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Jay Shackford
Feb. 11, 2024
Downhill Racing with Donald Trump
By Dead-Center Shacks
It’s time for the Biden re-election campaign to play some hardball. Let’s not mess around. Take the gloves off.
Joe Biden got “Comeyeed” in the Republican, Trump-appointed special prosecutor’s report, which cleared the President of any wrongdoing in his classified documents case but then added that Biden was a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” — giving the New York Post, Fox News and other right wing everything they needed to go on the attack on the age issue.
That’s exactly what Republican FBI Director James Comey did when he released the special prosecutor’s report on Hillary Clinton’s server just weeks before the 2016 election — saying that Hillary was innocent of any wrongdoing and then blasting her character in a nationally televised news conference. It was, many believe, the deciding factor in the 2016 election.
Wait a minute! Here’s Joe Biden’s opponent — the twice impeached, three-times indicted, ex-President who faces 91 felony counts and who has been found guilty of rape and fined $83.3 million in the E. Jean Carroll sexual assault case and could be fined another $300 million or so in another New York State civil case next week where he is charged with defrauding and cheating the state of New York in his business practices over more than three decades. Give me a break!
Lying comes easy to the disgraced ex-President. According to the Washington Post fact-checker, he lied 30,573 times when in office. In addition, his ideas — about policy and everything else — are bat-shit crazy. He will say anything to get elected, and he will do anything once he gets elected.
Last night before a crazed, MAGA crowd in Conway, SC, Trump threatened to pull the U.S. out of NATO if our NATO partners failed to put up their share of money to support the strategic alliance formed after World War II.
“In fact,” Trump said, “I would encourage them (Russia) to do whatever the hell they want.” Combined with, at Trump's request, the Senate and House refusing to enact the most conservative border reform ever envisioned and desperately-needed additional military aid to Ukraine, that gives Putin a green light to march to Kiev, then Poland and the Baltic states. That has the makings of World War III folks.
Let’s talk honestly about the age issue. Sure, all things being equal, I would prefer my presidents in the age group of say Barack Obama or JFK — young and vigorous but also with enough hard-earned experience to lead the country. But if age were the sole determining factor, both Trump and Biden would be disqualified.
Trump is closing in on age 88 — just a week after my birthday on June 9. (Yeah, I’m accepting presents this year.). He will turn 80 on June 14, 2026. His tailor is quite accomplished in covering up Trump’s fat, weak and pudgy body with long ties and suits costing thousands of dollars. And his make up artist spends about an hour several times a day doing his hair and giving him that colorful, orange look for his public appearances. And Trump just gives speeches to a home crowd that loves his bragging, bullying, profanity and dumb-ass remarks that have no basis in reality.
But if you want see the real Trump look at the photos of him coming off the golf course without any make up. He has the pasty white skin of an overweight, obese, out-of-shape man who has a high cholesterol diet and doesn’t exercise. He probably has two years before the “big banger” takes him down. Then we will be left with that ass-kissing, insurrectionist-supporting congresswoman from upstate New York as our President or someone as equally unfit and unqualified to lead our nation. By the way, the Trump attacks on Kamala Harris are pure racist and anti-woman. He sees all women as sex objects who are there for the pleasure of the male race, even his once favorite kid, Ivanka.
And talking about Joe Biden’s gaffes, let’s take a look at Trump’s. He recently mixed up Nikki Haley for Nancy Pelosi, he gets confused about the names of foreign leaders as well as World Wars and last night he asked the South Carolina MAGA crowd, “Where’s Nikki’s husband?” Since you asked the question, my comeback is: “Where’s Melania and the kids?” Melania has disappeared and nobody is showing up for the Trump trials. Nobody. Ivanka — once his favorite — has disappeared and is putting as much distance between herself and her dad as possible.
Just for the record Nikki’s husband’s National Guard unit has been deployed overseas — serving our country. That’s something Old Bone Spurs doesn’t have a clue about doing. Remember, Freddie Trump — Donald’s dad — got a podiatrist who had a street front office in one of Trump's many buildings in Queens to write the letter to Donald’s draft board, stating that Donald had bone spurs and that he should be exempt from the draft for medical reasons. The doctor did so under the threat of Freddie shutting off the heat in his office during the dead of winter. When asked years later which foot he had the bone spurs, poor Donald could’t remember.
So let’s go on the attack, Team Biden Let’s show the contrast between Biden and Trump when it comes to character, accomplishments and even gaffes. Let’s put front and center Trump’s mug shot, photos coming off the golf course and Trump gingerly shuffling down the ramp at some official military ceremony with his hands clinging to the rail bars for dear life. When he got to bottom, he was so proud he made it without falling down that he made it sound like he had just finished the downhill ski race at most recent Winter Olympics.
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