquartered in Canada, one of whose major investors is the Qatar Investment Authority.”

Whenever you think “it’s” NOT about money and oil, you’re wrong!  Fortunes are made and lost in wargames.  Israel and the Saudis are worried about Iran’s growing power.  The U.S. seeks to weaken Qatar’s relationship with Iran.  I expect THAT war to break out before the year is up.   Republican Jeff Flake recently said that “America’s biggest enemies doing the worst … couldn’t hurt us more than we are hurting ourselves”.

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“I was born in a crossfire hurricane”, (lyrics from a 1968 Rolling Stones song); ‘crossfire hurricane’ adopted as secret code name by FBI agents for the origins of an investigation into possible collusion of the Trump campaign with Russians seeking to influence our 2016 election.  Two FBI agents were sent to London, July 2016 — before Trump won the election — to investigate information Australian ambassador, Alexander Downer, claimed to have on the campaign due to his interaction with George Papadopoulos, who was later indicted and accepted a guilty plea.

If you think there’s bigger wrongdoing than local law enforcement can handle, or they might be involved in, call the Federal Bureau of Investigations.  News Flash — the FBI investigates potential criminal activity.  Some investigations are short, some lengthy, depending on complexity of issues and number of actors.  Some agents actually investigate under-cover; they are NOT spies, they are law enforcement officials under the auspices of the Department of Justice.  They are NOT ‘storm-troopers’ (Nazi foot-soldiers) as Rudolf Giuliani described them!

There are so many parallels between Richard Nixon’s administration and that of Donald Trump.  Nixon would have been impeached, had he not resigned, for obstruction of justice and especially for using the office of the presidency to punish or ruin his political enemies.  Thanks to John Dean we learned of Nixon’s long ‘enemies list’ and his attempted use of the IRS and FBI to attack those on his list.  The American people had no idea, before the Watergate hearings, how corrupt President Nixon was; even his staunch supporters realized that he had to resign or be impeached.  Most Americans aren’t as naïve as we were back in the early seventies.  Nixon would have loved to have had Sinclair Broadcasting, right-wing talk-radio programs, and Fox ‘News’, which did not come into existence until legislation under President Reagan allowed less stringent truth in broadcasting standards.

Trump’s pushing the Postmaster General to double the postage rate on Amazon, with whom they have a contract — to attack Amazon owner, Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post, gives cause for another article of impeachment; further proved by Trump’s tweets showing himself to be an enemy of Bezos.

Four signs of an autocratic leader:  1. politicizes independent institutions (like FBI & DOJ);  2. uses disinformation to confuse the populace;  3. eliminates checks that would hold the executive accountable;  4. trying to corrupt elections.   Trump has done them all.   DEPLORABLE!

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