For the first time in his life, rich white spoiled New York brat Donald Trump can’t shoot off his mouth- will he shit his pants, go batshit crazy, explode in the Manhattan courtroom?

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    Raised with a silver spoon in my mouth, I have an insider perspective of rich white spoiled brats.

    Yesterday, I told my friend Bob, who does the tech work for my books at the free internet library, archive.org, that Donald Trump’s criminal fraud trial in New York state court in Manhattan is the first time in his life that he has not been in control. 

    He is in a pressure cooker, in his home state, where he is well known.

    The pressure is building. 

    Will he shit his pants?

"Oh my God, Trump just shit his pants"

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CFf2cCWF1Ih/?hl=en

"Mister Trump and his diaper problems"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnK164efOB0

    Will he explode?

    Photos cannot be taken in New York courts. 

    I saw on TV news last night that Trump complained about the sketch artist.

    This in my Apple Newsfeed this morning is followed by my former federal judge law clerk and practicing attorney rumination:

Trump was unhinged during first week of hush money trial. He'll only get weirder.

REX HUPPKE | USA TODAY  

Updated 4:00 am EDT Apr. 21, 2024

Courtroom sketch artists are our gateway into Donald Trump’s New York trial

Courtroom sketch artists are our gateway into Donald Trump’s New York trial With cameras banned in New York courtrooms, sketch artists are providing America with a glimpse into the first e...

For perhaps the first time in his life, Donald Trump had to spend a week shutting up.

There was one place he had to be – a Manhattan criminal courtroom – and he couldn’t come and go as he pleased. He couldn’t talk. He couldn’t send inflammatory social media posts from his phone. 

He just had to sit there and listen as “the people of the state of New York vs. Donald J. Trump” began and jurors were selected to decide whether the former president falsified business records as part of a scheme to silence a former adult-film star and influence the 2016 presidential election.  

Tough-guy Trump sure did a lot of bellyaching his first week on trial

Trump was clearly shocked to learn standing trial on criminal charges comes with certain inconveniences. 

He griped outside the courtroom. He whined on social media in the evenings. He reportedly dozed off several times during the proceedings, a sign the stress of the trial might be keeping him up at night.  

As the avatar of a purportedly tough political party that labels liberals “snowflakes,” Trump seemed less John Wayne and more “Ross from ‘Friends.’ ”

If Trump seemed bananas during jury selection, wait until opening arguments. 

By the end of the week, a full jury along with alternates had been seated, so opening arguments are expected to begin Monday. 

And Trump will again have to be there. He’ll have to be in that courtroom every day of the trial because that’s how it works when you’re the defendant in a criminal case in Manhattan. 

Trump didn’t want to be there, he should’ve thought twice about paying $130,000 to Stormy Daniels, according to his former attorney Michael Cohen, along with several other alleged actions that led to his 34-count indictment. An excellent way to stay out of a courtroom is to not engage in dodgy behavior.

But what’s done is done. 

Trump lied about not being able to attend his son's graduation 

Trump got the ball rolling by lying to his followers and saying Judge Juan Merchan was forbidding him from attending his son Barron’s high school graduation next month. That is false. The judge said he would have to see how the trial is going at that point and will rule on it closer to the date.

But Trump moaned on social media: “Who will explain for me, to my wonderful son, Barron, who is a GREAT Student at a fantastic School, that his Dad will likely not be allowed to attend his Graduation Ceremony, something that we have been talking about for years, because a seriously Conflicted and Corrupt New York State Judge wants me in Criminal Court on a bogus 'Biden Case' which, according to virtually all Legal Scholars and Pundits, has no merit, and should NEVER have been brought.” 

I’d be happy to explain it: “Barron, your father is on trial and accused of attempting to silence an adult-film star he allegedly had an affair with shortly after you were born and hid potentially scandalous information from voters before the 2016 election. The judge will decide closer to your graduation date if your father can attend.”

Easy peasy! 

He made up images of himself bursting out of the courtroom in a rage. 

 Beyond that, Trump hurled inflammatory Truth Social posts calling the whole trial “a SCAM brought about by a Corrupt District Attorney” and the judge and prosecutors “Nasty, Crooked People.” 

 

“I JUST STORMED OUT OF COURT!” (he hadn’t) and made up nonsense about the jury selection process to make himself seem like a victim, posting: “I thought STRIKES were supposed to be ‘unlimited’ when we were picking our jury? I was then told we only had 10.”

