Okay, one down and one to go. The Democrats ended their National Convention last night. As one opinion writer said it was kind of like watching an infomercial. But, that is what a convention really is. It is an infomercial to get us to choose who we want to be our next president.
I was impressed with the way they managed to pull it off. This was the first virtual convention in our history. So, things went a lot better than I first imagined. Next week we will see how the Pathetic Party manages to pull off its virtual convention.
We saw the Democrats try to make a stark difference between their vision for the future of America and trump’s vision. They did a pretty good job. Even Laura Ingraham said Biden “exceeded expectations” during his speech. That took the smile right off of junior’s face as he listened to her.
We already know what is in store for us next week. We don’t even have to watch to know what will be said and done. We will hear an apocalyptic review of our nation’s condition. We will hear lies about how great the pandemic was handled by our Failure-in-Chief. We will hear lies about the economy and be given proof of how great it is because the stock market is doing so well. We will not hear about the 40 million people out of work.
We will hear scare tactics about Black Lives Matter and Antifa and a host of others who are protesting in our streets. We will hear more lies about that “big beautiful wall” on the southern border which was never built. We will hear how evil immigrants are to our nation. We will hear how this election is already being rigged against Failure-in-Chief.
What we won’t hear about is the scandals this administration has withered. We won’t hear about 175,000 dead from the mishandling of the pandemic by Failure-in-Chief. We won’t hear about the millions facing eviction from their homes because of lost jobs due to the pandemic. We won’t hear about the millions of people who lost their health insurance when they lost their jobs.
We will not hear about any policies or new projects that this administration plans on presenting in a second term. We won’t hear about the promise to rebuild our infrastructure in 2016 that was never even considered. We won’t hear any new ideas because this party doesn’t have any ideas much less new ones.
Nor will we hear about all of the people who have been arrested and convicted or pleaded guilty to crimes while they were working for or with trump. We won’t hear anything about the Senate Intelligence Committee’s damning report on the Russia meddling in the 2016 election where the bipartisan committee stated very clearly that Russia did in fact interfere and that team trump worked with them and accepted all the help they could get. I’ll have more on that report at a later date.
Yesterday, trump’s CEO of his 2016 campaign was arrested. Steve Bannon was accused of fleecing trump supporters out of millions of dollars by claiming he was “raising money to build trump’s wall”. In addition, the FBI and SEC are investigating Bannon and a Chinese Business man named Guo Wengui over a $300 scheme to fund a media company tied to the two men.
Bannon makes the eighth member of “team trump” who has been convicted, pleaded guilty, or now charged with criminal felonies. These are the “very best people” trump said he would only surround himself with. I guess he failed to mention that the “very best people” meant the “most corrupt I can find” people.
Just as a refresher, let’s look at these people.
Roger Stone: Stone was charged with seven criminal counts of obstruction of a congressional investigation, five counts of making false statements to Congress, and tampering with a witness. A Washington Jury found him guilty of all charges. But, trump and his phony Attorney General stepped in and eventually commuted the sentence so he doesn’t have to serve jail time.
Paul Manafort: In August 2018, a jury found Manafort guilty of tax fraud and bank fraud. Just one month later he pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges related to money laundering, lobbying violations and witness tampering. Prosecutors in the case said he tried to conceal millions of dollars paid as a political consultant for pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians. He received seven and a half years in prison. In May, due to the coronavirus, he was released to finish his sentence at home.
Then the Senate Intelligence Report on the Russia Meddling case named Manafort as “a serious counterterrorism risk” while he was the campaign manager for trump’s 2016 election. They cited his contacts with a known GRU operative, Kilimnik, as their evidence. They said that Manafort shared data with this GRU agent about the election in order to help “target” the right social media groups with misinformation.
Michael Cohen: He pleaded guilty to several crimes including orchestrating hush money payments to two women who claimed they had sexual affairs with trump. That hush money was intended to keep the story from the news during the election. Cohen also pleaded guilty for lying to Congress about a proposed Trump Tower in Moscow. That tower was never built. He claimed that trump had instructed him to lie about the project.
It must be added that trump was included in the charges as an “unindicted co-conspirator”. Cohen received three year sentence. He too was released due to the coronavirus and is serving out his time at home.
Michael Flynn: Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI over his conversations with the Russian Ambassador over sanctions imposed by the Obama administration for Russia’s interference in our elections. Flynn made his plea in court, twice, and said under oath that “I am pleading guilty because I am in fact guilty of the charges in the indictment.”
Of course now, trump doesn’t want him to go to jail because he didn’t throw trump under the bus in the impeachment mess. His phony Attorney General went to court to claim that the DOJ was dropping the charges against Flynn and that his guilty plea shouldn’t be counted against him.
This case is still in the courts and is continuing. The judge in the case named a third party to look into the reasons for this change of heart about Flynn and the Appeals Court is hearing a case as to whether or not he can do that. The case is still up in the air, but there is no doubt that Flynn is guilty because he said he was under oath in a court of law.
Rick Gates: Gates was the former deputy chairman of Trump’s campaign. He pleaded guilty in February 2018 to conspiracy against the United States and lying to investigators. Gates agreed to cooperate with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller and testified as a prosecution witness against Manafort, his former business partner, and Stone. Gates was sentenced in December 2019 to 45 days in jail.
George Nader: This one is really weird. Nader, who was an informal advisor to team trump during the campaign on foreign policy and was also a Mueller witness, pleaded guilty to charges of possessing child pornography and bringing a child to the U.S. for sex. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
George Papadopoulos: The former Trump campaign adviser was sentenced in September 2018 to 14 days in prison after pleading guilty in October 2017 to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officials and a Maltese professor who told him the Russians had “dirt” on Clinton.
Now we have Steve Bannon being arrested for corruption crimes and being investigated for other corruption crimes. This administration leads the nation’s history for the number of people who have been arrested, convicted, or pleaded guilty for felony crimes. It also leads the nation’s history for the number of cabinet members who were forced out of their positions due to corrupt practices and corrupt behavior.
They are the “very best people” trump filled his team and his administration. They are the “shining examples” of just how they were going to “drain the swamp”. Only, they let the swamp enter the White House and corrupted the government more than anyone in our history.
So, as the Pathetic Party opens its convention next week and renominates this corrupt man to remain our president, just remember all of those “very best people” who served him and are now serving or have served time in prison. They are going to slither in the sewer as they always do and claim that this president is “the best we ever had”.
Except, they won’t be telling you that he is the “most corrupt we have ever had” and the number of people who he picked who are in jail is proof of his own corruption.
And, the shirts keep marching along.
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