Declaring National Moral Bankruptcy

A LETTER signed by hundreds of former federal prosecutors asserts that the Mueller report very clearly proves that Trump committed obstruction of justice. The letter is quite correct. Mueller describes several of Trump's actions which meet every criterium for the crime. The Mueller report also proves that there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians operatives interfering with the election helping Trump get elected. Trump knew about, accepted, welcomed, and failed to report or try to stop the Russian project, a highly organized and extensive operation which intended to and successfully helped Trump get elected. In essence, Trump cooperated with the Russian effort. that is collusion, if only informal. We knew at the time that Attorney General Sessions was fired for failing to stop the Mueller investigation, and that William Barr was appointed to replace him because of his willingness to act on behalf of Trump in dealing with Mueller. His four page summary of the report was intentionally misleading, intended to instill within the American people the false notion that Trump was found innocent of all wrong doing, when in fact quite the opposite is true. Mueller plainly reveals Trump to be a criminal, and practically begs somebody else, probably Congress, to take action. Meanwhile, Trump is describing the Mueller investigation as an attempted coup, and trying to encourage his supporters to do likewise. Most amazing in all this is what a depraved low life of a reprobate Donald Trump is revealing himself to be, on a daily basis, year after year, and that his many supporters, at least forty percent of the American people, are no better than he. To support Trump at this point requires either a complete ignorance of reality, or a wanton, depraved disregard for it, i.e., complete moral bankruptcy. There is strong evidence that Trump's supporters are indeed going to buy into this outlandish lie that the Mueller investigation was from the beginning at organized attempt by Trump haters to bring Trump down, a coup, if you will, rather than a legitimate investigation. Undoubtedly the Republicans will engage in a massive investigation of the investigation, and do their best to fabricate facts to support their lie. For this, they can count on the assistance of right wing think tanks such as teh Heritage Foundation to churn out the fake news. Just a point in fact; when it is discovered that the Russians interfered with an election in which the person they were trying to help won the election and became the president of the United States, an investigation is in order. But Trump's extreme right wing supporters, a large part of whom are evangelical Christians, have repeatedly shown their willingness to deny reality and to fabricate their own false version of it, in order to avoid the truth about Trump. By doing this, they have forfeited any claim to integrity, decency, or honesty. America's far right is angry that gays are demanding and getting equality, that dark skinned immigrants are swamping the country, that the Christian religion is unable to take over the country, and that political correctness has swept across freedom's land. Let us hope there will come a time when they find a way to except all these horrible social changes, before they hysterically elevate Trump or somebody even worse to Hitleresque power and consequences. At this point it hardly seems surprising that right wing extremism and religious rigidity and zealotry have, through neurological research, recently been shown to be the result of brain damage to the frontal cortex.