A response to the LA Times.

1Trump’s shocking lack of respect for those fundamental rules and institutions on which our government is based. Since Jan. 20, he has repeatedly disparaged and challenged those entities that have threatened his agenda, stoking public distrust of essential institutions in a way that undermines faith in American democracy. He has questioned the qualifications of judges and the integrity of their decisions, rather than acknowledging that even the president must submit to the rule of law. He has clashed with his own intelligence agencies, demeaned government workers and questioned the credibility of the electoral system and the Federal Reserve. He has lashed out at journalists, declaring them “enemies of the people,” rather than defending the importance of a critical, independent free press. His contempt for the rule of law and the norms of government are palpable.

AJ responds. The LA Times shows that Mr Trump is correct when he labels the Liberal Press dishonest and an enemy of the people. The Media has become a cheering section of the Democrat Party and an extension of the lunatic fringe of the democrat Party. As for disrespecting the judiciary, what can we say when the judges disregard the law that specifies the President of having the SOLE authority of who is let into the Country and some judges disregard the law. The Press is neither critical, neither independent. The intelligence agencies had broken the law by circulating and unmasking the name of American citizens picked up "accidentally" while listening in on conversations.

2His utter lack of regard for truth. Whether it is the easily disprovable boasts about the size of his inauguration crowd or his unsubstantiated assertion that Barack Obama bugged Trump Tower, the new president regularly muddies the waters of fact and fiction. It’s difficult to know whether he actually can’t distinguish the real from the unreal — or whether he intentionally conflates the two to befuddle voters, deflect criticism and undermine the very idea of objective truth. Whatever the explanation, he is encouraging Americans to reject facts, to disrespect science, documents, nonpartisanship and the mainstream media — and instead to simply take positions on the basis of ideology and preconceived notions. This is a recipe for a divided country in which differences grow deeper and rational compromise becomes impossible.

 

AJ responds. It is the Press that reports unverified reports as long as they figure the reports will hurt Republicans. But Barak Hussein's operatives did bug Trump and his entourage. We can argue whether the kind of surveillance Obama's intelligence officers did is in fact 'bugging,' but Trump is correct, he was being spied on. Science has become politicized under Obama. Note the climate fraud and other fake science on climate. We should not and must not compromise with fraudsters and other swamp dwellers. 

3His scary willingness to repeat alt-right conspiracy theories, racist memes and crackpot, out-of-the-mainstream ideas. Again, it is not clear whether he believes them or merely uses them. But to cling to disproven “alternative” facts; to retweet racists; to make unverifiable or false statements about rigged elections and fraudulent voters; to buy into discredited conspiracy theories first floated on fringe websites and in supermarket tabloids — these are all of a piece with the Barack Obama birther claptrap that Trump was peddling years ago and which brought him to political prominence. It is deeply alarming that a president would lend the credibility of his office to ideas that have been rightly rejected by politicians from both major political parties.

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Where will this end? Will Trump moderate his crazier campaign positions as time passes? Or will he provoke confrontation with Iran, North Korea or China, or disobey a judge’s order or order a soldier to violate the Constitution? Or, alternately, will the system itself — the Constitution, the courts, the permanent bureaucracy, the Congress, the Democrats, the marchers in the streets — protect us from him as he alienates more and more allies at home and abroad, steps on his own message and creates chaos at the expense of his ability to accomplish his goals? Already, Trump’s job approval rating has been hovering in the mid-30s, according to Gallup, a shockingly low level of support for a new president. And that was before his former national security advisor, Michael Flynn, offered to cooperate last week with congressional investigators looking into the connection between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.

 

AJ responds. There is real question about Barak Hussein's bona fides. His birth certificate was determined by experts to be fraudulent as was his Social Security number. The Media has never seriously examined the facts. Besides, Barak Hussein was naturalized as an Indonesian Muslim. These are facts. As for the approval rating of Donald Trump, that comes from an organization that is getting out of predicting election results because they can't get it right.

 

It is not Pres Trump but the likes of the LA Times and likeminded individuals who want to reverse the results of an election by circulating false rumors of Russian hacking and by holding demonstrations.

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