Fed-up with Donald Trump's cowardly 'act': Public attacks...hate speech... divisive speech...+ baselessly denigrating law enforcement and national intelligence people/organizations....All from behind the 'wall' of a security force.

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>>>2/20/19 update: (Barring an earth-shaking development of some kind..) ..Putting this blog on hiatus for a while -- probably until substantial portions of the Mueller investigation findings appear. (That is, if the public gets to see much of those at all...)
..Feeling that everyone is getting tired of ('triggered') rantings and ravings (here), over the latest Trump (or Trump regime) 'outrage-of-the-moment'. (..Including me BTW.) 'Mainstream media' and professional commentators are all over much of that, anyway. (As they should be. It's part of their (overall) job.) FWIW: I shall return, in some way or form. Thank you for reading (and maybe come back in the near-future)...And please keep up the good fight, as I will. (I'll still also be able to view any comments.)

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Yeah....I guess the rest of us (who are basically decent/sane) are supposed to ignore the day-after-day Twitter crap; the divisive "rallies"/hate-fests. Not take any of it seriously... 

...Unfortunately, many millions currently do not ('ignore'), or choose not to....(2/19/19 update:  A new, wider, in-depth article (link) includes a reference to this fact. See also: This related article (link) which includes a section discussing Trump's ongoing attacks upon the F.B.I.)

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(Copy, from 2012:)

My twitter followers will soon be over 2 million--& all the "biggies." It's like having your own newspaper.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 17, 2012

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No: What you do is GARBAGE. .. And from ANYONE, let alone someone bizarrely elevated to high office.

 ↓A couple of recent Twitter acct. copies. (Insert: 'Who is Andrew McCabe?' (One link:) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_McCabe):

Remember this, Andrew McCabe didn’t go to the bathroom without the approval of Leakin’ James Comey!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 19, 2019

....Many of the top FBI brass were fired, forced to leave, or left. McCabe’s wife received BIG DOLLARS from Clinton people for her campaign - he gave Hillary a pass. McCabe is a disgrace to the FBI and a disgrace to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 14, 2019

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The 'sad' thing...? Apparently there's not ONE currently elected or appointed national Republican "man enough" -- or (rather, if you want) with enough integrity and fortitude -- to effectively stand up to the 'loud-mouth-bully-in-chief'.

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An excerpt from the following 2/19/19 news report: "McCabe told Congress 'Gang of 8' leaders about FBI probe into Trump..."

..Interesting to note, by the way, McCabe's assertion (via the above) that none of the 'Gang of 8' congressional leaders (at the time) raised an objection to the FBI counterintelligence investigation into Trump..

(Excerpt. Source article linked above. Emphasis has been added.:)

"...In his "Today" interview, McCabe also said Trump's repeated public blasting of him has been "horrific" for him and his family.

"I can't tell you how horrific it's been to have to endure the threats, the taunts, the bullying of the president of the United States in such a public way," McCabe said. "I try not to take it personally, but it's very hard. It's been incredibly tough on my family."

The president has repeatedly attacked McCabe on Twitter after he interviewed with CBS's "60 Minutes." Trump called McCabe "a big part of the Crooked Hillary Scandal & the Russia Hoax — a puppet for Leakin' James Comey."

Trump continued to tweet about McCabe all throughout the holiday weekend.

"Remember this, Andrew McCabe didn’t go to the bathroom without the approval of Leakin’ James Comey!" he posted Monday night.

Speaking with NBC about Trump's attacks on him, McCabe said, "I don't think really anybody takes those tweets by the president very seriously." He added that Trump has been "lying" about the former top FBI official and his family for years..."

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Rhetorical: Generally speaking, whom would you tend to believe? The (former) SWAT team, (former) counter-terrorism, lifelong Republican, triathlete, former FBI director? Or the mercurial guy who's frequently been entangled in various legal cases (etc.) much of his adult life? (Updated:)

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...Assuming that the entries below are basically accurate. Please compare and contrast the following Wikipedia pages:

Donald Trump (link)

Donald Trump legal affairs (separate article link)

Andrew McCabe (link)

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2/18/19 update: Involved-in-multiple-legal-investigations Donald Trump: The paramount "expert" of our time on the subject of legality...
(Re off-site article link:) "'Very Illegal Act'. Trump lashes out...."

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Reposted partial excerpt from the published transcript of the 2/17/19 60 Minutes interview with Andrew McCabe. Source link:

"...McCabe is a lifelong Republican who had a sterling 21-year career at the FBI; serving as head of counter-terrorism and number two under Comey. But he was fired last year for allegedly lying to his own agents about a story he leaked to a newspaper. Not since Watergate has the FBI been drawn so deeply into presidential politics. Andrew McCabe was pulled into the center of the tempest on May 9, 2017 when he was summoned by the president hours after Comey was fired.

