Giving Trump A Chance

ON INAUGURATION DAY, I very strongly reminded myself of the moral necessity of giving everyone, including the new president, a fair chance. That's just basic decency. This, although I had long since come to despise Donald Trump, after spending the first two weeks after his campaign began supporting him. I have rolled my eyes at Trump fpr forty years, at the glitz and glamour, at the front page scandal sheet affairs and marriages, at his obvious craving for the attention of the limelight, and his obvious obsession with making great amounts of money not be sustained hard work, but by investing huge amounts of money on high risk, high return, highly frivolous financial ventures, such as casinos. At first Trump seemed like a fresh breath of political air, a true swamp drainer, someone to step in and reform Washington. Then, he began calling folks names. The one that got me was "lying Ted". No Ted Cruz is not the liar, between the two of them, it aint Ted Cruz. Inauguration day was another fresh start, and his inaugurations speech, all fifteen minutes of it, was simplistic, and hackneyed, with all the for now on its going to be America first B.S.,but I liked the brevity. Then came the nightmare of his actual administration and his word and deeds. The racism was oozing from every pore, although he and his supporters evidently are genuine in their inability to see it; conservatives are prone to such blindness. The constant barrage of slander against the FBI and other intelligence agencies merely because they happen to have the good sense to investigate him, the constant barrage against the media because of their committing the sin of telling the truth; the ban on Muslims, ridiculous then and now, as if a religion with nearly two billion members is the equivalent of terrorism; it would be as if the KKK were indicative of the Christian faith, which, as we well know, it is not. The list of impeachable offenses against Trump, which here have barely begun to be enumerated, is enormous, and it a great tragedy that he remains in office. he may not for long. At some point, Mueller will wrap it p, and, considering how long he's been at it, he obviously has something worth investigating and reporting. For a detailed, convincing explanation of the conflict of interest problem, read what Richard Painter, the world's leading authority on the mater and chief ethics adviser to President Bush, has to say. then too, there is trump's unwillingness to fight climate change, which according to the Dept. of Defense is the nation's greatest threat. One should give everybody a chance, to a point.