Trump Belongs in Prison for his Whistleblower Remarks

Last updated on: September 30, 2019 at 1:59 pm by Kermit Zarley

Trump Belongs in Prison for his Whistleblower Remarks 2019-09-30T13:59:54-07:00 Kermit Zarley

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U.S. President Donald Trump belongs in prison just because of the remarks he made last week about the “whistleblower.” In case you’ve been camping out in some other planet, and therefore don’t know what’s been going on in this country, a so far unknown employee in the U.S. intelligence community came forth months ago alleging that President Trump phoned Ukraine’s President Zelensky, asked him to cooperate in getting political dirt on the now leading Democratic contender for the presidential election next year, Joe Biden, and his son Hunter. Trump also apparently was using $391 million in U.S. foreign aid to Ukraine as leverage against the new and young President Zelensky, who is leading a nation that is fighting for its life by the aggressor Russia, which invaded Ukraine in 2014 and annexed its Crimea peninsula. Ever since, the West, led by the U.S., has imposed economic sanctions on Russia for this dastardly deed.

Not only that, Trump made this phone call on July 25th, the very day after Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified before Congress about his report of two years of investigation into Russian meddling in our 2016 election. Mueller said the Russians meddled and warned of the future. But Mueller said he could not prove Trump or his aides colluded with Russians in it.

Eight days ago, the media informed the American public for the first time about this whistleblower and his/her many allegations against Trump, especially about this phone call, contained in a seven-page document (I read it) that is being called “the whistleblower complaint.”

Last week, President Trump was speaking kinda like a Mafia mobster about this whistleblower. On Thursday he spoke before the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, saying, “I want to know who’s the person who gave the whistleblower the information because that’s close to a spy. You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart with spies and treason, right? We used to handle it a little differently than we do now.” He thereby insinuated that the U.S. used to execute spies. He confused spies and people guilty of treason. And what an inappropriate subject to mention before the UN.

So, President Trump indicated that this whistleblower should be executed. That gins up people in Trump’s base who are prone to violence. People who come forth as whistleblowers are courageous because they are often subjected to unjust criticism thereafter and possibly endangerment of life. Democratic House leaders issued a statement in response to Trump’s remarks, calling them “reprehensible witness intimidation.”

The president’s lawyer, Jay Sekulow, is alleging that this whistleblower complaint was written by a law firm. It doesn’t matter, legally, who wrote the document. What matters is that what is says represents the sentiments of the whistleblower. The Apostle Paul didn’t actually write all of his New Testament letters. Scholars agree that Paul sometimes had an amanuensis. For example, Paul’s most well-known document, the book of Romans, says near its end, “I Tertius, the writer of this letter, greet you in the Lord” (Romans 16.22). Does someone else writing this book of Romans require that it therefore ought not to be considered by Bible believers to be “holy scripture”? No!

Today, Andrew Bakaj, the lead attorney for the whistleblower said President Trump’s remarks could put Bakaj’s client “in harm’s way.” Indeed! I think that is one reason Trump made his comments. He operates like a Mafia mobster boss.

Today, Trump accused Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff–a former federal prosecutor and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee which is investigating Trump’s July 25th phone call to Ukraine’s President Zelensky–of being guilty of “treason.” Trump doesn’t even know what treason is, or he purposely lies about it. In the U.S. vernacular, due to our Constitution, “treason” refers only to an act in which a U.S. citizen divulges damaging information to an enemy entity with the U.S. is officially at war.

I’m saying Trump belongs behind bars because he is a serious danger to society. And, as I have repeatedly blogged, he does not believe in democracy. He believes in an autocracy, with him as the dictator. Proof is his cozying up to dictators like Putin. (Russia has elections, but are they free and fair?) That’s because, as I’ve also said many times, Trump is a classic narcissist, at best, and therefore psychologically ill.

Such comments by President Donald Trump against this whistleblower likely will become a legal issue for him, that is, it being tampering with witnesses. You go to prison for that. I think there’s a lot Donald Trump has done in the past 3.5 years that could get him behind bars. These remarks about this whistleblower are just the latest.

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