Friday 28 August 2020

Trump, Family, Allies Throw Caution to the Wind


Volume 2, Issue No. 13
OPINION/COMMENTARY
/ News That Fears None, Views That Favor Nobody /

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 Our latest as of Friday, August 28, 2020 

~ Four nights of hoopla culminated on Thursday night in Washington, DC in a dizzying show of pomp and pageantry where US President Donald Trump accepted the nomination of the Republican Party as its candidate for the national election on November 3. A day earlier, Vice President Mike Pence accepted his nomination as Trump's running mate. Their Democratic challengers are former vice president Joe Biden and California Senator Kamala Harris (Videos at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9JK3Q8_gq0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYtUlxT-H84).

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REPUBLICAN PARTY NOMINATION
Trump Accepts Amidst a Pandemic of Lies




By ROMEO P. MARQUEZ
Editor, The Filipino Web Channel



“When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
― Euripides, Orestes



TORONTO - The past four days of the Republican Party convention are notable for the number of lies espoused before the whole world, starting from the top to the inconsequential underlings who wasted no time enabling their candidate with jubilant shouts of "four more years, four more years". 

The brazen defiance of laws and conventions, the open disregard for people's health and welfare, and the self-conceit for pomp and circumstance - all manifested on Thursday (August 27, 2020) evening by the master showman and reality star Donald Trump who happens to be the president of the United States.

Hours ago on the stage on the South Lawn of the White House - a setup never done before - he declared: "With a heart full of gratitude and boundless optimism, I profoundly accept this nomination for president of the United States." It was the finale to four nights of hoopla that began in North Carolina and culminated in Washington, DC.

The seeming confidence oozing from his mouth is contradicted by the unmistakable facts on the ground . . . that America is reeling under because of the coronavirus pandemic, the civil unrest sparked by police killings, the economic downturn, and the very real prospect of a Trump defeat at the November 3 polls.

Regardless of how he reinvents himself now after almost four years that saw his closest aides hailed to court and to prison for a variety of criminal offenses, Trump remains a polarizing influence, a divider than a unifier, and an unmitigated bigot.

His term has produced convicts out of accomplished men, such as George Demetrios Papadopoulos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Papadopoulos), Paul Manafort (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Manafort), Rick Gates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Gates_(political_consultant)), Michael Cohen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cohen_(lawyer)), and Roger Stone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Stone).

Then there's Steve Bannon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon) who was just recently indicted. The case against Michael Flynn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Flynn) is on appeal.

It makes me wonder if these people had been commanded, encouraged, influenced, or tasked to do things by Trump himself. Or they were just aping him knowing his predilection for sidestepping the laws for his benefit?


"He (Donald) has no principles. None. None," his older sister Maryanne Trump Barry has stated. "His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God. I'm talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit." (Video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xsj6FCe9-I&pbjreload=101).

"The United States," the loud-mouthed Trump boasted about the COVID-19 pandemic, "has among the lowest case fatality rates of any major country anywhere in the world". After fact-checking it, the Associated Press said: "It's not true. Not if you consider Russia, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines and India to be major countries".

According to AP, quoting data from Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center, the US "sits right in the middle when it comes to COVID-10 mortality rates in the 20 nations most impacted by the pandemic".

"Of the 20, Mexico has the highest mortality rate at 10.8 deaths for every 100 confirmed COVID cases, followed by Ecuador at 5.8," AP reported. It continued: "Saudi Arabia had the lowest rate of the 20 nations at 1.2, followed by Bangladesh, the Philippines, Russia, Morocco, India, Argentina, South Africa and Chile".

Last night's event at the White House was perhaps no different from the excitement of three days prior. The Boston Globe noted that the second night "may be remembered for all of the rule-breaking, both politically, culturally - and potentially even legally".

News accounts by multiple networks have only laid bare what has been streaming online for hours - that the convention in its entirety was like an assault by another pandemic, the pandemic of lies that seems to afflict every breathing supporters of the current occupant of the White House.

What Trump, who's mocked fairly or unfairly as The Lyin' King, tirelessly conveys is repeated as many times as there were speakers. One lie, and another, and another is restated with no regard for the blunt truth. (Full story: https://apnews.com/699e0c893bfbd986cea11b6f403beb3e).

Being candid as a virtue is sacrificed for personal and political interests of one man, the 45th president of the United States, who's grown to love power but not in its exercise to do good for the millions of Americans.

Would "four more years, four more years" materialize? (Copyright 2020. All Rights Reserved).

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