Stain on America

Saturday, August 25, 2018 “Where’s the Collusion,” Donald Trump repeatedly remarked to his audience during his rally at the Charleston Civic Center in West Virginia last Tuesday evening (August 21st), which took place immediately following the news of the Paul Manafort convictions and Michael Cohen guilty pleas – both in United States District Court. Although Trump made some brief remarks regarding Tuesday’s jury verdict convicting his former Campaign Chairman, Paul Manafort on eight felony charges, he did not remark about the guilty pleas entered in United States District Court by his personal attorney and “fixer,” Michael Cohen. Counts seven (7) and eight (8) of the information to which Cohen pleaded guilty are the two counts that expressly and directly implicate Donald J. Trump personally, the Trump Organization, The National Enquirer tabloid and its publisher, David Pecker in criminal conspiracies – “conspiracy” is a synonym for “collusion,” as anyone can check in any th...

Following bans of Alex Jones by Apple, YouTube, Facebook and Spotify, Vimeo has joined the social media platforms that refuse to give hate and bigotry a home. For several years, it has been the deliberate focus of Russia to create division within the United States through social media. As a part of that agenda, Russia has backed a huge number of propaganda outlets that promote divisive rhetoric, fully intended to incite hate-filled fractures within our American cultures. Alex Jones has clearly been among the delivery mechanisms that have precipitated hate filled bigotry and division within our Nation, causing escalating violent confrontations on American streets and chaos within the political leadership of our nearly indistinguishable democracy. It really should send a message to the supporters of the radical far right that our culture is simply not going to tolerate this kind of reckless, uncivilized and unacceptable divisive propaganda any longer. Virtually all of the ma...

The United States intelligence community and Department of Justice have unanimously opined that there is unquestionable evidence that the Russian government knowingly, and deliberately influenced the 2016 U.S. presidential election, that its influence was specifically targeted and intended to help Trump win, and it was intended to hurt his opponent(s).  Even Vladimir Putin has admitted on video, during a press conference in Helsinki that he wanted Trump to win the election and that he instructed his subordinates to help facilitate that objective. It is also common knowledge that many Social Media platforms provided a vehicle to facilitate the objectives of the Russian influence campaign. We are now learning that an anonymous conspiracy-monger launched a domestic based movement – an organization calling itself the “Q.” “Q” is a reference to QAnon, a group of people attempting to decode vague, anonymous comments posted on dark web message boards such as 4chan and 8chan. It...

IS THE PRESIDENT’S NOMINATION OF BRETT KAVANAUGH TO THE SUPREME COURT DONALD TRUMP’S GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD? Why had Trump chosen Brett Kavanaugh as his Supreme Court nominee, and why are there so many ads running on television and social media to support Kavanaugh? The judiciary is supposed to be independent of the political process, yet the advertising appears to mirror political advertising – to get a person confirmed and appointed to the United States Supreme Court. By now, it is common knowledge that Donald Trump has a plethora of legal issues, which range from allegations of paying-off former adulterous affairs to allegations of violating the Constitution’s emoluments clause, to participating in a conspiracy with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election, and/or conspiring to cover that up, to obstruction of justice.  To clarify, these are all allegations, and every person is innocent until proven guilty. The United States intelligence community and...