Each side is allowed to strike 10 jurors without providing a reason. That’s standard and has never changed.

Trump also potentially violated his gag order by sharing the following quote from Fox News host Jesse Watters on his Truth Social page: “‘They are catching undercover Liberal Activists lying to the Judge in order to get on the Trump Jury,’ Jesse Watters.”

That is, of course, nonsense.

And then there was that weird bit about Jimmy Kimmel ...

And while all of the above is amply nutso, at no point last week did the cheese seem to slip off Trump’s cracker more than in this bizarro-world Wednesday night post about late-night host Jimmy Kimmel:

“Stupid Jimmy Kimmel, who still hasn’t recovered from his horrendous performance and big ratings drop as Host of The Academy Awards, especially when he showed he suffered from TDS, commonly known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, to the entire World by reading on air my TRUTH about how bad a job he was doing that night, right before he stumbled through announcing the biggest award of all, ‘Picture of the Year.’ It was a CLASSIC CHOKE, one of the biggest ever in show business, and to top it off, he forgot to say the famous and mandatory line, ‘AND THE WINNER IS.’ Instead he stammered around as he opened the envelope. Supposedly his wife, and even management, begged him not to do it, ‘DON’T READ HIS TRUTH, JIMMY, PLEASE DON’T DO THIS,’ they said. He was made to look like a FOOL, which he is, and at the same time go down in Television History as the WORST HOST EVER OF THE ONCE VAUNTED ACADEMY AWARDS!” 

First off, Trump was confusing Kimmel with Al Pacino, the actor who handed out the best picture award. But more importantly: WOW! That’s your presidential nominee, Republicans. He’s on trial, he’s unhinged and he’s coming unglued.

If the past week was any indication, America is going to swiftly run out of synonyms for “bonkers.”

Follow USA TODAY columnist Rex Huppke on X, formerly Twitter, @RexHuppke and Facebook facebook.com/RexIsAJerk   

 

    After graduating from the University of Alabama School of law in 1968, I clerked for a federal judge in Birmingham, Alabama, who presided over every federal prosecution in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. I watched many federal prosecutions and sat in my judge's chambers listening to him, prosecutors and defense lawyers discuss jury trials over which he presided. 

    If Trump’s lawyers are worth their salt, they told him that he has to speak only to them in court. They told him not to violate the judge’s gag order: that he not intimidate or threaten witnesses, jurors, prosecutors and their staff and their families, and the judge and his staff and their families.

    If Trump's lawyers are worth their salt, they told him if he ignores the judge’s gag order, the judge can hold him in contempt and put him in jail until he agrees to behave. They told him, if the judge lets him out of jail and back in the courtroom, and he violates the gag order again, the judge can put him in jail and keep him there until hell freezes over.

    Along the way, the 12 seated jurors and 6 alternate jurors will watch Trump very closely in the courtroom. Juries do that. They size up the accused. They size up the accused’s lawyers. They size up the prosecutors. They size up the judge. They size up the witnesses.

    After all the evidence is in, the jury hears the prosecutors and the defense attorneys’ closing arguments. The jury is instructed by the judge on the law. The jury retires and deliberates and decides the defendant’s fate. 

    The verdict for conviction must be unanimous. One juror against conviction can hang a jury. If the jury hangs, the prosecutor has to decide whether to retry the defendant or move on to something else.

    Two of the twelve seated jurors are lawyers. 

    In my experience, lawyers routinely were stuck from juries by one side or the other. That there are two lawyers on this jury is unprecedented, cosmic even. I think the lay jurors will rely heavily on the two lawyer jurors to understand what the law is, and the lay jurors will rely on themselves to decide what the facts are.

    If the jury acquits or hangs, Trump wins- if he has not shit his pants, gone stark raving mad, had a fatal or disabling heart attack, stroke, etc.

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com

America can sink Saudi Arabia, oil cartels, Russia and Telsa, and help Earth live longer, by letting auto and truck manufacturers use patented tech that converts water into super cheap hydogen fuel

    Yesterday, another old codger I got to know somewhat online hauled a humongous American skeleton back out of its untidy closet, and I ruminated on my own personal and impersonal experiences with it.

