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Trump Over Republicans Equals the Lowest Common Denominator [1]
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Date: 2025-04-02
It is pretty much inarguable that President Donald Trump is a notorious and inveterate liar. Despite the press’s reluctance to use such a harsh description of the current president, I am not afraid to speak the truth. It is easy to use the old canard that all politicians lie and close one’s ears to reality, but this is different. Listening to nighttime TV hosts and comics make fun of the constant barrage of lies from Mr. Trump and his minions gives us a head-shaking laugh, but America’s future is no longer a laughing matter. Have all the laughs and snickers conditioned us to accept violations of the greatest governing document known to humankind—the Constitution?
As the stories mount about finger-pointing, Bulls jackets, and autism awareness support tattoos being grounds to ignore the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments right to due process, the ho-hum coming from certain circles of the public is disturbing. Mr. Trump has issued Executive Orders questioning the right to counsel and freedom of the press. The highest members of Trump’s Cabinet lied to both the media and Senate and Congressional committees in recent weeks about the sensitivity and classification of military intelligence. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt fabricated a lie, and Vice President JD Vance lied in his direct response to the question about a Maryland husband and father of two being renditioned to an El Salvador prison without being convicted or even receiving due process.
The Constitution states that ‘persons,’ not citizens of the United States, are afforded due process under the law. The statute is not ambiguous or open to interpretation; it is clearly stated that the Fifth Amendment provides that “no person” shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. If one needs further confirmation, one can turn to the 14th Amendment, which states, 'nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.’ Speaking of the 14th Amendment, the President has postured about overturning the first part of Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment—rescinding birthright citizenship. Republicans, for the most part, just shrug their shoulders and bow to the master.
Meanwhile, the public is caught up in chasing the lies and distractions while the government is being destroyed from within. Cuts in Health and Human Services are occurring while a burgeoning measles crisis is unfolding in the Southwestern United States, now spread to seventeen states. Our sons and daughters are in danger not only from the enemy but also from their civilian leadership, as reports of social media apps being used to communicate attack plans have been made. The administration is ceding ground to China with America’s abandonment of USAID. The absence of the US following the earthquake in Myanmar has also invited Russia and India, as well as China, to replace the US on the world stage. Even efforts to win hearts and minds through Radio Free Europe have been set aside by misguided isolationism, only to be reinstated after a lawsuit was filed. While Republicans giggle and smirk at ‘owning the libs’ President Trump has flirted with a military invasion of Greenland. After you stop laughing, remember that a military incursion would put the U.S. in a direct conflict with NATO—Vladimir Putin’s wet dream.
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