In today's West Australian newspaper, conservative columnist, Paul Murray (24/2) lamented the murder of Russian patriot and martyr, Alexei Navalny by Putin the Poisoner. However, Murray also criticised Anti-Trump campaigners for not vigorously protesting the tragic death of this courageous Russian dissident. Murray's criticisms (deflections? His usual anti left rant?) are not well founded, at least in my experience. My many outraged friends and colleagues, as well huge numbers on Social Media, have been quick to express heartfelt tributes to Navalny as well as outrage and utter disgust towards Russian Dictator, Vladimir Putin.
One of the reasons people oppose Trump is that he is seen as Putin’s puppet. This is evident from way Putin aided Trump in winning the 2016 election; all of those hacked Hillary Clinton e-mails (that suddenly fell into Trump’s in-tray) and the abject and embarrassing way that Trump caved in to Putin when they met publicly in 2018. At that time, President Trump said Putin had very good reasons to annexe Crimea. As president, Trump subsequently attacked America’s allies and friends, including NATO. He went out of his way to curry favour with Putin and the Supreme Leader of nuclear North Korea, Kim Jong Un.
Trump
is crassly beholden to Vladimir Putin. He has demonstrated this on
many occasions, even on the international stage at G8 meeting of heads
of government. At one such meeting during his presidency, Trump made some criticism of Russia and Putin which were widely reported
on international television. The very next day, Trump backed down and abjectly
grovelled before Putin. He said that he had “mispoke”
the words. He lamely told the world that did not really mean what he really had said. It was embarrassing... and on a world stage.
Trump
agrees with all of Putin’s imperialist policies for
Russian expansion. He has even said, as President, he would not take
any action if Putin attacked NATO countries. Last week he even encouraged
Putin to attack NATO countries who had not paid their fair share towards
NATO's costs.
Apparently, this is in America’s best interests. This man wants to be America's next president.
What is really agitating anti-Trump campaigners is his statement, made after Navalny's murder, that he is being treated like Navalny by his opponents in America. What an obscene, self righteous comment from a supreme narcissist.
Navalny spoke out about corruption in high places. He spoke about millions of Russians living in hardship and poverty while Putin and his corrupt billionaire friends enjoy the spoils that they garnered from the dissolution of the Communist state. Because he spoke out against corruption and a loss of liberty, Navalny was poisoned, sent to prison and murdered.
Trump is in the courts for fraudulently conducting his various businesses. For fraudulently inflating his wealth to escape taxes. For assaulting women and paying women not to testify against him. He did not accept the electoral result against him. He does not accept
the many courts that have upheld the accuracy of that election. He tried to coerce electoral officials and even state governors to find him extra voters.
Trump
has shown his contempt for democracy by sending a riotous mob to the
Capitol building in Washington on January 6th, 2020 to violently stop the congress from ratifying the
election of Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Millions of TV viewers were horrified to see a fired up Trump urge his angry mob to march on the Capitol and to "fight like hell" to stop Biden being named as president. He promised his supporters, "I will be with you." But Trump, the five times draft dodger, was definitely not with them when the fighting, the lethal threats and thuggery started . The mob moved to the Capitol building looking for bloody vengeance. At the same time, Trump was driven back to the White House and gleefully watched the disgraceful events on TV ... for HOURS AND HOURS!
There are conflicting reports that Trump wanted to go to the Capitol but was prevented from doing so by wiser and more courageous, counsel. After several hours of mayhem, Trump appeared on the White House lawn and meekly told his lynch mob that , "It is now time to go home." He thanked them for their support. He should have been arrested on the spot for inciting a riot, let alone for sedition against the US government and its elected representatives, most of whom had been in fear of their lives. A few days later all but six courageous Republican Senators found that Trump had no case to answer.
If Trump wins the 2024 presidential election, many fear that he will immediately release all those imprisoned for crimes committed on his behalf. And pardon himself in the process.Taking a leaf out of the political handbook of his friend , the bloody dictator and Poisoner in Chief, Vladimir Putin, Trump will
then lock up all of his political opponents, including the many judges and
attorneys who found him guilty of many crimes against commercial
interests, women, democratic electoral processes, the Congress and the American people. As he has shown his disdain for elections, many predict that a newly elected Trump will quickly say by Presidential decree that he is now President for life. just like his great mate, Vlad the Poisoner. He would be an American dictator who would rule unfettered… except for the orders he would have to take from the murderous Vladimir Putin.
The presidential election is eight months away. Eight months is long way down the track for anybody aged over 75, However, as far as we can tell, it will between Trump and Biden. While
Donald Trump attacks NATO and the Ukraine and gives Putin carte blanche
to attack whom ever he wants to, the shallow mass media is busying
itself with Joe Biden’s age and suitability for the presidency. Let us fervently hope that the media lifts its game and stops highlighting Biden's age and begins taking a really close look at Trump's actual policies..or lack of them. They could also fact check his many lies and perhaps comment on his unstable and volatile character.
Anti-Trump
campaigners are disappointed that the mainstream media (are you listening Paul Murray?) seems largely
uninterested in Trump’s many personality and policy flaws and
in the slip-shod, fact free way large sections of the media "cover" his campaign for
the presidency. The popular media largely ignore Trump’s litany of lies and evasions. They hone in on
Joe Biden’s age.
To many, including all anti Trump campaigners, Good Old Joe Biden is a much, much more suitable presidential candidate for America and the democratic world than Donald Trump. They would not care if Biden was comatose and suffering from “locked in “
syndrome”. He would still be a mile better than the opportunistic, unpredictable charlatan, Donald Trump. At least Biden, recently voted the seventh most
effective US President, is surround by rational, sentient beings. Trump,
recently voted the worst US President in history, is surround by sycophantic Republicans.
Biden is surrounded by rational and strong advisors who will always give sound advice without fear or favour. Conversely,
Trump is an opportunistic egotist who is surrounded by weak and
sycophantic Yes men and women who associate with him solely to maintain their own wealth and power. If they so No to him, Trump sacks them.
Recently Trump boasted that he could quickly fix the problems in Ukraine and Gaza. He would do so by caving in to Putin and Netanyahu, giving them carte blanche to do as they wish. No skin off his nose. That is how his delusional mind works.
Trump did not make America great again when has President. In fact, Trump reduced America. He made it look weak in the eyes of the rest of the world. A second presidency would be catastrophic for America...and the rest of the free world.