My Two Senses

What Bob Graham Knew…

OL’ FLAWRIDUH CRACKER

APR 19, 2024

Over the years I have followed much of what this great solon was trying to have us understand about the truth of 9/11.

Serving as both Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and the 9/11 Commission Hearings Bob Graham was privy to information and national secrets that perhaps less than 100 Americans were aware of. Graham was filled with internal conflict in telling what he knew about 9/11. 

Graham was a man who wanted to believe in the nation he served. He assumed his mission within the Senate to protect the United States from enemies foreign and domestic with all the dedication and effort required, but over time it became clear that his briefings were not about the truth, in fact he was being gaslighted, lied to and treated like a useful idiot by the Bush administration and their allies in the Saudi Royal family.

Imagine yourself sitting in a hardened secret facility in the Capital designed for communications of the upmost secrecy. Information of such sensitivity that it could not be transmitted other than by person to person. In briefings in the tense days following 9/11 you are being told things such as Saddam Hussein being prepared to ignite a nuclear device off the coast of the United States. In hearing that, Graham asked the intelligence expert if this was solid and verified information. The response was an unequivocal yes.

In the rear view mirror of history we now know that there was no plan of this kind nor were there any WMDs be they nuclear, biological or chemical* that were in production or stockpiled for use against the U.S. or our armed forces in the region.

According to a Washington Post Poll in 2003:

Sixty-nine percent of Americans said they thought it at least likely that Hussein was involved in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, according to the latest Washington Post poll. That impression, which exists despite the fact that the hijackers were mostly Saudi nationals acting for al Qaeda, is broadly shared by Democrats, Republicans and independents.

According to a Pew Research Paper from 2023: Looking Back:

In the months leading up to the war, sizable majorities of Americans believed that Iraq either possessed WMD or was close to obtaining them, that Iraq was closely tied to terrorism – and even that Hussein himself had a role in the 9/11 attacks. Two decades after the war began, a review of Pew Research Center surveys on the war in Iraq shows that support for U.S. military action was built, at least in part, on a foundation of falsehoods.

The Brookings Education Institute: 9/11 and Iraq: The making of a tragedy

President George W. Bush was obsessed with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and deliberately misled the American people about who was responsible for the 9/11 attack.

Graham found the courage to find a way to  share how members of the Bush White House had lied to him and by extension the American people. The array of false pretense included not only the run-up to the Iraq invasion, but perhaps more importantly insight on who actually planned and supported the 9/11 Attack on the WTC and the Pentagon. 

While we know that Saddam and his government had nothing to do with it, including any collusion with Osama Bin Laden or the Taliban, it is still likely that most Americans believe Hussein and Iraq perpetrated the 9/11 attacks.

Graham  knew that using Saddam as a scapegoat gave cover the real culprits. The actual plotters and planners were in fact religious Muslim zealots of the Wahhabi sect within the Saudi Royal Family. Wahhabism is virtually the state religion of the Saudi Royal Family and  we can assume that the plot was hardly the work of a lone wolf within that sect.

By way of a quick background: Wahhabism is  to Islam what Evangelical Dominionist  belief is to Christianity. Both are fundamentalists and literalist, seeking dominion over the world’s religions. Both are misogynistic and both contend that violence in “protection” of the belief, especially against apostates, heretics and blasphemers is justifiable and sanctioned by Allah; or Jesus as the case may be. Both sects also dedicate huge amounts pf money to increase the number of indoctrinated followers. In the case of the Saudis this is facilitated by creating Madrassas which are religious training schools throughout the Middle East, to insure that the young receive the proper doctrinal education. There are no other subjects taught in Madrassas.

In considering the truth about the 9/11 attack Graham became all too familiar with the sway that the Saudi Royal family held over the the relationship that the Bush family (George Senior and Junior) both had with one  Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who served as the Saudi ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005, “Bandar Bush” as he was affectionately known by the Bush clan was particularly close to George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and considered an extended member of the family. Bandar often stayed at the Bush Texas Compound.

Less well known is that Bandar was also head of Saudi Intelligence for over 20 years prior to becoming ambassador to the United States. That a foreign national with the vitae of Bandar was treated like an extended family member did not seem to trouble many Americans. Nor did the fact that after the 9/11 attack Bandar and several members of the bin Laden family were allowed to take special flights out of the United States under what is known as Operation Yellow Ribbon.

