{"id":159846,"date":"2017-10-22T09:32:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T09:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=159846"},"modified":"2017-10-27T06:16:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T06:16:18","slug":"the-case-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=159846","title":{"rendered":"The Case Against Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Darkmoon &#8212; Oct 22, 2017<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">AN\u00a0 IMAGINARY\u00a0 DEBATE<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Edited and chaired by Lasha Darkmoon<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h5><strong>This is a \u201cdebate\u201d with a difference. It consists of a compilation of authentic quotations by well-known politicians, celebrities, and internet pundits, all arranged in a dramatic collage by Lasha Darkmoon. If the overall impression is Kafkaesque and surrealistic, that is intended. Every quote can be verified on the internet for its word-for-word accuracy.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Trump-nuke-blast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-159847\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Trump-nuke-blast.jpg\" alt=\"Trump nuke blast\" width=\"540\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Why bother having nuclear weapons<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<strong>if you are afraid to use them?<\/strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>\u2014 Donald Trump<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h5><strong>LASHA DARKMOON<\/strong> : Ladies and gentlemen, you are all veteran observers of the political scene in Washington. I\u2019d therefore like to ask you a few questions and get a debate going on Donald Trump. My first question: do you have anything positive to say about Trump?<\/h5>\n<h5><em><strong>(Silence)<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5>Rachel Blevin, you are a Texas-based journalist. How about you? Do you have anything nice to say about our President?<\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2017\/10\/trump-killed-civilians-illegal-drone-strikes-9-months-obama-8-years.html\">RACHEL BLEVINS<\/a><\/span>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/strong>Trump has killed more civilians with illegal drone strikes in nine months than Obama did in eight years.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LASHA DARKMOON<\/strong> : Can you expand on that?<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>RACHEL BLEVINS :<\/strong> The Trump Administration is breaking records by accumulating a horrific number of civilian deaths. President Trump has been in office for just nine months, and he has already surpassed Obama\u2019s murderous record with estimated numbers as high as\u00a04,500 civilian deaths. Trump made headlines in December 2015, when he\u00a0declared\u00a0that if elected, he would not only kill members of ISIS\u2014he would also \u201ctake out their families.\u201d He is following through on that promise.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD<\/strong> : Trump is killing women and children in cold blood?<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>RACHEL BLEVINS : <\/strong>Researchers\u00a0have documented the rise of\u00a0\u201cfrequent killing of entire families in likely coalition airstrikes\u201d under the Trump Administration. This trend led to \u201cthe deaths of at least 57 women and 52 children in Iraq and Syria\u201d in May [alone].<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD : <\/strong>Trump claims he wants to destroy ISIS. He would deny any indiscriminate slaughter of civilians by US drones.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>RACHEL BLEVINS :<\/strong> Trump\u00a0promised\u00a0to \u201cbomb the hell out of ISIS\u201d. [Instead], the alarmingly high civilian death toll has continued to build up over the months. For example, from May 23 to June 23 of this year, at least 472 civilians were killed by US airstrikes. That is significantly more than the 459 civilians who have been killed by terrorist attacks in Europe\u2014<strong><em>in the last 12 years.<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5>While the argument can be made that Trump is doing the same thing Hillary Clinton would have done if she was elected, the question has to be asked as to how anyone can justify killing innocent civilians in the first place.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD<\/strong> : Trump\u2019s supporters obviously have no moral qualms about the slaughter of 472 Third World civilians in a single month. Either they couldn\u2019t care less, or they are wilfully blind, stupid, and pig-ignorant.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>RACHEL BLEVINS :<\/strong> Obama surpassed Bush\u2019s record, and now Trump has surpassed Obama\u2019s record\u2014but the only thing that has actually been \u201caccomplished\u201d is that thousands of innocent civilians have lost their lives, hundreds of thousands of civilians have lost their homes and their communities, and the civilians who do survive will grow up hating America.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD :<\/strong> Thank you, Rachel. So your opinion of Donald Trump is not exactly positive. Too bad you couldn\u2019t find anything nice to say about our President.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>DONALD TRUMP<\/strong> \u00a0: \u00a0It was a slow and brutal death for so many. Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD<\/strong> <em>(not noticing the bizarre interruption) :<\/em>\u00a0 How about you, Robert Parry? Do you have anything nice to say about the President?<\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/48027.htm\">ROBERT PARRY<\/a><\/span>: In the final presidential debate of 2016, Hillary Clinton famously called Donald Trump the \u201cpuppet\u201d of Russian President Vladimir Putin. But what\u2019s increasingly clear is that Trump has a more typical puppet master for a US politician\u2013Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD :<\/strong> Trump is in bed with the Israelis?<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>ROBERT PARRY :<\/strong> Trump has\u00a0major pro-Netanyahu donors\u00a0to his political war chest and his legal defense fund who are strong advocates for war with Iran, including casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson who has plowed $35 million into the pro-Trump Super PAC Future 45 and has publicly\u00a0called for dropping a nuclear bomb on Iran\u00a0as a negotiating tactic. So, Netanyahu had a number of potential strings to pull.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD :<\/strong>\u00a0Trump is basically a man of peace, one of my friends keeps telling me. He a really nice guy in mortal combat with the Jews. He wants peace and prosperity for all.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>ROBERT PARRY <\/strong><em>(laughs derisively)<\/em><strong> :<\/strong> On Sept. 19,\u00a0Trump turned his maiden speech\u00a0to the U.N. General Assembly into a war-like rant, personally insulting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as \u201cRocket Man,\u201d threatening to \u201ctotally destroy\u201d his nation of 25 million people, and parroting Netanyahu\u2019s calls for another regime change project aimed at Iran.<\/h5>\n<h5>Most diplomats in the audience sat in stunned silence as Trump threatened aggressive war from the podium of an organization created to prevent the scourge of war. The one notable exception was Netanyahu who enthusiastically applauded his \u00a0success in jerking Trump into the neocon camp. Trump showed that his obeisance to Netanyahu and the neocons outweighed loyalty to either his Secretary of State or the intermediaries who had ventured into dicey situations on Trump\u2019s behalf.<\/h5>\n<h5>In Twitter messages, Trump belittled the idea of a dialogue with North Korea, tweeting: \u201cI told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>\u201cSave your energy Rex,\u201d Trump\u00a0added, before slipping in another thinly veiled threat of a military strike: \u201cwe\u2019ll do what has to be done!\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/48030.htm\"><strong>FINIAN CUNNINGHAM<\/strong><\/a><\/span> (interrupting Parry): Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is said to have scoffed at Trump\u2019s antics and called him a \u201cmoron\u201d.<\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump#A\"><strong>ANDREW ANGLIN<\/strong><\/a><\/span> (fiercely): We\u00a0support Trump because he is the savior of the White race, sent by God to free us from the shackles of the Jew occupation and establish a 1000 Reich!<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>ROBERT PARRY <\/strong><em>(unperturbed)<\/em><strong> :<\/strong>\u00a0 While on the surface, Trump\u2019s repudiation of Tillerson might have been viewed as another \u201czigzag,\u201d it is now clear that Trump\u2019s \u201czigzag\u201d explanation was just another lie. Rather than zigzagging, he is instead following a straight line marked out by Netanyahu.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD : <\/strong>How do you see the situation in Syria?<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>ROBERT PARRY :<\/strong>\u00a0In Syria, Netanyahu seems to have won more concessions from Trump. Trump appears to be continuing US military intervention in Syria\u2014just as Netanyahu desires.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>DARKMOON :<\/strong>\u00a0So Trump, you are saying, is Netanyahu\u2019s lapdog?<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>ROBERT PARRY :<\/strong> Trump further showed that he is following Netanyahu\u2019s marching orders with the extremist speech about Iran on Friday, essentially repeating all the Israeli propaganda lines against Iran and burning whatever bridges remained toward a meaningful diplomatic approach.<\/h5>\n<h5>Trump\u2019s\u00a0Iran speech\u00a0was so ludicrous it almost defies serious analysis. It ranks with the reckless rhetoric of President George W. Bush when he pronounced an \u201caxis of evil,\u201d with the incongruous linking of Iraq and Iran (two bitter enemies) and North Korea accompanied by Bush\u2019s bogus claims about Iraq\u2019s WMD and Iraq\u2019s alleged collaboration with Al Qaeda.<\/h5>\n<h5>As dishonest as Trump\u2019s Iran speech was, the US mainstream media won\u2019t criticize it as harshly as it deserves because virtually all the important journalists and talking heads have swallowed Israel\u2019s anti-Iran propaganda whole.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD :<\/strong> So it\u2019s helterskelter down the slippery slope to Armageddon, is it?<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>ROBERT PARRY :<\/strong> Trump is now on the path to wars with both North Korea and Iran, neither of which Russian President Putin favors. Putin, who played a key role in helping President Obama achieve the Iran-nuclear agreement, now sides with the Europeans in opposition to Trump\u2019s decertification [of the peace agreement with Iran].