He did it!
No
one saw it coming; pollsters, pundits and liberals of every stripe, especially
Hillary Clinton, thought they had the presidential election in the bag. But
they forgot one big exception-- the silent majority. And sure enough it was
these folks that came out in droves to push Donald J. Trump across the finish
line as the 45th President of the United States.
As
a result of the election the dynasty of the Clinton and the Bush clans came to
an end. No more White House family business, no more executive power, no more
forcing issues as “Obama Care” down the throats of the American people. Tuesday’s
election put the citizen’s faith in a non-politician with the hopes that he
will “drain the swamp.”
It
was a remarkable victory. Everyone from the print and television media to
members of Trump’s own party tried to knock him off. But it didn’t work. The
American people finally decided that they had enough of the career office
holders and broke ranks. The citizens decided that they would take a gamble
with an unknown candidate, roll the dice and see if he actually believes what
he promised or if he will be just another political blow-hard.
The
bets are that he will keep his promises made on the campaign trail. These
promises include immigration, building the southern border wall, lowering taxes
and overturning Obama Care and replacing it with a more effective and
inexpensive plan. Trump also promised to strike down the over 2,000 executive
orders that Obama penned in a blatant act of side-stepping the United States
Congress. For the people Friday noon on January 20, 2017 can’t come fast
enough.
The
battle for the office of President was a bruising fight right down to the night
before the election. Trump continued to stick on issues and hammer Hillary
Clinton for her failures as a New York senator and Secretary of State. Her
email problems also shadowed her by weekly releases of what she had thought were
posts surreptitiously erased. But the thousands of alleged illegal emails
gathered by Wikileaks continued to haunt her with the most embarrassing tidbits
formally hidden from the American people.
One
of the most damaging events occurred when Federal Bureau of Investigation Director
James Comey announced that the Bureau was taking another look at emails
discovered on former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s lap top computer. The emails
linked his wife, Huma Abedin, and her boss Hillary Clinton. The timing couldn’t
have been better for Trump. Both Clinton and Abedin told the FBI under oath
that every email they had was turned over to the investigators. This proved to
be untrue.
Clinton
lost her bid for the presidency not so much for running a poor campaign but more
for her and husband Bill’s past corruption. Most noted is the Clinton’s so called “charitable
foundation.” According to the couple’s tax return about six per cent of all the
millions donated to the foundation actually went to charitable causes. The rest
of the money went for salaries, travel and other “expenses.” And there is still
the accusation of “pay to play” of money taken from foreign governments in
exchange for “favors.” These problems remain for the Clinton team and will no
doubt be looked at by a new Department of Justice director.
Now that the election is
over and a new Department of Justice person to be named, Clinton and her hubby
can anticipate a more thorough investigation of their corrupt involvement. Current
Director of Justice Loretta Lynch will be out of the picture and Hilleary’s
firewall will be punched.
Some
folks have commented that she would look great in a striped pants suit outfit.
And there are a lot of federal jails that carry her size they claim. But don’t
count on it. Yet it is a concern that will continue to dog the Clinton’s for
some time into the future.
With the election of
Trump a lot of folks are taking in a clean breath of fresh air. As an outsider
and also a billionaire, he can’t be bought. It was refreshing to see him fly up
to Washington, D.C., to meet personally for the first time the current office
holder, Obama, and actually pay his own fuel costs out of his own pocket.
Trump’s contacts with
Congressman Paul Ryan also show promise. It should be remembered that Ryan
hesitated to climb aboard the Trump band wagon until the very last part of the
campaign. It appeared obvious to everyone that they didn’t trade Christmas
cards! But now that Trump is actually elected to the office of President of the
United States it appears that many of those reluctant Republicans are now coalescing
behind the new President and are prepared to hit the ground running immediately
following Trump’s swearing in.
There are several things
on Trump’s promise notes that are sure to hit home.
One item has serious ramifications
especially for cities that decide that they can ignore federal law. There are cities
as Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Denver and several others who call
themselves “sanctuary cities.” These cities don’t allow federal officers to
arrest or take into custody illegal criminals who continue to do harm to American
citizens. Trump has said he will end federal funding to any city that continues
to harbor these criminals.
In Seattle the mayor, Ed
Murray, the first outspoken homosexual to hold office, said that he would
ignore Trump’s threat and couldn’t care less about losing federal funding for
any project.
The people of Seattle may
not like such an arrangement and Mayor Murray may find himself in hot water
with his constituents. But don’t count on it; as far as liberalism is concerned
Seattle has written the book.
So, as far as the
election of an unknown to the Presidency of the United States is concerned this
just may be the thing that will result in truly “draining the swamp.”
Let’s hope so and congratulations
to Donald J. Trump. He is indeed the Man of the Hour.
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