To the Editor,
We must carefully listen to, watch him, and what he isn’t doing. Who is Trump protecting?
On July 31, 2019, Trump calls Putin expressed concern over the vast wildfires afflicting Siberia. The
leaders also discussed trade between the two countries. The only reason anybody knows about the call is
that the Russians publicly disclosed it. The Russian leader said, “they talk regularly over the phone.” We
should ask WHY. Trump’s tweets were a direct rebuttal of the public testimony his top intelligence chiefs
gave on January 29, 2019, while discussing the gravest threats to the U.S. worldwide. The attack also
marked the latest example of Trump’s public feud with the intelligence community. The president has often
cast doubt on the official assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to aid his candidacy and
even publicly sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the matter. President Donald Trump lit into
the U.S. intelligence community on January 30, 2019, telling his intel chiefs to “go back to school” just one
day after they publicly contradicted him on several of his foreign policy priorities.
Donald Trump said; “I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can
ever tell me.”
Speaking with Face the Nation’s Margaret Brennan, “Listen to this very closely,” Pompeo Secretary of
State said. “The president made very clear he is going to do the right thing. I have enormous
confidence. I’ve watched him do it.” Yes, our president is so eager to do the right thing he can’t be
trusted with sensitive information about Russia. Then again, you’d have to be the biggest moron on the
planet to start a war with Iran — which clearly explains why Pompeo is protecting Trump.
He doesn’t believe the Soviets were predatory, as illustrated by his bizarre explanation that they were
justified in invading Afghanistan. “The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was that terrorists were going
into Russia,” the president said. “They were right to be there.” (The Wall Street Journal criticized the
president for that, editorializing, “We cannot recall a more absurd misstatement of history by an American
President.”)
From his tweets to his bluster to his white supremacist policies, Donald Trump poses a security risk to the
United States. He is actively making us less safe with each day in office. Here is a running list of just some
of the ways he has threatened our safety, reports Indivisible Organization. Here are four areas Indivisible
thinks are at real risks: 1. Noted Iraq War enthusiast and National Security Advisor John Bolton start a
new war with Iran with no congressional approval. This would be wildly unconstitutional. 2. Trump
administration’s plans to transfer nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia in violation of federal law. Why?
Maybe because Trump and Kushner have business entanglements with the Saudis and will always
prioritize their greed over real security. 3. Russia and China are listening in on Trump’s phone calls, and
he doesn’t care. And 4. Trump can’t stop tripping over himself on the international stage. Politico reports
that Trump has made several of embarrassing missteps beyond what we already knew when it comes to
talking with world leaders. Trump is an embarrassment on the world stage, and it’s hurting our
relationships with global partners.
It’s astounding to even now, two years into Donald Trump’s presidency, how many things he says on a
daily basis that just aren’t true. Here are some of the president’s most frequent falsehoods: U.S. Steel is
opening six plants (it’s not); Barack Obama’s administration had the same policy as Trumps of separating
children from adults at the border (it didn’t); Trump signed the largest tax cut in history (Ronald Reagan,
among others, has him beat); a caravan of migrants was stirred up by Democrats offering health care and
food benefits paid for by taxpayers (not quite); other countries owe the U.S. a lot of money for NATO (this
is false); the building of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border is well under- way (nope). None of this is true.
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Norman Halls
