*** “When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man’s baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.” [ Jacob Javits; Republican U.s. senator ]

This post presents an examination of ONE facet of the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s massive CORRUPTION – in this case, the massive PERVERSION of the offices of “Inspector General.” Their major purpose – is to detect and fight corruption, fraud, waste. Following are excerpts from. “Trump Installing His Allies In Offices Of Inspector General”. [ Luke Broadwater; New York Times; 8/20/26 ]:

12]. “This is in some ways unsurprising because this was all right in Project 2025,” says Rep. Jared Huffman of California, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee…”They laid out the purge of the civil service and the consolidation of these independent entities within the government under executive power, under the direct executive power, and then they called for a second step, which was to repopulate all these positions with Heritage-trained political stooges.” [NOTE: SERIOUSLY read “Project 2025”]

***. “Never confuse ‘the law’ with justice; the law represents authority and the system. Justice represents integrity and the truth.” [ Gavin Nascimento ]

4]. “During the first year of Trump’s second term, his approach to dealing with federal inspectors general, who are supposed to be apolitical, was to fire them and slash funding for their offices. But since the mass firings, the president has appointed some government watchdogs with overtly political backgrounds. And they have directed their investigations toward allegations of fraud art the state level, instead of targeting the agencies within the administration that they are supposed to scrutinize.” [NOTE: cynical trick: divert attention to states to cover up!!!]

5]. “The president wanted his own IGs,” said Michael J. Missal, who spent nine years as inspector general for the Department of Veterans affairs. “When you have your own IGs, you lose the credibility and integrity of the work.”

6] “The latest example of Trump’s inserting a political actor into a nonpartisan watchdog role occurred amid public furor over the Reflecting Pool fiasco. Alarmed over the Trump administration’s botched repairs of the Reflecting Pool and the president’s attempt to falsely blame the failures on left-wing vandals, Democratic lawmakers urged the Interior Department’s inspector general to investigate. The Trump administration’s response was to insert a right-wing operative to take over the office that would carry out the investigation.” {NOTE: is there any doubt about MASSIVE TRUMP DICTATORSHIP CORRUPTION???? Cover up your own incompetence, & blame innocents you don’t like!!! ]

*** “The Trumpian lie is different. It is the power lie; or the bolly lie. It is the lie of the bigger kid who took your hat and is wearing it – while denying that he took it.” [ Masha Gessen ]

7]. “Dennis Kirk was among the authors of Project 2025, a collection of conservative policy proposals published before the 2024 election. The plan to install Kirk as the Interior Department inspector general sounded alarm bells in the world of government watchdogs and among Democrats on Capitol Hill, and not merely because he could thwart an internal investigation into the Reflecting Pool.”

11] “Within the inspector general community, the nomination of Kirk is considered a pivot beyond merely cutting those agencies. Now, former inspectors general say, they are being politicized. Kirk was a former advisor to Tulsi Gabbard when she served as the director of national intelligence, and a staff member at the conservative Heritage foundation.”

***. “It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.” [ Chief Justice Earl Warren ]

8]. “Missal was one of at least 20 inspectors general who were fired or demoted by Trump in the first six months of the president’s second term. The mass purge, which was accompanied by staff reductions of up to 30% in some offices, resulted in inspectors general offices without permanent leaders and a culture of fear that workers could be fired for doing their jobs.” [NOTE: this PATTERN is common throughout Washington, as a Republican Senator remarked; “We are all afraid.” ]

9] “..as Trump fills some of the positions, he has selected people with political backgrounds, and they have made it the mission of their organization to look outside the Trump administration fro fraud and wrongdoing.” [NOTE: this is the WEAPONIZATION of “Your” government AGAINST YOU ]

10] “Inspectors general, by law, are tasked with preventing and detecting fraud, waste and abuse related to their agency, while promoting efficiency in agency programs and operations. While they are located inside respective federal agencies, they are designed to act independently and in a nonpartisan manner.” {NOTE: their proper mission is EXACTLY what the Trump DICTATORSHIP does NOT want.}

