Donald Blowhard Trump: Racist GOP Liar-in-Chief –

The Most Dangerous Presidential Candidate in U.S.

History

Copyright 2016 Hugh E.Scott

Author’s Introduction

For the record, my full name is Hugh Edward Scott. I’m a

lifelong registered Republican and ardent Ronald Reagan fan who is
mad as hell at Donald Trump and the other rightwing GOP crazies
that hijacked the party I once loved.
I’m also a 1956 graduate of Texas A&M and the Fighting
Aggie Corps of Cadets, ex-USAF pilot, Vietnam veteran and retired
Continental Airlines B727 captain turned political
cartoonist/freelance investigative journalist. I wrote this Kindle book
because of the honor code I lived under at A&M those many years
ago.
The Aggie honor code was simple and to the point.
Members of the Cadet Corps were sworn never lie, cheat
or steal—nor tolerate those who do. As a result, I have zero
patience for dishonest candidates like Donald Trump who seek high
government offices, such as president of the United States, by
employing baseless exaggerations, gross distortions and outright lies
to fool the U.S. electorate.
Using cartoons, illustrations, dead-on facts-
checking and Trump’s own words, my book shows him to
be a pathological liar who dodged the Vietnam draft with
five deferments and then excused his cowardice in 2015
by saying, “I was against the war.”
 Well, I was against the war, too, folks, but I didn’t cut and
run like Trump did. Instead, I flew two six-month combat support
tours in Southeast Asia (1965 –1966) before resigning my Regular
USAF commission and becoming a civilian war protestor.
Now, 50 years later, because of my unwavering patriotism
and Texas Aggie honor code, I am declaring war against Trump.
Starting with this publication, I will use my maximum creative
energy to help prevent Mr. Blowhard from occupying the White
House in 2017.
Here’s another truth about Trump. He’s not a
patriot.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t willfully demean this great
nation with reckless assertions that have no basis—
saying government leaders are stupid and incompetent,
the press is dishonest, our military is weak.
By alleging such things, Trump has given comfort
to ISIS, our worst enemy. That’s what traitors do.

UPDATE 03/24/16
AOL News: ISIS uses Donald Trump in celebration
video after attacks in Brussels

After ISIS took credit for the recent Brussels attacks,

presidential candidates in the United States were quick to offer their
solution to combating Islamic terrorism. When Republican
front runner Donald Trump expressed his thoughts, ISIS
capitalized and used him in a new video celebrating the
attacks.
Calling Brussels a “horror show,” Trump's voice is
heard in the video with an image of the front runner
surrounded by fire and flames. Produced and released by
al-Battar Media Foundation, a pro-ISIS propaganda
group, the video circulated throughout social media in an
attempt to attract new Jihadist recruits.

My question for Donald: Do you understand how

treasonous your reckless, irrational rantings have
become? Obviously not. That’s why you’re the most
dangerous presidential candidate in U.S. history.

My Vietnam Service versus Trump’s

As mentioned previously, I spent two six-month combat

support tours in Southeast Asia.
On June 18, 1965, performing as a Strategic Air Command
KC135 pilot, I had the high honor of flying in the lead aircraft of
“Arc Light One,” the first B52 combat mission of the Vietnam War
—a mighty 60-plane armada including air spares.
Tragically during the radio-silence, night refueling in a
typhoon above the South China Sea, two bombers from my SAC
wing at Mather AFB, CA, the 320th, collided and went down in
flames, killing the following eight B52 crewmembers:

Robert L. Armond
James M. Gehrig Jr.
Tyrell G. Lowry
James A. Marshall
William E. Neville
Harold J. Roberts Jr.
Joe C. Robertson
Frank P. Watson.

I also pulled temporary duty at Takhli Air Base, Thailand,

for refueling F105 “Thuds” on Rolling Thunder missions into
North Vietnam.
What another great honor that was, taking four F105s up to
Laos and bringing them back, sometimes flying across the border
into enemy territory to refuel a Thud jock nearly out of gas. Much
too often, only three fighters returned after one got shot down in
North Vietnam. Thud pilots got the nickname from the sound
NVA anti-artillery rounds made hitting their fuselages at low level.
Talk about guys with guts of steel!
But my Vietnam experience didn’t end in 1966. After
joining Continental Air Lines that same year, I flew CAL Military
Airlift Command (MAC) charters in the Boeing 707-320C,
transporting teenaged Marines to and from South Vietnam,
operating out of hot spot air bases like Da Nang and Ben Hoa from
1967 to 1972.
For me, the civilian wartime experience is best described by
the tongue-in-cheek phrase, “Never heard a shot fired in anger. Saw
a LOT though!”
Back to spineless Cut & Run Trump.
Now, decades later, when I think about so-called
“veterans” supporting draft-dodger Donald, I want to
puke. I don’t give a damn how pissed off they are at
Washington politicians.
By backing Trump, they are dishonoring the
sacrifices of the eight good men from my SAC wing as
well as the other 58,000 U.S. service personnel who lost
their lives during the Vietnam War.
At that same time, while our soldiers were dying in the rice
paddies of South Vietnam, Gutless Wonder Donald enjoyed a rich
elitist lifestyle in Queens.
The only thing Trump worried about back then was
catching VD from the Fifth Avenue models he was
screwing—or so Blowhard claimed years later during an
interview with radio trash-talker Howard Stern.
My Family’s Patriotic History versus Trump’s

