My, Oh My!

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What we are witnessing happening in Washington is truly sad.  I am speaking about the revealing of the personalities and character of members of the Republican Congress.  After the events of yesterday in Court with Michael Cohen’s sentencing and the release of the ‘press release’ from the federal prosecutor’s office in the Southern District of New York, the reaction of a group of prominent Republicans is so telling. 

As we piece together what really happened, and see the machinations of Trump, Cohen, Pecker, Weisselberg, and in fact the Trump Organization principals (Trump, Trump and Trump—his children!), it is revealed that Trump and all of these people concocted this scheme with willful intent to pay hush money to two women who allegedly had affairs with Donald Trump and committed what amounts to felonies in violation of campaign finance laws.  Trump’s claims of defense keep changing as he tries to persuade all of us that (a) he didn’t do it, or (b) knew nothing about it, or (c) did it but it was a simple transaction, or (d) was only a civil matter, or (e) doesn’t matter.

What he did—plain and simple—is attempt to influence the election by participating and directing the felonious actions of his ‘lawyer’ and hide these actions from the American people.  He is an un-indicted co-conspirator in this circus….and it’s not over yet.  There are now at least two corroborating witnesses; the statement of judgment from a federal judge; and the money trail (and probable third corroborating witness, Alan Weisselberg) giving credibility to this event and shows us yet again the true craven character of the President of the United States.

And still, his supporters in Congress don’t seem to mind the fact that his own Justice Department have implicated him in two felonies:

--Orrin Hatch says "I don’t care, all I can say is he is doing a good job as president”;

--Lindsay Graham says, "Any time a former lawyer of yours goes to jail it's probably not a good day, but I have yet to see any evidence coming from Mr. Cohen of collusion";

--Chuck Grassley says, “Cohen is a liar who cannot be trusted,

I have doubts about whether President Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen could implicate the president in any wrongdoing”.

Really??  Many other Republicans are saying similar things.

Apparently Trump’s Republican supporters are not ready yet to abandon their leaking ship.  I wonder what will happen when the truth about Trump’s obstruction of justice efforts and Russian collusion evidence starts to appear from Mueller’s efforts.  By then it will probably be too late for these people to say they really didn’t want to support him.

The point I am making is that we need to be thinking longer term here.  The election in 2020 is going to be a game changer for all of us.  As the despicable nature of the Trump administration is made clearer day after day, we as citizens need to be ready to do a major purge of the real depraved people hiding in ‘the swamp’ who will reveal their presence as we proceed through the next 20 months.  The Senate is due for a change of representation in 2020 so we can again begin to do things for the benefit of the majority of Americans.  The time to sweep away the legislators that are in the pockets of moneyed interests will be at hand.

People like McConnell, Grassley, Graham, Thune, Kennedy, McCarthy and Hatch need to go away.  Chairmanships need to change hands.  It goes without saying that Trump needs to be defeated, if he has not resigned or been impeached by then.

American values and idealism will be on the rise because the evidence of how far we have fallen at the hands of the deceitful minority that has gerrymandered us and lied to us will be woefully apparent. As Mueller reveals his analysis of what has happened to us, it will be impossible to ignore what we have suffered at the hands of the Republican Party and Donald Trump.

Then all the lies and obfuscation will be clear for all to see.