***. “dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact they foster idiocy.” { Jorge Luis Borges ]

{Note: We have now given YOU 228 examples of why the Trump DICTATORSHIP is Stupid, Cruel, Corrupt, Crazy, and INCOMPETENT. The posts have been based on commentary made in reaction to something undemocratic, unConstitutional; something corrupt, cruel, stupid, incompetent that Trump has already done. The Pulitzer Prize winners, experts, law professionals, people from his own government, etc. are. NOT. making stuff up. They don’t need to. On virtually a daily basis, the Trump DICTATORSHIP violates. THE. test of any American government, written in the Constitution’s Preamble: it fails to “..promote the general Welfare..” of the American people. In 20 months of a four year term, the Trump DICTATORSHIP is already THE most corrupt and destructive in ALL. American history. If we are lucky, on January 20, 2029 – we MAY still have a DEMOCRACY.” But – even there – the damage Trump has done to the American soul, to our system of governing, to our financial health, to our physical health, to the health of planet earth, to our international reputation – may NOT be repairable.
So – what are YOU going to do that helps America recover????? ]

***. “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
[ Theodore Roosevelt; Republican; 26th U.S. President ]

This post presents excerpts from “A Sweeping Effort To Stifle Free Speech”. [ Jim Rutenberg, Maggie Haberman; New York Times; 9/13/26 ]. Read the entire article for full appreciation of the gravity of this threat to American democracy, please.

5] “Mr. Trump has been candid about his aim: to inflict pain, even if it was fleeting. After bringing a failed libel suit against a former Times reporter Timothy L. O’Brien, whose book Mr. Trump “TrumpNation”. estimated Mr. Trump to be worth far less than he claimed, the president gloated about forcing the publisher to spend money. “I did it to make his life miserable, which I’m happy about,” he said.” [NOTE: run this around in your mind]

6]. “Mr. Trump’s team is unapologetic about its goal of achieving firmer control of the national information environment. – what Mr. Cheung, the communications director, has dubbed in a social media post, “Full Spectrum Dominance.”

2]. “Driven by personal pique, fury over leaks and a determination to shape the political narrative to his advantage, Mr. Trump is deploying the might of the federal government and filing lawsuits. – targeting not just journalists and liberal critics, but also comedians and talk show hosts, and the corporate entities behind them……… Free speech advocates say the president’s intent is apparent: to punish, intimidate and silence dissenters….”There’s not a week that goes by where they’re not taking a new step to curtail press freedom in the country…..”

***. “For if men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.”
[ George Washington; 3/15/1783 ]

3] “Reporters Without Borders maintains an index that tracks press freedom in 180 countries, clocking governmental threats, subpoenas and the vindictive use of regulations against journalists. The United States now ranks at its lowest since the organization started the index in 2002. – 64th, just above Panama and just below Botswana. The trend is the same at similar indexes kept by the Freedom of the Press Foundation and the V-Dem Institute of Sweden.”

10] “Government efforts to subpoena journalists and chill their reporting through threats are at the highest level since trhe foundation started tracking incidents in 2017.”

11] “..as a private citizen, Mr. Trump has filed lawsuits against a wide range of targets including The Guardian newspaper, the journalist Bob Woodward and the Pulitzer Prize board. – legal battles often financed by his donor-funded political action committee.”

***. “The first thing dictators do is finish free press to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.” [ Fidel Castro ]

12] “Many of the moves have also drawn stern rebukes from judges….Judge William b. Porter chastised the government….a judge worried that allowing the suit to proceed could have “a massive, chilling effect.” After a judge harshly questioned government lawyers…..Judge Paul Friedman..”Those who drafted the First Amendment believed that the nation’s security requires a free press and an informed people and that such security is endangered by governmental suppression of political speech.”

4] “Now the administration is breaking new ground in stifling dissent with personal lawsuits and novel uses of executive power…with implications that extend far beyond Mr. trump’s presidency. “We live in a different world under this administration because the threats are so grave…”

1] “The Justice Department has sent F.B.I. agents to reporter’s homes to serve subpoenas…The Pentagon has fired the editor and publisher of its traditionally independent newspaper….Regulatory agencies are using their powers to pressure media over their content……]

*** “We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.” [ Edward R. Murrow ]

7] 16 paragraphs are devoted to the actions of Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Republican state attorneys general and their persecution and prosecution of media companies they didn’t like. They used ‘YOUR’ government’s power of investigation and filing charges to harass, intimidate, and silence ANY media that dared oppose the Trump DICTATORSHIP.

8]. “..[Brendan Carr]..has bent the F.C.C. to the president’s will..”

