Donald Trump Is Morally Unfit to be President

Today is March 28, 2017.   You know when I think of Donald Trump I can’t help but how much Christians have compromised their principles.  As you know one of my own seven cardinal virtues is Fidelity to moral principles, and moral people.  They used to pride themselves on how strict they were with Bible teachers.   I remember the time David wanted me to be a Bible study leader and Judy interjected and said “I’m just not a loving person” and hence unqualified.  It used to be that someone guilty of even the appearance of evil was disqualified.  Needless to say the person had to be sexually pure, as far as that is possible.  And in the Bible spirit he had to be “Well thought of by his piers in the faith”.   Clearly Donald Trump wasn’t “well thought of” in the Christian community before he was nominated.  Ted Cruz at the convention gave an empassioned speech and concluded it by saying “Therefore I say to vote your conscience”.  Certainly from a Christian point of view, Cruz said exactly the correct thing.  Clearly you want to lift up your hands to God and ask him for guidance in making important decisions.  But now all that has gone by the wayside.  Judy explained it as “Well maybe Trump looks bad but you have to realize it’s just the package it comes in.  You don’t disqualify the contents of the package because you don’t like the way the box is wrapped.  She wasn’t saying that when it came to me.  Judy also regarded my prophecy book as “unloving”.   What it was was honest, which is another Christian virtue.  I wasn’t going to put up kind of a fluff front or allude to emotions that I didn’t feel.  People would see through that.  I thought the important thing was to get God’s message out.  Judy didn't always feel this way.  She used to hate Trump more than I did.  Back about a year ago I was still holding hope for Trump, not knowing everything about him and knowing a whole lot more now.  Judy regarded Trump as a demagogue and a potential dictator.  He wasn't "constitutional" like Cruz was.  But someone cast a spell and a veil was cast over Paul and Judy's consciousness.  Tom Hartman said a year ago that there was this tiny group of rich elite that was going to "audition" and select the next president.  It was "whoever best got their message out".  (Selah) Well in like manner Donald Trump has gotten the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Adelson’s message out.  Trump is a conduit for these right wingers such as his chief sponsor and chief, Shawn Hannity.  I respect Shawn Hannity because he gave everybody a heads up on our side about Trump.  Shawn saw before any of us did that Trump wasn’t going to keep his campaign promises when it came to things like not diminishing people’s health care, but would give them something better and it wouldn’t cost as much.   I am reminded of FDR’s mocking jab at the Republicans around 1936 where he pretended to quote them.  “Oh, we republicans want all those things the democrats want.  We really care.  Truly and cross my heart!  But we can do it cheaper and more efficiently, and the best part of it all is under our system, it won’t cost anybody anything”.   (laughter)  Some things Christians see as virtues are not on my list such as “having even the appearance of evil”.  Certainly all of this Russian connection stuff has “the appearance of evil” written all over it.  Also there is such a thing as humility.   While I don’t regard humility as a cardinal virtue, there is a certain virtue in being a little humble about yourself.  The world hates a blow hard, or a why who’s a show-off, ever craving attention.  We regard people who “play to the headlines” like this as inwardly insecure.  The Bible speaks against such behavior.  I remember while we still had the Bible study at Leslie’s apartment there was a place in Romans 12 where is says “One should not think more highly of oneself than they ought to”.  I would certainly agree with this.  Certainly integrity for me is a cardinal virtue.  How many people believe Donald Trump has total integrity in his business and personal affairs?  I rest my case.  Not that Trump is totally devoid of virtue.   I believe he may be a good deal maker and there are roles in business I’m sure where his particular set of talents could come in handy.  But not as President.  Not as the leader of the Free World.  (Selah) 

This republican leader who does all of these covert visits to the White House ought to be fired from his House investigative position.  Clearly the man is not qualified or any reasonable expectation of an unbiased investigation of Trump’s Russian connection.  What is obvious to the American public with the barest sprinkling of facts, seems obscure to the Republican head haunchos who regard everything as politics.  Once again Mark Bove hated politics.  People didn’t even like my prophecy book because some said it was too political, and politics and religion didn’t mix.  Politics and religion never used to mix in classic Calvary Chapel Christianity.  Politics was seen as “dirty” and hopelessly worldly, and something good Christians were supposed to withdraw from because they were “above it all”.   We have swung around 180 degrees from those days.  Today we have lowered ourselves to the lowest form of tit for tat communication in kind of a “nya – nya” rhetoric that’s worthy of a grammar school playground, but certainly didn’t go on in adult society.  The worst thing about President Trump is that he is hopelessly petty about everything.   Of course throwing your political liabilities to the wolves is something Governor Christie did all the time.   I almost admire the fact that Trump is a little loyal to his friends but he’s carrying it too far. 

