“I think it’s an abuse of DHS. I mean really the president’s trying to use DHS as his goon squad. That’s really what’s going on here. I think this is a crisis of leadership. A failure of leadership in the Trump administration. I think it’s an abuse of DHS.”
–John Sandweg, former acting director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, aka ICE, quoted in The Guardian on Donald Trump’s invasion of Portland.
“This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. We cannot have secret police abducting people and putting them into unmarked vehicles. I cannot believe I have to say that to the president of the United States.”
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, stating the painfully obvious at a press conference on Wednesday.
“All run by liberal Democrats. Look at what’s going on — all run by Democrats, all run by very liberal Democrats. All run, really, by radical left. If Biden got in, that would be true for the country. The whole country would go to hell. And we’re not going to let it go to hell.”
–Donald Trump, on Fox News, revealing his plans to deploy more occupational forces and to expand open warfare on American citizens—at least those living in Democratic cities. [But it’s all about law and order, not politics, right Donald?]
“I think any leader is better if they have people holding them accountable. Not just enemies, but people that can then give them honest feedback about job performance. Politics is so ego driven that many times honest feedback doesn’t happen.”
–Wendy Day, former vice-chair of the Michigan Republican Party who refused to endorse Trump in 2016. [Wendy, did you ever try to give “honest feedback” to a 
?
Louisiana Voice 
Oh, those Democrats! They do ruin everything. Let’s see. Bill Clinton left George W. Bush with a budget surplus. Bush promptly gave the wealthy huge tax cuts, got us into a war in Iraq under the pretext they had WMD (which they didn’t), and by the end of his term we had the Great Recession and double the unemployment rate. And then comes along that darn Democrat, Barrack Obama with the herculean task of cleaning up the mess, which he did in eight years. And today we have tRump. Want to talk about a mess? Rode Obama’s coattails on the economy, gave the billionaires huge tax cuts and increased the federal deficit by trillions (we pay $378B in interest on it), cost our country thousands of lives due to his ineptitude on the coronavirus, deployed goon squads on American cities from Homeland Security (a department that came about during the Bush years) and lies to the American people many times a day about any and all subjects, eroding trust in government to ground level and taken the word great out of most things American. And darn it, here comes another Democrat in November.
The last quote says it all and the last sentence is the perfect explanation of why surrounding oneself with yes people is a huge mistake – nobody is going to tell the emperor he has no clothes. One of the oldest children’s stories, but Trump’s supporters fail to get it.
A recent book has just come out in June titled “Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth” and is described by Amazon as:
“Based on the only comprehensive compilation and analysis of the more than 16,000 fallacious statements that Trump has uttered since the day of his inauguration. He has repeated many of his most outrageous claims dozens or even hundreds of times as he has sought to bend reality to his political fantasy and personal whim.
Drawing on Trump’s tweets, press conferences, political rallies, and TV appearances, The Washington Post identifies his most frequently used misstatements, biggest whoppers, and most dangerous deceptions. This book unpacks his errant statements about the economy, immigration, the impeachment hearings, foreign policy, and, of critical concern now, the coronavirus crisis as it unfolded.
Fascinating, startling, and even grimly funny, Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth by The Washington Post is the essential, authoritative record of Trump’s shocking disregard for facts.”
Most of us will probably not read it because we’ve already heard all his lies so many times we have to constantly suppress our urge to regurgitate. Of course, the tRump supporters who have swallowed his fabrications appear not to be nauseated by his duplicity. They must have better stomachs than most of us.
For a variety of reasons, they simply ignore the things we find objectionable or dismiss them as unimportant. That seems impossible, but it apparently isn’t.