<\/h5>\n<h5>Putin also favors a prompt end to the Syrian conflict with the defeat of Al Qaeda and its allies, and he wants peaceful negotiations with North Korea over its desire for security against threatened American aggression. Trump is on the opposite side of all these Putin priorities.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD :<\/strong>\u00a0If what you say is correct, Putin supporters who also support Trump must be stark raving bonkers. How can anyone support Trump and Putin at the same time if Trump is doing everything in his power to antagonize Putin and threaten Russia?<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>ROBERT PARRY :<\/strong>\u00a0Trump is behaving in ways that are <strong><em>directly contrary to Putin\u2019s desires and interests!<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Trump is moving <strong><em>in opposite directions<\/em><\/strong>, lining up with Netanyahu and the neocons, whom some European allies refer to as \u201cAmerica\u2019s Israeli agents.\u201d Although dressing up his capitulation to Netanyahu in tough-guy phrasing, Trump is doing what most US politicians do \u2013 they grovel before Bibi Netanyahu.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD :<\/strong> It therefore follows that Trump\u2019s supporters, without knowing it, are indirectly giving aid to Netanyahu. However well-intentioned these Trump loyalists are, they are making a big mistake. They are acting as Useful Idiots for Israel and the Zionist agenda.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>ROBERT PARRY :<\/strong>\u00a0 If you have any doubts, watch how often both Republicans and Democrats jump to their feet when\u00a0Netanyahu addresses a joint session of Congress. Those moments of American humiliation\u2014as almost all 535 members of Congress act like puppets on invisible strings\u2014represent the actual\u00a0subservience of the US government to a foreign power. And that power is not Russia. President Trump is just the latest American politician to have his strings yanked by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/48031.htm\">ERIC MARGOLIS<\/a><\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0Trump is surrounded by a coterie of ardently pro-Israel advisors and cronies aligned to that nation\u2019s far right wing.\u00a0 So far to the right, in fact, that their Israeli opponents often call them \u2018fascists.\u2019\u00a0 Trump, with this Mussolini complex, fits right into this mind-set. Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have more influence on Capitol Hill than President Trump.<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trump-net-handshake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-143446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/trump-net-handshake.jpg\" alt=\"Trump and Netanyahu. Click to enlarge\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">WHO\u00a0 RULES\u00a0 AMERICA?<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cTrump is doing what most US politicians do\u2014\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>they grovel before Bibi Netanyahu.\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Netanyahu#2010\">BENJAMIN NETANYAHU<\/a><\/span> :<\/strong> I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily. Move it in the right direction.<\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Netanyahu#Quotes_about_Netanyahu\"><strong>BILL CLINTON<\/strong><\/a><\/span> : Who the fuck does he think he is? Who\u2019s the fucking superpower here?<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u00a0 \u00a7\u00a0 \u2014<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD :<\/strong> Paul Craig Roberts, as a highly respected and seasoned insider of Washington and its evil ways, would you like to comment on the present situation?<\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2017\/10\/14\/unraveling-americanrussian-relations-paul-craig-roberts\/\">PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS<\/a><\/strong><\/span>: I have warned of the consequences of Washington threatening Russia\u2019s security by breaking agreement after agreement, by placing missile bases on Russia\u2019s borders, by orchestrating anti-Russian coups in former Soviet provinces, and by a continuing volley of false accusations against Russia. There is no act more reckless and irresponsible than to make one nuclear power fear nuclear attack from another.<\/h5>\n<h5>Last March, General Viktor Poznikhir, the deputy commander of the Russian military\u2019s Operation Command expressed concern that Washington could be preparing a surprise nuclear attack on Russia.<\/h5>\n<h5>Had any such statement from the Russian high command been issued anytime during the 20th century Cold War era, the President of the United States would have immediately contacted the Soviet leader and given every assurance that no such plan or intentions toward Russia existed. As far as I can tell, the Trump White House let this ominous announcement pass unremarked. If this is the case, it must have provided confirmation to the Russians\u2019 conclusion.<\/h5>\n<h5>Both the US and its vassal states, continue to ignore very clear Russian warnings. Perhaps the most clear of all was Putin\u2019s public statement that \u201cRussia will never again fight a war on its own territory.\u201d If Washington\u2019s EU vassals did not hear this clear warning that they are courting their nuclear destruction\u2014especially the Poles and Romanians who have mindlessly hosted US missile bases\u2014they are as deaf as they are stupid.