Trump: One dangerous man
Here are a couple of items that need to be commented on: •You have not seen me on this page for a few weeks because I’ve been ill. I spent several days in Saline Memorial Hospital, and it is a truly amazing facility. The story of SMH and how it came to be is an interesting one.
My understanding is that the hospital was the brain-child of the late Henry Finkbeiner and several other community leaders. They had a vision in the early 1950s, and by the mid 1950s it was a done deal.
Since then, there have been a number of bond issues and multiple expansions. But as wonderful as the current physical facility is, the personnel is top drawer.
I’ve ranted for some time now about the idea of so-called hospitalists. Virtually every hospital has gone to the concept, and the concept is here to stay. But someone at SMH has gone the extra mile to make sure the hospitalist system works. I was under the care and treatment of a very fine physician.
The nursing staff is also very sharp. In my stay there, I didn’t run into one single solitary
Nurse Ratchet. The nursing staff was always caring and professional.
Charge nurses had that wonderful, appropriate swagger. That kind of professionalism can only come from a certain kind of command climate, as the military people call it.
We are a lucky community to have SMH.
•On a completely unrelated topic, we heard an astonishing story, first on CNN, then confirmed by the
the and NBC
Times, Washington Post, New York
News.
A couple of years ago, about the time of President Trump’s deplorable behavior at Helsinki, I suggested that Trump might be a Russian agent, whether wittingly or unwittingly. Needless to say, I was laughed off this page.
The Helsinki, you will recall, was the event in which Trump announced that he believed Putin over U. S. intelligence agencies regarding Russian meddling in our 2016 presidential election.
Since then, Trump has continued to cozy up to dictators, including Putin. He even met with Putin for approximately two hours, then had the translators’ notes confiscated. He has also made his views known to his staff:
President Donald Trump has privately and repeatedly expressed opposition to the use of foreign intelligence from covert sources, including overseas spies who provide the U.S. government with crucial information about hostile countries, according to multiple senior officials who served under Trump.
Trump has privately said that foreign spies can damage relations with their host countries and undermine his personal relationships with their leaders, the sources said. The President “believes we shouldn’t be doing that to each other,” one former Trump administration official told CNN.
In addition to his fear, such foreign intelligence sources will damage his relationship with foreign leaders, Trump has expressed doubts about the credibility of the information they provide. Another former senior intelligence official told CNN that Trump “believes they’re people who are selling out their country.”
Even in public, Trump has looked down on these foreign assets, as they are known in the intelligence community. Responding to reports that the CIA recruited Kim Jong Un’s brother as a spy, Trump said he “wouldn’t let that happen under my auspices.”
So maybe Trump is an agent of a foreign government. With views like that, it is certainly something to consider. If the FBI does not have a counterintelligence file opened on this guy, they should.
He is dangerous.
George D. Ellis is a Benton attorney. He can be contacted at gellisinbenton@swbell.net.