Sorry, Trump is no genius
In reply to Mr. Rosen’s whistleblower letter: Monica Lewinsky was not the whistleblower. She confided in Linda Trapp, who took the information to Lindsay Graham. He then took the hearsay evidence as basis for the Clinton impeachment trial. According to your definition, Lindsay Graham is a whistleblower, “rat and tattletail.” I would call him a hypocrite.
I do not agree that Trump is a genius. The smartest person in the world is the one who doesn’t believe they know everything.
I think for the most part Trump has proven that he can be duped. He chose associates who are now in jail after being indicted by the Mueller report. He believes Putin over the results of an investigation done by professional lawyers and U.S. intelligence personnel that indicted 27 Russians for using social media to spread false information.
He actually thinks he can be friends with ruthless dictators who have their missiles pointed toward us. He accepts the words of Ukrainian despots that there is damning information about the Bidens.
No one needs to “take Trump down.” He is doing a perfectly good job of it himself. He will now be impeached by legal means and substantiated evidence.
Why? Because he refuses to listen to our military experts, he has no grasp of our diplomatic history, he has no understanding of the dynamics of world trade or the complexities of our economics. He has consistently resisted the expertise of the FBI, CIA, state department, legal, economic and political scholars in his attempts to “outsmart” everyone.
In the end, your opinion and mine don’t matter. The House will impeach and whether the Senate removes or not will depend on their ability to be informed by tangible evidence rather than what they see as their “cleverness” in discrediting witnesses, getting around Constitutional procedures, using disinformation and crying foul. It didn’t work for Trump. He is now going to be wearing the banner of impeachment for all the world to see regardless of the Senate vote.
Martha Hodges, Kailua-Kona and former Princeville resident
Thanks for the informed and articulated rebuttal to Mr Rosen’s 6th grade level gut-spilling of regurgitated Fox talking points, and for elevating the conversation back to a level a bit more befitting the thoughtful community of islanders who reside here. A thoughtful effort, no matter which side you’re on (or which island) advances the conversation. IMHO the only way to explain the about-face and desperate embrace of Trumpism by Graham, McConnell and their entire cohort (and acolytes far and wide, including on a few remote Pacific islands) is to see the plight of a party in retrograde—beset (panicked) by a huge, advancing demographic wave. Hence the hatred for immigrants, an abandonment of the core principles of inclusion envisioned by the Founders, and the need to tilt the table by any and all means in order to preserve a dwindling white (read Republican) majority: thru gerrymandering, voter suppression, stacking the courts, marshalling the vast wealth of corporations and donors such as the Mercers and Kochs, and of course all manner of chicanery from a rogue’s gallery of characters like Giuliani, Stone, Barr, Manafort, Flynn (“all the best people”) and of course Trump himself, the enabler in chief. Any other excuses and explanations on the part of Republicans for their behavior is so much rationalization. The impeachment will likely amount to no more than a statement, albeit a necessary one. The means to right the ship will be available in November. All must get out and vote.
Oh, I say and I say it again. You’ve been had! Ya been took! Ya been hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led astray! Run amok! This is what he does!”
Malcolm X
If Trump is a genius, then so is Alfred E. Neuman. The fact that many Trump supporters, like Rosen, have been duped by a charlatan is no surprise. Trump is today’s version of P. T. Barnum, who at least acknowledged that he was “. . . a showman by profession” and wanted nothing mote than to put money into his own pockets. Of course Trump’s narcissism and super-inflated ego prevent him from admitting this, but the proof is out there for everyone to see — all one has to do is pull his head out of the sand. Barnum supposedly said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” Trump knows this and is merely capitalizing on it to convince the ignorati of this country to do his bidding.
Johnathon Turley gets it Right! And he isn’t a Trump Supporter!
The leftist have left the Truth,in favor of HATe.
Yes, Turley gets it right. Don’t rush it. The Senate must first hear the sworn testimony of Bolton, Pompeo, Pence and Mulvaney.
Then vote.
Case closed.
Preach, sister, preach!
Well the uninformed, seeking relevance, trolls are at it again! Trump is no genius, but every one of you could not touch the shoelace on his shoe with regards to hard work, accomplishment, deal making, child rearing, love of Country,, and just about everything else in your miserable lives.
It’s so funny to watch the Hillary/Obama worshipping Clowns rear their ugly heads. You’re seated there in your “imagined” thrones calling names, looking down, throwing rocks, criticizing, and bullying perhaps the greatest President our Country has had in decades. But then Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, and even Roosevelt, had the same trolls saying the same things at the same times. You’re not special, you’re not relevant, and you certainly aren’t a loyal American! One thing we all know for sure, you liberals/Democrats/Socialists are no geniuses. As for Trump? He’s played you. He’s played you, Schiff, Nadler, Pelosi and the “Socialist Squad” just like the fools you are; and he will be re-elected as a result! Now that’s a genius!
