Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans refuse to pass bipartisan legislation to prevent foreign interference in the 2020 election. These bills include requiring social media to post who pays for political advertising and requiring any political candidate to report to the FBI any offers of assistance from Russia or other foreign governments. In 2016 the Trump campaign received numerous offers of assistance from Russia but did not report them.
Trump continues to deny the conclusions of the Mueller report that the Russians tried to interfere systematically in the 2016 election, rather only that there was no evidence of conspiracy by the Trump campaign and that a sitting president could not be charged with obstruction but was not exonerated.
I think the Trump administration is trying to pick a fight with Iran. Not that Iran is blameless but the economic sanctions imposed on them are crushing for ordinary Iranians. I’m not surprised that some faction like the Republican Guard might do something crazy like sabotage to oil tankers ….. or maybe it was a Saudi trick, trying to get us to attack Iran. Maybe a war with a muslim country would play well with Trump’s base?
And President Trump opened his 2020 campaign yesterday saying that ICE would begin next week deporting millions of illegal immigrants from this country. Really ….. deport millions of people? There has been too much cruelty already. We need a secure border, Yes. We do not need to rip out people who have been here many years, families, businesses and important parts of communities all across this country.
This is the guy that thinks Kim Jong Un is a friend. Who ignores the killing and dismemberment of an independent journalist probably ordered by the Saudi Prince and sees “two sides” when one of them is the Klu Klux Klan!
The President of the United States needs to be a moral leader for our country and the world. He need to be a champion of human rights, the vision of our founding fathers and our Constitution.
End the cruelty, end the cruelty, end the cruelty!