Graham was neither a religious bigot or zealot, but he had every right to be concerned in thinking about the ties between Saudis like Bandar, Wahhabi ideology and it’s dominant influence on the Saudi kingdom leading to 9/11. Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi Nationals.

It’s a shame that Graham never was able to expose the real story and who plotted the attacks. He was in a situation that by its nature was fraught with horrible choices to consider.

Nonetheless, we as a nation owe a deep thanks to a man who did what he could to serve the nation and its people in the best ways he could.

In conclusion we clearly owe a debt to the memory of Bob Graham for trying to enlighten us. Yet even if he had, the deeper question is what would have happened if he had proven that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, not Saddam Hussein was the instigator. 

 

Sloan Bashinsky

So, what did Bob Graham actually know?

How was the third building that came down on 9/11 ever explained?

3 nights before 9/11, a familiar voice asked me in my sleep, “Will you make a prayer for a Divine Intervention for all of humanity?” I woke up, wondered what that was about? I made the prayer. On 9/11, my concern was America would get into another foreign war like the one in Vietnam, which it could not win. It did not occur to me that America would get into two such wars.

About a week after 9/11, as I walked out of a U.S. Post Office, the same voice told me, “America needs to get out of the Middle East altogether and let Islam and Israel work it out or fight it out, and in that way learn if either are God’s chosen people.”

Riss Perot begged the 1st President Bush on Larry King Live not to save Kuwait from Iraq. Perot said it didn’t matter who had Kuwait, its oil would be sold to America. About a week later, that President Bush said on national TV that he could not let the American way of life be threatened, and he formed a coalition of nations to rescue Kuwait. 

At that point, it was not in the news that Saddam Hussien had polled the American ambassador re Iraq taking part of Kuwait, which Saddam felt actually was part of Iraq, and the ambassador said America had no position on that, and Saddam took that as a green light. Saddam was an American ally against Iran. He and President Bush knew each other when Bush was the CIA Director. Saddam felt set up. 

The coalition infidel troops staged in Saudi Arabia, Islam's most holy land, which really pissed off Osama bin Laden, who had offered to bring his army from Afghanistan, which had defeated the Soviet Union with the infidel America’s help, to drive Hussein’s army out of Kuwait. The Saudis turned down bin Laden, which infuriated him even more. 

Saddam tried to get that President Bush killed. 

All that was stuck in the 2nd President Bush’s craw when he was elected in 2000, with great help from the U.S. Supreme Court.

I read an open letter to America from Osama bin Laden online, in which he told Americans their president was easy to bait, and they need to replace him. As it turned out, he was in Pakistan while American and other nations’ troops were waging war in Afghanistan because the Bushes thought he was there.

I watched the 2nd President Bush and VP Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell invent Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. What Iraq had was lots of oil and mineral resources, which American industry, including and Cheney’s company, Halliburton, wanted. 

American industry, including Halliburton, also wanted Afghanistan’s mineral resources, and Haliburton wanted to build a natural gas pipeline from the Persian Gulf through Afghanistan to the natural gas fields east of Afghanistan.

The 2nd president Bush gave up trying to find bin Laden, but he did not end the war in Afghanistan, and he lost the war in Iraq, after he and his father got Islam to declare war on America.

After accepting the Nobel Prize for Peace, President Obama continued the two Bush wars.

After he was elected in 2016, Donald Trump said on national TV that the mineral resources of Afghanistan and Iraq should be monetized to repay America for those two wars.

President Biden got America out of Afghanistan and was crucified by the American right. 

President Biden has come very close to aiding Israel to start World War III.

I found photos on line of Baby Bush and Obama bowing to the Saudi King and Trump bowing to the Saudi Prince to be king, who had a Saudi journalist sawed up into little pieces for writing stuff about the Saudi prince, which he didn’t like. Before he was president, Trump was financially bailed out twice by a Saudi businessman, and after Trump lost in 2016, he started making a lot of money off of Saudis via his golf courses and hotels. 

 

If I were president, I would cut Israel loose and pull my land, sea and air troops out of the Middle East, and I would let the people of the Middle East work it out or fight it out.  

I would get the U.S. Department of Justice to round up for me patents in the U.S. Patent Office for a device designed for internal combustion engines in cars and trucks. The device uses electrolysis to extract hydrogen from water. A sedan can go several hundred miles on a gallon of water. The device was road-tested by automobile manufacturers, who were ready to produce such engines if America was on board.  

