Trump’s last desperate attempt at evading imprisonment

TERMINATION OF THE CONSTITUTION

by Vijaya Chandrasoma

The anticipated Red Wave at the midterms did not happen. The under- performance of the Republican Party at the recent midterms has been attributed to Trump. All of the candidates for the House and Senate endorsed by him were defeated. The Republicans took the House with a razor thin majority (they had been trumpeting that they will pick up 30 to 50 seats) and the Democrats retained control of the Senate, with an increased majority of 51/49.

This defeat is loosening Trump’s grip on the Republican Party. His popularity rating with Republicans, which was 60% three months ago, is at 30% today. The announcement of his decision to be the Republican candidate for the Presidency in 2024 has met with little enthusiasm. Having lost every election since he took office in 2016, Republicans, except for his white supremacist cult, are realizing that he is unelectable.

So Trump has played his final card to regain the Presidency. Last Saturday, on his Truth Social network, Trump called for the termination of the Constitution to overturn the 2020 election and reinstate him to the Oval Office.The entirety of the tweet is worth reading, if only to reinforce the reality that Trump is a lunatic wannabe dictator:

“Do you throw the Presidential Results out and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution…..Our great ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!”

The Fraudulent Election under reference, now known as The Big Lie, is the 2020 Presidential Elections. Over 60 challenges alleging election fraud were dismissed by the Courts, including three by the Republican 6/3 Supreme Court, on grounds of a lack a shred of evidence. An election that was declared by state and federal election authorities to be one of the fairest elections in history.

Trump’s desperation to have even an appearance of the Presidency or his imagined privileges granted to a Presidential candidate, is because the legal walls are closing in on him on all sides.

The Trump Organization has been found guilty on all 17 charges of tax evasion, insurance fraud and money laundering charged against the Organization by the Southern District of New York.The Select Congressional Committee investigating into the January 6 insurrection has decided to hand over to the Department of Justice evidence proving the criminal role that Trump and his allies played in inciting the insurrection.

Attorney General Merrick Garland has concluded his investigation into the violent January 6 coup, and the even more serious alleged theft of White House documents. In an admirable act to show that justice must not only be done, but must be seen to be done, Garland has appointed a Special Counsel, a senior prosecutor and a former Assistant Attorney General, Jack Smith, to review the evidence amassed to evaluate Trump’s role in (a) the insurrection of January 6 (Sedition), and (b) the mishandling (Theft) of White House classified documents, many marked Top-Secret, available to access to those only with the highest security clearance, and leaving them for over a year at an unsecured basement room at his home/resort at Mar-a-Lago. (Espionage, Obstruction of Justice). The Special Counsel will be the final arbiter to give an opinion about the arrest of the former President on criminal charges.

As it is becoming increasingly obvious that he was losing control of the Republican Party, Trump used the gathering at Mar-a-Lago to tip his hand as to the direction his future politics will take, with the invitation to his party of the best-known white supremacists, antisemites and holocaust and election deniers in the nation.

Fuentes was an honoured guest at the Mar-a-Lago dinner party. A white supremacist, holocaust denier and antisemite, Fuentes is seen as the chief organizer to forge a white nationalist alternative to the Republican Party. A new Party, titled the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) united with other radical right groups like the KKK, QAnon, the Proud Boys and Trump’s MAGA cult which will challenge the identity of the traditional mainstream conservative pre-Trump Republican Party.

Fuentes’ primary task is to aggressively preserve the white, European-American identity and culture. He is in favor of a Christian dictatorship. He has also said that once Trump wins the election in 2024, “we do away with elections, and run the country as a strong, Christian dictatorship”.

The second controversial guest was African American Kanye West, now known as Ye, a most successful rapper and songwriter. Also a great fan of The Donald, Ye has recently been making antisemitic rants, accusing Jews of having a monopoly of the banking system and Hollywood. He has also denied the reality of the holocaust and legality of the 2020 presidential election vote.

In the tangled, hate-filled minds of these radical right white lunatics, moderate Republicans, contemptuously described as RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) have been the reason for the under-performance of every election during and after Trump’s administration: the 1818 midterms, 2020 general elections and the recent 2022 midterms.

They were completely unaware of the imminent threat to white culture, traditions and privilege, which will be lost, unless they fight now to preserve their birthright.Fuentes states that “The Founding Fathers never intended for America to be a refugee camp for nonwhite people”. In a recent tweet, Fuentes said “Our civilization is being dismantled, our people are being genocided (sic)”.

