Heroic Future President on the Day of the Attacks


 

Each time President Trump tells us what he saw and did on the day of the attacks, his actions in the aftermath become even more courageous.

This year offered a new milestone in the saga of 9/11. Someone born on that day can now register to vote. It has been 18 years.

At a Pentagon ceremony, President Trump was modest about his own heroic actions on the day of the attack.

Soon after, I went down to Ground Zero with men who worked for me to try to help in any little way that we could. We were not alone. So many others were scattered around trying to do the same. They were all trying to help.

This seemed to contradict the version presented on that day, as Mr. Trump was interviewed in the hours after the second tower of the World Trade Center fell. He made no mention then of having been at the scene. After a reference to one of his own properties, he relayed to television anchors information he said he was getting by telephone from an employee who was a few blocks away from the collapsed buildings.

And then when they built the World Trade Center it became known as the second tallest. And now it’s the tallest.

And I just spoke to my people, and they said it’s the most unbelievable sight. It’s probably seven or eight blocks away from the World Trade Center, and yet Wall Street is littered with two feet of stone and brick and mortar and steel.

Donald Trump Calls Into WWOR/UPN 9 News on 9/11

Richard Alles was a Fire Department battalion chief who later became deputy chief with the New York City Fire Department. He was at the scene within 20 minutes after the attack, supervising rescue efforts. He was asked about how Mr. Trump and his crew had helped at that dangerous time.
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Refugees and Sanctuary – Sofi’s Choice


 

One tragic aspect within a tragic era within the history of a great country is now being tragically repeated.

And it is deliberate.

It was 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes had just become President. He did not get the most votes. He made deals with corrupt politicians. He got a special committee to award him electoral votes that should have gone to his opponent.

Part of the deal was to end federal protection for newly freed slaves.
Lynching resumed right after.

The June Issue of the Atlantic Monthly that year contained an article by an author identified only as A South Carolinian.

My principles now lead me to abhor slavery and rejoice at its abolition. Yet sometimes, in the midst of the heat and toil of the struggle for existence, the thought involuntarily steals over me that we have seen better days.

The article chronicled a few enthusiasms of the newly freed slaves, including an apparent passion for travel.

They are literally crazy about traveling.

The author thought it was, well, kind of cute.
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Impeachment – I Like the Book – Let’s See the Movie


 

Impeachment may be possible, but only if this President is convicted in the right court.

It is not the House. It will not be the Senate.

And it will not be with any written report.

We are five years away from the half century mark. And conservative lawyer, author, and television personality Ben Stein can still be brought to tears. His voice breaks as we watch on weepy video:

Really sad. And I … I … don’t think any president has been more wrongly persecuted than Nixon. Ever. I just … I think he was a saint.

It seems like a minority opinion. It certainly was back in 1974, as Saint Nixon resigned. A widely accepted poll measured his popularity at 24%.

Hard to imagine sympathy today for a president who we now know ordered a firebombing that subordinates quietly countermanded, who is recorded screaming at aides about a burglary that had not been carried out, who directed government harassment of political enemies. All we knew about back then was the cover-up.

It is not hard to imagine an alternate timeline in which Ben Stein represents a majority, of a successful continuation of his second term, perhaps even more terms with fixed outcomes, for he was an ambitious individual, of continuing popularity.

All we would need would be a world without the Senate Watergate Committee.
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Why Trump Followers Are Devoted to Their Leader: He Is Not Toasted


 

The most devoted Trump support comes from those impatient with the traditional code words and dog whistles offered by Republicans for the last half century.

A fictional advertising executive explains what they want instead.

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