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It’s time to reclaim America from the criminals, frauds, and traitors who tried to bring it down

America is supposed to belong to its people, not the grifters, con artists, and traitors who are still trying to destroy it.

By DOUG THOMPSON
September 12, 2022




There was a time when people joked about the absurd idea that Donald John Trump could become president of the United States and too many of us ignored the ability of the con man to succeed in his desire to seize power and destroy the honor and concept of America.

Nobody is laughing now as the now disgraced, corrupt, and criminally treasonous former president is once again dominating the airwaves in the midst of multiple investigations of his treachery, fraud, and sedition. The Justice Department is closing in on his open violations of America’s Espionage Act, his blatant obstruction of justice, and his endless defrauding of his lame cult of followers who have turned over their life savings to him in blatant grifts like Trump University and, most recently, take political action committee that has raised hundreds of millions of dollars that is being used solely fund his lavish lifestyle.

Trump is the most dangerous domestic terrorist in the history of this nation, a power-mad, greedy bully who cares only for his own personal desires for wealth and power. He is under investigation not only by the Justice Department but by multiple grand juries in cities and states throughout the nation. He survived two impeachments where his guilt was proven but was protected by a cabal of co-conspiracy terrorists who now control the corrupt and criminal Republican party.

Not only should Trump be convicted and locked away for the remainder of his pathetic, sordid life but he should be joined by the equally-corrupt cult of House and Senate GOP leaders, elected officials, and miscreants who ignore the laws, the Constitution, and the oaths they swore to uphold.

The list of traitors to America is growing: Former disgraced and corrupt House Speaker Newt Gingrich, current House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, Senator Lindsey Graham, former federal prosecutor, and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Trump strategist Steve Bannon and too many more to name or list here.

Some are already facing justice. More than 800 members of the mob that attacked the Capitol, a mob inspired by Trump, have either been tried or are facing trial, convictions, and sentences for their part. Bannon surrendered to New York authorities last week on charges of money laundering and fraud. Giuliani is certain to be charged for his efforts to overturn legal election results in Georgia and others will follow.

Trump promises to pardon each and everyone who is convicted on federal charges if he can find a way to get elected to return to the White House in 2024, a threat that demands quick and decisive action against him for his many crimes.

But many other frauds and criminals are embedded in elected offices at both the state and federal levels. Trump and his cult of Republican extremists in the Senate have installed a cadre of hardcore, right-wing federal judges along with a solid majority in the U.S. Supreme Court. Many, we have learned, lied to get there and far too many are unqualified to be arbiters of any reasonable form of law.

America remains under attack, not from the foreign terrorists who brought down the twin towers in Manhattan or blew a hole in the Pentagon with hijacked commercial airliners 21 years ago on 9/11 but now from the domestic ones who use hate, lies, racism, and bigotry to threaten what this nation once was and must struggle to become again.

Trump lost his hold on the White House in 2020 by a majority of nearly 10 million voters who said they had seen too much of his crimes and frauds but they, and others, must go to the polls in November of this year to reject the threats and terrorism of Trumpism and the dangerous extremism of the Republican zealots who want to overthrow our democratic republic and become a fascist state.

It’s up to us who can and must use our rights to vote to reject the treason of Trump and his cult and drive them from the halls of state and federal positions and return America to the people, the ones who matter now more than ever.

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One of the chief criminals in the Trump Administration is the former Attorney General William Barr.

In Geoffrey Berman's new book, Holding the Line: Inside the Nat...le with the Trump Justice Department, the book details how Bill Barr corrupted the Department of Justice on behalf of Donald Trump. Barr’s coverups for Trump range from criminal activity to treason, Berman writes.

Geoffrey Steven Berman is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2018 to 2020.


On June 19, 2020, Attorney General William Barr announced in a press release that Berman was "stepping down" effective July 3 and that Jay Clayton, the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, would be nominated as his replacement.[ Hours later, Berman stated that he had not resigned and would not resign until "a presidentially appointed nominee is confirmed by the Senate."

Barr's tenure as Trump's Attorney General of the United States is not Barr's first corruption rodeo.

During in the late '80s and early '90s and again during the late 2010's, Barr served as the 77th and 85th United States attorney general in the administrations of Presidents George H. W. Bush and Donald J. Trump, respectively.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, it was alleged that Donald J. Trump's campaign sought and took assistance from Russia to help him win the 2016 election. Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate these allegations.

Mueller found 10 prosecutable incidents of Donald Trump committing felony obstruction of justice, all to cover up the assistance he was seeking and receiving from Russian oligarchs and the Russian government that ultimately helped him win the 2016 election.

