An Opinion By Virgil Roiles
America…the land of the free and brave. Yet, somehow, someone who wasn’t either of them became the U.S. President: Donald John Trump, a man who accumulated wealth through unrecorded workers, using asbestos without clarifying so, and simply being a rich aristocrat without the manners of a human being.
And despite him leaving his office disgraced after attempting to bring about the destruction of the United States’ democratic process, he is continuing to make claims about how the election was “stolen” through “voter fraud”—an unsubtle way of shifting the blame from his sheer stupidity to fraud.
Yet we forget that the Republicans have even worse records on that. See Watergate, where Democracy found itself sabotaged by the GOP. See also gerrymandering against the black population in Alabama, diluting black voting in Georgia, diminishing an anti-gerrymandering committees’ reform power in Utah, and the 2003 redistricting of Texas to dilute Democratic voting power.
Men like him gerrymander; then they cry when they’re impeached and claim election fraud—a little comical were it not for the fact that it was on the verge of compromising our democracy. He also managed to earn the ire of the people he counted his ‘support’ on – the Armed Forces. To quote the highest authority in the Joint Chiefs of Staff; “The United States Military has no role in domestic politics, full stop.”—once said by Mark A. Milley, General in the U.S. Army and head of the Chiefs of Staff.
When one is under the delusion that they can do it alone as the eternal ruler of, say, a cult, you’d recall people like Scientologists or Branch Davidians—but never the Executive arm of the American Government. Yet, with Trump’s borderline politically suicidal actions, he’s earned at least four indictments. In the United States, indictments are rare for people belonging to the highest of the Executive Arm, even for people who are not at all there in the head – like the 43rd U.S. President.
This is not the case for Donald Trump, however. With 91 felonies and four separate state-level indictments, one wonders how he managed to get elected in the executive arm of the government—a place not for fraudsters, Klan supporters, or mob-affiliated nepotism babies, yet somehow—I suspect it to be a lack of proper education—he managed to take control of the executive arm anyway.
In Florida, Trump attempted to obstruct the government’s retrieval of extremely sensitive documents that should be returned to the government after a term ends, hoarding them for himself; these documents include U.S. nuclear secrets, foreign military plans, foreign capabilities, U.S. military activities, and a response plan to foreign attack – directly violating both the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Presidential Records Act, and alarming the National Archives and Records Administration, alongside a conspiracy to obstruct justice. Forty charges against Trump, and up to twelve against his associates. All this makes many wonder how in the world someone like him became president.