Trump: “Why do I have to repent to seek God’s forgiveness if I am not making mistakes?” [2015 Iowa speech,D.C. Johnston, “The Making of Donald Trump”]
America: “I never sensed from Trump any guilt or contrition about anything he’d done” [Tony Schwartz, co-author, “The Art Of The Deal”]
The Bible: “All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God..” {Romans 3:23] “Do you see a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him.” [Proverbs 26:12] “The times of this ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent.” [Acts 17:30] “Be sure your sin will find you out.” [Numbers 32:23}
2] Trump: the news media is “the true enemy of the people.” [10/30/18}
America: “The only security of all is in a free press.” [Thomas Jefferson] “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subdoing the freedom of speech>” [Ben Franklin] “The liberty of the press is essential to the security of the state.” [John Adams] “Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.” [Calvin Coolidge]
3] Trump: “I always get even.” [Johnston]
The Bible: “”Whoever has shown no mercy shall have judgment without mercy.” [James 2:12] “…let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.” [Zechariah 7:10] “Be of all one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brethren, be tenderhearted, be courteous.” [I Peter 3;8]
America: “Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity.” [Martin Luther King, Jr]
4] Trump: Trump has boasted often he buys the friendship of politicians so they “do what I want.’ [Johnston]
The Bible: “A wicked man takes a bribe secretly to pervert the ways of justice.” [Proverbs 15:27] “Better is a little with righteousness than great revenue without right.” [Proverbs 16:8]
America: “Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.” [Sup. Crt. Justice Louis Brandeis] “A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself, because he can’t help himself.” [Henry Morgan] “No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.” [T.Roosevelt]
5] Trump: “If somebody screws you, you screw “em back ten times over. At least you can feel good about it. Boy, do I feel good.” [Johnston]
The Bible: “If you forgive not men their offenses, neither will your Father forgive your offenses.” [Matthew 6:15] “Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and brawling and evil speaking be put away from you, along with all malice. And be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God for Christ’s sake has forgiven you.” [Ephesians 4; 31-32]
6] Trump: “..other public documents show he has cheated on his income taxes and that he has officially acknowledged sales tax fraud.” [D.C. Johnston, “It’s Worse Than You Think”]
America: “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.” [Sup. Crt. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes] “Of all debts, men are least willing to pay taxes.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson] “Trump’s taxes illustrate how the game is rigged.” In 1995, he claimed a $916 million loss [10/4/16]
7] Trump: “A key part of the story is that facts are whatever Trump deems them to be on any given day. When ..challenged, he instinctively doubles down – even when what he has just said is demonstrably false.” [ Schwartz]
America: “Trump’s history of falsehoods has been extensively documented.” [NY Times, 5/4/18}
The Bible: “Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord.” [Proverbs 12:22] “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” [James l:8] “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” [John 8:323]
8] Trump: In building a Chicago hotel and a Vegas hotel, “Trump imported cheap steel from China, costing American workers their jobs. He went to great lengths to hide where the steel came from…hidden within a chain of various corporate entities..” [Johnston, “It’s Worse..”]
