Representative Tony Gonzales, Republican, Texas, was interviewed on Face the Nation, last week, and the first thing that became apparent was that Gonzales is no supporter of his community. This is a Hispanic legislator who for some reason has hooked up with Donald Trump who, has done nothing but dump on the Hispanic population of our country and who is responsible for the failure of the border bill that would have helped solve many of its problems.
Biden wanted to pass that bill, but he was stopped by Trump threatening the GOP House members and forcing them to vote it down. Gonzales was one of those who voted against his people to curry favor with Trump.
Gonzales talks a good game but every vote and every action he has taken, has been to support Trump and to demean the Hispanic population of his state and the country.
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I was fascinated by the reactions of several Hispanic/American politicians to the Trump verdict. The likes of Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were overflowing in their disdain for the verdict, and all associated with it, but more important, they were even more effusive in their support for a sleaze that has made it a point to attack their heritage by calling Hispanic immigrants, rapists, drug dealers, insane criminals and everything else his small brain could conjure that is derogatory. Trump has even attacked Cruz father and wife but still the soulless cockroach supports him simply because such support for Trump brings support in the continually losing fight that the GOP has fought at the ballot box since 2017.
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George Stephanopoulos interviewed Will Scharf, one of Trump’s attorneys this weekend and boy, is this guy the epitome of everything that has made the legal profession the most distained of all job choices. He’s quite clever, twisting facts until they scream in embarrassment. This slimy sleaze demands Judge Merchan recuse himself but thinks what Alito and Thomas have done was not grounds for recusal.
After having praised the jury pre-verdict, he now attacks them because they didn’t come in with a verdict he agrees with.
Of course, Scharf is beating the drum for an appeal, it will mean huge bucks for him and his fellow lawyers. It will last for years and make him filthy rich.
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The Republicans love to attack Biden for the abandonment of Afghanistan but none of them are bright enough to understand that such a move was inevitable, in fact long overdue. It’s probably because most of them can’t read, that they don’t understand the whole move out of Afghanistan was initiated by Trump and then was never followed through because neither Trump nor the GOP ever follow through on anything.
It was called The Doha Agreement. It was made by Trump and The Taliban with the intention of getting us out of Afghanistan, but after they all signed it, it was never followed up. It said, we would pull out our troops and that the Taliban would keep terrorist groups from organizing in their country. It was one of the few smart ideas that Trump never acted on. It was signed in February of 2020.
Biden looked at what was going on in Afghanistan, realized that the US installed government was a disaster and really not salvageable, so he moved to fulfill our part of the Doha Agreement, hoping that the Taliban would keep up their end of the agreement.
Sure. there were screwups on the day we pulled out, but that had nothing to do with Biden and in fact we got out of Afghanistan cleaner than we have ever gotten out of any country in which we have waged a war. And it only took us twenty years.
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Hunter Biden went on trial Monday and if there’s anyone who thinks that Don Jr. or Eric Trump would be going on trial if Trump was running the country, they just aren’t paying attention. All the GOP hacks are braying about the politization of the Trump trial and claiming that it could only happen because Biden is running the Justice Department. If Biden were really directing Justice would he let them go after Hunter on flimsy charges like the ones that are being pursued? Of course not. Would they be pursuing cases against Democrats Cuellar of Texas and Menendez of NJ?
For that matter if Biden were the incompetent, bumbling old fool the GOP would like to make him out to be, how has he managed to become the cunning genius behind trying and convicting his political opponent? You just can’t have it both ways, but the Trumpers want it whatever way they are talking about on any occasion.
The Biden Justice Department is trying to run a really honest operation. They have bent over backwards in the Hunter Biden case to make sure they didn’t let Hunter get away with anything, while the GOP has been pursuing him as if he were a real criminal like Trump.
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Easily recognizable Republican sleaze, Tom Cotton was asked on Meet the Press last Sunay if he agreed with the verdict in the Trump case. That’s like asking my dog if he wants a treat. In answer to that question Cotton stated that Hunter Biden is guilty of so many things that he can barely keep track of them. And Trump isn’t? Trump has been in court for his felonious and illegal acts almost all his life. He is a career criminal by just about every consideration applied to that description.
Like most of his GOP buddies Cotton can’t ignore a chance to take a shot at Biden for the two wars that are happening in Ukraine and Israel. The right loves to say that Trump was for peace and Biden is for war, but the reality is something that the GOP constantly ignores. It was Trump’s weakness and his fealty to Putin that gave that dictator the okay to invade Ukraine. If Trump had stopped kissing Putin’s ass for five minutes and told him we would back Ukraine in any conflict, that war would never have happened.
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Pro Publica has reported that their investigators have uncovered at least 9 potential witnesses in various Trump prosecutions that have received significant amounts of money before they were scheduled to testify. I don’t know if this is a surprise to anyone but to me it smells like typical Trump policy.
Of course, Trump would never see anything wrong with this because that’s his natural way to do business but to those of us who have some sense of right and wrong it is an out and out bribe situation with the money already traced back to campaign donations and Trump businesses.
You Trump voters, is this the way you want your world to work?