9] 12 paragraphs are devoted to discussing “Mr. Trump’s animus against ABC..” The Trump DICTATORSHIP uses government powers to conduct investigations, follow “equal time rules,” started “an early review of the federal licenses that ABC stations need to operate” [ NEVER done before ], demands for documents, etc.

*** “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thougthcrime literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it.” [ George Orwell: “1984” ]


For perspective – The Trump DICTATORSHIP escalates its war on TRUTH… Presented below are excerpts from “White House Enforces Ban On 3 Outlets”. [ Michael Grynbaum, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Benjamin Mullin; New York Times; 9/20/26]:

1]. “Journalists from CNN, MSNOW and Politico had their badges confiscated…a stark escalation in President Trump’s ever-expanding battles with news media..”

2] “First amendment experts condemned Mr. Trump’s ban as unconstitutional and said it was unlikely to survive a court challenge.”

3]. “Legal experts said that Mr. Trump’s news media ban was unlikely to survive a court challenge, because the president explicitly connected his decision to ban CNN, Politico and MSNOW to the content of their reporting. That’s “textbook viewpoint discrimination”…”

***. “Truth is the most important thing. That’s why we should ration it.” [ Lenin ]

*** “Dictators cause the world’s worst problems. All the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.” [ George Ayittey ]

This post presents most of the corrupt FBI job interview printed on pages 16-17 of Devlin Barrett’s “The Department of Revenge.” Read this VERY carefully. – THIS is how “your” government, during the Trump DICTATORSHIP, operates. It is ONE. example of the WEAPONIZATION. of America’s “Justice Department.” [ NOTE: Devlin Barrett was won THREE. Pulitzer Prizes for his work. ]

1]. “Driscoll had gotten a heads-up from other FBI officials, including Paul Abbate, the acting director, that he and Robert Kissane, the senior counterterrorism official in the FBI’s New York office, were being considered for temporary roles at FBI headquarters, though it was unclear what the roles were exactly.”

2]. “Ingrassia’s first call with Driscoll, on the Friday before Trump’s inauguration, did not go well. Ingrassia asked two relatively straightforward questions about the organizational structure of the FBI and about threats to the United States. Then he asked Driscoll whom he had voted for. Offended, Driscoll refused to answer, and said asking those kind of questions were a violation of federal law. – specifically, the Hatch Act.”

3] “Ingrassia then asked if Driscoll agreed that the FBI agents who had “stormed” Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago should be held “accountable” for what they’d done. No, Driscoll replied, because they were doing their job based on a properly premised investigation and a warrant approved by a judge.”

*** “The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.”
[ Georges Bernanos ]

4] “Ingrassia then asked when Driscoll had started supporting President Trump. Shocked that he had even been asked the question, Driscoll refused to answer. Like all FBI agents and Justice Department career employees, he had been trained, tested, hired, and promoted in a culture that sought to studiously avoid brining politics into their work.”

5]. “A core principle of federal civil service people did not carry their political baggage into work decisions. In such large organizations, there were some people who violated the rules and some people who tried to bend them, but the overwhelming majority of Justice Department employees followed them and understood that they existed for good reason. Generations of law enforcement officials had sought to make a professional class of government lawyers and investigators, a work culture that demanded high standards not just in court or at crime scenes, but in every facet of their work. None of that seemed to matter to Ingrassia.”

6] “He asked Driscoll if he had voted for a Democrat in the last five elections. Driscoll refused to answer. With that, Ingrassia cut the interview short. The whole exchange had been bizarre. An aggressive young Trump staffer with no law enforcement or even White House experience had grilled a veteran FBI agent with a series of highly inappropriate questions about his political loyalty. Driscoll found it alarming and insulting.”

7]. “Later that night, Bove called Driscoll and told him he had “failed” the interview. Driscoll, Ingrassia had told others, was not “based out” enough. – not willing to declare his allegiance to the president’s agenda. Bove still wanted Driscoll in the job and told him he had worked to “flip” Ingrassia’s negative review.”