When it comes to patriotism, I’m proud to say the Scott clan

has a tradition of military service dating back to 1776. I learned that
from my wife of 58 years, Jean, an Air Force brat whose father, the
late USAF Master Sergeant Clyde Stevens, was a 30-year “lifer.”
A retired attorney, Jean became an accomplished genealogist
after leaving the legal profession. Her meticulous research revealed
an unbroken bloodline on my father’s side going back through the
Scott, Aldrich, Williams and Brewster families. At the end, I’m
connected to Elder William Brewster, a passenger on the
Mayflower. Jean says that makes me related to several million
natural-born Americans. It’s a nice feeling.
The first military man in the Scott family was my fourth
great-grandfather, John Scott, a Vermont resident born in England
who enlisted in the Continental regiment known as the “Green
Mountain Boys” and was assigned to Captain Gideon Brownson’s
company.
John fought in the battles of Bennington and Saratoga, was
captured at Fort Ann, NY, and shipped off to a British Army
stockade in Canada. During his imprisonment, the Redcoats
restrained him continuously with iron leg shackles that left incurable
open sores.
Discharged in 1779 because of the injuries, John was unable
to work as a farmer, his original profession, and received a veteran’s
pension of $8.00 per month. He married Betsy Woodward, lived in
Whitehall, NY, and had four children including my father’s
namesake, Edward.
John Scott died in 1826. He owned no real estate and left
behind personal property with a recorded value of $69.83.
The Civil War involved another ancestor of mine, a Yankee
soldier named William H. Fike on the side of my mother, Winifred
Fike Scott. William served in the 12th Calvary, Pennsylvania
Volunteers, from December 1861 to July 1865. They fought at
Manassas, in the Antietam campaign, participated in some of the
smaller engagements during General Lee’s retreat from Gettysburg
and was assigned to picket duty in the northern Shenandoah.
Confederate stragglers wounded Private Fike while he was
standing guard. Hospitalized, thinking perhaps getting shot twice
would not be a good thing, he deserted, was recaptured for a $30
reward and finished America’s bloodiest conflict honorably as a
decorated corporal in Company K, 51st Regiment.
Several years ago, I visited my great-grand uncle’s resting
place at Mattawana Cemetery in Mifflin County, PA, and was
deeply moved by the large number of graves with fresh-cut flowers
and brass medallions commemorating the deceased as Civil War
veterans.
WWI saw the service of several Scott family members,
including Sergeant Malone “Lonie” Dewitt—older brother of my
father’s mother, Mamie Dewitt Scott. Lonie was an infantryman
and fought in France. Jean is still searching for the other relatives’
military records.
The uniformed family member I am most proud is my late
father, Edward William Scott. Although he received a second
lieutenant’s commission from the ROTC program at UCLA in
1932, Dad didn’t serve in WWII because of a disqualifying medical
condition. However, he still played an important wartime role as a
geologist for Union Oil of California, exploring for desperately
needed petroleum across the U.S. and in Alaska.
Dad’s only sibling, younger brother Dewitt Scott, also did
not serve—on active duty, that is. A member of the Texas National
Guard in Amarillo and full-time Santa Fe railroad brakeman,
Dewitt died in a train-coupling accident before Pearl Harbor.
Another relative, Colonel Frank Dewitt, younger brother of
my father’s mother, spent 30 years on active duty as an Army Air
Corps/USAF flight surgeon and retired after the Korean War.
During WWII, he served on General George Stratemyer’s staff in
the China, Burma and India theatres. Uncle Dewitt’s influence
caused me to take Air Force ROTC at Texas A&M.
As for more recent conflicts. I did my thing in Vietnam and
my grandson, Kyle. an active duty Marine who served in
Afghanistan, is standing by for another Middle East deployment.
Now consider the Trump family history of U.S.
military service.
It doesn’t exist. Not one member of Donald’s clan
has ever worn the uniform.
NOT EVER!
A Lesson in REAL Military Leadership

In September 1963, less than 60 days before President

Kennedy’s assassination, my tanker crew flew to Omaha, Nebraska,
for a tour of the Strategic Air Command’s famous underground
command post.
We were joined by nine other KC135 crews plus 10 B52
crews, all selected from various SAC units for a special “Blue Flame”
tour of the daunting subterranean facility. At the time, General
Thomas Power was the SAC Commander-in-Chief.
To reach the War Room, we took a high-speed elevator deep
below the surface to a huge man-made cavern. The War room was a
two-story metal cube mounted on gigantic springs for absorbing the
shock of a nearby, above-ground nuclear explosion.
Inside the cube, all 20 crews, approximately 70 officers in
flights suits, squadron scarves and quick-donning combat boots, had
gathered in a neon-flooded briefing room that smelled of ozone
from the recycling air conditioning system. We were sitting in
classroom chairs behind long tables with our backs to the briefing
room door, waiting for something to happen.
Suddenly a deep voice from the rear barked, “Ten-HUT!”
A loud clattering sound instantly filled the room, caused by
boots scraping the floor along with chair legs as 70 combat
crewmembers jumped to attention.
“Be seated, gentlemen,” said another voice behind us.
More clattering noise, not as much, as everyone got
comfortable again.
I heard clicking shoes heels approaching. In my peripheral
vision, I saw two men, one short, the other tall, stroll past my table
to the front of the briefing room and turn around.
Instantly recognizable was the shorter person, General Power,
in uniform, four stars and too many rows of ribbons to count—
distinguished looking, like a corporate CEO, not a Commie killer.
Accompanying Gen. Power was even more impressive man,
the celebrated Evangelist preacher, Billy Graham.
Tall, sandy-haired and handsome, hawkish face with a gentle
smile, dressed to the Nines in a gray Brooks Brothers suit and black
high-gloss Florsheims, Reverend Graham was a combination
Southern Baptist minister and Hollywood movie star. Totally
mesmerizing best described him. If Billy had said, “Fall to your
knees and beg forgiveness,” no other crewmember in the room would
have beaten me to the floor.
General Power spoke first. He greeted us as a group, then
blew our minds by naming all the units we were from along with
our latest Management Control System (MCS) standings. Power
chided one B52 crew whose wing had recently flunked an
Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI), comparable to an airline
being grounded by the FAA.
My reeling brain was jarred even more when the general
described our Cold War mission. He used an analogy from the
Wild West Days. Comparing Tombstone, Arizona, to the modern
world, he said SAC combat crews were walking down Main Street,
heading for a showdown with Black Bart’s Gang, the USSR, at the
far end of town. Then, as if the talk had been rehearsed, Billy
Graham joined in.
He told us we were on the right side of the street, six-
shooters drawn, Christian ministers to our left, Bibles open,
marching in step to defeat the Devil in the form of Soviet premier
Nikita Khrushchev.
At that very moment, had Billy and General Power shouted
in unison, “THE WAR’S ON!” 70 officers would have roared out
of the big steel cube and killed themselves trying to squeeze into the
high-speed elevator, wanting to the first SAC crew airborne.
That’s what I call real leadership. It was the result of earnest
words spoken by two dynamic men with absolute integrity. General
Power had served in WWII as a B24 bomber pilot and B29 unit
commander, winning the Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star,
Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, Distinguished Flying Cross,
Bronze Star, Air Medal with oak leaf cluster, Commendation
Ribbon with oak leaf cluster, and the French Croix de Guerre with
Palm.
Billy Graham’s medals were the hundreds of thousands of
souls he had saved.
Now think about Donald Trump in terms of absolute
integrity—the most important element of leadership,
according to General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The following list of unpatriotic actions, reckless
statements and bizarre behaviors by Trump proves he is
unfit to command America’s armed forces:
Donald tried to undermine the U.S. presidency by
claiming WITHOUT PROOF that Obama was
born in Kenya
Calls women “pigs” and pokes fun at their menstrual
periods
Wants to change the Constitution regarding
freedom of the press so he can sue journalists who
anger him
Encourages violence against protesters at his rallies
Mocked a crippled journalist who opposed him
Says Mexican illegals are rapists and drug dealers
Promises to build a 50-foot concrete wall along the
lower Rio Grande River that would isolate West
Texas towns, be eroded and could possibly collapse
Says he would use our armed forces to threaten
Mexico if it didn’t pay for the wall
Wants to deport U.S.-born children of illegal
immigrants
Intends to keep Muslims from entering the U.S.
Says Islam hates America
Has alienated Muslim Americans needed to uncover
local Islamic terrorists
Refused to disavow the KKK by name
Claims to be a Christian but admittedly has never
asked God to forgive him
He’s a serial adulterer who talks openly about his
conquests
He bragged about the length of his penis during a
GOP debate
He believes in sadistically torturing captured
combatants
Says he would order the U.S. military to violate the
Geneva Convention and commit war crimes
Wants to kill families of ISIS terrorists, including
women and children
Refuses to release his income tax returns
Is facing fraud charges because of his Trump
“University” scam
Holds phony press conferences to promote his
campaign with free air time
Won’t reveal how much of his real estate assets are
liquid
Said former POW John McCain wasn’t a war hero
Blacklists reporters from his events then denies it
Says his supporters will riot if he doesn’t get the
GOP nomination
Refuses to attend more GOP debates
Questioned whether or not Mitt Romney is really a
Mormon
Never provides details about his promise to “make
 America great again”

