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<\/a>First there was the right-wing Tea Party. Then along came Donald Trump, who used to be a Democrat. Together, they threw the Republican Party\u2019s reputation into the toilet. Then there has been the president\u2019s comical lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who said yesterday, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with taking information from the Russians.\u201d Finally, there is the new Attorney General William Barr, who is tucked away snugly in The Donald\u2019s pocket. Barr has flushed the toilet with his false summaries of the redacted Mueller report made public last Thursday. The result: the Republican Party is floating away in the sewer.<\/p>\nDonald Trump strode into Washington like a knight in shining armor. He exclaimed that the nation\u2019s capitol was controlled by Deep State and that he would \u201cdrain the swamp.\u201d On the contrary, he and the corrupted Republican Party are in the sewer that is emptying into the swamp. The swamp wasn\u2019t all that bad, but now it smells so foul it is stinking up to high heaven.<\/p>\n
The 448-page Mueller report presents a president who is very unethical, who does not respect U.S. laws, who acts like a white-collar mobster by telling his underlings to break the law, and who himself has seriously obstructed justice about ten times or more, especially by trying to end special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation of Trump and his team regarding collusion with Russians about the election. And during this time, President Trump has more than 100 times called Mueller\u2019s probe a Witch Hunt. I think it was a Witch Hunt, and Trump was the witch!<\/p>\n
Plus, President Donald Trump publicly bashed the press and called it Fake News so many times that it\u2019s hard to keep count. Yet Mueller\u2019s report cites facts and testimonies from so many witnesses he interviewed which shows that the press has been amazingly truthful and accurate in its investigative reporting of Trump so that it\u2019s been The Donald who has constantly been the Fake News because he is such a serial liar.<\/p>\n
And who among the Republican members of Congress have sounded off by chastising their president for so disrespecting the highest office in our land? Only one Republican senator\u2013Mitt Romney. He said the Mueller report made him \u201csickened\u201d by Trump\u2019s \u201cdishonesty.\u201d And Ohio Republican Governor John Kasich\u2013who like Romney also ran against Trump for the Republican nomination for president\u2013said the Mueller report proves Donald Trump is \u201cdisgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n
But where are all the other Republican Congress folk with courage to speak the truth? Republican Senator Susan Collins could only say the Mueller report is \u201can unflattering portrayal\u201d of her president. That\u2019s it. No others. The rest are still standing with their president. That\u2019s why the Republican Party\u2019s reputation is shot to hell.<\/p>\n
(BTW, I voted Republican pretty much all my life until recently. As I posted before, \u201cThe Black White House Is Turning Me Into a Democrat<\/a>. I didn\u2019t quite mean that, but that\u2019s the way I feel.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First there was the right-wing Tea Party. Then along came Donald Trump, who used to be a Democrat. Together, they threw the Republican Party\u2019s reputation into the toilet. Then there has been the president\u2019s comical lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who said yesterday, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with taking information from the Russians.\u201d Finally, there is the new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1477,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2660],"tags":[734,4201,2810,4198,2986],"class_list":["post-9052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-kasich","tag-mitt-romney","tag-mueller-report","tag-robert-mueller"],"yoast_head":"\n
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