Donald Trump’s 2016 victory was won because a sufficient number of moderate Republicans, especially in the battleground and border states, thought maybe, just maybe, the white radical right had a point. After all, America was being inundated by immigrants of different skin colours invading their borders. A racist rant that Trump was drumming at every one of his rallies.

The current situation of the thousands of Hispanics seeking asylum from their homelands, legal immigrants acting within US immigration laws, have created an insoluble problem in the southern borders which no President during the past 30 years has been able to solve, even to alleviate. A permanent solution seems to be out of reach as long many countries in Central and South America, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Venezuela, to name just three, remain in conflict, with their citizens in danger of life and liberty.

Then the US has to deal with problems caused by those blacks from Africa, who, having served their purpose for centuries to provide free labour and make America the economic powerhouse of the world, now demand equality and full citizenship.

African Americans enjoyed the most generous Jim Crow laws, which enabled them to live in perfect harmony, so long as they had no contact with white people and the use of any of their facilities – water fountains, schools, swimming pools and even public transport. For some reason, these laws were not considered equitable by these African Americans.

So the United States has once again demonstrated their leading position as the most compassionate and Christian nation by granting these black and brown minorities full legal equality in 1964. Equality promised by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. A slight delay caused by inevitable government red tape.However, to grant them societal equality has proved too hard, even too threatening, for some Americans, who have now banded together as the aforementioned white supremacist movement. Under the aegis of Jesus, of course.

Just as Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 did not result in the granting equal rights and freedom to all the people, so the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has not granted complete freedom to African Americans. The racism, the hatred is endemic and ubiquitous.

Republicans will come to a fork in the road in November 2024. The right fork represents the path to a white Christian dictatorship and the destruction of democracy. The left to adherence to the US Constitution, and the continuation of The Great Experiment and the American Dream.

If the Republicans take the right fork in 2024, the last words of John Wilkes Booth, after assassinating Lincoln: “Sic semper tyrannis” (Ever thus to tyrants). The South is avenged”, will be proved at least partly correct. The tyrants would have won, and the racist bigots who espouse the values of today’s Trump’s Republican Party, would once again achieve authority. And the Great Experiment will be done and dusted.

Republican leaders who have already announced their candidature for the 2024 presidency, who know that Trump is losing his grip on the Party, are playing it cute.

They mildly reproved the presence of Fuentes and Kanye West at the dinner party at Mar-a-Lago, but stated that Trump may not have been aware of their presence at such a large gathering. Of course, the fact that Fuentes and Ye held the positions of honour flanking the host at the dinner table was conveniently ignored. They have made no comments about Trump’s announcement about his 2024 aspirations, because they have their own. They have been remarkably silent about Trump’s outrageous post to terminate the Constitution.

My guess is that these opportunists are still checking which way the wind blows, and will say nothing that will be perceived to interfere with their 2024 chances. Trump has stated that unless the Republican Party confirms his nomination for the presidency in 2024, he will instruct his cult not to vote, which will present the Democrats with four more years. Trump cares naught for his Party, he cares naught for his country. It’s all about him. It has always been all about him.

Last Wednesday, December 7, marked the anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, which Roosevelt had named a “date of Infamy” to emphasize an atrocity against the American people. September 11, 2021, was the greatest atrocity of terrorism against the American people within its shores. These two events, tragic as they were, served to unite the country against the common enemy. Americans fought together, they bled together for the country and they healed together. They were rightly hailed as the Greatest Generation, as they fought off the spectre of Nazism and Aryan Supremacy.

The second anniversary of the storming of the Capitol by domestic terrorists on January 6, 2021 is a month away. Though this violent insurrection did not result in thousands of casualties, it represents a “Day of Infamy” with far-reaching dangers of division, racial hatred and a democracy whose fragility and vulnerability has been proved conclusively.

January 6, 2020, represents the date on which American democracy nearly collapsed. A violent event that highlighted the fragility of a document written over two centuries ago, which may need fresh Amendments to safeguard democracy and keep the manic hatred of dictatorial, authoritarian and religious ambitions of traitors at bay.

Trumpism was roundly rejected during the 2020 midterms by a huge vote of youngsters between 20 and 50, a Blue Wave that was most significant as it was admirable. These youngsters will emulate the example set by their great grandfathers in fighting off the present domestic white supremacists and Neo-Nazis and work towards the Shining City on the Hill.