WILL A N.Y. CITY CLOWN INTERFERE WITH THE US CONSTITUTION?

…This is what was celebrated this week…it will eventually win out.

 

Will Trump’s contempt for the US Constitution eventually force the Supreme Court’s hand?

 

I find it interesting that at this time of the year, we always hear about the “founding fathers” and how great they were and that they were so forward thinking for coming up with the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.

 

Oh, I grant you, these are great documents and this nation’s success has proven that they were great, time and time again.

 

But what about the men that actually wrote those great documents, were they really that great, or were they in some ways raging hypocrites?

 

How many of you knew that the great Thomas Jefferson, that came up with “all men are created equal”, actually owned men, women and children as slaves at his homestead?

 

John Adams was known as a “sour puss” and was highly argumentative.  As the US president, he actually signed the Sedition Act which made it illegal to criticize the US government.

 

John Hancock, with his over-size signature on the Declaration of Independence, he  was shown to have amassed his fortune through international smuggling. And let’s not forget old Ben Franklin who could have been described today as “a dirty old man”.  Yes, old Ben did love the ladies.  And the younger, the better.

But this group of individuals that would have been great guest stars on national TV shows such as Saturday Night Live or even going way back to Laugh-In or on Oprah or Johnny Carson.

 

But the reality is that with all their obvious flaws, they still woke up day after day to then give us the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  Something that allowed them to transcended all of their flaws.  This week, it is required that we remember that the American experiment in small “d” democracy is much more powerful and enduring than the idiotic actions of today’s American leaders.

But in today’s America, as Thomas Paine would write in December 1776: “These are the times that try men’s souls.”

 

And that is because, we now have a president who neither understands nor respects the basic norms of our American democracy. And please make no mistake: Donald Trump is a freak oddity when you compare him to the nation’s past presidents. There is no figure like Donald Trump in US history, and for that, we should be extremely thankful, but we should also beware.  This clown could cause some very big problems.

 

One of the reasons for the president’s unique inexperience is that he is the first US president that has neither military, nor government experience.  When you combine this, with his ignorance of government policy, the democratic process and his lack of curiosity or knowledge of the details, this just gives us, as the American public, the right to be seriously insecure.  Since he never admits he’s wrong about anything, nor that God forbid, he might have any short-comings, how is the American public expected to react to that kind of individual?

 

This, coupled with his demand and need for massive adulation at the highest level, this is a perfect example of the negative traits that were not any part of our founding fathers.

 

I find it interesting that one opinion writer for The Post has taken to Trump’s need to continuingly use his Twitter account, this writer has used the Twitter handle “#FakeHero”, as a description of our current president.  This is the “Fake-Hero” that offers the American public his own “Fake News”, as he leads on his followers and supporters with the promises that he has no intention or capability of keeping.  As an example, the unacceptable health care offerings from the Republican House and Senate bills that he supports, do not support his many campaign promises to not touch: Medicaid, Medicare or Social Security.

Instead of being a Republican hero as Ronald Reagan was to his GOP constituents, President Trump is a false strongman that continually picks fight with female cable-news hosts, Muslims and Hispanics, or other totally non-existent enemies.  And yet this president has an ego the size of Texas that is as fragile as a Fabergé egg. 

 

Getting back to our founding fathers, it is even more interesting that the focus of the system that came from the first Constitutional Convention was a system of government that was designed to reign in a potentially rogue Commander-in-Chief.  First, he’s was eventually limited to 2, 4 year terms.  (Not like Russia’s Vladimir Putin who has been either the President of Russia or the Premier since 2000.)  In addition, they gave equal powers to the two houses in the legislature.  Plus equal power to the judiciary, and impeachment was installed as the government’s last ditch remedy for disposing of a bad White House executive.

 

It is also interesting that with this inexperienced president, he still insists in his false claims that he would have won the popular vote if not for the millions of fraudulent votes cast in the 2016 election.  Of course, our elections are run by our individual states and not one state has been able to show that there was any wide-spread voter fraud.  And we all know that as was stated back in the 60’s, “When fewer people vote, the Republicans have a better chance to win because there are twice as many registered Democrats as Republicans.”

Was that the real reason that Trump started his “trumped-up voter fraud” commission to assemble a national list of voters with the last four numbers of their Social Security numbers?  The ones that B.T.W. over 40 states have said “no” to the request for any information on their voters that goes beyond what is already public information.

 

When one looks closely at the Declaration of Independence and the pledge that was taken when the founding fathers gathered in Philadelphia.  It was to develop this new experiment in government, and it is important to understand how seriously they took to their tasks. This is just one of the  reason that the signers of the Declaration gathered to pledge “our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor” to the cause of independence.  It was how they saw the royal power and British commercial interests as breing totally corrupt.  Is that possibly like the current Trump presidency?

We now have a US president who has a business empire which he has refused to divest from, and which his family still operates.  This presents many potential conflicts of interest.  Instead of draining it, Trump has deepened and widened the swamp, and now Congress will have the duty of sorting through all the muck.

 

All of this has caused an assignment of a special counsel, and Congress must now let Trump know, under no uncertain terms can there be any attempt to impede the Special Counselor, Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling.  That meddling could have some serious consequences.  And the firing of Mueller would automatically be considered as grounds for presidential impeachment.

In fact, just to be on top of the issues, the justices of the US Supreme Court should take some time to study the court’s decisions in United States v. Nixon. It is no great stretch of the imagination to consider that Trump’s on-going contempt for the US Constitution could once again force the court’s hand on looking at Trump’s critical presidential decisions.

 

We just had the 242^nd, 4^th of July Celebration.  On this day, we should have celebrated that our system is robust and resilient.  If all goes as is expected, the president will eventually be removed before the system should become vulnerable to the bizarre actions of a charlatan president. 

 

And yes, the star-spangled banner will continue to wave despite the interference of a New York City clown.

 

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