I won’t forget the night Bonnie and I, and another couple, went to a concert in a neighboring town, and when the concert was over, the car radio was turned on, and we were all so excited that Donald Trump was to be our next President. He was, and he did marvelous things for the first two years, and even the last two. He won, even after calling John McCain a ‘bad guy,” because he was captured. His Presidency revolutionized America in many ways.
Think about it. He made America energy independent, the stock market bloomed, the un-employment rate plunged, interest rates went down to almost record lows, and real estate sales and building, soared. Our armed forces were partially rebuilt, after Obama had done his best to destroy them. Trump, for all practical purposes, stopped the flood of illegal immigrants flooding into America, a huge wall was partially built, which Biden recently decided to rebuild. Don’t hold your breath waiting. Trump saw to it that three new conservative justices were seated on the Supreme Court’s bench. Trump’s accomplishments, and especially in his first two years, were magnificent. The last two were hampered, by losing the house.
It soon became obvious, that Trump was a patriotic, ‘America first’ President, which most of us loved. However, Trump must have offended a lot of Republicans in those first two years, because we lost the House in the mid-term election. Why and how did this happen? I can only guess, but it seems to me that, first of all, Donald Trump had and has, an unparalleled ego, and self-love, rarely seen in a President. Secondly, he is a blatant liar and exaggerator, also unparalleled in Presidential history as far as I can determine. Thirdly, it became obvious, at least to me, and anyone with a thread of economic sense, that Donald Trump’s economic activities, namely mortgaging everything he ’owns,’ makes his net worth questionable, and is not the way you and I operate, and neither does the rest of America. In spite of these obvious personality and honesty errors in Trump’s makeup, he accomplished much.
When election time came two years later in 2020, the reason we lost the House two years earlier, repeated itself. Both Republicans as well as Democrats, received a record number of votes. The election was between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, who spent most of his time, it seemed, in the basement, and when he won, it surprised many, but not the same Republicans who abandoned him two years earlier, and for the same reasons, plus a lot more, as is detailed in a hefty, well researched and documented book of 575 pages, I have had for at least a year, titled, “I Alone Can Fix It.” Sub-titled “Donald J. Trump’s catastrophic final year.” I haven’t mentioned it before, even though the book, beyond any doubt, explains why Trump lost. The book has dozens of pages of explicit documentation and quotes and sources of its contents, and the accuracy of its pages cannot be denied, and especially if, like me, you followed his last year in office, and cringed at times, its progress.
Trump, as explained in detail, paid no attention to his advisors and experts on how to win. He was told endlessly, to speak about his policies and accomplishments, but ignored all, and spent most of his speeches, berating Biden and Democrats. He was warned over and over, about the content of his speeches, and he was begged to wear a mask, which most of America was wearing, and which was required in most places. He refused, offending millions. Believe me, in a long, finely documented book, Trump was told over and over again, that the polls were running against him, and that if he didn’t change his stump speeches, wear a mask, and stop lying and exaggerating endlessly, he would lose. He paid no attention, and he lost. The Trump fans, and they are many, keep insisting, copying Trump’s lie, that “We won by a landslide,” which is absurd. He didn’t win the first time, “by a landslide,” and he certainly didn’t a second time. His legendary lies and exaggerations, are now coming to the long-hidden surface, and it is a shame. I love the guy, in spite of his many faults, because of what he did in his first term, even though his conduct cost Republicans the House of Representatives in the mid-terms. In the 2020 race, thanks to Trump’s actions, speeches, and numerous law violations, Republicans lost not only the Senate, but barely won the House by a slim margin, thanks to Trump’s antics, plus Georgia’s losses and other places.
The 90 or so court cases 95% of which, were thrown out, in many cases by judges Trump appointed, and all for the same reason: “No documented proof.” The endless lies about fake ballots, etc., have 90% been disproven, and in a few cases, even if proven true, would not have changed the results of the election. How sad. It’s almost like continually trying to start a car that had been flooded in a deluge. It won’t happen.
January 6th, will go down in America’s history books, as the first time a President encouraged his Vice President to violate our Constitution, and when he didn’t do it, endlessly belittled him. January 6th will remain a long time in voter’s minds, and that alone could cost him the election, if he ever gets nominated.
Trump’s legal battles are far from over. He still has many court battles to fight in Georgia and other states, and it won’t be pleasant. His current and future legal problems, will only cement the reasons so many Republicans deserted him after two and then four years. If Trump wins the Republican nomination for President, there is no way he can win, but I’ll vote for him and send him money. Lost causes never seem to go away…unfortunately.
Don Stott- don@coloradogold.com