TheWiseOldFart

All heads of mob organizations demand absolute loyalty. If this sounds familiar, it’s because you have read at least one story about how Trump demands fealty from all of his “people” although he never offers loyalty in return. Trump’s cabinet and other close advisers share two things in common: none of them are qualified for their positions, and all of them are loyal to Trump for a variety reasons, including criminal activity. He is protecting them from prosecution. In return, each of them continues to kiss his humongous derriere on a regular basis. It is fair to compare Trump’s entire life to those of infamous mobsters Al Capone, and John Gotti. From his early days Trump committed crimes big and small. These were desperate efforts to maintain the lifestyle of a real billionaire. He has now become the unquestionable leader of the Washington Mafia 2.0 in 2025. Long before Putin decided to make Trump your president, he was committing tax fraud by inflating the value of his properties whe...

  In February of 2016 the most radical right-wing Supreme Court ju stice, Antonin Scalia, died suddenly. There were nine months before the next election.    However, Moscow Mitch McConnell violated the rules specified in the Constitution, and made his own rule, claiming that no Supreme Court justice would be confirmed during an election year. He would break this rule for his own benefit in October of 2020. Merrick Garland was President Obama’s nominee.   I am one of many who believe that as our Attorney General under President Biden, Garland will be remembered as the worst in history. After Trump planned, organized, and executed a violent insurrection on January 6, 2021, no charges were filed by the Department of Justice.   My wife and I watched all three hours of the attempted coup, and there is no doubt Trump committed treason. The facts prove that if Garland had the courage to do his job, Trump wou ld not be taking the oath of office on Mond ay . Garland pla...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   Trump was in office for 1,460 days. He committed at least one crime during every sad day he pretended to be your president. We all know of his many Constitutional violations and his crimes against humanity, and we all know that he was impeached for cause twice but never received a fair trial in the Senate. Most of us knew about a situation confirmed and reported to the general public today, which would have demanded a third impeachment. The Emoluments Clause is clear: “The plain purpose of the foreign emoluments clause was to ensure that the country’s leaders would not be improperly influenced, even unconsciously, through gift giving, then a common and generally corrupt practice among European rulers and diplomats. An early version of the clause, modeled on a rule adopted by the Dutch Republic in 1651 that forbade its foreign ministers from receiving “any presents, directly or indirectly, in any manner or way whatever,” was incorporated into the Articles o...