“…greatest President our Country has had in decades.” So Trump belongs on Mt Rushmore because …he’s goosed the economy by giving big tax cuts to corporations, and unshackled them from pesky environmental and banking regs so they’re free to pollute their way to profits while the deficit soars, investment banks can resume their aughts-style risk-taking, and the 1% gets a much needed raise. Meanwhile (the stock market loves it!) the party of fiscal restraint and family values is putting our children in hock to China for generations, and rolling the dice that climate science is just a fiction, because it’s been hijacked by a man who doen’t read, or take advice, with no discernible values, unless you count notching his belt with porn stars and finding ways to pass business losses onto unsuspecting losers. But it’s all good since the bill won’t come due till he’s gone, and maybe the Dems will get stuck with clean up. But yeah, carve him some space up there with Lincoln, Jefferson and the rest. Orange toupee and all.
My word! Have all the democrats posting on this site contracted TDS? It certainly appears that way. My best guess is your new superhero is Adam Schiff…. Now that’s pathetic!
Be very careful what you wish for, for the demise of our Constitutional Republic is at stake. Can you say fall of the Roman Empire under Democratic Absurdities? You betcha!
Brilliant letter.
Thank you Martha.
Well the uninformed, seeking relevance, trolls are at it again! Trump is no genius, but how many of us can even touch the shoelace on his shoe with regards to hard work, accomplishment, deal making, child rearing, love of Country,, and just about everything else in your miserable lives.
It’s so funny to watch the Hillary/Obama worshipping Clowns rear their ugly heads. Those seated in their “imagined” thrones calling names, looking down, throwing rocks, criticizing, and bullying perhaps the greatest President our Country has had in decades. But then Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, and even Roosevelt, had the same trolls saying the same things at the same times. Bullies without logic are not special, they’re not relevant, and they’re certainly aren’t a loyal American! One thing we all know for sure, liberals/Democrats/Socialists are no geniuses. As for Trump? He’s played you. He’s played Schiff, Nadler, Pelosi and the “Socialist Squad” just like the other fools; and he will be re-elected as a result! Now that’s a genius!
Trump continues his Disinformation War via Twitter, over 11,000 & counting, & Republicans think that’s fine. With FOX News as a wing of the Republican White House, what could go wrong?
Trump requested Russia on national TV to find 35,000 e-mails. 3 days later, guess what?…they showed up.
Americans, especially honest Republicans, should be outraged that Mitch McConnell & Lindsey Graham are doing absolutely NOTHING to rein in this lying, scandalous & manipulative President! Instead, they’re supporting his antics & hope beyond hope that he gets re-elected!
America has already lost & like the frog in a slowly boiling pot, Democracy is already dead but we just don’t know it yet.
Exposure of other Hawaii “stolen mailbox”, lawyer judges, Kollar P.A. trolls and “leaders” not properly supporting victims and this grand jury indictment gets the ball rolling toward justice, for those twenty years in areears.
http://judicialcorruptionnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Paul-Sulla-Indictment-for-Forgery-and-Theft.pdf
Harrumph…! It’s Trump…!
No genius? Well he harrumphed and trumpeted in the faces of many of our leaders who chose in defeat at the Trump Table to leave his administration, if they had been at the table with Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Bush Jr., we might be counting 58,000 grief stricken American Families over their dead soldier sons and daughters protecting America on the other side of the world, for nothing, as if the Viet Cong had the wherewithal to attack America from their rice fields on the backs of their water buffalo, carabao, from almost the distance of 1/5th of around the world, and they the Micro force of Viet Cong fighting in their pajamas ran us off the soil of Vietnam with our tails between our legs clutching to escape helicopters from the roof tops of Saigon. What a military embarrassment. Well, God must have been on the side of the meek, how could that of happened otherwise…?
With Pres Trump ignoring his military war monger advisers and clearly profitable business men and women of War profits, Pres. Trump saved another 400,000 US families from the grief of mutilated bodies of their returning soldiers wounded, limbless, deranged, minds slaughtered from witnessing the slaughter of them and us and old people women children and babies…much less the 30 US WAR VETERANS who suicide every day and the others homeless living in the streets hungry ragged ignored…thank you for your service…here have a cheap medal.
Yes Pres Trump ignored these war lovers and told them to go on retirement and leave our families alone and theirs over there too.
ISIS Alqaida whatevas, there is no longer need for our boots on the ground with pin point aerial select specific elimination of those who persist in a world of peace loving families…to kill and maim their own and our countrymen and women. Pres Trump held the Non Violent non involvement Card as best could in spite of factions of pro violence, we are a lucky nation not to send 500,000 to a Million American kids right out of high school and church and turn them into professional killers , this makes Pres Trump a genius to out fox the generals who all want war in their time…after all that is their mission, their reason for War College and training our kids to kill as teens..killing too often foreign women and children as collateral damage in clear savagery and scarred forever young American minds from brutal death on both sides.
Remember we killed 2,000,000 (2 million)Viet civilians in South Vietnam protecting them from the commies in North Vietnam, now the commies of Asia are our trade partners.
Pres Trump appears to be a business man who prefers to Trade First and Ask Questions Later. And who chooses to know our enemies better, and keep them close…Russia, China, and the Kid Killer from North Bomborea…better to do business than to make war.