If Gen. Power knew all that, he would be spinning in his

grave—at max rpm.
I can’t imagine Billy Graham’s reaction, who is 98, but it
wouldn’t be good.
NEWS FLASH
AOL 03/07/15

Military veterans are appearing in ads released over the

weekend by an outside group, hoping to stop Donald Trump from
snagging the GOP presidential nomination.
The ads, from the conservative nonpartisan American
Future Fund, feature veterans disavowing Trump's statements
about prisoners of war and end with the text: "Trump's a phony.
Stop him now."
In one ad, former Special Forces commander Michael Waltz,
who served in Afghanistan, said that Trump "hasn't served this
country a day in his life" and called him a Vietnam War
draft-dodger.
"He essentially called anyone who is captured in
combat a loser," Waltz said. "It's something that I just
personally can't stomach and am sickened by, as should
every veteran and every soldier in the United States
military."

No Top Brass Military Endorsements for

Trump

Most telling about Trump’s unfitness to command is the lack

of endorsements by generals and admirals. A google search on
02/10/16 revealed that just one officer—retired Air Force General
Chuck Yeager, the famous “Right Stuff” test pilot—supposedly
supports Trump. However, this claim is false, a case of
mistaken identity.
For comparison’s sake, in 2012, Mitt Romney was endorsed
by more than 500 high-ranking military officers.

NOTE: During the March 3, 2016, GOP debate,

Trump was asked if any prominent U.S. military officers
had endorsed him. He could only name two obscure
military supporters.

Trump Skips GOP Debate, Scams Vets (?) and

LOSES Iowa Caucus

After ducking the FOX News debate on Jan 17, 2016,

because the network had “insulted” him, The Donald promised to
raise money for veteran organizations at a last-minute rally. So he set
up a website, DonaldTrumpforVets, which states, “Honor
their valor. Donate now to help our Veterans.”
Trump’s website, it turns out, was nothing more than a
single page with stock photos and a credit card donation form which
claimed that “100% of your donations will go directly to veterans
needs.”
There’s only one problem with the declaration: ALL of the
money raised on the site went directly to Donald Trump’s
personal non-profit foundation, according to a disclosure
listed at the bottom of the page.
Meanwhile, many legitimate veterans organizations wanted
nothing to do with Trump. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of
America founder Paul Rieckhoff tweeted that he would decline
any contributions that came from Trump’s event, which replaced his
attending Fox News debate this week.
Rieckhoff’s tweet said, “If offered, @IAVA (Iraq and
Afghanistan Veterans of America) will decline donations
from Trump’s event. We need strong policies from
candidates, not to be used for political stunts.”

Previous Trump Veteran Donation Scam

On September 15, 2015, Trump held a fundraiser in San

Pedro, CA, on the Navy battleship USS Iowa, for an organization
called “Veterans for a Strong America” (VSA).
The single ticket price was $1,000 for the privilege of hearing
him bluster about nothing meaningful. Donald told the 500-
person crowd that VSA had “hundreds of thousands” of
military vets who were supporting his candidacy.
Not true, folks. That was another blatant Trump
lie!
According to my facts-checking, VSA had only ONE
member—its founder, Joel Arends, an obscure Iowa lawyer and
wannabe political organizer.
You should know that in 2000, Arends was a supporter of
John McCain and played a role in his campaign. The relationship
changed in 2015 when Arends stabbed John in the back by
defending Trump’s reprehensible attack on the senator’s heroism
during the Vietnam War.

Something More to Think About

QUESTION: Should American voters elect a

pathological liar to be president of the United States?

According the Webster’s Dictionary, “pathological liar”

describes someone who is compulsive, lies on a regular basis and is
unable to control their lying despite of foreseeing inevitable negative
consequences or ultimate disclosure of the falsehood.
For example, on December 28, 2015, Democrat
presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Trump
believed wages for working people were too high.
Donald immediately tweeted to his supporters that Sanders
was lying.
The next day, MSNBC aired two video clips of
Trump saying America could not compete in the global
economy because our “wages were too high.”
Gotcha again, Donald!

The Donald: Hypocritical Seller of Ties, Lies &

Snake Oil
More Trump Hypocrisy

Since 2010, nearly 300 U.S. residents have applied for jobs
at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, FL, but only 17 were
hired. Meanwhile, according to the New York Times, Trump
pursued more than 500 visas for foreign workers at the resort.
The Donald’s fondness for guest workers was brought to
national attention by Reuters in 2014, when the news service
reported that Trump had sought visas for over 1,000 foreign
laborers since 2000. The N.Y. Times investigation showed that
those visas weren’t pursued for a lack of domestic applicants.