***. “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.” [ Montesquieu ]

[NOTE: consider the following for perspective: “Donald Trump has brought a very different approach to presidential politics, one that has corrupted our traditional expectation of public service that benefits the people….Trump’s approach to power during his second term has also made him resemble something else. – a mob boss.”
[ Former U.S. Attorney; law professor; Barbara McQuade: “the Fix” ]

***. “The U.S.S.R. was a totalitarian state in which judges and prosecutors were controlled by the ruling party. The result was injustice, oppression and corruption.” [ Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum ]

*** “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested in power, pure power. Power is not a means, it is an end. One plots not to establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
[ George Orwell: ‘1984″ ]

tis post presents excerpts from John Rash’s “Despite pressure, White House correspondents persevere” [Minnesota Star Tribune; 8/1/26]. Consider this one, very public exhibit, of the Trump DICTATORSHIP. – the absolute INTOLERANCE for. ANY. criticism, ANY. opposition, and most of all – absolute HATRED. for. ANY. attempt to find TRUTH, absolute HATRED. for. ANYBODY telling. truth, on. ANYTHING. – including the weather!

***. “Truth is the most precious thing. that’s why we should ration it.” [ Lenin ]

1] “But Trump did not rise to his title. Instead, he rambled and ranted for over an hour to often stunned silence – even from sycophantic Cabinet and congressional allies interspersed among the correspondents – delivering jarring, juvenile insults to journalists, celebrities and politicians he doesn’t like. Or hates, as he said himself, bluntly blurting: “I hate some people.”

2] “Actually, lots of people, as he made apparent in his speech. Including, but not limited to..Joe Biden..Gavin Newsom and J.b. Pritzker..Chuck Schumer, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez..Adam Schiff..Bruce Springsteen, Bette Midler, Jane Fonda…Kaitlin Collins…”

3]. “…the president’s core mission regarding the news media is clear…”Just last week..Trump’s lawyers were in court in Miami in a lawsuit against the BBC to punish them for their coverage…in Tampa in a lawsuit against the New York Times..because they didn’t like our coverage,’ Baker said. referring to an important story about security vulnerabilities of the new Qatari-gifted [grifted to critics] presidential plane…Justice Department lawyers were in court in New York, trying to subpoena my colleagues for reporting truthful information.”

***. “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” [ Adolf Hitler ]

4]. “..Trump’s scores of lawsuits and threats. – some from him individually, some from institutions like the Federal Communications Commission. – dim the beacon of free speech America used to shine to the world.” [NOTE; as “our” president, Trump can use YOUR tax dollars to carry out his anti-free speech attacks!!! ]

5]. “Every president has had difficulty with the press, going back probably to George Washington,’ said Jane Kirtley, professor emerita at the University of Minnesota’s Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communications…”in terms of the kind of overt hostility that’s being directed against the press, the many lawsuits that President Trump has brought, his rhetoric, his threats against journalists, calling journalists traitors and accusing them of treason. – this level of rhetoric I have never heard..”

6]. “The subpoenas Baker referred to were hastily withdrawn after a judge demanded to know why federal prosecutors had issued them just two days after the story was published instead of making them the final step in an investigation, as is typically the case.”

***. “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” [ Harry Truman; 33rd U.S. President ]

7]. “..a message has been sent, particularly to reporters who might not work for the New York Times and might not have that kind of legal firepower and retainer, of what might happen to them if they report something that upsets the president.”

8] “The Time’s story of the presidential jet “directly served the public interests of national security..”, said Stern…”it’s a perfect example of how investigative journalism, often based on confidential sources who come forward because they’ve wrongdoing and think they’re doing a public sevice by exposing it. – how that bolsters national security, not hinders it.”

9]. “But the difference is that while other presidents at times did take actions that we saw as infringing on our First Amendment rights and that we objected to, we’ve never seen a president who did it on such a sustained, expansive and really very intimidating manner.”

***. “And if all others accepted the lie, which the Party imposed. – if all records told the same tale. – then the lie passed into history and becomes the truth.” [ George Orwell: ‘1984″ ]

[NOTE: America stands in danger of losing its First Amendment freedoms. – by not using them. Read “Use It Or Lose It”. [Adrienne LaFrance; The Atlantic; July, 2026]:

1]. “Trump, gifted showman that he is, understands that insulted citizens on camera is a tactic that serves his interests. it distracts people from the fact that he hasn’t answered the question.”

2] “Power doesn’t like to be checked.”

3] “The cause of freedom has advanced only because of those who have been willing to stand up against government overreach.”

4] “Although every American is entitled to exercise the right of free press. No one is entitled to be trusted or believed. – that you have to earn.”