Trump has done a massive roll-back of Obama’s executive orders.  Trump promised us that in his first one hundred days he was going to transform America.  He has till April 29^th, or just over a month from now- - to complete his complete Obama purge of America.   We told you how Trump wants to roll back industrial safety regulations and worker’s rights.  He also wants to invade our privacy by selling information corporations get.  Now he’s undoing all of Obama’s environmental and global warming regulations.   But this tag line of Trump is that “These are job killing regulations” wears a little thin.   Clearly market forces have made West Virginia and Kentucky coal less valuable.  People prefer natural gas, which is more abundant now do to all the fracking that’s going on.  If you blow off a mountain top or use giant drills to mine, you don’t need the man power you did when you sent man down a dark shaft with picks and shovels.  Clearly cleaning up the environment will create new jobs, and probably well paying ones, too.  There is not a “jobs crisis” now.  The unemployment rate is almost at a historic low of 4.7% and we are obsessed with “creating jobs”.  In like manner we are obsessed with aliens and terrorists coming across the border, and yet the net immigration rate has been a big fat ZERO for years now.  Trump plays on our darkest fears.  And yet areas where we should have real fears, such as polar ice melting- -  Trump is not afraid of that.  There is a blog called arctic-news.blogspot.com, where they run article after article about polar ice and ocean methane outgassing and acidity, and all that good stuff.  You know that ice reflects sunlight and ocean water absorbs it.  Clearly there is a tripping point where global warming will soon be out of control.  

The medication line was long so I watched Jeopardy and then got back in line. I got my peanut butter and jelly sandwich from Ida. I had gotten a butt from Phyllis Green earlier and on this 7:30 outing I got a whole white cigarette from Glenda. I think it’s only the fourth whole cigarette I’ve had all day. Then it was the second half of “Wheel of Fortune” and then it was “24”. I slept OK but I woke a little early with itching. John gave me a white short but Mario conned me out of some of it. But I later got two more butts from John and Mario ended up giving me two butts in a change of heart. I had the Stephanie Miller show on and there was no line at the medication window. I always get milk in the morning- - - from Ricardo today. That rock compilation with Bernie Sanders called “Keys to the Kingdom” has been changed as of today to begin with “Prelude” and “Tyrant” by Judas Priest. This album has been a “Victim of Changes” because we keep having to switch out songs. The post heading is “Making America Think Again” and it’s under “For the Record”. The people in the Federation took care of this weeks ago. I went out at five to seven and the sun was just up and I saw the sun shining on the north side of the building in the morning for the first time. I went into the dining room early.  We had brown sugar in our oatmeal from Aden. Our main course was scrambled eggs with cheese in it, and a whole English muffin- - with butter and jelly. Judy gave me half of her extra coffee because she knew I couldn’t get it from the store today. Louise offered me a lit white rollie that was lying on the ground. There are glimmers of stories about massive new investigations of the Trump administration on ABC network news.

You remember FORMER ACTING ATT GENERAL, SALLY YATES. She was the deputy Attorney General under Obama who became acting Attorney General in the first days of the Trump administration, while the new White House was waiting for Jeff Sessions to be confirmed. After Trump signed his first travel-ban executive order, Yates put out the word to the DOJ that they were not to enforce it. And that was the end of Sally Yates’s tenure as acting Attorney General.

Yates was in the news for another reason in January, though. According to WaPo, as acting AG, she was briefed on Mike Flynn’s now infamous phone call with the Russian ambassador, Sergei Kislyak, in late December in which the topic of sanctions came up. Yates allegedly thought Flynn might have violated the Logan Act; she was also alarmed that White House officials, up to and including Mike Pence, were publicly denying that Flynn had talked sanctions with Kislyak, either because they were deliberately lying or because Flynn had misled them. Yates reportedly worried that if the truth wasn’t publicly known, the Russians would be able to blackmail Flynn by threatening to reveal the sanctions talk themselves — a dangerous predicament for the president’s national security advisor. So Yates went to the White House counsel, Don McGahn, and apparently told him what Flynn had actually said to Kislyak. A few weeks later, Flynn resigned for having misled Pence about the phone call.

Now the House Intelligence Committee wants Yates to testify. Yates is willing. The White House is not. Can they block her on grounds that her communications with the White House were privileged presidential communications? Yates’s lawyer says no: