​Previous administrations could be trusted when taking controversial steps, but not this administration. When, for example, this current and lawless administration forces its Department of Injustice—with  the president’s toady Bill Barf at the helm—to probe the origins of an investigation into Russia’s attack on the 2016 election — one must presume ill will and illegality.
 
The Mob Boss in Chief’s interactions with Ukraine illustrate how he operates. According to Max Boot’s editorial today in the Washington Post, “There is now overwhelming evidence — not least from the president’s own mouth — that he held up military aid to Ukraine and a meeting with Ukraine’s president over a demand that Ukraine manufacture dirt on former vice president Joe Biden and information clearing Russia of 2016 hacking. This would be not just an impeachable offense but, as Philip Zelikow of the University of Virginia argues, an attempt to solicit a bribe in violation of federal law. But wait — there’s a second layer of corruption too! Trump delegated Ukraine policy to his personal lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, who was trying to drum up business in Ukraine with two shady characters who have now been arrested. Giuliani’s own business practices are under investigation by federal prosecutors.”
 
Our president has surrounded himself by felons from the beginning (i.e., his previous personal attorney, his first national security adviser, his former campaign chairman, and his former deputy campaign chairman, as well as his adviser George Papalopolous), and his longtime associate Roger Stone awaits trial. And by now it should seem quite obvious that many more of our criminal president’s associates will also be spending time in prison as well. Indeed, the crime spree committed by this administration makes the Nixon administration appear saintly.
 
Clearly #45 lied about his payments to an alleged mistress in apparent violation of campaign finance laws; engaged in pervasive obstruction of justice to stymie an investigation into his campaign links with Russia; lied on average over 20 times a dayduring his entire tenure as our Liar in Chief; and he even falsified a weather map to prove his prediction of a hurricane hitting in Alabama was right, when in fact it was incorrect.
 
Given such an unethical, and even illegal, track record of the current president’s past conduct, and now that the DOJ’s investigation of the investigators (looking into the origin’s of the Russia investigation) has been deemed criminal in nature, how can anyone possibly assume that it is all above board and on the up-and-up?
 
As a reminder, Mueller’s special counsel investigation resulted in 34 indictments and seven convictions along with the release of a report, showing without question that Russia interfered in our 2016 Election to benefit the Orange Monster in the White House. Essentially, he was installed as Putin’s puppet, and I fear, given our Attorney General’s past and current behavior, that Barr too was and is on the Kremlin’s payroll. 
 
Despite the unequivocal and overwhelming evidence presented in the Mueller Report that Russian interfered in 2016, and also the findings of the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee’s nearly three-year investigation proving the same thing, the OM continues to insist that Russia’s attack on the 2016 election was a “hoax.”
 

Meanwhile, AG Barf has been flying around the world pressing foreign governments to help what is clearly an effort to substantiate Trump’s insane theory that a server in Ukraine will somehow show that Russia was framed for the attack. 
 
Now, as the impeachment inquiry into our current president’s illegal behavior continues to gather steam, the Justice Department’s probe has been elevated to a criminal investigation — potentially allowing for the smearing of some of the OM’s severest critics. How timely and how convenient!
 
As Max Boot commented in his column today, “Trump claims that the probe will uncover “really bad things.” But Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the widely respected ranking Democrat of the Senate Intelligence Committee, tweeted: “Senate Intel is wrapping up a three-year bipartisan investigation, and we’ve found nothing remotely justifying this.”
 
I wish I could give the current administration the benefit of the doubt. But I simply can’t. No objective observer could. The onus is on the administration to show otherwise. That’s hard to do given that you can’t believe a single word that the liar in chief and his dishonest aides say.
 

Max Boot ends his opinion piece by saying, “When you can have no faith that the president is acting in the public interest — when, in fact, you have good cause to believe the opposite — it’s time to impeach and remove, because the president has lost all credibility and hence his ability to carry out the duties of his office.”
 
I could not agree more.

​Our country’s Criminal in Chief—who now commits impeachable offenses on a daily if not hourly basis, will hopefully be removed through the impeachment process. But let’s not hold our breath that we can count on even 20 Republican Senators to vote to convict the felon at the helm of their party. Sycophants all, they have thus far sided with the felon at the head of their party and with his crime boss, Vladimir Putin, taking sides against America and our democracy. Hence, we can expect that they will probably choose to go down with the rest of the GOP, drowning with the rest of the Republican Rats on the ghost ship of the president and his criminal administration. Though one does see some cracks in the wall developing among some Republican Senators. 
 
