Posted on 05/29/2023 9:28:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The criticisms that some conservative critics of President Trump have is that he had too much "baggage."
The "baggage" is Trump's confrontational style, his "mean" social media posts, and the myriad "scandals" during his administration. They complain that Trump's "baggage" makes him impossible to defend. They complain that Trump often invites trouble.
In Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, they think they have their ideal candidate: someone who purportedly stands for the MAGA agenda but is devoid of "baggage."
So does the "baggage" make Trump a target?
The eminent thinker and military historian Victor David Hanson enumerated the "baggage" that President Trump doesn't have but the Democrats do.
1) Trump did not violate federal law, as did Hillary Clinton, by destroying federally subpoenaed emails and devices in order to hide evidence.
2) Trump did not violate federal law, as did Hillary Clinton, by sending classified government communications on her own, through an unsecured home-brewed server.
3) Trump did not violate federal law, as did Hillary Clinton, by hiring a foreign national, who is prohibited from working on presidential campaigns, to compile a dossier to smear her presidential opponent.
4) Trump did not violate federal campaign laws, as did Hillary Clinton, by hiding her payments (as "legal services") to Christopher Steele through bookkeeping deceptions.
5) Trump did not, as did Bill Clinton, use a crony to search out a high-paying New York job for a paramour in order to influence her testimony before a special counsel.
6) Trump did not, as did Bill Clinton, receive a $500,000 "honorarium" for speaking in Moscow while his wife, our secretary of state, approved a longstanding and lucrative desire of the Kremlin for North American uranium to be sold to a Russian consortium.
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My problem with Trump isn’t with baggage from the past, but more about who he is as a trustworthy steward of conservatism, for which he is horrible:
1. Has become a activist for the left, on issues important to true conservatives like big government spending, gay marriage, and the lockdowns/free rent/mRNA injections.
2. Makes a bunch of empty promises on the issues he is willing to support conservatives on, like Lock Her Up, make Mexico pay for the wall, securing elections, and draining the swamp which he only grows.
So he either stabs us in the chest with his liberal positions, or stabs us in the back on conservative ones. It’s who he IS, nothing to do with baggage.
Anyone think 80 yo Biden will run again? Given his avoidance of press conferences now, hard to believe his obvious dementia won’t become a huge issue preventing his beating any R except a 78 yo Trump. Both are way too old imo. Ronald Reagan was 77 at the end of his second term.
He was a great president for three years. Then he threw it all away.
Best President since Reagan.
Democrats moan about Trump because they never had a great president and never will their love of their leaders are Mao Stalin Lenin Mao and the have the same map for making America that way.
McCarthy should have gotten some advice from Trump instead of being excited about accomplishing nothing. His only accomplishment is the IRS turning loose 87000 armed IRS agent upon the American people. They will turn out to be armed police Gestapo. Kiss your American freedoms goodbye tax payers as you will conform or broken.
He was the ONLY ONE who ran the country correctly in my 82 years of hanging around here. Reagon was great, but not the greatest. Maybe it takes “baggage” to get it right? I could give a flip to what he does in his personal life, he has a proven track record of running a country correctly!
Still 3.2% short of a majority. How does he plan to get there?
Bkmk
How:
Act and BEHAVE (talk smart, write smart) as if already in office.
Set up a structural model of the government. Have that under the charge of a Chief of Staff for Administration of Departments. Build a list of people [candidates] to lead and manage for each department.
Build the ship of state, ready to launch.
Well stated, FRiend.
I feel both humbled by and unworthy of your comment.
But objectively speaking, we’re probably all potential masters of the truth, but some people just don’t open their eyes and ears.
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