Pat Shiplett Writes About People.
Donald Trump’s travel ban against Muslims is being challenged in U.S. Federal Courts. First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment.
The country that produced the vast majority of 9/11 terrorists is not included in his ban. Could that be because Mr. Trump has extensive business holdings in Saudi Arabia?
There’s no way to know. Candidate Trump promised to make his tax returns public — now he refuses. 
When Russia seized Crimea and intensified its campaign to destabilize Ukraine, the U.S. imposed sanctions.
Now an inexperienced American president has entertained the idea of putting the freedom of nearly 300 million Eastern Europeans at risk by lifting those sanctions.
More than once Donald Trump has said he’s impressed that Vladimir Putin wields “very strong control over a country.” That’s exactly the kind of raw authority our constitution was written to protect us against.
Putin interfered in our elections to help Mr. Trump. Senator John McCain calls it an “act of war.” What reasons could Putin have for wanting Trump in office? Is he sitting on secrets he can use to control our president? Lifting sanctions might be just the beginning of his demands.
Ronald Reagan insisted on “trust-but-verify” when dealing with the Russians.
Unlike our current president, he knew that KGB agents like Putin will sneak a round into every chamber of the cylinder if you let them. They’ll hand you the revolver and play on your vanity until you press the barrel to the side of your head.
Donald Trump’s eagerness to level a false accusation against millions of American voters is chilling.
For the record, state attorneys-general have confirmed that illegal voting was basically non-exist in the election. The AGs know the facts.
A man unhinged over losing the popular election might try to rewrite history by singling out Muslims, immigrants, scientists, union members, entire populations.
We’ve seen this movie before. Guy cranks up police state. Guy blames Jews, gypsies and homosexuals for crimes they didn’t commit. Guy has ’em murdered.
1970s — Independent prosecutor investigates Nixon’s role in Watergate
1980s — Reagan’s arms sales to Iran investigated
1990s — Clinton investigated for land-development deals
2010s — Obama investigated for being African-American
2017 — Russian interference in U.S. elections to help Donald Trump investigated by Senate Intelligence Committee. U.S. intelligence corroborates charges.
Before the presidential election, the winning nominee warned that the process could be rigged.
U.S intelligence has presented credible evidence that Russian collusion did in fact help put the winner in office. The incoming president tried to deny the facts by smearing the intelligence community.
The threat is that former KGB operatives may have information they can use to blackmail our new president.
