We don't see many yard signs out here in Renton. This Washington is far out of the backwash of the Presidential Boeing Airplanes. But guess what! Trump is not going away on Wednesday. And some of you may be asking what I am asking, "What can be done to shut this guy up; hasn't he done enough damage already?!".
Can he be prosecuted? The surge in hate crimes we now see is palpable. This week a black church burned down, spray painted with the message, “Vote Trump”. Speech“directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action” is not protected (Brandenburg Decision SC). Although Trump’s frequent encouragement of assault on protestors at his rallies and ad hominem attacks is nothing else than willful encouragement, it is not something that would produce an arrest.
Is Trump a patsy for the Russians? The Russian motivations for tipping the election are well understood. "I officially declare that Clinton is a cursed witch," Komsomolskaya Pravda declared in an article written by Russian MP Vitaly Milonov, sentiments that have been echoed in Izvestia and Sputnik. To date, Russian interference has taken the form of leaked emails selected to promote dissention and to stir up public distrust of our institutions—a cause that Trump has promoted with gusto. I believe he is a danger to this nation through his Russian business and government connections (Vladimir Kozhinthat, Tevfik Arif, Felix Sater, Tamir Sapir, Tevfik Arif, Alexander Mashkevich, Sergie Milliam, Bayrock, still doing business out of Trump Tower where they initiated their relationship with Trump and from whom he is reported to receive substantial funding—according to court documents filed in Israel https://www.documentcloud.org/...).
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So there is a more serious crime that must be countenanced: that of Treason (18 U.S. Code § 2381). The statute for Treason reads: “Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, ... shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.” Acts of cyberwarfare are well within the statutory definition of “enemy”. Trump has called for and may have actively promoted intrusion of a foreign government into private databases and into our nation’s elections. He stands to benefit by these intrusions.
The witch hunt will continue, and no matter the outcome of the presumed/purported FBI investigation into Russian cyberwarfare and US businessmen’s links to Putin, the Senate Leadership seems bent on pursuing the dark side of partisan hatred, a crisis of leadership.