<\/h5>\n<h5>One Russian official told the idiot British government to its face that if the British threat to first use nuclear weapons is directed at Russia, if such an attempt is made, Great Britain will disappear from the face of the earth.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD :<\/strong> This is where I\u2019m based right now. In England\u2019s green and pleasant land. In perfidious Albion. You think I could be wiped out at any moment?<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS<\/strong>\u00a0: There is no doubt that that would be the case\u2026 Russia has not even threatened Ukraine, which Russia could wipe out in a couple of minutes.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD :<\/strong> America is an exceptional nation, I\u2019m told. It\u2019s above international law. It can do whatever it wants, regardless of what other people think of it.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS :<\/strong> America is so exceptional that it can torture people in total violation of both US law and international law. The government in Washington can, on suspicion alone without presentation to a court of evidence and conviction, confine US citizens indefinitely, torturing them the entire time, and can assassinate them at will without due process of law. This is the definition of a total police state tyranny. Yet Washington represents America as a \u201cgreat democracy,\u201d whose endless wars against humanity are \u201cbringing democracy to the world.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>America is so exceptional that it can bomb other countries indiscriminately without officially being at war with those countries.<\/h5>\n<h5>Today the military\/security complex is much more than a mere threat to American democracy. It has already taken over the US government and the Trump administration, which is run by generals, and it now threatens all life on earth.<\/h5>\n<h5>The military\/security complex has an annual budget of one thousand billion dollars. This sum is larger than the Gross Domestic Products of all but a handful of countries on earth. Such an immense budget conveying such power desperately needs a dangerous enemy for its justification. Russia has been assigned this role.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD :<\/strong> Robert Parry has just told us that Trump is Netanyahu\u2019s puppet. Do you agree?<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS<\/strong> : The Israel Lobby is extremely powerful. If the Israel Lobby puts legislation or a resolution before Congress, it usually passes almost unanimously, as anyone who votes against it is likely to be eliminated in the next election.<\/h5>\n<h5>The Israel Lobby is closely linked to the Neoconservatives, the principal figures of which are Zionist Jews tightly allied with Israel. Some are joint US\/Israeli citizens. The Israeli influence in Washington is so strong that the Vice Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Bank is the former chairman of the Israeli Central Bank. Israel is so powerful in Washington that it even runs US economic policy.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD :<\/strong> And what Israel wants, Israel gets, right? What does Israel want?<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS :<\/strong> The Zionists in Israel want to <strong><em>expand<\/em><\/strong>. Their doctrine is \u201cfrom the Nile to the Euphrates.\u201d That is the Zionist claim of the land that God gave to the Chosen People.<\/h5>\n<h5>In pursuit of this goal, Israel twice sent the Israeli Army into southern Lebanon to occupy that part of the country in order to seize the Litani River, water resources that Israel desires.<\/h5>\n<h5>It is Israel, not the US government per se, that is driving the US to war with Iran. Israel, which almost always gets its way in Washington, is encountering difficulties. Washington\u2019s EU vassals are opposed to renewing conflict with Iran. Europe is overwhelmed with problems, many of which stem from Washington\u2019s wars, and doesn\u2019t need the Iranian one again.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD :<\/strong> Trump\u2019s bellicose rhetoric, especially about nuclear weapons and why have them unless you can use them, are clearly unhelpful. How have Russia and China responded to these threats?<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS :<\/strong> Russia and China expect the next war to be nuclear.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD :<\/strong> Trump could light the match that sets the world on fire?<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS :\u00a0<\/strong> If the dumbshits in Washington repeat this folly, the lights on Earth will be turned off.<\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/southfront.org\/russia-will-never-fight-war-territory\/\"><strong>VLADIMIR PUTIN<\/strong><\/a><\/span> <em>(ominously)<\/em> : Russia will never fight a war again on its own territory!<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u00a0 \u00a7\u00a0 \u2014<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD :<\/strong> Finian Cunningham, in what other ways is Trump trying to antagonize Russia, apart from veiled threats of a first-strike nuclear attack?<\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/48030.htm\">FINIAN CUNNINGHAM<\/a><\/span>\u00a0: <\/strong>Trump\u2019s latest outburst is not a one-off anomaly. In recent weeks, the US government has moved to severely restrict the freedom of Russia-based news media operating in the country. The crimping of Russian news media is <strong><em>part of a wider campaign to suppress all alternative media outlets, including US-based websites<\/em><\/strong>, which are being labelled as agents of \u201cforeign interests\u201d because of merely posting articles sourced from RT and Sputnik.