Andrew McCabe: "I was speaking to the man who had just... won the election for the presidency and who might have done so with the aid of the government of Russia, our most formidable adversary on the world stage.

Andrew McCabe: I'd never been to a meeting in the Oval Office before. I'm a career FBI agent-government worker.

Scott Pelley:  Oval Office was above your pay grade.

Andrew McCabe: It certainly was. And the president immediately went off on a almost a gleeful description of what had happened with the firing of Jim Comey. And then he went on to state that people in the FBI were — were thrilled about this, that people really disliked Jim Comey and that they were very happy about this and that it was, it was a great thing.

Scott Pelley: He was telling you what the reaction inside the FBI was?

Andrew McCabe: He was. It was very different than the reaction I had seen immediately before I came to the White House.

Scott Pelley: Which was what?

Andrew McCabe: People were shocked. We had lost our leader, a leader who was respected and liked by the vast majority of FBI employees.  People were very sad. But anyway, that night in the Oval Office what I was hearing from the president was, not reality. It was the version of the events that I quickly realized he wished me to adopt. As he went on talking about how happy people in the FBI were, he said to me, "I heard that you were part of the resistance."

Scott Pelley: What did he mean by that?

Andrew McCabe: Well I didn't know. And so I asked him. And he said, "I heard that you were one of the people that did not support Jim Comey. You didn't agree with him and the decisions that he'd made in the Clinton case. And is that true?" And I said, "No sir. That's not true. I worked very closely with Jim Comey. I was a part of that team and a part of those decisions."

Scott Pelley: You had the sense you'd given him the wrong answer.

Andrew McCabe: I knew I'd given him the wrong answer.

Scott Pelley: You weren't trying to hang onto this job.

Andrew McCabe: I wasn't willing to lie to keep it. I didn't know when I'd be out of the job. I thought it would probably be pretty soon. And so I just put my head down and got to work trying to stabilize the people around me and do the things that I felt we needed to do with the Russia investigation, getting cases opened and getting a special counsel appointed.

After Comey was fired, McCabe says he ordered two investigations of the president himself. They asked two questions. One, did Mr. Trump fire Comey to impede the investigation into whether Russia interfered with the election. And two, if so, was Mr. Trump acting on behalf of the Russian government.

Andrew McCabe: I was speaking to the man who had just run for the presidency and won the election for the presidency and who might have done so with the aid of the government of Russia, our most formidable adversary on the world stage. And that was something that troubled me greatly.

Scott Pelley: How long was it after that that you decided to start the obstruction of justice and counterintelligence investigations involving the president?

Andrew McCabe: I think the next day, I met with the team investigating the Russia cases. And I asked the team to go back and conduct an assessment to determine where are we with these efforts and what steps do we need to take going forward. I was very concerned that I was able to put the Russia case on absolutely solid ground in an indelible fashion that were I removed quickly or reassigned or fired that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace.

Scott Pelley: You wanted a documentary record—

Andrew McCabe: That's right—

Scott Pelley: —That those investigations had begun because you feared that they would be made to go away.

Andrew McCabe: That's exactly right....""

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(One additional reference article for this post:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/us/politics/andrew-mccabe-fbi-acting-director.html)

Reposted: A key excerpt from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's recommended sentencing memo for former Trump campaign chairman/convicted felon Paul Manafort Jr.:

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(One background article link: Who is Paul Manafort Jr.?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Manafort)
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2/15/19 sentencing memo excerpt. (Footnotes omitted. Emphasis has been added:)

"THE GOVERNMENT’S SENTENCING MEMORANDUM

The United States of America, by and through Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III,
files this submission to address the sentencing of defendant Paul J. Manafort, Jr.

As an initial matter, the government agrees with the guidelines analysis in the
Presentence Investigation Report (PSR) and its calculation of the defendant’s Total Offense
Level as 38 with a corresponding range of imprisonment of 235 to 293 months, a fine range of
$50,000 to $24,371,497.74, a term of supervised release of up to five years, restitution in the
amount of $24,815,108.74, and forfeiture in the amount of $4,412,500.

Second, while the government does not take a position as to the specific sentence to be
imposed here, the government sets forth below its assessment of the nature of the offenses and
the characteristics of the defendant under Title 18, United States Code, Section 3553(a).

