It’s hard to deny Don’s a Jong-un
ISTILL remember when President Nixon sent the bombers into Cambodia during the Vietnam War. I was an undergraduate at Harvard and many of us students regarded him as a ruthless and immoral man.
Time has mellowed me and although I still regard Nixon as deeply flawed, compared to Trump he was a giant.
He recognised Watergate was going to bring him down and, accepting the inevitable, quit.
Trump is an entirely different matter. Take his summit in Hanoi. I could not help but recall he avoided the Vietnam War draft and here he was prancing around thinking he could outwit North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
The trip was held to deflect attention from revelations by his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen at a Congressional Committee.
Headlines screamed “Trump is a racist, a conman and a cheat”. Cohen also provided evidence of the Republican’s involvement in paying off porn star Stormy Daniels.
He also said Trump was trying
Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump to put together a hotel deal in Moscow while running for President, he knew Wikileaks was going to dump Hillary Clinton’s emails and Donald Jnr was going to meet a Russian lawyer during his campaign.
Republicans on the committee tried to undermine Cohen’s credibility on the basis he has already lied to Congress.
They had a point but the anecdotal evidence that Trump is in reality “a racist, a conman and a cheat” is overwhelming.
I am not sure where this is all leading but we should remind ourselves there is a dangerous man in the White House who is the polar opposite of the “stable genius” he claims to be.
Impeachment of a President is a political process. Naturally, the Democrats are weighing up whether he has committed any criminal acts and the Republicans will continue to defend him as long as it is in their electoral interests.
Closer in kind to a mob boss than a politician of stature, his days should be numbered.
Frankly, until he is driven from office, we should be very afraid.