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Trump maintains that investigation of his and his family’s business dealings is way off base, but now he’s threatening that if Michael Cohen goes ahead with his scheduled testimony before congress, Trump will see to it that Cohen’s father-in-law’s businesses are thoroughly investigated by “his” department of justice. If this isn’t witness intimidation, what would you call it?

While Trump groused that during his shutdown it would be “completely inappropriate” for Nancy Pelosi and a congressional delegation to be flown to Afghanistan for a fact-finding mission in a military plane, it was fine for U.S. taxpayers to spend $35,000 to fly his wife to Mar-a-Lago aboard a military plane for a “vacation.”

Get some perspective? $5.7 billion would not go far in building Trump’s wall, estimated by some experts to actually have a cost anywhere from $30 billion to $50 billion. Imagine that instead of wasting all that money on such a ridiculous project, we spent it on construction of schools and hospitals, roads and bridges, pay raises for public workers who haven’t had raises in years, and yes, even on sensible border security. Perspective, you get some.

Trump’s tariffs are taking billions of dollars out of the pockets of American consumers and putting it in the U.S. treasury. Then Trump takes billions of dollars out of the treasury and pays it to farmers hurt by the tariffs so he won’t lose their votes. Welcome to political economy in the age of Trump.

The way to get this shutdown to stop is for government employees to stop going to work. If you’re an air traffic controller, stop going to work. What’s he going to do when they’re refusing to work? When French have problem, they all stick together and the whole country stops. The only way to get clown in chief to figure it out is if you stop everything.

When Facebook removes Russian backed propaganda, do they notify followers of the site removal and tell them why it was removed? If not, they should.

I’m not surprised that a Chicago judge found the three cops innocent of covering up for convicted murderer Van Dyke. It’s common knowledge that Chicago judges can be bought and sold. The gangs have been doing it for decades. How else do you explain shooters back out on the streets hours after their arrests and bad cops given passes for fatal shootings?

I was looking at the School City of Hobart website yesterday, and I see that students will be getting Good Friday off. What’s notable is the schools didn’t even bother with pretense: It’s just the government observing a religious holiday. In what universe do they think this is acceptable? Has Peggy Buffington not read the Constitution? They better hope nobody calls the ACLU.

Trump and fake news seem to go together. Isn’t it possible that the man did commit some of the crimes that he is accused of?

Because this has gone on for so long, it really appears that Trump is deliberating trying to crash the economy.

Top Democrats are starting to get nervous about there security with the government shutdown, where they have no problem using tax payers money to pay for there security. But using taxpayers’ money to secure the border to protect the American taxpayer is out of the question. President Trump sure knows how to expose these hypocritical politicians, doesn’t he? Maybe when he had to pay them off to build all of his buildings in the past, makes it easy to expose them know.

Obama, Schumer and Clintonall voted in favor of a border wall/fence in 2006 and agreed that we needed to secure our border with Mexico. The expense of a $5 billion wall or 0.11 percent of the federal budget. Perspective, get some.

If the president is above the law, why is he required to take the oath of office? What would the consequences be for him if he did not uphold his sworn oath?

Trump’s perception of everything is abnormal. He constantly complains about how he is portrayed. For Trump, praise is truth and criticism is a lie. Reality itself, like everything else in his world, is negotiable.

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