Hey Donald Trump, get off the stage, you idiot
“President” Donald Trump has an affinity for dictators and seems to respect and look up to them, dismissing any whiff of the bad things they have done. But his favorite of all appears to be Vladimir Putin and Russia. During the campaign and apparently since, Trump and his campaign team and others have “coincidentally” met dozens of times with various Russians. Investigations have continued in full force in various jurisdictions.
Recall back in July 2016, when then candidate Trump stated: “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”Trump is now claiming he was only joking, despite another “coincidence” where Russian hackers started targeting those emails in earnest.
Trump said today: “Because with the fake news, if you tell a joke, if you’re sarcastic, if you’re having fun with the audience … if you say something like, Russia, please if you can, get us Hillary Clinton’s emails. Please, Russia, please. Please, get us the emails, please. So everybody is having a good time, I’m laughing, we’re all having fun. Then that fake CNN and others say, ‘He asked Russia to go get the emails. Horrible.’ These people are sick, and I’m telling you, they know the game and they play it dirty, dirtier than anybody has ever played the game.”
We, the United States of America, are sick. We are sick and tired of being lied to by Donald Trump. He is being outed today for having lied about the end of the North Korea summit and what Kim offered or asked for that caused the end. And in another “coincidence,” Sergei Lavrov was in Vietnam during the summit. Did Trump or others from the United States meet with Lavrov?
What we do know is Trump’s BFF and puppetmaster, Putin, suggested an end to the military exercises with South Korea. Lo and behold, Trump and his administration have announced an end to such exercises. Trump wants everyone to believe that Michael Cohen is not believable, but that Trump and his family and friends are. Nothing could be further from the truth, and his lies are all fun and games until we as Americans get hurt – and we are being hurt.
Daniel is a lawyer writing and teaching about SCOTUS, and is the author of the book “The Chief Justices” about the SCOTUS as seen through the center seat.