As USAG for the Trump Administration, Bill Barr "summarized" the findings of the Mueller Report for the American public's digestion. In doing so, Barr lied to the American people, to Congress, and to federal judges, with lies inconsistent with evidence of record in the Mueller Report.

Barr did this to avoid prosecuting Trump, who we can now see had clearly committed crimes, particularly reaching out to a foreign power for help, that would’ve landed any other American in prison for decades.

The corruption of law enforcement and the courts is a cardinal characteristic of fascism, which is what Trump and - it turns out, Barr - were actively trying to do to America.

Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Barr buried evidence of then-President George H.W. Bush’s involvement in Irangate and Iran-Contra.

G. H. W. Bush's administration was accused of selling weapons of mass destruction to Saddam Hussein, also at that time, AG Barr was already covering up for Bush, Weinberger, and others from the Reagan administration Iran-Contra - where the Reagan administration was accused of reaching out to the Iran government during the 1980s election to release Americans held captive by Iran.

Bill Barr suggested to G. H. W. Bush that Bush pardon all of the players in the Iraqgate and Iran-Contra and that's exactly what Bush did after losing the election to Bill Clinton in November 1992.



History shows that when a Republican president is in serious legal trouble, Bill Barr is their go-to guy.

Footnote to the above.

Seyyed Abolhassan Banisadr was an Iranian politician, writer, and political dissident. He was the first president of Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution abolished the monarchy, serving from February 1980 until his impeachment by parliament in June 1981.

In 2013, Banisadr wrote an Op-Ed for the Christian Science Monitor:

Amen!!!!

There's no teeth for this level of corruption, there's no disincentive, there are also no squads of individuals who can mete out punishment, there are almost no consequences except for maybe fiscal, and superPACS alleviate that by further grift, yielding almost unlimited financial help.

Not advocating for some kind of "revolutionary guard" but I do feel it is time we reestablished the existence of consequences for trying to do anything that significantly contributes to an intentional blow against the security of our democratically elected constitutional republic.

We don't even have a court system that is capable of meeting fast moving threats with equally fast moving justice.
We're like a T. Rex that is face to face with a much larger monster, where it can't use its short arms to grab that monster and dismantle it without pulling it close enough to where that threat can unleash serious injury upon our body the moment we try.

We can only take hold of smaller and weaker evils and bite off small chunks of flesh.
The organized and well funded fascist insurrectionist movement is driven by billions of dollars from groups that have wealth that is almost incalculable by ordinary mortals. It has so far succeeded in blizzarding our courts with enough paper terrorism that it's like a virus that slows even a powerful computer to a crawl.

Donald Trump has "opened so many browser windows" in our legalistic "machine" that it is running out of hardware resources to run with adequate power and speed to even prevent the operating system from locking up.

This, by the way, is also intentional. It is a steroid enhanced version of what you see from sovereign citizens, who file thousands of lawsuits at a time to overwhelm standard civil courts.

There is no means of slowing down or stopping the juggernaut, there is no ALL STOP button.
Barr, and every other top level Trumpist, happens to be well trained in exploiting every one of these weaknesses and loopholes. He knows how to poison the tree of liberty and justice at its root and Trump is the grand master at orchestrating the music.

A lot of Republicans are saying that only elections should determine who holds an office, even if the candidate has been convicted, etc. But our country is NOT a popular democracy! It was setup as a Constitutional Republic exactly for this reason. A candidate who swore to support the Constitution of the US, and then took part in an insurrection runs right into the 14th Amendment, Section 3, which disqualifies such a person from holding any elective office. The language is perfectly clear, short, and sweet. If people want their popular insurrectionist candidates, they have to amend the Constitution first. Our founding fathers purposefully made that process difficult, which predisposes US law to have an underlying conservative bias.

Exactly, no nation has tried direct pure democracy in 2500 years, and MAGA ran on "America is not a democracy" for a decade and now suddenly Athenian democracy is their new iPhone, their new toy.
Nope, we are a constitutional representative democratic republic.
And the Constitution says that insurrectionists can't run for President, EVER.

If Trump were foolish enough to run again he would be crushed.

Even if he ran from jail. Because despite his efforts...this is still a democracy.

Didja notice what a smashing success Truth Social has been? That's an indication of what a Trump campaign would look like.

The media in 2016 tried to expose Trump for what he was and remains to no avail. The ignorant love him .... he is their voice .... the voice of crazy batsheis thinking, which they think is righteous thinking. All the things you (not just you personally but all the pundits who make similar claims) think are detrimental to a campaign and should influence people not to vote for him are exactly the things the ignorant of this country think are a plus and think people should vote for him for exactly these reasons.

But you see, Mr. Porter, the ignorant are a minority. They're a noisy one but still a minority.

Democracy survived the attack on the Capital. Trump is not electable.