It seems that the Turd in Chief upset at least some Republicans with his signing on to Putin’s orders to betray the Kurds. Something about his coddling up with Putin and Erdogan in a three-way kiss, made some Republican stomachs turn. I can’t imagine why they should be surprised, since it has been obvious for the last three years that our president is owned and operated by the Kremlin, and that he MUST do Putin’s bidding or risk ruin. Clearly, the Turdster feels no allegiance even to his own party, much less to his country: He has only one objective and that is to look after himself alone. Indeed, he would throw his own kids under the bus to save himself, and all of Washington knew and accepted this as a fact years ago. Though a majority of the Republicans in the House and Senate were shocked and dismayed by the Idiot in Chief’s decision, as were all of his generals and military advisers, let’s not bank on the Republicans making the right call when it comes to impeaching the felon.
 
Should our first illegitimate president survive impeachment and remain in office, it will be up to us as American citizens to vote him out of office. A new Justice Department, once the traitorous Bill Barf is removed, can and will indict the ex-president for the hordes of felonies he committed both prior to and during the heinous days of his rampantly destructive presidency. 
 
Even then, it will be up to us to set things right again, even with a new president at the helm, to remove the stain and stench of the most criminal and corrupt administration in the history of America. But some things may never be able to be put right again.
 
The Kurds now know, as does every other nation in the world, that the United States cannot be trusted to keep its word. No ally will ever trust us again. And why should they? When America has proved itself so corrupt and inane and morally unhinged to elect a leader like the criminal in chief in the first place, why should they? When they have watched most of America’s institutions do little to nothing to stop this tyrant, and let him trash the constitution for three years, why should they? 
 
It is not only our current president, who I have said before is merely a puppet for Putin, who must be called out, but also all those on the far-right who joined with him in his anti-American, pro-Russian agenda, including the far-right media who continue to do their best to support the subversion of our Constitution. The Felon in Chief could not have succeeded in his task of turning Washington over to the control of the Kremlin without the support of a good number of the American people, the Republican party at large, the NRA, Fox News and all the rest. They all need to be cast out socially and called out as repugnant by all those who still have a conscience.
 
Once the tyrant is removed, we are going to need a full cleansing of the entire American political system, rife with corruption and dark money from head to toe. It all stinks to high heaven. As does the mob mentality in the Republican Party and the current White House. And the legalized bribery known as lobbying. As does the corrupt opinion by the US Supreme Court (“the best High Court that corporate money could buy”) on the Citizens United matter, which opened the floodgates to dark money, not only from within our country but from every corrupt foreign player that Republicans could find. Indeed, as citizens we are going to have to scrub down the financial records of every single Representative and Senator, and any and all, from either party, who have accepted dark money from foreign sources, have to be removed, publicly shamed and scorned. 
 
As I said in my last posting, it should be more than obvious at this point that the entire Republican party and its so-called “base” has sold out their souls and sold out America to the highest bidder, in this case, Vladimir Putin. Having made this pact with the Russian Devil, to retain their absolute power over the majority of their fellow Americans, they all need to be called out for the traitors that they are. 
 
Now that Mick Mulvaney gave a press conference to confess to the nation the high crimes and misdemeanors that he and the White House and this felonious president committed out in the open, the fact that the House will impeach the Outlaw in Chief is without doubt. We can probably expect the House Vote to impeach coming either before Thanksgiving or no later than before the Christmas break. 
 
What remains in doubt though, is whether or not there are enough Republican Senators who will save the nation, do the right thing, and vote the bastard out of office. If they can’t or won’t do their constitutional duty and uphold their oaths of office, then they, like the criminal administration and the felonious leader they represent, should be tossed to the curb in November 2020. As I have said before, let a cry rise up to Heaven from all corners of our land on Election Day next year: “Throw all of the bums out!” 
 
Only then can we begin to clean out and clean up the mess.

​Not only does our incompetent and unfailingly lawless president—the worst in our country’s history—demand an immediate impeachment and quick removal from office, anyone who defends this president’s actions or refuses to vote him out forthwith, are as much or more an enemy to our nation, to our flag and to our Republic for which it stands, as their Dear Leader is. 
 
Like the heinous Criminal in Chief—who now commits impeachable offenses on a daily, if not hourly, basis and in the clear light of day—those who support him and abide by his corruption and untold abuses of power, need to be removed as quickly as possible themselves, either through impeachment or through voting all of them out at the ballot box in November 2020.  
 
The president, merely a puppet for Putin, and all those on the far-right who apparently have joined the anti-American, pro-Russian forces, along with the far-right media who support and encourage the ongoing subversion of our Constitution, are a clear and present danger to our democracy. 
 
It should be more than obvious at this point that the entire Republican party and its so-called “base” has sold out their souls and sold out America to the highest bidder, in this case, Vladimir Putin. Having made this pact with the Russian Devil, to retain their absolute power over the majority of their fellow Americans, they all need to be called out for the traitors that they are. 
 