***. “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” [ Elie Wiesel ]

*** “The history of liberty is the history of resistance.” [ Woodrow Wilson; 28th U.S. President ]

*** “..Trump’s language and conduct has at times presented risks to national security…Many of Trump’s former top Cabinet officers and aides have said publicly that Trump should not be president again and should not even be on the ballot.” [ Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward: “War” ]

NOTE: We have added ‘INCOMPETENCE’ to the description of the Trump DICTATORSHIP because, as we have said many times, Donald John Trump fails THE test written in the U. s. constitution’s Preamble: “WE the People.” create this government to “..form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty..” The CHALLENGE: specifically – Which, if ANY, Trump DICTATORSHIP policies and laws have done ANY of this? Just one example: when Trump took office in January, 2017 – the U.s. national debt “…was approximately $19.95 trillion..” In August, 2026 YOUR U.S. national debt is now over $40 trillion, “an all time high..” And – American is paying over $1 trillion in interest EVERY year!!!

This post presents excerpts from “Blaming Canada Is No Longer a Joke,” by Chrystia Freeland, a former deputy prime minister, minister of foreign affairs, minister of finance for Canada, in the New York Times, 8/2/26. Most Americans know Canada is America’s most important ally and friend. Read….then re-read this….then THINK. – what is this former high-ranking Canadian official telling YOU??? This is ONE indication on what the reckless STUPIDITY of one Donald John Trump, unfortunately U.S. president, has done to America’s world-wide reputation.

From 1945 to 2016, America built a POSITIVE reputation world-wide. – because of our generosity, openness, support for democracy around the world. This “soft power” was a MAJOR advantage for America, for Americans. In less than two years, the Trump DICTATORSHIP has trashed this. People, world-wide, will NOT forget what Trump has done – in YOUR name. Indeed, substantial changes – not to America’s benefit. – are already occurring because of Trump’s reckless and STUPID words and actions.

2]. “Mr. Trump’s tariff offensive has a clear purpose: to demonstrate who is dominant and who must submit…The laughably flimsy, constantly changing justifications for the president’s tariffs are in fact part of the point. True power is being able to do whatever you like for whatever reason you like, or for no reason at all…Mr. Trump is keen to establish himself as the world’s apex predator.”

3] “Mr. Trump has made his view plain. His Washington doesn’t have allies. It has only satraps, enemies and equals – the latter a singular group that includes just china and on some days, perhaps, Russia.”

7]. “..the irony is That Washington is abusing its allies at precisely the moment when it most needs them. As the war with Iran is demonstrating, even the United States is weaker when it gores it alone.”

*** “I’ve served the man for two years. I think he’s a long-term and immediate danger to the country,” a senior national security official told us.” { Pulitzer Prize winners Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig”. “A Very Stable Genius” ]

8] “..for a lot of its longtime members, that list of like-minded democracies doesn’t feel like much of an alliance anymore. A Pew survey published last month showed that in most of the 36 surveyed countries, China was viewed more favorably than the United States. That included Canada, where 33 percent of respondents saw America favorably, compared with 44 percent for China. People in France, Germany and Britain took a similar view.”

9] “..given Mr. Trump’s choice to play by China’s rules and force smaller countries to suffer or submit, the poll shouldn’t be much of a surprise.”

10]. “Would-be future American leaders who recognize the value of allies and think all will be forgiven when the White House has a new occupant need to appreciate the depth of the damage done by its current resident.”

*** “Tillerson was never told why he was fired…It had earlier leaked out that Tillerson had called Trump a “fucking moron’ at a July 20, 2017, Tank meeting. Probably nothing could have triggered Trump’s insecurities more.”
[ Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward: “Rage” ]

4]. “Inside the United States, the pressing question is whether the country will remain a democracy. That matters to the rest of us, too, of course.. But even if democracy eventuallly prevails inside the United States, America’s old friends will wonder whether Trumpism permanently reshaped Washington’s relationship with the rest of the world.” [NOTE: read this again – the reputation of YOUR country is no longer in our hands. Trump has offended and alarmed SO MANY other nations – it will be difficult tor repair his damage.]

5] “Will a post-Trump try to rebuild genuine partnerships with its like-minded allies, based on the idea that win-win outcomes are possible and that even superpowers need to honor their treaty arrangements? or is Mr. Trump saying out loud what most Americans have really thought of their allies all along?”

6]. “After all, in its 250th year, the Republic really is flirting with authoritarianism.”