President Trump: UNFIT for Command

I don’t believe for a nanosecond that Donald Trump will be

elected to the White House. However, his eventual retirement from
politics won’t happen because of the press.
The gaga Fourth Estate has treated him like the celebrity he
is, but few in the media have asked the 10 billion-dollar question:
Should Donald be our armed forces commander-in-chief?
For the answer, we need only to look at his past.
Trump is a guy who evaded the Vietnam draft with five
deferments, then excused himself during his 2015 campaign by
saying, “I was against the war.”
If military leadership is provided by example, then in
Trump’s alternate universe, I would’ve had the right to refuse
deployment to Southeast Asia in 1965 because I believed the
Vietnam War was wrong. Of course, that’s not how military service
works, but Trump obviously doesn’t know it, another reason why he
is unfit to command our armed forces.
Also, veterans and the active duty military should never
forget the unpatriotic way Trump insulted Arizona Senator John
McCain by saying the former POW “wasn’t a war hero” because
North Vietnam shot him down and he was captured. John spent six
years in the brutal Hanoi Hilton. Draft-dodging Donald wouldn’t
have lasted six minutes.
The next night at the Reagan Library debate, Trump got
caught speeding again when he denied trying to establish
gambling casinos in Florida, as charged by Jeb Bush
standing next to him.
Scowling, Trump shot back, “That never happened!”
Again, another blatant blowhard lie. Google
“Trump casinos in Florida” and you will find numerous
reports supporting Jeb’s assertion.
Donald’s persistent aversion to truth-telling proves he is unfit
to command America’s armed forces.

UPDATE March 13, 2016

Today, Bob Woodward, appearing on MSNBC, asked

Trump how he would force Mexico to pay for his famous wall.
Replied Donald, “I would intimidate the Mexicans with
our rebuilt military.”
Sorry, Blowhard, but that’s an improper use of our armed
forces.
Ignorance. Another reason why he is unfit to
command,

Trump Wants to use Waterboarding and

Harsher Interrogation Methods Against
Captured Combatants

Under federal and international law, the waterboarding of

suspected terrorists is considered torture and can be prosecuted as a
war crime. A favorite torment of tyrannical regimes from the
Spanish Inquisition to the Nazis to the Khmer Rouge, Japanese
soldiers were tried, convicted and executed for waterboarding
American POWs during World War II.
Americans were punished for waterboarding prisoners during
the Philippine-American and Vietnam wars. Many Republicans—
including Sen. John McCain, a former North Vietnam POW—have
condemned the sadistic practice as torture.
“Anyone familiar with waterboarding,” insisted
McCain, “knows it’s a horrible torture method and
should never be condoned in the U.S. We are a better
nation than that.”
President Obama signed an executive order banning
waterboarding and other torture techniques almost immediately
after taking office in 2009. The move was harshly criticized by
many Republicans who claimed he was stripping away a valuable
tool in the fight against terrorism. However, most experienced
interrogators emphatically assert that information
obtained through torture is unreliable at best.
Even so, Donald Trump said he would order
American armed forces to ignore the Geneva Convention
and commit war crimes against suspected Islamic
terrorists.
He also said our troops should KILL the families of
terrorists, including children, as punishment for keeping
quiet about future attacks.
For an excuse, he claimed wives of the 9/11 skyjackers knew
about the pending World Center plot. Misinformed as usual,
Trump obviously didn’t know that NONE of the
skyjackers were married!

Simon Legree Trump: Heartless Land-grabber

During the 2/04/16 GOP debate, Jeb Bush accused Trump

of trying to seize the private property of Vera Coking, an elderly
woman with land in Atlantic City that Trump wanted for a casino
limousine parking lot.
Trump responded to Jeb by claiming his allegation was
baseless.
Here’s the truth. Trump offered Coking $1,000,000 for her
property. When she turned him down, he attempted to use eminent
domain law to grab the property with a forced offer of $250,000.
Coking fought back in court, won and Simon Legree Trump
lost his precious limo parking lot.

Trump: Racist Pot-stirrer

On September 17, 2015, at a New Hampshire campaign

event, Donald appeared to agree with false claims made by one
member of the audience about President Obama’s religion and the
presence of Muslims in America.
The male questioner started by telling Trump, “We
have a problem in this country. It's called Muslims. We
know our current president is one.”
“Right,” replied Trump, grinning as he told the audience,
“We need this question.”
The man then said he was worried about “training camps
where they want to kill us” and asked Trump, “When can we get rid
of them?”
Rather than deny the baseless racist allegation,
The Donald responded by nodding his head in obvious
agreement and saying. “Bad things are happening here.
We will be looking into them.”
His lame reply left no doubt in my mind that Blowhard
Trump is a dangerous, world-class bigot not unlike a post-Civil War
Ku Klux Klansman.
Trump’s KKK Connection?

On June 1, 1927, the New York Times reported that a

“Fred Trump” (Donald’s father) was arrested during a Ku Klux
Klan brawl with Queens police.
The elder Trump’s identity was linked through census data
that showed him living at the address reported by the Times when
the brawl occurred. The combatants consisted of some 1,000
Klansmen and 100 police officers, with Fred Trump being one of
seven men arrested.
Although Fred’s parents were born in Germany, he
told friends and acquaintances for decades after WWII
that the family was of Swedish origin.
According to his nephew John Walter, “Fred had a lot of
Jewish tenants and it wasn’t a good thing to be German in those
days.”
Donald Trump also claimed to be Swedish in his
1987 book, The Art of the Deal, a harbinger of many pathological
falsehoods told by the Yellow belly during his 2016 presidential
campaign.
Trump Compared to Hitler

Just before the March 2016 Super Tuesday, Trump swore

his rally audience to a loyalty oath to him as their leader. He raised
his right hand in saluting fashion and his fans did likewise.
A number of liberal observers said they were reminded of
Adolf Hitler during his pre-World War II political campaigning. I
felt the comparison was unfair—to Hitler, not Trump. After all,
Adolf saw combat in WWI as a German soldier, whereas Trump is
a cowardly draft dodger.
Seriously though, the Nazi comparison was way off the mark.
Trump was simply showing off his father’s KKK influence.
Proof of Blatant Trump Racism

In 1973, the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division

filed a civil rights suit against the Trump organization charging that
it refused to rent to black people.
The Urban League had sent black and white testers to apply
for apartments in Trump-owned complexes; the whites got the
apartments, the blacks didn’t.
According to court records, four Trump rental agents
reported that applications sent to the central office for
acceptance or rejection were coded by race.
A 1979 Village Voice article quoted an agent who said
Trump instructed him not to rent to black people and to
encourage existing black tenants to leave.
Previously, in 1975, a consent decree described by the head
of DOJ’s housing division as “one of the most far-reaching ever
negotiated,” required Trump to advertise vacancies in minority
papers and list vacancies with the Urban League.
The Justice Department subsequently complained
that continuing “racially discriminatory conduct by
Trump agents has occurred with such frequency that it
has created as substantial impediment to the full
enjoyment of equal opportunity”
My Experience with Racism