I learned of the patents from my friend Bob, who does the tech work for my books at the free internet library, archive.org, and The Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast. Bob is a mechanic who can take apart, repair, and put back together cars, trucks, tractors and motorcycles. He said the device can be installed in existing engines and in new engines. The device would do away with electric cars, trucks, etc., which require huge batteries, weighing thousands of pounds, and become toxic waste when they wear out. 

Such cars and trucks would put Saudi Arabia, the oil cartels, Russia and the American oil industry out of business, and would help the planet, upon which all of humanity depends for its very survival, to live a lot longer.

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com

Dear remorseful Republicans who voted for Donald Trump, God was watching

 
mugshot of the first U.S. President to be criminally prosecuted

    On CNN yesterday, I saw states rights champion Donald Trump say outside a state courthouse in New York city where he is being tried by the State of New York for criminal fraud, that he directed his lawyer to pay Stormy Daniels and marked it down as a business expense, and his accountant treated it as a business expense, and that’s why he got indicted. 

    This former tax lawyer asks, since when is a mob boss paying hush money to a prostitute he had sex with, to help his chances of being elected president and to keep his wife from knowing what he did, a legitimate business expense that reduces his income taxes? Wasn’t income tax evasion how the federal government put Al Capone in prison?

    As a criminal defendant, Trump does not have to take the witness stand. If he does not take the witness stand, he cannot be asked any questions about what he did. However, as a matter of law, what he said, which I watched on CNN, can be admitted into evidence against him.

    The day before on CNN, I saw a lawyer explaining that the trial judge in that case can rule Trump violated a gag order that he not talk about, intimidate or threaten jurors, witnesses, prosecutors and their staff, the court and its staff, after Trump threatened a potential juror being questioned by his attorneys. 

    The lawyer said the judge could fine Trump $1,000 for the first violation of the gag order, $10,000 for the second violation, $100,000 for the third violation. I thought (a) that's chicken feed to Trump and good luck collecting it from him, and (b) what law school did that lawyer attend? Why didn’t that lawyer say the judge can hold Trump in contempt in put him in Manhattan’s  county jail and let him watch his trial on Zoom with his Secret Service Agent detail sitting beside him in the same jail cell?

    In yet another parallel universe, I saw this below in my Facebook feed today and tossed in my former U.S. District Judge law clerk and practicing attorney’s sentiments.

Republican Voters Against Trump
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Carol, a former Trump voter from Texas:
“The fact that Trump says he wants to do away with the Constitution, to me, is mind blowing...Democracy will falter under his watch. Please do not vote for Donald Trump.”

https://www.facebook.com/AccountableGOP/videos/1346707682685294

Carol, a former Trump voter from Texas who is not voting for him this year 

Carol, a former Trump voter from Texas who is not voting for him this ye... Carol, a former Trump voter from Texas: “The fact that Trump says he wants to do away with the Constitution, to...

Sloan Bashinsky

After graduating form the University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa in 1968, I clerked for a God-fearing United States District Judge who presided over every federal criminal prosecution in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. 
Very unfortunately, the pagan Donald Trump and his goose-stepping hordes make it very clear that they have zero interest the U.S. Constitution, except as it it allows them to get what they want. 
On President Trump’s watch, and on the watch of Republicans who voted for Trump in 2016, the Christian right took over the United States Supreme Court, demolishing the Founding Fathers' determination not to allow America be run by religion, eg. Amendment 1. 
Unlike all other judges in America, federal or state, United States Supreme Court justices serve for life, and they answer to no one, for any reason. They do not have to recuse in cases in which they have a conflict of interest. 
A God-fearing political independent, I never will understand how any person voted for Trump in 2016, when what he was was in plain view for all to see. Especially, I will never understand how any woman, person or color, or Christian voted for Trump in 2016.
The people who voted for Trump in 2016 accepted the attending karma. By repudiating Trump after voting for him in 2016, they mitigated but did not fully resolve that karma.
In 2016, I published several times at my blog that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton should be locked up in adjoining cells. I tell Democrats they have themselves to thank for Donald Trump being elected in 2016, because they ran the one Democrat he could beat. Republicans who voted for Trump in 2016 have yourselves to thank for him being president.
In Proverbs is said,"Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.” 
When people vote, they need to understand that God is watching, and they will be held accountable for their vote.
Jesus made that very clear in the Gospels, when he said, "Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com

Tax Day: America’s moral compass in the era of Donald Trump

 

Bible salesman

    Okay, Younguns, today is tax day in America, when Americans are supposed to pay their fair share of income taxes to their government, unless they are really rich like, say, Donald Trump 😎. 