The defendant stands convicted of the serious crimes of tax fraud, bank fraud, and failing to file a foreign bank account report. Manafort was the lead perpetrator and a direct beneficiary of each offense. And while some of these offenses are commonly prosecuted, there was nothing
ordinary about the millions of dollars involved in the defendant’s crimes, the duration of his criminal conduct, or the sophistication of his schemes. Together with the relevant criminal
conduct, Manafort’s misconduct involved more than $16 million in unreported income resulting
in more than $6 million in federal taxes owed, more than $55 million hidden in foreign bank
accounts, and more than $25 million secured from financial institutions through lies resulting in
a fraud loss of more than $6 million. Manafort committed these crimes over an extended period
of time, from at least 2010 to 2016. His criminal decisions were not momentary or limited in
time; they were routine. And Manafort’s repeated misrepresentations to financial institutions
were brazen, at least some of which were made at a time when he was the subject of significant
national attention.

Neither the Probation Department nor the government is aware of any mitigating factors.
Manafort did not commit these crimes out of necessity or hardship. He was well educated,
professionally successful, and financially well off. He nonetheless cheated the United States
Treasury and the public out of more than $6 million in taxes at a time when he had substantial
resources. Manafort committed bank fraud to supplement his liquidity because his lavish
spending exhausted his substantial cash resources when his overseas income dwindled.
Finally, Manafort pled guilty in September 2018 in the United States District Court for
the District of Columbia to others crimes committed over an even longer period.

The government references those crimes below principally as they pertain to the Section 3553(a)
factors and, in particular, because they demonstrate the defendant’s concerted criminality,
including the conduct to which he pled guilty, from as early as 2005 and continuing up until the defendant’s involvement in an obstruction of justice conspiracy between February 23, 2018 and
April 2018—a crime Manafort committed while under indictment in two jurisdictions and
subject to court-ordered bail conditions in each. The District of Columbia offenses are also
relevant to the application of § 2S1.3(b) of the Sentencing Guidelines to the FBAR offenses
and to the issue of acceptance of responsibility, as discussed below.

In the end, Manafort acted for more than a decade as if he were above the law, and
deprived the federal government and various financial institutions of millions of dollars. The
sentence here should reflect the seriousness of these crimes, and serve to both deter Manafort and others from engaging in such conduct..."

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Once again: Someone with nothing to hide, who is basically honest (and forthright) would NOT act - or react - as Trump repeatedly does with matters like this:

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(PREFACE:) A quick reminder: U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia worked to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. Also: Special Counsel Robert Mueller and/or other federal prosecutors have successfully convicted several Trump campaign and/or administration individuals with crimes, including lying to the government and/or acting as an agent for a foreign government. (Additional investigations (and court cases) are ongoing..)

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Wait...there's this also.. (2/14/19 article link:) "McCabe confirms talks held at Justice Dept. about removing Trump"

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↓Some of President of the United States of America/Commander-in-Chief/Leader-of-the-free-world Donald Trump's measured, public reaction (2/14/19):
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Disgraced FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe pretends to be a “poor little Angel” when in fact he was a big part of the Crooked Hillary Scandal & the Russia Hoax - a puppet for Leakin’ James Comey. I.G. report on McCabe was devastating. Part of “insurance policy” in case I won....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 14, 2019

....Many of the top FBI brass were fired, forced to leave, or left. McCabe’s wife received BIG DOLLARS from Clinton people for her campaign - he gave Hillary a pass. McCabe is a disgrace to the FBI and a disgrace to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 14, 2019

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Attacking the messenger? One dupe just found out via "the media" about his Trump tax-scam miniscule refund

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Ref.: Recent news stories (links):

"Average Tax Refunds Down 8.4 Percent As Angry Taxpayers Vent"

"Big businesses promised wage hikes from Trump's tax cuts. What happened?"

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Repost: Maybe don't look...

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(Copy, no affiliation:)

So I took the natural skin color from around his eyes and applied it to the rest of his face and took away the comb over. So I guess this is what donald would look like if he was poor... what am I doing with my life?#TrumpsTrueForm #Trump pic.twitter.com/D0vc4zuNce

— Jordan Rivers (@JordanRivers_NZ) February 6, 2019

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(A reference for the song:...https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump)



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Sunday: Did Donald Trump attend church services today (in some form)? Does he ever?

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2/10/19: ...If he did, he still had time this morning to unleash more lies, distortions, twisted 'facts', rants, etc. etc... via his public-record Twitter acct.: https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump.

(P.S. ↑What happened to (fake) Trump 'unity'...? (Ref. SOTU address.))

..Some additional, suggested reading. (Off-site article links:)

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-god-talk-is-turning-america-off-religion

https://www.indy100.com/article/donald-trump-us-president-evangelical-christian-david-brody-cnn-interview-attends-church-faith-8213816

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2018/12/05/all-presidents-bush-funeral-service-together-recited-this-core-prayer-except-trump/

https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/28/politics/donald-trump-church-member/index.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/10/17/trump-mocked-pence-joked-about-him-wanting-to-hang-gays-new-yorker-profile/
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/franklin-graham-trump-lies_us_5c529489e4b093663f5b2335

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https://presidentialgolftracker.com/

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