I was born in Los Angeles, CA, to liberal Republican

parents, both of them 1932 graduates of UCLA. During
kindergarten, because my father was a field geologist for UNOCAL,
we moved to Texas, later Florida and Louisiana.
During grade school in Louisiana, I was bullied because my
California accent made me sound like a Northerner. At recess,
bigger kids played a game called, “Beat up the Yankee kid.”
 I was the Yankee kid.
After being pummeled several times on the school ground, an
older kid took pity on me and became my personal body guard.
I learned two things from the unpleasant experience.
One, be empathic to minorities.
Two, speak with a Southern accent, which I still do 70 years
later.
Growing up in Shreveport, LA, I witnessed numerous
examples of institutional racism. I’ll never forget riding public buses,
seeing Negro women standing in back with empty seats up front.
One time while walking to Fair Park High School in
Shreveport, I strolled by a gas station where an elderly black man
apparently had died of a heart attack.
Rather than call an ambulance, the gas station attendants had
propped up his body in a sitting position outside the men’s restroom
and placed a small sign in his lap that said, “Good nigger,” meaning
he was dead. His mouth was open and flies were buzzing in and
out. I was horrified.
I will always remember public drinking water fountains being
labeled “Black Only” and “White Only,” the same for restrooms.
Negroes sat in the back of movie theatres, in a separate area. Each
summer, my family would drive to Southern California and visit
relatives. It was like going to a foreign country where black and
white people got along, sharing the same facilities and
transportation.
 After I started USAF flight training at Spence Air Base
Moultrie, GA, I and three fellow second lieutenant student pilots
attended a KKK rally out of curiosity, one Saturday night on the
Colquitt County Courthouse steps.
Standing on the top step were a dozen Klansmen in white
hoods plus small children dressed the same way. The Klan leader
was using a bullhorn to exhort the crowd, yelling, “We’re gonna
send the niggers back to Africa and Jews to Israel.”
One of my buddies, a Jewish guy from New York City, lost
his cool and shouted, “YOU BUNCH OF FUCKING NAZIS!”
As the crowd spun around and looked in our direction, I
grabbed my outraged buddy’s arm and said, “Let’s get the hell outta
here.”
After barely escaping with our lives, we got drunk that night
at the Spence Officer’s Club.
Because of those experiences and my Southern
upbringing, I can smell a racist five miles away. At that
distance, if bigotry had the odor of cheap perfume,
Donald Trump would stink like the inside of a French
whore house.

Super Tuesday UPDATE (03/01/16)

Around 30 black students were reportedly asked to

leave a rally for Donald Trump at Valdosta State
University in Georgia on Monday, reported the Des Moines
Register.
The students told the Register they were standing quietly in
the bleachers, waiting for the rally to begin, when they were asked to
leave.
US Secret Service reportedly escorted them out before the
rally began.
No reason was given for their ejection.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar versus Trump
 In January 2015. Kareem, a six-time NBA champion,
celebrated author, filmmaker, education ambassador and devote
Muslim, wrote an op-ed published by Time magazine titled,
“These Terrorist Attacks Are Not About Religion”
Stated Kareem, “For me, religion—no matter which one—is
ultimately about people wanting to live humble, moral lives that
create a harmonious community and promote tolerance and
friendship with those outside the religious community. Any
religious rules should be in service of this goal. The Islam I learned
and practice does just that.”
Flash forward to December 10, 2015, when Kareem appeared
as a guest on the MSNBC TV show, “The Last Word by Lawrence
O’Donnell.”
During O’Donnell’s Q&A, Kareem characterized
Donald Trump as a “serial liar who issued falsehoods so
fast that interviewers were unable to counter them with
facts.”
As an example, Trump told reporters he had NEVER
met Kareem.
The former Laker star laughed while relating the story and
said when Trump was shown a picture of them together, he
immediately alleged that it had been photoshopped.
Really, Donald?
Vulture Capitalism—the Enemy of Working
Americans

On March 3, 2106, multi-billionaire investor Carl Icahn

called Fox Business Network to tell host Neil Cavuto that Trump is
“what America needs at this time.”
And just who is Carl Icahn?
Having been an airline pilot, I remember him as the vulture
capitalist that made a hostile takeover of TWA in 1985 and sold
TWA’s assets to repay the debt he used to purchase the company.
In 1988, Icahn took TWA private, gained a personal profit of
$469 million, and left TWA with a burdensome debt of $540
million. The end result was TWA’s demise. Meanwhile, Icahn
laughed all the way to his bank.
Icahn is Trump’s evil twin—an unscrupulous,
greed-driven businessman who destroyed the lives of
TWA employees for his own financial gain, the way
Trump did his workers when he took four companies into
bankruptcy, including one casino.
I had a similar experience when Frank Lorenzo put
Continental into Chapter 11 to break the company’s labor unions in
1983. As a result, I went on strike, walked ALPA’s picket line,
joined Delta Air Lines as a B737 instructor and retired early from
CAL. Best move I ever made.
Trump’s Great Mexican Boondoggle Barrier

The Donald has yet to produce evidence supporting his

allegation about Mexican immigrants being rapists and gang bangers
who are bringing violent crime to America. Probably because there
are no reliable reports linking violent crime and immigration. In
fact, several studies have indicated just the opposite—that the crime
rate for first-generation Hispanic immigrants is actually lower than
the overall crime rate for other residents in the United States.
Furthermore, according to the Government Accountability
Office, border security in the Southwest is roughly 84% effective. So
why do we need a wall costing billions to build and years to
complete just to fill the 16% gap?
The truth is, America doesn’t need Trump’s Great Wall of
Mexico. Instead, we should spend our tax dollars on practical
solutions—such as more border patrol officers, more rapid response
vehicles, more surveillance drones, more spotter planes, more
infrared/motion detectors and other high-tech interdiction systems.
What say you about that, Donald?
No reply.
I wonder if he knows the lower Rio Grande River meanders
across an immense West Texas flood plain with shallow aquifers
that can undercut 50-foot walls made of concrete, causing them to
collapse. Obviously not.
Why do I know about the potential erosion problem?
Because I have B.S. degree in Geology from A&M, studied the
lower Rio Grande River while at summer geology camp in West
Texas and worked for ARCO as a seismologist after graduation.
Using that experience and my boundless curiosity, I am currently
doing research for a geological report that will show the Great Wall
of Mexico is Trump’s Folly.
Meanwhile, for a heads-up about Donald’s boondoggle
barrier, please read the following Associated Press article published
on March 8, 2016:

Constructing the wall, now a signature applause line at

Trump campaign rallies, is a complicated endeavor,
fraught with difficulties. Numerous bureaucratic,
diplomatic, environmental, monetary, and logistical
hurdles must be overcome. And forcing the Mexican
government to foot the bill won't be easy, especially since
its president has flat-out refused.