    Today, Trump goes on trial before a jury in a New York City state court, where he has to attend every day, unless the judge excuses him. Trump is the first president in America’s history to be criminally prosecuted. 

    After graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law, I clerked for United States District Court Judge Clarence W. Allgood in Birmingham, Alabama. Judge Allgood had pioneered the federal debtors court in Birmingham, and he wrote the law that the U.S. Congress passed to make that court national. Judge Allgood obtained his law degree from the Birmingham School of Law, taught by local lawyers at night. He never practiced law. Creating the federal debtors court got him appointed to the federal bench. 

    Even today, I view him as my spiritual father. 

    You can read my memorial of Judge Allgood in the “He Used to Drink Moonshine” chapter of A Few Remarkable Alabama People I Have Known, now a free read at the internet library:

https://archive.org/details/a-few-remarkable-alabama-people-i-have-known_202210/page/n19/mode/2up 

    By agreement with the other two federal judges in Birmingham at that time, Seyborne Lynne and Hobart Grooms, Judge Allgood presided over every criminal prosecution in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. I watched many federal prosecutions during my year and a half with Judge Allgood. I sat many times in his chambers, listening to him, federal prosecutors and criminal defense lawyers discuss cases. I watched former Alabama Attorney General Richmond Flowers be prosecuted for political shenanigans and convicted by a jury before Judge Allgood. I think I can fairly say, compared to Donald Trump, Richmond Flowers was Jesus Christ.

    The New York state prosecution of Donald Trump arises out of hush money Donald Trump's New York lawyer Michael Cohen paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, which Cohen and Trump tried to disguise as a business expense to protect Trump’s chances during the 2016 presidential election, and, I suppose, to keep Melania Trump from learning that her husband had sex with Daniels after Melania gave birth to their son. Donald Trump’s lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out the New York state court case, and SCOTUS ruled against him, stating no one, including a former president, is above the law.

    How the New York state court jury will decide is anyone’s guess. If the jury convicts, Trump will appeal and remain free. He will not be disqualified from the presidential ballot, because the U.S. Constitution does not explicitly prohibit someone from running for president while under indictment, or even while serving time behind bars. Eligibility requirements for presidents state only that they must be at least 35 years old, be a natural-born citizen of the United States, and have been a resident of the country for at least 14 years. 

    If Trump wins wins the presidential election this year and takes office, and then he loses his appeal in the New York courts, and in the U.S. Supreme Court, and is put in a New York state prison, I suppose a Secret Service detail will be allowed to protect him in the prison, but will he have access to a smartphone, tablet, computer, press secretary, internet, Truth Social, X, Facebook, Instagram, Tic Tok, etc.? Do other New York state prisoners have such access? Well?

    While watching the final round of the Masters golf tournament yesterday afternoon, I recalled hearing and reading rumors that Donald Trump cheats when he plays golf, and I chanced to visit The Republicans Against Trump Facebook page and something got into me and I told them how I really feel😎 about them, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, etc.

Sloan Bashinsky
I never belonged to a political party, and I still don’t understand how any person with a moral compass was able to vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in 2016. I very reluctantly voted for Joe Biden in 2020, the first time I had voted for a major party candidate. I won’t vote for Biden this year, after watching him help the religious fanatics in Israel destroy Gaza. I give Hamas no free pass, they hoped the October 7 raid would provoke Israel to do what it has done and turn the entire world against Israel and America.

I’m at the point of thinking the only way to drain the D.C. swamp is nuke it when Congress is in session and the president and vice president and their cabinet are there. I got that notion from a Tom Clancy novel, in which a Japanese Samurai airline pilot flew his fuel-ladened jumbo jet into the U.S. Capitol while all but Jack Ryan were there. If I were the new U.S. president, I would declassify all of my government's ETs files and give Americans, and the world, something entirely different to ponder.