Up to now, most Republicans—and it is no surprise given the utter cowardice shown by those holding office both in the House and Senate—have refused to take a stand against their president or to rebuke him in any way. For the most part, all we hear is. At last today, a few of these traitors to America dared to show their faces on the Sunday morning news shows. Ron Johnson, the vile and twisted Senator from Wisconsin, began spinning so hard on Meet the Pressthat his head literally seemed to spin off of his head. Indeed, the Senator of Slime gave a fairly accurate impression of Linda Blair in The Exorcist, as he trove of lies flew out of his mouth like green bile. Given that Senator Johnson is obviously possessed by an evil far more wicked than any demon supposedly possessing Linda Blair in the movie, it was not that surprising. Drowning in and even regurgitating from the same fever swamp that Republicans happily created in America with the damning help of the Fox News Channel and other Satan incarnates like Rupert Murdoch and the now-rotting-in-Hell Roger “Lucifer” Ailes, they have lost all touch with reality.
 
All that the few Repugnant Republican Puppets can do to protect their Putin-appointed president, now that they are daring to poke their heads out of whatever hellacious holes they were hiding in for the last two weeks, is spout lies, invective, what-about-isms, and treachery. If it was not crystal clear before now that the current president and his rabid Republican party are set on destroying our country, and that their agenda is evil and diabolical, it was made more than obvious today by Senator Johnson’s illiterate, incoherent babbling as he sat twitching about in his chair on Meet the Press, possessed by madness if not worse, as his head spun round and round and round, and words vomited from his mouth like venom from a poisonous snake.
 
It seems more than clear now that the Republicans, who continue to follow Putin’s Puppet while praising his treachery to our nation, have brought about the very same American carnage that the Reptile in Chief spoke about during his inaugural address to the nation. 
 
It has only been two-and-three-quarter years since #45 gave that address, but it feels like a few centuries. In that time, the Mobster in Chief has managed to corrupt almost all of our federal government, turning most of it into his own personal crime syndicate, turning our Department of Justice into Bill Barf’s Department of Injustice—the first place the president goes to protect oneself from criminal prosecutions up the ying-yang. He had turned our State Department into his personal investigation service, and converted our Department of Treasury into his own personal Defender against charges of federal tax fraud and tax evasion. And he has done his very best, very much with the able assistance of Mitch McConnell, subverted our judicial branch, including the U.S. Supreme Court, into his own personal Defenders for himself and the Republican party itself.
 
Who would have thought that a nation as strong as ours, built on such solid principles of democracy, could be brought to its knees by a treacherous and illegitimate president and his cronies at Fox News and within the fever swamps of the ruins of the Republican party? But they have accomplished all of this and far more in less than three years. 
 
Of course, they had a great deal of help from the American people’s indifference to voting, as well as from the subversion of Moscow’s authoritarian regime, as from the media’s insistence on covering the Hillary Clinton email story as though that were the most important story of corruption in our country’s history. Indeed, while the media was hell-bent on presenting Republican lies as fact and covered the non-story, the Republicans were colluding with Russia, and the NRA was sucking illegal laundered money from the Kremlin into Republican coffers. Mueller already pointed out most of this, but again the media ignored most of these facts, as did the American people. Which brings us now to the precipice.
 
Now that the president publicly confessed and provided evidence of his collusion with yet another foreign power to subvert our electoral process again in 2020 and to further betray our nation, now that he colluded with China out in the open, promising to favor them in trade negotiations in exchange for their providing the same political favors against his potential political opponent in the next election, and did so on the lawn of the White House, as the whole world watched on television, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have gone forward quickly with a formal impeachment process. They must proceed to impeach Cult#45, as he is a clear and present danger not only to our democracy and to our nation’s very existence, but he is also quite obviously a clear and present danger to the entire world.
 
As I pointed out in my blog post last Sunday, whenever you hear our current president accuse others of some crime, he is always projecting onto them the sins that he knows he has committed himself. Hence, when he speaks about the treason being committed against our country he is merely referring to the many sins that he is fully aware that he and his followers have committed against our country. 
 
 
No doubt, the House will impeach the Criminal in Chief. What remains in doubt though, is whether or not there are enough Republican Senators who give a rat’s ass about saving our democracy from a Tyrannical Emperor that they will do the right thing and vote the bastard out of office. Given their gutless record thus far, one has to question whether there are 18 Republican Senators who still have possession of their own souls? 
 
Regardless, any gutless, spineless boot-spittle who refuses to vote to impeach and remove this president from office, must be removed from office themselves by the American people. Let a cry rise up to Heaven from all corners of our land: “If they won’t stand up to corruption, throw all of the bums out!” And, as a new nation under God, indivisible, we can form a more perfect union, of, by and for the people.