A physical barrier between Mexico and the United States

has been tried before.
During President George W. Bush's second term,
Congress authorized $1.2 billion to build several
hundred miles of double-layer fencing, but the
government faced myriad obstacles. Private landowners
objected to buyout offers. There were environmental
concerns and lawsuits.
Some 650 miles of border fencing now sits on the border,
including roughly 15-foot-tall steel fencing in many
urban areas that is designed to stop or slow border
crossers on foot and vehicle barriers, which are shorter
steel posts filled with cement and planted in the ground.

Just getting that built was a challenge, and a new, taller

wall like the one Trump wants would almost certainly
face as much, if not more, opposition.

First, a 1970 boundary treaty governs structures along

the Rio Grande and Colorado River at the Mexican
border. It requires that structures cannot disrupt the flow
of the rivers, which flow across Texas and 24 miles in
Arizona and define the US-Mexico border, according to
The International Boundary and Water Commission, a
joint US-Mexico agency that administers the treaty.

Trump has said his wall will not need to run the full
2,100-mile length of the border, but even excluding those
portions blocked by geographic features, there are serious
issues.

In some places, treaty obligations and river flood zones

would require the wall be built well into the United
States, which would be awkward if the Mexican
government is paying for it and overseeing the project. In
addition to creating a sort of no-man's land between the
wall and the actual border, one government or the other
would have to buy large amounts of private property as
well as land owned by at least one Indian tribe whose
territory straddles the border in southern Arizona.

In areas where the border is defined on dry land across

New Mexico, most of Arizona and California, structures
have to be built so the wall doesn't obstruct natural run-
off routes or otherwise induce flooding. Building in those
areas can be complicated and costly. In sensitive sand
dunes in Southern California, for instance, a "floating
fence" had to be built to allow the natural movements of
the dunes.

Then, there are the conservation issues. Groups such as

Defenders of Wildlife and the Sierra Club sued over parts
of the existing partial fence. And, federal regulations
could prevent or at least significantly delay or increase
costs of construction in certain areas.
A total of 18 federally protected species may be found
along certain sections of the California border, and at
least 39 federally endangered, threatened, or candidate
species live along the Arizona border, according to the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Presuming Trump can overcome all of these bumps, he
must also contend with the cost and the diplomatic
consequences.

Numerous fact-checking organizations have taken issue

with Trump's estimate that the wall would be built for
$10 billion to $12 billion. And they have rejected his
contention that the wall could be funded by reducing the
U.S. trade deficit with Mexico. Figures released by the
Army Corps of Engineers and the Congressional
Research Service indicate that the total cost of the 650-
mile fence has been $7 billion. And that doesn't include
maintenance and upkeep.

Trump has insisted that Mexico will pay for the wall,
perhaps through fees on money that immigrants send
home to their families, tariffs, or other means. Fees
would be wildly unpopular, and tariffs would most likely
run afoul of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The cost of such tariffs would also ultimately be borne by
U.S. consumers.

Getting the Mexican government to pay for it outright is

almost certainly wishful thinking.
President Enrique Peña Nieto said Monday that "there is
no scenario" under which Mexico will pay for the wall,
and he likened Trump's rhetoric to that of Hitler and
Mussolini. Former President Vicente Fox put it more
bluntly: "I am not going to pay for that f---ing wall."
Both Fox and another former president, Felipe Calderon,
have also compared Trump to Hitler.

So there's diplomatic ill will, a question the

Congressional Research Service raised in 2009.
"Do the gains in border security outweigh the risk of
alienating Mexico and Canada?" asked the CRS. "Should
the Mexican or Canadian government's opinions or
wishes be taken into account when border fencing is
concerned? Given the need to coordinate intelligence and
law enforcement activities at the border, should
maintaining cordial working relationships with Mexico
and Canada take precedence over sealing the border with
physical barriers?"

Recently, a group of Republican national security

community members, including former government
officials, blasted the idea. "Controlling our border and
preventing illegal immigration is a serious issue, but
Trump’s insistence that Mexico will fund a wall on the
southern border inflames unhelpful passions, and rests
on an utter misreading of, and contempt for, our
southern neighbor," they wrote in an open letter.
Prime Examples of Trump’s Folly
Trump University—NOT for Higher Learning

The text below was extracted from a Reuter’s article

about The Donald’s alleged flimflam operation, dated
07/23/15.

In 2009, California businessman Art Cohen received a letter

from Donald Trump with a “special invitation” and two VIP tickets
for a Trump University seminar promising to help make Cohen rich.
Cohen purchased a $1,495 ticket to thee-day seminar,
and then went to put $34,995, plus interest and finance
charges, on his credit card to become a part of Trump
University’s Gold Elite Program.
In the end, Cohen said in a 2013 class action lawsuit
pending in the Southern District of California, the program
delivered to its 5,000 students neither Trump nor a
university.
Instead, the suit claims the school lured “student-
victims” into its doors, only to defraud them once their
checks were cashed.
Students typically included a significant
percentage of senior citizens, and were urged to clear out
their 401k's and max out their credit cards because Trump
promised a higher return on the investments in the
foreclosure market, according to the complaint.
Consumers were told the course would enable them to pay
off their credit cards, cars and fully fund their retirements. Instead,
the plaintiffs claim, Trump was completely absent and the
“faculty” turned out to be “high pressured salespeople
hired as independent contractors and paid commissions
for sales.”
Rather than curriculum designed by Trump, the lawsuit said
students received course materials that were created by a school
official with no background in real estate as well as third party
providers.
Almost immediately after founding the university in 2005,
the New York State Department of Education told
Trump to change the name of the institution since it was
not accredited, did not have a license and offered no
degree. The Texas Attorney General also began an inquiry.
Blowhard’s Self-serving Income Tax Plan

Rather than comment on Trump’s recently floated tax plan,

which would make his children instant billionaires when he dies
(SURPRISE!), I inserted below extracts from an AP article by Jeff
Horwitz, published on September 29, 2015. For emphasis, I
highlighted key sentences with red text.

“FACT CHECK: Math in Trump's tax plan doesn't

always add up”
WASHINGTON (AP) — In proposing a major overhaul of the
U.S. tax system, Republican presidential front-runner Donald
Trump vows to reduce the tax rates paid by millions of Americans,
spur economic growth not seen in decades and do so without adding
to the national debt.
“It's a tax reform that I think will make America strong and
great again,” Trump said Monday.
Here is a look at some of the claims Trump made when
announcing his tax plan and how they compare with the facts.
Trump would reduce the number of tax brackets from the
current seven to four: 0 percent, 10 percent, 20 percent and 25
percent. While such a change would reduce taxes for middle-income
earners, his plan would benefit most those with enough
income to fall into the current top tax bracket and pay
39.6 percent on income above $413,000.
It appears likely that Trump's plan would be a financial boon
for someone of his wealth.
Trump and his wife would pay 25 percent instead of
the current 39.6 percent, on any income above $300,001.
An income statement he released alongside his personal financial
disclosure report this past summer reported his 2014 income as
$362 million.
His proposal to eliminate the 40 percent tax on
inheritances of more than $5.4 million would allow him
to pass on his estate to heirs tax-free, a savings worth
billions given his estimated net worth of more than $10
billion.
In short, Trump’s tax plan is all about himself and
his family, not ordinary Americans.

