{"id":3626,"date":"2023-09-29T09:50:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/?p=3626"},"modified":"2023-09-29T09:52:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:52:37","slug":"donald-trumps-indictments-a-comical-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/donald-trumps-indictments-a-comical-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s Indictments: A Comical Saga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An Opinion By Virgil Roiles<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Donald-Trump-Mug-Shot-539x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3627\" style=\"width:254px\" width=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Donald-Trump-Mug-Shot-539x550.jpg 539w, https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Donald-Trump-Mug-Shot-490x500.jpg 490w, https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Donald-Trump-Mug-Shot.jpg 766w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>America\u2026the land of the free and brave. Yet, somehow, someone who wasn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And despite him leaving his office disgraced after attempting to bring about the destruction of the United States\u2019 democratic process, he is continuing to make claims about how the election was \u201cstolen\u201d through \u201cvoter fraud\u201d\u2014an unsubtle way of shifting the blame from his sheer stupidity to fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019 reform power in Utah, and the 2003 redistricting of Texas to dilute Democratic voting power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Men like him gerrymander; then they cry when they\u2019re impeached and claim election fraud\u2014a 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 \u2018support\u2019 on \u2013 the Armed Forces. To quote the highest authority in the Joint Chiefs of Staff; \u201cThe United States Military has no role in domestic politics, full stop.\u201d\u2014once said by Mark A. Milley, General in the U.S. Army and head of the Chiefs of Staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When one is under the delusion that they can do it alone as the eternal ruler of, say, a cult, you\u2019d recall people like Scientologists or Branch Davidians\u2014but never the Executive arm of the American Government. Yet, with Trump\u2019s borderline politically suicidal actions, he\u2019s 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 \u2013 like the 43rd U.S. President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2014a place not for fraudsters, Klan supporters, or mob-affiliated nepotism babies, yet somehow\u2014I suspect it to be a lack of proper education\u2014he managed to take control of the executive arm anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Florida, Trump attempted to obstruct the government\u2019s 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 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Opinion By Virgil Roiles America\u2026the land of the free and brave. Yet, somehow, someone who wasn\u2019t 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/donald-trumps-indictments-a-comical-saga\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donald Trump\u2019s Indictments: A Comical Saga<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[357,275],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA2u4-Wu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3629,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions\/3629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}