Withstanding a relentless and vicious onslaught, Donald Trump has been under constant siege since announcing his candidacy for president. Certainly brash, Trump’s abrasive in your face style still makes some uncomfortable with a scrappy president. But President Trump has been hugely successful delivering on campaign promises, jumpstarting a stagnant economy into a roaring engine, and even making steady positive gains with his international initiatives. So where does the intense animosity and visceral resistance come from?
The short answer is Trump is an outsider, a rogue in the hallowed halls of Washington, an uninvited guest to the tables of power. Trump seized the GOP nomination from a Republican establishment that despised him and too many still do. His own party still routinely undermines his administration; he has few real allies and virtually no back up. He literally drags the Republican Party into his successes and when the going gets tough, Republicans generally run for cover. He cannot even rely on his cabinet to have his back.
With squishy Republicans and some openly defiant, it’s amazing he has been able to stand against unhinged Democrat opposition. Then pile on a duplicitous media consumed with personally destroying him and it’s sheer wonder he still stands much less succeeds. None of the other Republican candidates could have withstood this merciless barrage.
Gregg Jarrett’s bestselling book, The Russia Hoax, explains in great detail how the Obama Administration and Clinton Campaign colluded with foreign spies to undercut Trump’s campaign and then sabotage his presidency. The media totally ignores the real scandal, Democrats revel in it, and Republicans quietly watch from the sidelines. Trump supporters are stunned by the double standard and Trump’s frustration is palpable in his prolific acerbic tweets, but there’s no relief from the constant media drumbeat that Trump is plain awful.
With the poisoned Russian tree still unable to bear fruit, the Democrat media cabal are shifting their strategy to Trump is just a bad man. Liberals in government and media initially howled that an unqualified President Trump and his policies would be disastrous for America, but the proof in the pudding was making America great again. Americans are working again, consuming again, and finding renewed hope for prosperity, so beating Trump on results became impossible. Now the whole focus is utter character assassination.
Wholly committed to this charade, Mueller still can’t describe any crimes indicating collusion, so he persecutes Trump’s associates to pressure them by exposing their apparent past misdeeds. Paul Manafort’s convictions have absolutely NOTHING to do with the 2016 campaign, but the guilty headlines fit the narrative of guilt by association. Democrats and media are counting on a scandal weary electorate to simply consider Manafort’s guilt as Trump’s guilt. Trump is not helped by having had a smarmy lawyer who will tell any lie to mitigate his own malfeasance and pay offs to a porn star. They hope Americans will be repulsed.
The notion a billionaire would risk breaking campaign laws to cover up peccadillos from well before he ever was a candidate is silly, but they hope the damage is done. In breathtaking hypocrisy, the same dishonest media that ignored and sometimes defended Bill Clinton for paying off his mistakes is now offended. And that press has still not exposed the millions in taxpayer dollars spent by Congress to quiet sexual misconduct allegations of sitting members.
None have clean hands, but they are all members of the swamp club. They don’t really care about Trump’s character, morality, or past mistakes, but they fervently wish that you do in a desperate attempt to destroy his popularity. This is not really about Trump; this is about preserving the corrupt ruling political class in the bureaucracy, the media, and Congress. Trump is trying to drain the swamp and that could end the oligarchy’s reign. He must go!
We have a tacit tyrannical national complex of bureaucrats, big business, so called journalists, and politicians hording power in Washington. We are witnessing a federal leviathan overtly trying to thwart the will of people and topple their champion. The ruthless capital city and its corrupt denizens want to save the swamp and stop the people from reclaiming their republic. Trump’s characterizations have been incomplete; the Washington elite are the enemies of the people. And if we the people don’t stand with Trump now, we may miss our last chance to rid ourselves of these domestic despots.
“Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression.” Isaiah 10:1