*** “Trump lacks the emotional stability, knowledge, critical-thinking skills, and judgment to be commander-in-chief.” [Pulitzer prize winner David Cay Johnston: “It’s Even Worse Than You Think”]

1] “At a time when Americans rank inflation and affordability as their top economic concerns, adding another tax on consumer goods. – which is what tariffs are. – is self-defeating.”

***. “Stupidity is a talent for misconception.” [ Edgar Allan Poe ]

*** “Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too….Let men be good, and the government can not be bad; but if it be ill, they will cure it. but if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and soil it to their turn.”
[William Penn]

This post presents excerpts from Ralph Nader’s “Tyrant Trump’s Biggest Legacy – Bringing Out the Worst in America” [ The Progressive Populist; August, 2026. We have said many times this now evident truth: Donald John Trump is a CANCER on the SOUL of America. The damage and evil he has done will live on for many years.. Trump has also poisoned how the rest of the world looks at America. Read the items below. – THINK on them. – think how Trump sabotages democracy, sabotages rational thinking, sabotages America’s future…………………..

1] “Championing the worst forms of energy – coal, oil, and gas. – and depressing solar energy and wind power….even paying ongoing wind project companies nearly a billion dollars in your tax dollars to stop construction!”

2] “Encouraging the worst corruption of the Pentagon – more waste, contractor fraud and abuse..”

3] “Brought out the worst from his toady Attorney Generals at the Justice Department…dismiss over 100 corporate crime cases…and made DOJ his personal law firm.”

***. ‘Good moral character is the first essential in a man.” [ George Washington ]

4]. “Encouraged the worst from the Environmental Protection Agency…greenhouse gases, motor vehicle gases, auto factories, and coal pollution are permissible for America’s children to breathe.”

5]. “Suppressed or canceled programs of scientific truth-seeking while publicizing pseudo-scientists who go far beyond healthy skepticism to peddle quackery..”

6] “Trump is self-servingly wrecking the Internal Revenue Service…grossly inadequate number of experts skilled in detecting complex corporate tax schemes and evasions totaling hundreds of billions of dollars in TAX ESCAPES per year.”

***. “You do not have to think very hard to figure out what happens to a democratic society…when long-standing interpretations of the “rules of law” are mangled to reflect the personal desires of a handful of extremely wealthy people.” [ Aberjhani ]

7] “Trump has grievously brought out the worst from Congress, finishing off what is left of the separation of powers..”

8] “Trump brings out the worst from major corporations…allowing corporations to cheat, steal, harm, pollute, and violate with impunity almost any federal laws..”

9] “Worsening the architecture of the White House and nearby Washington, D.C., are major preoccupations of this egomaniacal dilettante. He illegally tore down the East Wing..”

*** “It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than even by good laws.” [ Aristotle ]

10] “The Trumpeteer has brought out the worst in the mainstream media, giving preferential access to uncritical reporters, and restricting or prohibiting access to reporters who are steadfast and straightforward.”

11]. “From the people, he has celebrated vice over virtue, greed over charity, obscenity over decency, violence over peace, police and ICE brutality over more effective standards of prudence and restraint by law enforcers. As an open, brazen liar, a delusionary braggart, and a peddler of empty promises, Trump has troubled parents who see their youngsters mimic his abuses and foul talk.”

12] “He pardons hundreds of convicted violent criminals and other fraudsters and says he will pardon more crooks, even urging them to continue their lawless ways because he will pardon them..”

***. “Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptional character.” [. Samuel Adams ]

13]. “Trump has violated seven of the Ten Commandments and is almost never seen in Church, yet Trump manages to bring out the most extreme hypocrites from the leadership of organized religion..”

14]. “His most fervent mission is to provoke biases and bigotry against recent immigrants and asylum seekers among millions of his voters who believed his lies about these desperate people, fleeing with their children from oppressive regimes and oligarchies..”

15] “Long after Trump is impeached and removed from office, his hateful, vengeful drive will bring out the worst from our country will linger and fester.”

*** “The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.” [ Tom Fitten ]

***. ‘..amid the Trump administration’s open marriage of public and private and criminal sectors in an astonishing replication of third-world kleptocracies..” [ Sarah Chayes: “On corruption In America” ]

***. “It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness; and I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.” [ Benjamin Franklin ]

This post presents excerpts from Anthony Fauci’s diary from 2020. YOU get raw data on this eminent scientist’s review of how it was to deal with Donald Trump early in the COVID-19 epidemic.

