Let's face it. Our so-called president is an agent of chaos. It worked very well for him in 2015 and 2016. But as a strategy for governing?
The political competition and the fact-based media are still playing catch-up, responding to early morning tweet storms and constant flip-flops in Trump's positions. So, it seems, are his handlers.
He's set records for Executive Branch staff turnover, some leaving under major ethical clouds. Some of his 2016 campaign people have pleaded guilty or been found guilty of crimes not related to the campaign. But a man is known by the sort of company he keeps.
Trump creates a crisis and then purports to solve it, or he puts it on someone else to fix it, but he sabotages those efforts by constantly changing his demands.
In July, he met in private with his idol Vladimir Putin. Was it actually about that luxury hotel that Trump has wanted in Moscow since the 1980s?
He continues to dismiss the ever more insistent warnings from our national security agencies about ongoing Russian meddling in our elections, and their social media campaigns to foment divisions and mistrust among Americans. His response in mid-August was to strip former CIA Director John Brennan of his security clearance and to threaten other former and current national security officials as well.
Trump continues to insist there was NO COLLUSION and NO OBSTRUCTION, but it looks to me like both are ongoing and right out in the open. Just wait until he has the Supreme Court, as well as the feckless Republican Congress, under his control. Then God help us all.
Carole McWilliams
Bayfield