Trump: According to the NY Times, since 2010, 296 Americans applied/ were referred to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club for cooks, housekeepers and wait staff. Only 17 were hired; the rest were foreign workers [easier to control]. Labor Dep’t records show, Trump has sought more than 500 H-2B visas to bring foreign workers to Mar- a-Lago; and used the same method for jobs at his Virginia vineyard, and golf resorts in Juniper, West Palm Beach, and New Jersey. [Carl Hiassen, Miami Herald – 3/1/16]
Trump: Chapter 9, The Polish Brigade, is the story of Trump hiring 200 undocumented Polish workers to demolish a 12-story NYC building. They were hired through a window washing company! [D.C.Johnston, “The Making”]
The Bible: “The righteous considers the cause of the poor, but the wicked have no concern for them.” [Proverbs 29:7] “You have despised the poor. Is it not the rich man who oppresses you…” [James 2:6] “What is a man profited, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul.” [Matthew 16:26] “Let no man seek his own good, but the good of every other man.” I Corinthians 10:24]
9] Trump: “I can’t stomach disloyalty..I go out of my way to make her life miserable.” [Johnston, “The Making]
The Bible: “Bear with one another, and forgive one another, if any man has a quarrel against another; just as Christ forgave you, so also must you forgive.” [Colossians 3:13] “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” [Matthew 5:7] “Repay no man evil for evil.” [Romans 12:19]
10] Trump: Ex-wife Ivana, put in the public record, Trump read from a book of Hitler’s speeches, which he kept in a cabinet next to their bed. This confirmed by friend M.Davis. {Johnston, It’s Even Worse]
Trump: “Trump was equally clear..he didn’t value – not even necessarily recognize – the qualities that tend to emerge as people grow more secure, such as empathy, generosity, reflectiveness, the capacity to delay gratification, or above all, a conscience…Trump simply didn’t traffic in emotions or interest in others.” [Schwartz]
Trump: “Myth Maintenance” Trump has two core strategies to manage his public image: 1] recitation of “facts” without analysis and threats to sue journalists to discourage investigation beyond his talking points; 2] Trump distorts information, contradicts himself, blocks inquiries by law enforcement, regulators, journalists, lawyers [Johnston]
Trump: Trump’s Taj Mahal broke anti-money laundering rules 106 times in the first 18 months; Russian criminals doing it there; Russian-Italian mobs running gas-tax scam in Taj Mahal conference room bugged by the FBI; in Trump’s post-1990 bankruptcy phase, “he began to partner with criminals and accept criminal money from the former Soviet Union;” ex-prosecutor K.McCallion: Russian criminal money “became a central part of his business plan.” [Seth Hettena, “Trump/Russia”]
The Bible: “Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?” [Jeremiah 13;23] “We have made our lies our refuge and under falsehood have we hidden ourselves.” [Isaiah 28:15]
America: “Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can’t, and those in cemeteries.” [Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen]
ll] Trump: “His development essentially ended with early childhood.” [Schwartz
Trump: “Donald Trump’s single greatest character flaw as a leader or human being is his complete and total lack of empathy.” [Omarosa,”Unhinged”]
The Bible: “You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness.” [Nehemiah 9:17] “Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love.” [Romans 12:10]
America: “The best index to a person’s character is [a] how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and [b] how he treats people who ca’t fight back.” [Dear Abbby, 5/16/74] “If the misery of others leaves you indifferent and with no feeling of sorrow, then you cannot be called a human being.” {Jimmy Carter]
12] Trump: “The life he lived was all transactional, all the time.” {Schwartz]
Trump: 2015, Mobile,Al rally – Trump said Saudis “buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.” [Johnston, “It’s Worse..]
Trump: “He asked me, “Omarosa, what do you think about me getting sworn in on “The Art of The Deal?” “Instead of the Bible?” “Yeah. The Art of The Deal is a bestseller!….It’s how I’m going to make deals for the country. Just think how many copies I’d sell – maybe a commemorative inauguration copy?!” [Omarosa, “Unhinged”]
The Bible: “Having food and clothing, let us be content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a trap, and into many foolish and hurtful cravings…The love of money is the root of all evil.” [I Timothy 6:8-10} “Take heed, and beware of greed, for a man’s life consists not in the abundance of things he possesses.” [Luke 12:15]
America: “No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson] “Many foxes grow grey , but few grow good.” {Ben Franklin]
13] Trump: “3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico….This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible.”
