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imanamerican63

(13,812 posts)
Thu Oct 17, 2019, 07:27 PM Oct 2019

I am sitting here thinking a president would never sell pout our country,....

never lie to better himself, never use people in despair as ponds to get self promotion, never use the laws of the government to use create grief on the it own people, never threaten anyone because they disagree. We never once have seen such a president, until the current person in the White House who has totally demised the oath to serve all Americans and not just the chosen few. I don't another person like Trump to get the honor to president. Who ever come after Trump can't have the power that he allowed to have, by being protecting the GOP, by their choice or by strong arming them for their support. I don't like use the word "hate" but I am going to use it here. I hate Trump for who is and what his motives are doing to the country and the world. I am an American and proud of it, but it is hard to proud when we have a lunatic shoving his power over our rights. Tonight, this lunatic will be in Dallas spewing his hate and rhetoric thick. Those who support him are ponds in world and are meaningless to him, but they are there! This lunatic needs to be stopped and the country needs to begin to heal as one. I know it is wishful thinking, but this lunacy must end. We have no leader of the free country, a dictator is close. So, be proud, hold your head and don't look back! The future is ours for taking.

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I am sitting here thinking a president would never sell pout our country,.... (Original Post) imanamerican63 Oct 2019 OP
Nixon, Reagan, GHW, and likely W Bush Caliman73 Oct 2019 #1

Caliman73

(11,744 posts)
1. Nixon, Reagan, GHW, and likely W Bush
Thu Oct 17, 2019, 07:38 PM
Oct 2019

There is sort of a pattern there that I cannot put my finger on... Seriously though, Nixon sold out the US to win the election of 1968. He went behind President Johnson's back and convinced the Vietnamese to pull out of talks for a "better deal" that extended the war another 5 years killing thousands more. He also had an "enemies list" and tried to use the IRS to punish people. Reagan for his part went behind President Carter's back and had the Iranians hold American citizens hostage longer to win the 1980 election. He sold missiles illegally to Iran, who was a "state sponsor of terrorism" then funded right wing death squads in Central America also illegally running drugs into America's inner cities. GHW Bush pardoned all of the Iran-Contra conspirators under the direction of Barr. Bush's son then lied us into intractable wars in the Middle East.

All of this going unpunished lead to Trump. Hopefully it will end but I am a bit cynical.

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