The Donald: Full Blown Narcissist

Although many people can seem self-centered at times, full

blown narcissism like Trump’s is called narcissistic personality
disorder—or “NPD.”
People who have NPD deviate from the norm in the way
they view themselves, other people and events. Their emotional
responses are sometimes intense or inappropriate. They are impulsive
and react differently than most people to interpersonal relationships.
A person with narcissistic personality disorder:

Has a grandiose sense of self-importance

Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success
and power
Requires excessive admiration
Exploits others
Is arrogant
Lacks empathy for others

Does that sound like The Donald?

You bet!
How Tall is Trump?

Being a full blown narcissist, The Donald enjoys telling

people he’s six-foot three. His family has publicly made that claim
and many celebrity websites have repeated the exaggeration as well.
Coincidentally, Jeb Bush is 6’3”–for REAL!
Strip Trump naked and I’ll bet it shows him using two-inch
foot lifts plus a corset and man bra.

UPDATE
 At a Trump rally on Super Tuesday, March 1, 2016,
angered apparently by questions about his height, Donald said he
was “six-three, NOT six-two.”
No, Con Man. Jeb is six-three, NOT you!

How much does The Donald Weigh?

Numerous Internet sources have repeated Trump’s claim that

he weighs 200 pounds. Who is he kidding? His beer belly weighs
that much!
I’m guessing the full blown narcissist tips the scales at 300
pounds minimum.
What do you think?
One more thing. Google photos of Trump at his rallies and
you’ll notice he always wears an unbuttoned coat, unlike the other
GOP candidates who often appeared in shirt sleeves.
Why?
Donald foolishly believes the coat hides his man breasts, pot
belly and fat rolls!
How Much is Donald Really Worth?

Some Wall Street sources say Trump has exaggerated his net
wealth by 50% and is cash poor. It’s why he manipulates the TV
media to get free air time.
Image means everything to him, no matter how dishonest he
must be. But soon, hopefully, when the press wakes up and does
some serious investigative reporting, we will learn what a phony
Trump really is.
Blowhard’s remaining viable GOP opponents (as
of 03/28/19)

Ted Crazy Eyes Cruz

For his solution to the Syrian conflict, Cruz wants to carpet

bomb ISIS-held territory, a violation of the Geneva Convention
because the tactic would kill thousands of innocent civilians.
Cruz also hints at using nuclear weapons for the same
purpose, which, in his words, “would make sand glow.” Instead of
Crazy Eyes, I think it would be more appropriate to call him simply
“crazy.”
John Kasich
On March 4, 2016, Ronald Reagan’s 70-year-old son,
Mike, endorsed John for president.
For what it’s worth, I am also supporting Governor
Kasich.
BIG TIME!

An UNFRIENDLY WARNING to RNC Chairman

Reince Priebus and the Republican National
Committee

For seven long years, I watched the Reagan Party of

Compromise become the Obstructionist Party of “NO”—controlled
by the minority Tea Party, bigoted birthers and rabid racists. Said
House Speaker John Boehner during President Obama’s first year, “I
will work with him for a Grand Bargain as long as we get 98% of
what we want.” Minority Senate Leader Mitch McConnell was even
more obstinate, saying his job was to deny Obama a second term.
Then along came Trump—a Frankenstein monster of the
rightwing GOP’s creation. If he becomes our party’s nominee for
the White House, millions of Reagan Republicans like myself will
leave the GOP and never come back.
Our reason is simple. We don’t want to be associated with an
ignorant, bombastic con artist who has said and done so many
despicable things, which I listed in this book’s beginning.
But the absolute last straw for decent God-fearing Americans
should be Trump’s vulgarity. Read the following Daily Mail
summary of his 1997 interview with radio trash-talker Howard
Stern and you’ll want to take a shower to get rid of the foul smell.

During the Howard Stern interview, Trump appeared to

trivialize the Vietnam War and those who fought for their
country by comparing it to his sex life. “I’ve been so lucky in terms
of that whole world,” he said of sexually transmitted diseases. “It is
a dangerous place out there. It’s scary, like Vietnam. It was my
personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.
Vaginas are like landmines.”
Stern agreed, adding, “A lot of guys who went through
Vietnam came out unscathed, a lot of guys who've gone through
the Eighties having sex with different women came out with
AIDS and all kinds of things.”
Trump also went on to describe how he made his potential
sexual partners get screened for STDs with his own personal
doctor.
When asked if that was a difficult thing to ask potential
partners, Trump replied, “The whole romantic process is terrible.
Because you meet somebody, and you start really liking that
person, and you start getting with that person and you’re really
going at it and you say, ‘Excuse me, we have to stop now.’ It’s
not like, you know the Seventies was the best time.”
The interview wasn’t the first time that Trump has
overshared on the Howard Stern Show. In 2004, he discussed his
sex life again, revealing, “I’m not into anal.”
On another occasion that same year, he held a bizarre
discussion about his then-girlfriend Melania's toilet habits.
After Stern joked that his girlfriend had only ever
defecated four times in their three years together, Trump replied,
“I can say the exact same thing about Melania (his present
wife).”’
Trump continued that he had never seen Melania “make
poopy.” Said Donald, “I’ve never seen any. It’s amazing. Maybe
they save that for after marriage.”
He then described his ex-wife Ivana’s bowel movements as
“a little more normal do-do.”

Here’s my reaction after reading about the Howard Stern

interviews: Washington DC has enough problems already.
The last thing it needs is Donald Trump climbing out of
a Queens sewer and stinking up the White House!
Why I Mentioned the Perverted Howard Stern
Conversations

I initially resisted mentioning Donald Trump’s sick obsession

with the bowl movements of his wife and ex-wife. But when he
failed to deny his perverted conversations with Howard Stern, as a
serious political cartoonist, I felt duty-bound to publish the drawing
above.
I apologize to readers who were offended by my artwork.