Pres Trump protecting America not by Boots on the .ground but By shrewd business Art of the Deal…! Yay for the Donald…!
During Obama years, the US LOST 100’s of thousands of US JOBS, due to US Corps taking the work we needed done to fill Walmart, Sears, and K-Mart over to China at $2/day wages, and now Pres Trump is bringing those jobs back by the same 100’s of thousands, lowering unemployment, getting millions proudly off welfare and food,stamps. Trump forcing China to even out our Trade Deficit $500 Billion of us buying their plastic junk and them buying only $35 Billion of our food.
Pres Trump financially protecting America…!
And as a US CITIZEN and taxpayer, I demand the US President of any Administration to do whatever necessary even quid pro quo as Comandar in Chief to find out what former V.P. BIDEN did with his drug rehab son in tow to get him a job at $50,000 a Month job in Ukraine on one side of the world and then get his same son a Chinese gift ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD of $1.5 Billion dollars for an obvious quid pro quo for Biden to influence or bribe Obama via Biden’s Son RECEIVING THE $1.5 Billion to not disturb the wonderful Obama Trade Deficit of Our $500 Billion to China’s $35 Billion…and to obviously for Biden if he is elected in 2020 to unravel Pres Trump’s efforts to level out the Bad Trade Deficit we’ve had with China during Obama and Biden Administration. We’ve all been sold down the river by Obama/Biden and Obama buying a millionaire home recently…who are they kidding or lying to, they must be targeting the Dems be cause the Repubs don’t believe them.
Pres Trump, protecting Us again, no Bombs, Bullets, or Boots on the ground.
$1.5 Billion ? That’s 1,500 suitcases with a million dollars in each suitcase. Did that come back in ?Biden Boy’s luggage or was it Wire Transferred.
Where is that $1.5 Billion now? Did it go to the Democrats in charge of this
Red Herring impeachment and this is all a $1.5 Billion dollar cover up to distract from us from WHERE’s the MONEY, THE $1.5 BILLION…!
Where did the $1.5 Billion dollars go? Neither Biden is denying it that they got the money. It sure as heck just did not go up in smoke even though they seem to be blowing it. Where’s the money? Our Vice President while in elected Office in the 2nd highest position in America his son gets a gift of $1.5 Billion dollars and no word of it…smells of Quid Pro Quo on the Trade Deficit or just a bribe. Plenty shame here…when will shifty Schiff hang his gavel and bring that up or is he in on that deal. Somethimg smells fishy in D.C.
In Merry Old England they would say in proper English…”off with their heads”, and here in America, in our Great Revolution rebel words we would say…”throw the bums out”, at least don’t let them back in.. Bye Bye Biden & Biden…!
Hutch old buddy, some times somethings cannot be said in a single short attention span comment paragraph, especially when it comes to Health and our Nation. It’s the Law of Average, some people will need to be stupid and uninformed, after all not everyone can carry the blocks to build the Pyramids…some have to watch and cheer them on.
Pres. Trump has got all the cards of a genius and he ain’t even showed them all yet. Last laugh Is for America. The Democrat Oxymoron show is comedy at its worst. They keep sayin someone knows, but they just do not know who knows, all they know is Who Knows? That’s what Tonto kept saying to the Lome Ranger…”Quen Sabe?”…who knows? And the Dems are trying to impeach one of our grearesr presidents…Dumb like a fox they say. Him Out foxing them….! Democrats out foxing themselves. Trump > They…! The Golden Fox.
Even our soldier Congress Woman Tulsi says no more wars…Pres. Trump must be doing a good job holding down the weeney roasts in the Mid East ínstead of fighting forest fires of mass destruction of life and families wherever the Generals see fit.
2020 for more years…and let’s now educate the Donald to,protect the environment, the birds, the bees, the fruits, and vegetables, and all the creatures who are riding with us on earth as we travel the elyptical ride around and around in our Solar System and our Sun God…wow traveling along at 17,000 MPH…YOU CAN HARDLY FEEL IT…well Iniki was an exception.
As at 10/9/19: “In 993 days, President Trump has made 13,435 false or misleading claims.”
They’re all here, in detail. Gordon, Kimo, and all Trump supporters need to educate themselves about who they’re defending, from a source other than Twitter. It’s called reality > get some. You can thank me later…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/
Charlie, Charlie, Charlie…you’re another one that needs to search for FACTS before you continue parroting Trumps BS. Personally, I would be embarrassed to repeat the lies that fly out of Trumps pompous mouth pretty much daily.
Go to a search engine, type in whatever you want to know, then add “and” fact check. It’s astounding the reality you’ll find online. And > facts will make you more credible too!
Here ya’ go. I made it easy for you…
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/oct/02/donald-trumps-accusations-about-hunter-biden-and-c/
https://www.factcheck.org/2017/09/obamas-final-numbers/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2019/09/20/trump-has-created-15-million-fewer-jobs-than-obama/#4c2ab7da27ce