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>LD :<\/strong> The Russian media are obviously putting \u201cdangerous\u201d ideas into people\u2019s heads!<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>FINIAN CUNNINGHAM<\/strong> : There is absolutely no credible evidence that Russian news media or alternative US-based sites are systematically engaged in an \u201cinfluence campaign\u201d to destabilize American democracy.\u00a0Just because the US government does not like this kind of unflattering coverage does not legitimize its opprobrium of \u201cfake news\u201d. The latter charge is brazenly being used as a pretext to censor discomfiting information.<\/h5>\n<h5>There is simply no evidence that Russian news media were or are engaged in anything nefarious to destabilize US democracy. Russian media have and do give critical news coverage. If that \u201cdestabilizes\u201d Washington\u2019s illicit activities in overseas\u2019 wars then that\u2019s what responsible journalism should be doing. To curb this journalism because it offends geopolitical interests is, frankly, censorship and the actions of a tyrant.<\/h5>\n<h5>Much of this hostility towards alternative media is motivated by the fact that these alternative media have admirably exposed the hypocrisy and criminality of US authorities. American democratic rights are indeed on thin ice. But that was the case long before the elephantine Trump arrived on the scene. His clumsy lurching is merely serving to illustrate how treacherously thin the ice has become upon which US democracy now stands.<\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/383834-trump-syria-strike-old-tweets\/\"><strong>DONALD TRUMP<\/strong><\/a><\/span> (advising Obama): What I am saying is, stay out of Syria! Do not attack Syria! There is no upside and tremendous downside. Save your \u201cpowder\u201d for another day!<\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump#B\"><strong>JEB BUSH <\/strong><\/a><\/span><strong>:<\/strong> Whatever his views are this morning, they might change this afternoon!\u00a0 All the things that Donald Trump railed against, he seems to be morphing into\u2014it\u2019s kind of disturbing. He doesn\u2019t believe in things, this is all a game.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>TIM O\u2019BRIEN<\/strong> <em>(Trump\u2019s biographer, in \u2018Vanity Fair\u2019)<\/em> : He believes his own lies in a way that lasts for decades. He\u2019ll tell the same stories time and time again, regardless or not of the facts right in front of his face.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump#S\">EDWARD SNOWDEN<\/a><\/span> :<\/strong> It\u2019s very difficult to respond in a serious way to any statement that\u2019s made by Donald Trump.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/48031.htm\">ERIC MARGOLIS<\/a><\/span> :<\/strong> Trump evaded the draft during the Vietnam War due to a trivial foot problem!<\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump#R\">J.K. ROWLING<\/a><\/span> :<\/strong> \u00a0Voldemort was nowhere near as bad!<\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump#C\"><strong>BILL CLINTON <\/strong><\/a><\/span>(putting in a good word for Trump): Donald Trump has been uncommonly nice to\u00a0Hillary\u00a0and me. I <em>love<\/em> playing golf with him!<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u00a0 \u00a7\u00a0 \u2014<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>DONALD TRUMP<\/strong> <em>(to a dead American soldier\u2019s 25-year-old widow, offering his condolences)<\/em> : He knew what he signed up for.<\/h5>\n<h5><em>(The widow breaks down, sobbing.)<\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>DEMOCRAT CONGRESSWOMAN FREDERICA WILSON<\/strong> <em>(who overheard the callous comment)<\/em> :\u00a0He should not have said that! It was almost like saying,\u00a0\u201cYou signed up to do this. If you didn\u2019t want to die, you shouldn\u2019t have signed up.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>DONALD TRUMP <\/strong>: Democratic\u00a0congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof). Sad!<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>CONGRESSWOMAN WILSON :<\/strong> Yes, he\u00a0said it! It\u2019s so insensitive.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>ALYSSA MASTROMONACO :<\/strong> \u00a0<em>(former deputy chief of staff for Obama)<\/em> : He\u2019s a deranged animal!<\/h5>\n<h5><em><strong>(The quotes above all come from the <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/uk\/daily-mail\/20171019\/282239485861913\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/span>)<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/trump-all-i-want-to-do-is-maga\/article\/2632925\"><strong>DONALD TRUMP<\/strong><\/a><\/span> : All I want to do is make America great again!<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Trump-nukes-quote.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-159848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Trump-nukes-quote.jpg\" alt=\"Trump nukes quote\" width=\"540\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Trump-nukes-quote.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Trump-nukes-quote-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkmoon.me\/2017\/the-case-against-trump\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201cdebate\u201d with a difference. If the overall impression is Kafkaesque, that is intended. 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