THE. MAJOR. QUESTION for YOU; did ‘your” president seem to be concerned about the impact of tjis deadly disease on the American people. – or. – was his primary concern to “manage” the crisis so that it didn’t hurt his re-election campaign?

***. “The Trump presidency is about Trump. Period. Full stop. He says so himself all the time.” [ Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston: “It’s Even Worse Than You Think” ]

1] Late February, 2020: Fauci “encouraged him not to underplay the seriousness of the situation since if it turns out bad, it would look like he is covering up…..I thought that he heard what I said, but the next day, he again underplayed it.”

2] March 27, 2000: “Very laborious press conference where the POTUS rambled on. He wasted the opportunity to just focus on the relief package and went into his diatribe against the previous administrations.”

3] March 28: “AMAZING interaction with POTUS…. I led the discussions since the POTUS kept referring to me. It was a disturbingly rambling discussion since he kept talking about TV ratings, and HC [hydroxychloroquine], and influenza and virtually everything else as I was trying to keep him on track [with the help of the VP]……I insisted through the rambling and lack of attention span that the POTUS explicitly say that this is NOT a quarantine.”

***. “When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.” [ Thomas Jefferson ]

4]. July 10: “..he had an “important meeting” with Mike Pence, during which Fauci told the vice president he would be “coldly honest.” “I then told him that he is completely losing credibility when we have >60,000 new cases with increased hospitalizations and deaths and he starts off at the Pressers saying “We are in a good place.”

5] July 15: “He wanted me to be ‘positive’. I took the opportunity to say, ‘Mr. President, with your permission, can I be absolutely frank with you? We have a problem and we need to own it. We need to admit that the situation is serious, otherwise we completely lose credibility….he was not entirely happy with this..”

6]. August 4: ‘..he had to directly explain to Trump – whom he described as “throwing around the F- word” and “raving that we are seeing more cases only because we are doing more testing”. – that increased testing does not cause cases. “All in all it was a manifestation that he is [desperate] and still does not understand the pandemic.” [NOTE: read this again, and again. this is how “your’ president thought, and governed]

***. “But McMaster and his team almost immediately realized the president wasn’t reading any of the briefing books, or even the concise three-page version….As one of Trump’s confidants said, “I cal the president the two-minute man. The president has patience for a half page.” [ Pulitzer Prize winners Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig: “A Very Stable Genius” ]

7] August 8: “POTUS acting even more erratically. Keeps insisting that increased case numbers are due only to increased testing, ignoring the increases in percent positive, hospitalizations and deaths [ >1000/day}.”

8] November 1: “…Tony, you have to be positive. I do not want to keep you off TV, but when you are out there, you have to be positive.”

9] November 16, 2000: “Continual surge: 138,000 new infections yesterday. POTUS has no interest at all in the pandemic. He is focusing on blocking Biden from being POTUS. He is embarrassing the USA.” [NOTE: read THIS again, and again… Trump “has no interest at all in the pandemic.” “Your” president doesn’t care about you and your family getting very sick. – it’s more important to prevent Biden from taking over. – as in January 6…]

***. “If the misery of others leaves you indifferent and with no feeling of sorrow, then you cannot be called a human being.” [ Jimmy Carter; 39th U.S. President ]

II. Please think on the following, from. “the Atlantic,” July/August, 2024, pages 21-28. Dr. Fauci reviews general handling of COVID-19:
“Although the CDC struggled, there was no mistaking the message delivered on February 25 by its director of immunization and respiratory diseases, Nancy Messonnier. She told reporters that a pandemic in the United States was no longer a matter of if but when, and that we should prepare to close schools and work remotely. “Disruption to everyday life may be severe,; she announced. Nancy did the right thing: She told Americans the truth. But not surprisingly, her statement caused a firestorm. The media erupted, and the stock market plummeted nearly 1,000 points. Trump was furious. The next day, he announced that Vice President mike Pence would take over for Alex Azar as the head of the White House coronavirus task force.”

III. “Nationally, a study by the American Medical Association determined that “the excess [COVID] death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters.” [ Gene Lyons: “Silencing Scientists, Doctors in the Name of ‘Freedom'”; The Progressive Populist; ll/1/23 ]

*** “And you will know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” [ John 8: 32 ]