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Yesterday Robert Mueller was appointed Special Counsel for Russia Investigation.  I am very pleased with this latest event.  Mr. Mueller was given authority to go where his investigation takes him.

This morning Trump tweeted that he has been the subject of a witch hunt.  Additionally, he thinks that he is being treated unfairly.  I agree.  I believe its unfair that he is not in jail.  Someone who has been so shady, and who has lies just roll of his tongue and who has given highly important positions in our government as rewards for loyalty to him, has no business being President of the United States.  That’s pay for play.

This morning I woke up more optimistic for our country than I have been ever since Trump was elected.  That’s hard for me to say (the elected part) since more people voted for Hilary than did for Trump.  My faith in our system of government has been restored.  I believe that the system which put Trump into power should be changed though.  I think that whoever gets that national vote should be president.  Period.  Our electoral college is antiquated, outdated and unfair.  It gives more power to rural areas than to urban areas.  I am certainly no expert on politics or constitutional law.  But I have seen a lot of things.  I’ve lived many places.  I’ve talked to lots of people.   Also I’m an United States Marine.  I swore an oath to serve our country.  I’m still doing my best to serve it now.

An interesting thing happened today, it seems Trump is starting to understand some of the gravitas of the situation he is in.  Now he’s trying to save his own skin, even if it means stabbing his supporters in the back.  During a joint press conference he implied that he could only speak for himself, not for others, in asserting his innocence.  I wonder how the people who have been so loyal to him for so long felt.  I feel sad for them.

So yesterday,  before I heard about Donald J. Trump’s conversation with James Comey, which Comey documented, I started this blog.  I’m so very glad I did.

In case anyone does not know what I am talking about, apparently after almost every phone conversation and after every face to face meeting Director Comey had with Trump, he wrote meticulous details about what he and Trump talked about.  This is good, because evidently Trump tried to pressure Comey into dropping the investigation of Michael Flynn.

I have been angry with Comey because I believe he is at least 50% responsible for Hilary not being elected.  But I’m not angry with his treatment of Trump.  I would love for Comey to be the special prosecutor for the investigation of Trump and the Russia “thing.”  I don’t know if that would even be legal since Comey would also be a witness to Trump’s misdeed(s).

Its infuriating how Trump just dances around our norms and customs and decides that since he’s president, none of the rules apply to him.  He doesn’t want to release his taxes, he doesn’t.  He doesn’t want to separate himself from his businesses by forming a real blind trust of all his financial holdings.  He wants to declassify information and give it to our enemies the Russians.  He does it.  Putin wants Trump to do something, Trump does.

I saw a list today of much of the Russian entanglement in Trumps hotels and casinos.  Its astonishing.  Today I heard on the news that Trump said he had no Russian involvement in his businesses.  Does this man know how to speak the truth?  He opens his mouth and all that comes out are lies.

Evidently he never heard of “do unto others as you want them to do to you.”

 

Ever since Donald J. Trump was elected to be President of the United States I have felt sick to my stomach.  It started with a dull ache and intermittently it feels worse.  There is a looming presence in my mind and in my heart.  Its overshadowing me in ways too dark to fully describe.

Back in January of 2016 Trump spoke at Liberty University where I was enrolled at that time.  I will admit that for about 2 hours I was a Trump supporter.  But I recovered.  I didn’t even need to go to a 12 step group.  I wonder if there is a support group for a  recovering Trump supporter.

Like I said, I got over my infatuation with Trump.  The scales fell from my eyes, I started seeing Trump as I believe him to really be.  Trump is a man who has never grown up.  Never in his life has he had to really struggle to do anything.  He has had everything given to him.

As the President of the United States of America I wish Trump would use his great power to make the lives of everyday Americans better.  He ran on the platform of “Let’s Make America Great, Again” and is proceeding to take our country back 50 years on environmental regulations.  Trump’s cabinet is a mixed bag of competent and incompetent men and women who I believe were appointed to blow up the government.  There are at this writing still over 500 unfilled vacancies at the federal level.

More to come later.  But I’m going to find my safety pins and start wearing them.  Always.