Reassessing Trump

THE CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS, the ones seventy five percent of Republicans are ignoring for good cause, while seriously incriminating Donald Trump, have also strangely elevated my opinion of the former criminal president. But only slightly. I had assumed that on January 6th, at the now notorious lame duck sore loser campaign rally, Trump never had any intention of meeting them (the mob) at the Capitol and helping with the insurrection, as he promised. Just another Trump lie, another betrayel of his cult followers. That turns out not to be true. Not only did he fully intend to go to the Capitol with his violent mob, when the Secret Service person driving his limo refused to take him there, he actually tried to grab the stering wheel and direct the car up Pennsyvania Ave., away fromo the White House. Since the then president was presumably sitting in the back seat, the image is one of the president, in suit and tie, lunging over the car seat, and, in a prone, horizontal position, stretching out his arms, and, giving it a go. Not happening, said the driver and the other Secret Service officers in the car. But then we are confronted with the haunting specter of a president who threw dishes at the walls, staining them with ketchup. A president who lunges from the back seat of a limo, trying to take control of the car and strangle the driver at once. This proves that perhaps for the first time in his life of corruption, Donald J. Trump told someone that he was going to do something, and at least tried to do it, albeit unsuccessfully. On the debit side, President Trump assembled a angry mob for a campaign rally, a meaningless lame duck event since he was within two weeks of leaving office. Fully aware of his defeat for reelection, he further incited the well armed mob, and, fully aware of their being armed to the teeth, so to speak, sent them to the Capitol to do his dirty work. The chain of evidence is intact, criminal intent has been established. When I said to my sister that there is a distinct possibilty that Donald Trump might be elected president, again, she replied: "President? Of what? Of whcih country? This country?". The malingering loyalty of Trump's followers is inexplicable, other than to accept the apparent reality that thosewho still support him, even after his orchestrated violent attempt to steal the presidency and overthrow the United States government, is the behavior of a cult. Cult members either succeed with there iconic leader, or they go down flaming with him, or, at the worst, they instigate a new religion.