The Gloves Are Off

Noted coward and liar Donald Trump used a boxing metaphor when he said the Mueller Report “never laid a glove on me.” I guess the 12 investigations spun off the Mueller Report don't count.

Hiding as usual behind Twitter, Trump has crazily tweeted to the entire world that he and his administration have no intention of answering any of the legitimate subpoenas issued by various Congressional oversight committees. “We're going to fight all the subpoenas,” he told reporters.

So here we go – the gloves are off and its bare knuckles from here to the 2020 election. Of course, impeachment is on many Democratic tongues and minds, but an impeachment trial in the Republican-controlled Senate would doubtless not convict this self-confessed blocker of justice, and would only give Trump ammo to use in the 2020 election, no matter who the Democrats put up against him.

By the same token, a trial in the Senate would make very, very public from the mouths of a legion of witnesses the ways in which Trump sought to derail the Mueller investigation and the rule of law. He knows this and is already saying he doesn't want any staffers testifying before any of the Congressional hearings, yet alone an impeachment trial. This ignoramus actually thinks he can just turn to his stacked Supreme Court and get any impeachment process whisked away like the dandruff on his blue suit. It doesn't work that way, stupid. These people will be heard, one way or another, by the entire American voting public.

Just as the televised Watergate hearings brought the players and their stories alive, so would televised testimony before both Congressional panels and/or an impeachment trial, lift the words of the Mueller Report off the page into human reality. Powerful stuff before an election.

The complete Mueller Report will also be brought before the American people, who will be able finally to see in glaring detail the criminality of the man in the White House. If the report is perpetually delayed – essentially blocked – by court battles, it will be leaked, all of it, by patriots willing to suffer the consequences. 

If this sham of a man and president has nothing to hide, why is he acting so guilty? An innocent man would say, “Bring it on – I'm innocent. You can't lay a glove on me.” This man fights any move towards the truth with all the evil energy and power he possesses. 

One overpowering reason is that if Trump is not re-elected, he might well end up in the same jail as Paul Manafort. Once President Donald Trump is just citizen Trump, he can be brought to trial under all the sealed indictments that are doubtless waiting. He knows this. His lawyers know this. If he is re-elected, the statute of limitations will prevail during his second term and when he finally walks out of the White House – if this old crud is still alive – he will be free to die as the worst president in history.

So while hearings and potential impeachment are one avenue-- very bumpy and chancy – to get rid of this parasite, by far the best way is to turn him out at the ballot box and then let justice take its course. 

And if he doesn't want to go quietly, drag him out by his orange hair.