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Darnell Pulphus you’re anything like me, I know that it’s hard for you to listen to the repeated nauseating news reports of the Trump folks fawning over his exclamations of innocence. But worse is that they accuse the Biden administration of going after Trump as a witch hunt scheme in attempts to eliminate him from the presidential race. OMG, already. It’s exhausting to have to hear about him, hear him, see him on the news as a constant again! I thought, did not the mainstream media learn anything from the last presidential election? Must we consume our days with news about Trump, Trump, Trump and if we must can it be information that advances the conversation?

Seriously, we cannot afford to hear daily that Trump is doing what he does, and we know that includes not accepting responsibility for any of the choices that he’s made that have put him in the current legal position and circumstances he now finds himself. This we expect of him. But honestly, I am appalled by those who claim to be running against him for the Republican presidential nomination-- Francis Suarez, (the last to join at the time of this writing), Doug Burgum, Chris Christie, Mike Pence, Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott, Asa Hutchinson, Larry Elder, Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley all of whom have avoided the obvious question asked of them by Republican political pundits.

When asked if elected would they pardon a guilty Trump? Pence hymned and hawed skirted the situation, saying that we have to wait and see what the outcome is of Trump’s Federal trial is. That’s a very logical response. However, he of all people had the opportunity to say, “Absolutely not. Trump asked me to break the law. I upheld the rule of law, and his people built a gallow to hang me. Trump never called on them to tear down the gallow or to back down as they attempted to siege the Capitol. If had followed Trump’s order, I’d be under arrest facing federal criminal charges. Or, if Trump’s dangerous malicia had succeeded I’d be dead. The worst case scenario is that had they succeeded we’d be under the rule of an autocrat not a U.S. President.” He has the facts to support him and prove once and for all that he’s not a ‘patsy.’ He didn’t. Then there’s, Nikki Haley, who blew her opportunity as a stand-alone woman to acknowledge his guilty verdict regarding his bad behavior in the E Carroll case; present his upcoming case regarding the ‘hush money for an abortion for a porn star he apparently impregnated. Finally, blast all the nasty/disrespectful things he’s said about women., etc. Have some courage. I’d never vote for a woman like her who has obvious has so little self-respect. Then there’s Christie the stand-out candidate who says unapologetically that, “Trump is in this predicament because of his choices.

1. He took classified documents that belong to the U.S government 2. He refused to return them when asked by the feds, and

3. He asked his lawyers to lie and say that he didn’t have them. Christie also said of that the DOJ has presented an ‘evidence laden indictment.” The facts are there. Lastly, Christie says most importantly is that Trump puts himself before the country and if he were to return to the White House, he’d be settling his vindictive scores. Lastly, let’s look at DeSantis, who has clearly stated that he’d put a pardon on the table if Trump were reelected. So, we get what the candidates have to lose but what hold

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does Trump have on grown men and women? How do they buy into his continued lies, blatant lies? I thought and have been thinking about this over the years. And besides the page he took out of the notebook of a once powerful sleazy attorney Roy Cohn, who represented Mafia bosses Fat Tony Salerno, Carmine Galante, and John Gotti, Trump is a severe narcissist. It’s important to understand who this man was. Roy Marcus Cohn gained fame from his high profile case as Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954, when he assisted McCarthy’s investigations of suspected communists. Cohn became a prominent political fixer in New York City. He also represented and mentored New York City real estate developer and future U.S. President Donald Trump during his early business career. It is he who taught him how to win the game against all odds. Trump’s a master at pulling people into his rabbit hole that as going down, they get as dirty as himself. He pulls his lawyers into his criminal acts as he did which is caught on tape in the current indictment suggesting that they lie, instructing him to lie about not having the documents and so much more. He creates the illusion that they are untouchable with him and that they will be highly rewarded. It is part of the evidence supporting his indictment on 7 counts. Okay so there’s that.

But back to the blind supporters who voluntarily put on and keep on the blinders. How do they respond to Donald Trump’s manipulations like using his legal woes to plead for money from them/supporters – again. Following his first indictment, Trump the billionaire asked supporters to ‘make a contribution to peacefully defend our movement from the never ending witch hunts’. Today it totals 11 million collected donations and will be more by the publication of this issue. This he has accomplished as he maintains “I am an innocent man” though he could face prison if convicted.

He further states, “Joe Biden’s Department of Justice has INDICTED me even though I did NOTHING wrong,” in one of several June 9, morning emails.

The email ended with links asking supporters for donations of varying amounts, from $25 to $250, pooled by the Trump Save America Joint Fundraising Committee, the main fundraising

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