As for Trump’s performance before the January 6, 2020 coup attempt, he knew from the beginning that the Covid-19 virus was very bad and he lied to the American people about that. In March of 2020, he had a cheap 5-day early stage Covid-19 cure in his hands. The Jewish family practitioner doctor who came up with it was interviewed by Sean Hannity on his FOX show. Trump told America on TV it might be a miracle. The medical-industrial complex, Fauci, CDC, NIH, WHO, Lancet, Joe Biden and the Democrats went haywire. Trump’s FDA director withdrew his emergency permission for physicians to use the cure. Instead of firing his FDA director and replacing him with a doctor who would allow the cure to be used, so that America would not have to shut down, Trump caved and launched operation WarpSpeed, which pleased Biden, the Democrats and the medical industrial complex, which couldn’t make money off the Jewish doctor’s cure. That doctor was God’s doctor in that moment, and Trump and America told that doctor and God to take a hike. If people have not even yet figured it out, Covid-19 was developed in a Red Chinese lab. Trump knew this early on.

I’m a retired lawyer, who clerked for a United States Judge, who presided over every criminal prosecution in his court’s jurisdiction. My criminal law professor in law school had prosecuted Nazis at Nuremberg. If he were alive today, he would be pleased to prosecute Donald Trump for the January 6 coup attempt, and Trump and Joe Biden for mishandling classified documents. 

All of my law professors would be pleased to say the current U.S. Supreme Court majority has rewritten Amendment 1’s prohibition against Congress, and via Amendment 14, states establishing a religion in America. My law professors also would be pleased to say SCOTUS giving corporations civil rights was insane.

Trump promised the Republicans and MAGAs that Mexico would pay for a wall along the USA southern border, and I haven’t heard one Republican or MAGA talk about that. The way to stop the invasion from Mexico is for the President and the Congress to stop Americans and U.S. dollars from going to Mexico, and Mexican farm produce and manufactured goods from coming to America, until Mexico stops the invasion.

The way to help protect public school children from being massacred by guns in their schools is station armed to the teeth U.S. soldiers or well regulated militia at the entrances and exits of each school. 

I majored in economics in college. The way to run a government is to not spend, or borrow, more money than the government has assets to repay. Any person or corporation who does that ends up in bankruptcy court, which Donald Trump used to stiff his creditors. In reducing spending, nothing can be spared, not even the U.S. military. It would go much easier, if the rich and corporations paid their fair share of federal income, gift and estate taxes. I have a tax law degree, too, and am from a wealthy family, which never paid its fair share in taxes, compared to what rank and file American workers pay.

The very last thing America needs is to be involved in is another foreign war. The winner in such wars is the American military industrial complex, aka, rich white men. JFK, RFK, MLK and Malcom X were shot and killed after they said they didn’t want America to be at war in Vietnam. Trump should have gotten America all the way out Afghanistan and Iraq, instead of saying those countries' natural resources should be monetized to repay America for the cost of those wars caused by the first President Bush’s needless rescue of Kuwait from Iraq.

Other than greed, there is no reason why Americans pay more for doctors, medicine and hospital services than people pay anywhere else in the world. I’m 81 years old. I paid for my Social Security, and but for Medicare reducing their fees, my doctors and pharmacy and hospitals would make a great deal of money off of me. When I traveled in Costa Rica in 2000 and needed emergency medical treatment, I was treated for free. How could that be? Costa Rica had no national military to pay. People in Cuba pay far less for medical treatment and medicine than people in America. How can that be, when Cuba has a military to pay?

If you really want to see what is going on in the Kingdom of Trump, look at the oceans of white people in photos of Trump rallies and the January 6 coup attempt.

The reason the unanimous US Supreme Court decided Amendment 14, Section 3 did not apply to the presidency was they feared for their lives if they decided otherwise. 

 

If you were paying attention, you learned that when Trump was married to Ivana, he kept a book of Hitler’s speeches in a cabinet on his side of their bed, and he sometimes read it at night.

And you learned, after Trump was sworn in in 2017, he said he liked the idea of Vladimir Putin being elected president of Russia for life, and, you learned how chummy Trump was with the Clintons and Jeffery Epstein.

President Trump bowed to the Saudi Prince who had a Saudi journalist sawed up into little pieces after he wrote stuff about the prince, which he didn’t like, and Trump was financially bailed out twice by another Saudi, and after January 6, he was bailed out by Saudis and does a lot of business with them, who collect golfers like they collect race horses and harems, although none of their golfers are in contention at the Masters this afternoon, and how many Saudis were involved in 9/11?

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