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Monday, January 29, 2024

Donald Trump is guilty per a jury of his peers to be a sexual abuser

Listen up Representative Elise Stefanik! My question? Why is Elise Stefanik obsessed with the sexual molester DJTrump?

Many of Donald Trump’s supporters have daughters.
Echo opinion letter published in The Daily Gazette a
Schenectady, NY newspaper:

Daughters were sexually abused, they would demand that the offender be punished to the full extent of the law.

Therefore, I am puzzled why these individuals continue to support the former buy Trump, given his history of sexual abuse of women.

For example, rTrump was found guilty of sexually abusing journalist E. Jean Carrol, who had accused the former president of sexually abusing her in the mid-1990s. The jury ordered Trump to pay $5 million in damages to Carroll.

Why did Carroll wait so long to bring her lawsuit? For many years, she was barred by the statute of limitations in New York state, which was just five years following a sexual assault. 

However, in May of 2022, the state enacted the Adult Survivors Act (ASA), which permits victims of sexual assault to file civil suits during a one-year period, from Nov. 24, 2022, to Nov. 24, 2023.

During the Carroll trial, Trump’s infamous 2005 Access Hollywood video was screened, showing him saying that because he is a “star,” he is entitled to sexually abuse women.

When you support Trump, you are demeaning all women.

Don Steiner in Schenectady New York


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Saturday, September 09, 2023

Republicans must support voters who agree with former Attorney General Barr about "bullshit"!

Applaud the leaders who did not cave to Trump!

Echo opinion letter published in The Daily Gazette in Schenectady, New York.  
While many Republicans supported the former guy Donald Trump’s false claim that the 2020, presidential election was “stolen,” it is important to acknowledge the courage of those Republican leaders who resisted Trump’s pressure to overturn the election results.

Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” votes sufficient to overturn his state’s (Georgia's) results. Trump also pressured Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to replace the state’s electors. These men investigated allegations of voter fraud and found them all without merit. They refused to give in to the pressure.
The leaders of GOP-controlled legislatures in key states did not waver as Trump’s team pushed the “independent state legislature” theory, which holds that the Constitution bestows on state legislatures plenary power to appoint presidential electors.

Republican-appointed judges also displayed courage under fire. Not one Trump-appointed district judge allowed his baseless lawsuits to proceed.

Eventually, the US Supreme Court also rejected Trump’s bid to overturn the results in four close states.

Attorney General William P. Barr and virtually every other top Justice Department appointee did not bend when Trump told them to declare the election was corrupt. (In fact, Attorney General Barr called the baseless acquisitions "bullshit"!)

We should applaud these Republican leaders for refusing to succumb to Trump’s pressure to overturn the 2020 election results.

From Don Steiner in Schenectady New York

(Check out the video where former Attorney General Barr calls the election denial "bullshit" at this video site here.)


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Friday, August 11, 2023

Trump's cult followers ignore the former guy's #tfg misdeeds and criminal behavior

Echo opinion letter published in The Daily Gazette, in Schenectady, New York.

When confronted with Donald Trump’s misdeeds (and crimes❗), his supporters generally change the subject. 

Trump has been found guilty of sexually abusing journalist E. Jean Carrol and was ordered to pay her $5 million in damages. 

So, I asked why people would continue to support Trump ❓ when he is guilty of sexually assaulting women.

Instead, Trump talked about the Biden’s “lies.” What do Biden’s alleged lies have to do with Trump’s sexual assaults? The answer is “nothing.”

It must be noted that the accusation that President Biden is the “liar-in-chief” comes directly from the “The Republican National Committee” website, a clearly biased source. 

A non-biased assessment of presidential lies published in Forbes magazine compared the lies told by Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden during their first 100 days in office. The article concluded that Trump told more falsehoods than Biden and Obama combined. Trump is “The Lying King.”❗

Don Steiner
Schenectady

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