Trump’s Legal Block

He is done. He is a convicted felon. Rapist, abuser and other charges with various women over the years. His business trials have proven him guilty of fraud and related misdemeanors. He is a con man. A crook. A no goodnik. Period.

My life’s history in America is that known criminals do not get on the ballot for any elected position. Private organizations are another matter, but public ones are ruled by law. He is estopped from participating in elected office.

The Supreme Court merely has said that Colorado cannot unilaterally eliminate Trump from their ballots at this time. If he continues to lose court cases, he will most likely be removed from any ballot he managed to be listed on. But that move is not allowed quite yet. The courts still have a say based on the progress of the cases currently underway.

If in some wholly unimaginable situation that Trump is found guilty of most of the complaints against him and yet he is allowed to run for office, then we have something to talk about.

It is important, however, for all of us to understand just what we have allowed to transpire in recent decades. Unprincipled people have run for office, won office and served their term in office. Later it was found that they were involved in illegal activities. They were suspects prior to election but known afterwards. This is the case of Trump.

We couldn’t do anything about the legal matters before, but we could have discussed the inappropriateness of the candidate being included on the ballot and allowed to campaign without being held accountable to the charges against him. But we did not discuss these matters. We did not challenge the campaigns in a way to eliminate the candidate from winning the office.

We cannot allow that now. We know too much. We are aware of Trump’s conman status. We know he is unprincipled. We know he lies continually. We know a lot about him. Very little is good. We even know he is not the super-rich person he claims to be. Never was, as a matter of fact.

A politician and unprincipled businessman. That’s what he is. How he can have even one person support him is beyond my reasoning. It simply doesn’t compute.

But now we know better. Much better.

Stop Trump now. Stop republican party maneuvers that destroy faith in our governance. This is not about him. It is about us. It is on us. Has been from the beginning.

So now we have our job to do. Eliminate Trump from the calculus of our governing structure.

Period.

March 6, 2024

 

 

 

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