SIDE BAR: My curiosity about Trump’s wife took

me on an Internet search that produced X-rated nude
photographs of Melania from her modeling days.
Because I felt spouses of political campaigners were off
limits, I ignored the explicit pictures.
Later, however, on 03/22/16, an anti-Trump Super
PAC independent of Ted Cruz felt otherwise and posted
a nude image of Melania on the Internet. And what was
Donald’s “cool-headed” response?
The following tweet he posted in retaliation says it
all!
This is how Trump spilled the beans – with a
revenge tweet containing the image below:
 Shame on Trump for threatening Heidi Cruz
and mocking her afterwards
by tweeting the above montage. Blowhard’s vulgar,
misogynist, deviant, bottom-feeding behavior begs the
question: should he become America’s commander-
in-chief and serve as a role model for children and
young adults?
 Absolutely not!

The Difference between a REAL Christian and a

Perverted Charlatan

Donald’s Campaign Accomplices

To help perpetuate his national con game, Trump has enlisted two
zombie spokespersons:
Sarah Palin and Ben Carson.

First, Sarah, with an AP news story:

Palin’s Troubled Iraq Veteran Son

Washington (AP) – 1/19/16

Sarah Palin’s son was arrested on domestic violence charges after an

armed altercation with his girlfriend, according to court documents
filed as his diehard Republican mother endorsed bombastic
presidential nominee Donald Trump.

During the fight, Track Palin allegedly brandished a rifle

and threatened to shoot himself, according to the documents
that come the same day. Sarah Palin, a 2008 vice presidential
nominee, former Alaska governor and gun enthusiast, endorsed
Trump's quest for the presidency. Track, 26, Palin’s eldest son and
an army veteran who served a tour of duty in Iraq, was arraigned in a
pre-trial facility in Alaska, the Anchorage Daily News reported.

NOTE: Two days after leaving her troubled son behind,

Sarah was still in Iowa endorsing Trump. Is that what good
evangelicals do? Put fame before family?
Even worse, Sarah made Track’s Iraq war-related disability a
campaign talking point by blaming it on President Obama. What a
shameless hypocrite Sarah Palin is!
Worse yet was Trump’s clear lack of concern for Track, a
disabled Iraq war vet. If The Donald really cared about Sarah’s son,
he would’ve sent her back to Alaska on his private 757 jetliner
instead of using Palin to glamourize his Iowa campaign.
Now for Ben Mumbles Carson

During the first GOP debate, Fox News moderator Megyn

Kelly asked Dr. Carson if he would bring back water-boarding—i.e.
torture.
Replied the good doctor without hesitation, “What we do in
order to get the information we need is our business and I wouldn’t
necessarily be broadcasting to everybody what we’re going to do.”
In other words, during international conflicts, it’s
okay to inflict pain and suffering on enemy suspects as
long as we don’t tell anyone.
Since Carson professes to be a deeply religious Christian, I
wonder if he ever asked himself, What would Jesus say about
torture?
One thing is certain. As revealed by his hypocritical campaign
quotes, he is a man who totally lacks empathy.
Consider what Carson said about veterans dying while waiting
for VA medical care: “I think what’s hap​pen​ing with them
(vet​e r​a ns) is a gift from God to show us what hap​pens when you
take lay​ers and lay​ers of bur​eau​cracy and place them between the pa​‐
tients and the health care pro​vider.”
I can’t believe a medical doctor would say such a cold-hearted
thing—that God allows war veterans to die so people will
understand the evils of bureaucracy.
 Did Ben ever take the Hippocratic Oath? The part that says,
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science,
and that warmth, sympathy and understanding may outweigh
the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
What about that, “Doctor” Carson?

Another Revolting Side of Ben: HE CHEATS!

Buzz Feed News recently reported that several sections of Dr.

Carson’s bestselling 2012 book, America the Beautiful, in which
he admitted to having been a plagiarist in college, were ironically
plagiarized from various sources.
For example, the following highlighted paragraph was
published in 2002 by the political website, Socialism Sucks (dot)
net:

Anytime you give to government the responsibility and authority

to provide government-made jobs, old-age financial security,
“free” health care, and “free” education and indoctrination of
children, it will control the lives of the people who live under its
jurisdiction, and individual liberty and freedom of choice are
sacrificed.

That same paragraph appears in America the Beautiful ten

years later—word for word, without a citation:

Anytime you give to government the responsibility and authority

to provide government-made jobs, old-age financial security,
“free” health care, and “free” education and indoctrination of
children, it will control the lives of the people who live under its
jurisdiction, and individual liberty and freedom of choice are
sacrificed.

Here’s an unwritten rule about plagiarism. Authors who steal

words from other writers cannot be trusted in positions of authority
—such as president of the United States.
NEWS FLASH (03/30/16)
Trump Exposed: The Donald gets Ambushed by
Chris Mathews at MSNBC Townhall Meeting
 Several years ago at a writers’ club meeting, I chatted with an
LAPD detective turned novelist who was considered the
Department’s most effective interrogator when it came to extracting
information from suspects and uncooperative witnesses.
Rather than sit on opposite sides of an interview room table,
he made the subject sit on a chair in one corner. The detective then
sat directly in front of the subject inches away and began the Q&A.
That’s exactly what Chris Mathews did to Donald Trump at the
MSNBC Townhall meeting on 03/30/16.
Masterfully, Chris invaded Trump’s space like a police
detective and began intimidating him with sharp questions and a
pointed finger. A second TV camera behind Chris zoomed in on
Trump’s face and showed him to be clearly flustered.
Because of the live audience, Trump was trapped, as if he
were sitting in the corner of an LAPD interview room, and he
clearly didn’t like it. Left with no choice but to respond, he tried to
argue his way out of the predicament and failed miserably.
Shrewdly, Chris had pulled open the curtain on the Queens’
Wizard of Oz and exposed a pitiful blowhard with no moral
compass.
Well done, Chris Mathews. Well done.

IN MEMORIAM

AOL NEWS
03/06/16: Nancy Reagan, the former actress who was fiercely
protective of husband Ronald Reagan through a Hollywood career,
eight years in the White House, an assassination attempt and her
husband's Alzheimer's disease, died on Sunday at age 94, the
Reagan library said.
Michael Reagan said on Twitter he was saddened by his
stepmother's death. “She is once again with the man she loved,” he
wrote.
Nancy Reagan became one of the most influential first ladies
in U.S. history during her Republican husband's presidency from
1981 to 1989.

My personal memory of Nancy Reagan

In 2011, I attended a fundraiser at the Reagan Library in

Simi Valley, CA, that was hosted by Dutch’s widow. Lucky for me,
I only live 20 minutes from the facility, which I visit frequently, like
a devout Muslim going to Mecca.
The main speaker that night in 2011 was Senator John
McCain, a hero of mine. What a fantastic evening it was, seeing two
great patriotic Americans in the flesh, especially Mrs. Reagan. She
was amazing. So gracious, warm and friendly.
May she rest in peace beside my favorite Commander-in-
chief.