It’s time the Party of Lincoln pushed criminal Trump out of the presidential sweepstakes

Abraham Lincoln, seated towering upon his glorious marble armchair, but on this occasion, shoulders bent, left hand placed covering his face hiding the utter anguish and grief he feels reflecting on the current moment in U.S. political history.

Damon Langlois’s brilliantly conceived and artfully executed 1st Place-winning sand sculpture at the 2019 Texas SandFest on the Gulf Coast poignantly and symbolically captured the highly contagious and infectious disease of President Trump Stress Disorder (PTSD).

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Trump picks anti-LGBTQ+ Sen. JD Vance as his vice presidential running mate

He is wholly opposed to LGBTQ+ rights and once referred to Trump as a “cynical as**ole” and “America’s Hitler.”

The winning sand sculpture of 2019, Texas Sandfest, by Damon Langlois. Seems apropos 2022. pic.twitter.com/6Y8Ki8rc3a

— Erikkkk The Blacc (@GhettoBlasterE) May 6, 2022

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According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the term “trumpery“ first appeared in the English language in the mid-15th century. Webster’s 1913 Dictionary defined it thus: “noun: 1. Deceit; fraud. 2. Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish. a. 1. Worthless or deceptive in character; nonsensical talk or writing; ornamental objects of no great value.”

Many people regarded Trump’s entry into the presidential political sweepstakes in the summer of 2015 as a mere joke. According to King Henry VII of England, however, “The problem with political jokes is they get elected.”

While losing the popular vote by over three million to his rival, Hillary Clinton, Trump managed to pull out a victory in the Electoral College.

In his documented over 30,000 lies during his time in the White House, his first spoken lie as President was that he would protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America.

Trump’s critics claimed, “We are better than this.” But obviously, we are not since we are as we act and as we vote! Either we abolish the Electoral College or continue to live with the consequences.

Far before his rise to the presidency, Donald Trump served and continues to function as Russia’s Agent Orange by carpet bombing our democratic institutions. He performs as Putin’s puppet. In this position, Trump began attempting to attach his strings to Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy to weaken that nation under the hot war against its Russian invading neighbors, but also to advance Trump’s own 2020 political objectives, which ultimately failed.

And through it all, Trump claimed, “I am the Chosen One,” the King of Israel, the Second Coming — all exposing his own Meshuggah complex!

Trump is the latest president to be impeached, but among the worst

Donald J. Trump is only the fourth President to undergo House impeachment inquiries, with three Presidents impeached, no Senate convictions, and one resignation.

Andrew Johnson, the 17th President, was the first when the House initiated an impeachment in 1868 for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” for violating the newly passed Tenure of Office Act over his veto. The House charged Johnson with 11 articles of impeachment, the primary one being the charge that he unlawfully removed from office his Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, and replaced him with Major General Lorenzo Thomas.

I wonder whether that law included some sort of measure making it a crime to relieve a Cabinet official in a tweeted dismissal while seated on a would-be royal golden toilet.

Richard Nixon, the nation’s 37th chief executive, resigned under the cloud of impeachment for covering up a two-bit break-in at the Watergate Democratic Party offices. Trump’s Ukraine phone “transcript”/notes contain even more holes than Nixon’s White House tapes with its 14-minute gap!

The House of Representatives impeached Bill Clinton, our 41st President, for lying about getting a blow job. The U.S. Senate should have convicted Trump for making it his job to blow up our democratic institutions.

Since leaving the Oval Office, Trump has been charged with multiple felony and civil charges. For the first 234 years of the nation’s history, no other U.S. president had ever been indicted for a crime.

In 2023, Trump was charged in four criminal cases. Combined, the indictments include a charge of wide-ranging criminal conduct before, during, and after his presidency. One of those indictments ended in the first criminal conviction of a former president; the other three cases remain to be resolved — though one was recently thrown out by Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon, it could return on an appeal.

In addition, Trump was accused and convicted of sexual abuse in a New York civil case against advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996.

I feel deep shame and yes, PTSD, over what has been happening in my country under MAGA Trumpism, but I don’t feel guilty because I have consistently joined with others to resist and reverse the fascism around us.

The whistleblowers who exposed the very high (treasonous) crimes and misdemeanors enacted by this president deserve the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism and the admiration of a gracious nation.

If the current Republican Party truly represents the Party of Lincoln, it must stand for right against wrong on the right side of history rather than simply fall on the right wing of the political spectrum while remaining this former president’s criminal enabler.

Overall, this Sharpie President is not very sharp! About fifty years ago, on August 8, 1974, Richard Nixon resigned as president. It is long past time for Donald Trump to pull out of the presidential sweepstakes once and for all time.

If he does not, We the People can ultimately cut all the puppet strings if we use our vote wisely.

2/ Trump literally used a Sharpie to draw his own forecast cone encompassing Alabama in an outdated map. Alabama was not at risk in any recent forecasts.

This is so pathetic.#Dorian🌀 pic.twitter.com/d2gAmRjFly

— Bad Fox Graphics (@BadFoxGraphics) September 4, 2019

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