What has happened to the Republicans party?
By Nancy Eubanks
The Republicans party used to be the party where character mattered. Remember the “Moral Majority”. Now over 70% support Donald Trump for president. This is a man who lies, cheats, commits adulatory, sexually assaults women and brags about it, uses all kinds of nasty language to describe those he doesn’t like, insults military heroes ,insults gold star families, calls some foreign countries “shit holes”and on top of all that he now has been indicted by a Florida grand jury for endangering our nation security by keeping classified documents at his home and refusing to return all of them ( in violation of the espionage act). Also he has been indicted by a Washington DC grand jury on 4 felony counts of conspiring to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to Biden – the duly elected new President.. This conspiracy is a clear violation of his oath of office as President to up hold the Constitution of the United States.
Let me explain further;
1.The lies. The Washington Post fact checker estimates Trump lied over 30,000 times while in office. Of course the BIG LIE that Trump still repeats is “the 2020 election of Biden was stolen”. Christopher Krebs, Trump’s cyber security advisor, told Trump in November 2020 that this election was the most secure election in US history. Ditto attorney general Bill Barr and Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump. And many others in Trumps inner circle. 60 court cases and multiple state audits found no significant fraud. The Dominion company that supplied many of the electronic voting machine won a $700,000+ deformation law suit against Fox News for spreading lies about voter fraud.
2. Cheats. In 2019 Trump’s charity had to pay over $2 million for misusing funds that went to Trump personally. Plus the charity was forced to dissolve. Trump had to pay $25 million pertaining to his fraudulent Trump University. USA TODAY reported in 2018 that Trump had over 3500 lawsuits against Trump and his companies for refusing to pay contractors what they were due for their work at Trump properties. In 2022 Trump organization was found guilty on multiple criminal tax frauds and fined $1.6 million.
3. Committed adulatory at least 3 times that we know of -Marla Maples, Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal.
4. Sexual assault/harassment. In a book by Barry Levine it contained about 43 allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump. Trump bragged about being able to “grab women by the p…” because he is rich and famous. He admitted this belief under oath during his deposition at the E.Jean Carrol trial. In the E.Jean Carrol civil deformation law suit, the jury found Trump guilty of sexual abuse and deformation (and the judge essentially said by a common definition of rape - Trump did just that). The jury awarded her $5million.
6. Classified documents “the Presidential Record Act requires that all records created by Presidents and Vice Presidents be turned over to NARA at the end of their administration”. Trump is being charged with 40 felonies in his mishandling classified documents. He even bragged about having classified documents about Pentagon plans to handle Iran and showed them to people with no classified clearance. These actions clearly endanger our national security ( something Republicans once cared about).
7. Jan 6 Trump is being charged with 4 felonies that involve his attempt to over turn the 2020 election. Please read the indictment.
BTW you can’t be the law and order party and then say Jan 6 ,where over 100 police officers were injured, over 400 people were convicted of various crimes in their participation on Jan 6, and just call this event a normal tourist visit. Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oat Keepers, was convicted by a jury of his peers, of seditious conspiracy for inciting an insurrection against the government of the United States. He was sentenced to 18 years. You can’t be the law and order party and recommend that the FBI be defunded, as several Republican congressmen are suggesting.
So beside all these character flaws, several prominent psychologists have hypothesized that Trump is a narcissist sociopath meaning he lacks empathy and compassion and only really cares about himself. And 40 out of 44 of Trumps top former advisors say Trump should not be President again. Please people wake up. Trump is a danger to our country and our democracy. He should NEVER be President again.