Donald Trump’s Parting Gift to America

Listening to evening speeches from Congress following the DC Insurrection riot of January 6 you just can’t escape the irony in what President Trump accomplished on that day.

This President, who has done more to divide the country than any previous leader in history of this nation, may have finally gotten both sides of the Congress to work together and indeed unite much of the country.

He has given them all a common enemy. His stunt of inviting his cult followers to Washington to protest the certification vote went so wildly wrong that he lost much of the congressional support he had.

On the very same day that the election of two Democratic senators in Georgia handed over control of the Senate to the Democratic Party, the President chose to incite a crowd of his followers to march down to the Congress where they could demonstrate their concern about the “Fraud” of the presidential election that ended Trump’s presidency.

After inciting them to go down there and “be strong” while they disrupt the Congressional certification of the electoral college votes giving Biden the presidency, he implied he might join them. Instead of joining them, though, he quietly slipped back to his White House, while they marched to the capitol building to commit an insurrection and takeover our government, trashing both chambers and many offices and breaking much glass while holding up the vote. And there was a shooting death, three other deaths and several injuries, including law enforcement defenders.

In the end, it was also a day of punctuation marks on the Trump presidency.

On this day Trump officially lost the 2020 election. He and his party also lost control of the US Senate thanks to runoff elections in Georgia, which by the way was probably caused by Trump himself. He launched personal attacks against the fellow Republican election officials in Georgia who wouldn’t change the election result to make him a winner — something he shamelessly requested in a telephone call to Georgia officials that was recorded. He told the people of Georgia that they couldn’t trust an election in their state, so turnout in Republican areas was down.

And did I mention that on the same day the Coronvirus stats hit an all time high in deaths in the US, and hospitalizations, while “Operation Warp Speed” reported having delivered less than 25% of the vaccine shots it had promised by now?

The last four years in the White House have been marred by a man who spent so much time running for office, enjoying its trappings, and playing golf he had no time to actually do the job.

He has also earned his spot as the world’s greatest grifter, using his supposed campaign against the so-called fraudulent election to raise hundreds of millions of dollars which, thanks to small print on the solicitation, will go into coffers that he controls completely and can, and will, be use for personal reasons, including paying campaign debts from his failed re-election campaign and legal fees for almost anything.

Even though there are only a couple of weeks left until he leaves office, many in Washington are now seriously suggesting removing him from office immediately and telling our nation, and there rest of the world, that all of this is inappropriate and illegal in our country, and won’t be tolerated.

Why not?