By Donald A. Collins | 9 June 2023
Church and State
Chris Christie in announcing his Presidential candidacy didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know about former President Trump. That Trump is a totally self absorbed egotistical narcissist child summarized his attack.
Would that make a dint in the fealty of Trump’s MAGA base?
Not yet, but the likelihood of Trump’s loss to Biden if he is nominated could bond the presently disparate other 70% of the GOP into picking someone else.
The present people running are a mixed bag but firm on prolife and their focus on LBGTQ restriction, no action on gun control and their prior embrace of Trump does not seem to make any of them appealing to the independent voters needed to beat Biden.
Now this June 8 seven-count indictment. Trump’s attorneys and many others including some Democrats reasonate to these voices claiming that the Justice Department has weaponized its investigation for political purposes.
"Mr. Trump was charged with a total of seven counts, including willfully retaining national defense secrets in violation of the Espionage Act, making false statements and an obstruction of justice conspiracy, according to people familiar with the matter."https://t.co/55rAii5LsV
— Alex Wagner Tonight (@WagnerTonight) June 9, 2023
The weaponization drumbeat will be relentless and sadly is distracting from the main felony highlighted by the US House January 6th Committee’s investigation that Trump willfully, knowingly and actively engaged in an attempted coup to keep himself in office.
We are told that these other pending cases in NYC and Georgia won’t influence his base supporters either.
Clearly the MAGA CULT’s belief in the election fraud argument won’t be changed.
Thus the weaponization chants we will hear only buttresses Trump’s chance to be nominated.
Even a coup indictment may not change his nomination which Peggy Noonan said will finish the credibility of the GOP!
Former US Navy officer, banker and venture capitalist, Donald A. Collins, a free lance writer living in Washington, DC, has spent over 50 years working for women’s reproductive health as a board member and/or officer of numerous family planning organizations including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Guttmacher Institute, Family Health International and Ipas. Yale under graduate, NYU MBA. He is the author of “From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013”, “Trump Becoming Macbeth: Will our democracy survive?”, “We Humans Overwhelm Our Earth: 11 or 2 Billion by 2100?”, “What Can Be Done Now to Save Habitable Life on Planet Earth?”, “Vote”, “Can Homo Sapiens Survive?”, “Will Choice and Democracy Win?”, “Can Our U.S. Survive 8 Plus Billion of Us” and “Economic Growth: A Cancer on all Earthly Life”."What Can Be Done Now to Save Habitable Life on Planet Earth?": https://t.co/fHuh0CG6JD
"We Humans Overwhelm Our Earth: 11 or 2 Billion by 2100?": https://t.co/TA4j7cp1tE
"From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013": https://t.co/lkC2t3E1A9 pic.twitter.com/bQsL2mLBcO— Church and State (@ChurchAndStateN) November 1, 2021
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