I saw the
phrase “Laws are for little people” a lot during the campaign in regards to
Hillary Clinton. The premise being that she was guilty as sin but not being
prosecuted for her numerous crimes. The simple fact at this point is that she
is/was not in fact guilty or she would have been charged already. Republicans
have been after her for three decades and attempted several prosecutions to no
avail. President Trump campaigned on throwing her in jail. Yet another campaign
promise that he hasn’t delivered on.
But this isn’t
about Hillary Clinton. She’s yesterday’s news.
There’s another
old phrase about actions speaking louder than words. I don’t know how accurate
that is because President Trump, our President, not only talks and tweets like
a guilty man, he acts like a man who is guilty. He’s trying his best to shut
down any investigation into his activities. He is operating under the delusion
that the President can do anything, is above answering to anyone and is above
the law. At times he says that he’s been found not guilty.
We’ve seen this
before. President Richard “I am not a crook” Nixon conducted himself in much
the same fashion. He resigned from office rather than be prosecuted. President
Gerald Ford promptly pardoned him. Laws are for little people.
President
Johnson also claimed that the press lied. We have since learned that not only
was Johnson lying but so was his cabinet and most of his generals in regards to
how the Vietnam War was being prosecuted and what was actually happening. He
didn’t seek the office for a second term. Laws are for little people.
What President
Trump has been calling “fake news” is now being verified as being real by associates
and members of his own family. The meetings with Russians did take place. President
Trump, his family and administration did in fact lie about events. They lied to
the press. They lied to congress. They lied when filling out forms for their
security clearances. They lied about lying by calling it fake news. Most
importantly though—they lied to the American people.
Some excuses for
lying include:
- · Oh, that meeting!
- · Oh gosh! Forgot about the meetings with the Russians.
- · Didn’t think it mattered.
- · Would have mentioned it but nothing happened.
- · Couldn’t provide an accurate count of how many attended. Was it 8 or 9?
- · Which meeting?
- · Never happened.
- · Didn’t know there were Russians in the room.
- · Oh, those Russians.
- · The Russians didn’t have any dirt on Clinton so the meeting was a bust.
- · Thought I was the only one there.
- · Talked about the business that we have with Russians that we don’t have.
- · We were too busy obstructing justice to remember.
They lied until there was no
more avoiding the reality of the preponderance of evidence. Eric Trump was the
first to crack because he got caught. There’s always that first one. The first
one usually gets the better deal. Besides, confession is good for the soul. They
forgot the old rule that 3 people can keep a secret if 2 of them are dead.
The foreign power that they met with happened
to be the Russians. (Russians that they are doing business with.) If they had
met with the English or the French it would still have been just as illegal.
But they met with a power that just happens to have a hundreds of nuclear
weapons targeting our country. They met with the country that meddled in OUR
elections. That doesn’t make it any more illegal. It does make it worse at a
very fundamental level. It says that our democracy isn’t that important to
them. It means that they placed America second. They wanted to throw in with a
nation that would destroy our way of life.
Now I don’t
think that anything is going to happen to President Trump. I don’t think he
will be impeached. The leadership of the Republican Party isn’t about to hold a
Republican President Trump to the same standards that they held President Obama
or even regular law abiding citizens. They are having success in dismantling
government by simply sitting back and watching the chaos of ineptitude. Besides
that they simply don’t have the intestinal fortitude to do what it takes.
They’ll come up with all sorts of high sounding reasons for not doing anything.
They’ll even talk about “The Rule of Law” a lot. Besides, they’re afraid of him
and Bannon, and are seriously afraid of Trump’s supporters. Probably first and
foremost the House of Representatives will never vote for articles of
impeachment unless his illegal activity becomes too hard to ignore*. Then they’ll
drag things out for as long as possible. They’ll continue to anonymously leak
to the press what they won’t say in public about how incredibly bad a President
he is. That way they’ll have plausible deniability at election time for
President Trump supporters. They aren’t about to place the country, our nation
and its people above their own self-interests. Because when push comes to
shove…
Laws are for little
people.
*The House votes the articles of impeachment. The Senate
conducts the trial.