Trump: “I the least racist person that you’ve ever encountered.” (2015, after calling Mexicans rapists and murderers}
Trump: “I said the president is using a methodology of mistruth to create that level of tension and anxiety.” [Anthony Scaramucci, 10/26/18]
Trump:”Trump uses race and race relations to manipulate people…the birther movement..also had the purpose of riling up the Republican base of white voters. Trump;s racialization of illegal immigrants and his rhetoric about ‘building a wall’ served the same goal.” [Omarosa]
The Bible: “A perverse man sows strife..” [Proverbs 1628] Lay aside all malice, and all deceit…and all evil speaking.” [I Peter 2:1] “You shall not go about as a talebearer among your people.” [Leviticus 19:16]
14] Trump: “I have to tell you about losers because they make me feel so good about myself.” {Johnston, “The Making..”]
The Bible: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you.” [John 13:4] “A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the trap of his soul.” [Proverbs 18:7] “He that despises his neighbor sins.” [Proverbs 14:21]
15] Trump: “…adding her to a long list of women he has attacked by demeaning their looks, mocking their bodily functions or comparing them to animals…Perhaps most common is Trump’s fixation on the overall appearance of women, He often uses their looks as a way of diminishing their abilities, their intelligence or their effectiveness – sometimes all three.” [NY Times, 10/10/18]
The Bible: “He that has a perverse heart finds no good, and he who has a perverse tongue falls into mischief.” [Proverbs 17:20] “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” [ Exodus 20:16]
America: “Woman’s great mission is to train immature, weak, and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God.” [Catherine E. Beecher] “A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.” [Ralph Waldo Emerson] “The only trouble with sexually liberating women is that there aren’t enough sexually liberated men to go around.” [Gloria Steinem}
16] Trump: Trump proposed ending benefits for disabled veterans once they go to the minimum age for Social Security; their income would drop from$35,000 to $13,000 annually. [Johnston, “It’s Even Worse]
Trump: Trump’s 2017 tax bill, his major “achievement,” is a huge gift to corporations and the very rich [10/1/17]
Trump: “Treasury weighs $100 billion tax cut for rich;” 86% of benefits go to the top 1% [7/31/18]
Trump: “500 immigrant Army recruits expelled” – they had been “recruited across the globe” for language or medical skills, and promised a fast track to citizenship [10/12/18]
Trump: “A 1-year-old in court…” A l-year-old child sat before a Phoenix immigration judge; later a 7-year-old child would also [4/18/18]
Trump: “More would die under Trump’s coal deregulation plan ,EPA says.” [8/22/18]
The Bible: “Woe to them that make unjust laws.” {Isaiah 10:1] “Do you decree righteousness, you rulers? Do you judge people rightly? No, in your hearts you devise wickedness.” {Psalm 58:1-2]
America: “Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also prison.” [Henry David Thoreau] “There is but one blasphemy, and that is injustice.” [Robert G. Ingersoll] “Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.” [Martin Luther King, Jr] “Justice sir…is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.: {Daniel Webster]
17] Trump: “Donald Trump campaigned like a populist. He has consistently governed like a plutocrat: the corporate cabinet; cutting taxes for corporations and the rich; going soft on corporate offenders; enabling predatory lenders; endangering worker safety and health; putting former pharmaceutical executive in charge of the U.S. Dep’t of Health and Human Services.” [Public Citizen, March-April, 2018]
Trump: “Senator Cory Gardner..who chairs the Republican Senate campaign committee, told his colleagues they must support the atrocious tax cut because “donors are furious.” Representative Chris Collins [R-NY]..added “donors are basically saying, “Get it done or don’t ever call me again.'” {Public Citizen, Sept. 21, 2018]
The Bible: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” [Matthew 7:15] “The righteous considers the cause of the poor, but the wicked closes his eyes to them.” [Proverbs 28:27] “Abstain from all appearance of evil.” [I Thessalonians 5:22]
America: “The governments of the past could be fairly characterized as devices for maintaining in perpetuity the place and position of certain privileged classes, without any ultimate protection for the rights of the people. The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.” {Calvin Coolidge] “…there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with ‘the money touch,’ but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.” [T.Roosevelt]
With Justice For All 