On November 3, 2020, We the People of the United States won the election. We must now irrevocably commit to securing, defending and preserving the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. We the People must now come together and pledge enduring allegiance to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Alemayehu G. Mariam
Legend has it that as American Republic Founder Benjamin Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall in Philadelphia after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a lady shouted out, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”
Franklin responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
On November 3, 2020, We the People of the United States came out and voted. Over 75 million voters, an all-time record, cast their ballots to keep The Republic.
Joe Biden is the President-elect of the United States!
As fate would have it, the quintessential votes that saved the Republic were cast in Philadelphia. PA.
On November 7, 2020, Donald J. Trump was handed his walking papers by We the People and the boot: “YOU ARE FIRED!”
Of course, Lyin’ Sack Don knew his reelection was in deep do doo long before November 3rd.
In Johnstown, PA, Trump begged, “Suburban woman! Will you please like me?!”
Ha!
“Suburban woman” did not find much to love about a man whose guiding maxim is, “Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”
As the polls showed Trump falling behind in a tight race, Trump could see his living nightmare finally come to pass.
Alas! The jig is up!
Trump, the sexual predator, once proclaimed, “When you’re a star, they let you do it.”
Behold the man whose star has fallen and is perched on the event horizon of a legal blackhole from which there is no return.
Behold the U.S. Justice Department waiting just outside the gates of the White House on January 20, 2021 at 12:01PM.
Behold the Manhattan District Attorney waiting just outside the gates of the White House on January 20, 2021 at 12:01PM.
Behold the N.Y. State Attorney General waiting just outside the gates of the White House on January 20, 2021 at 12:01PM.
All announcing, “Donald J. Trump, you are coming with us!”
No, there will be no presumptive presidential immunity to save Trump.
No invocation of presidential power can keep the long arms of the law at bay.
“Coming with us?”
But where to?
Dante’s Inferno where the gates are emblazoned with the words, “Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch’intrate (Abandon hope all ye who enter here)?
Finally, a divine comedy played on a con man who conned his way to the American presidency.
No doubt about it. Donald J. Trump will be in a legal inferno until his end days.
The new U.S. Attorney General in a Biden administration will begin to dig into the mountain of criminal evidence assembled against Trump by special counsel Robert Mueller, an army of federal inspectors general and congressional oversight committees.
There is overwhelming evidence of Trump’s criminality including obstruction of justice (18 U.S. Code § 73), making false statements to all sorts of federal investigators (18 U.S. Code § 1001), conspiracy with Russian intelligence to commit an offense against the United States (18 U.S. Code § 371), tax fraud (26 USC §7207) and bank fraud (18 U.S. Code § 1344), among others.
But the federal case is no big deal. Trump will probably get away with it.
Trump will surely try to self-pardon before he leaves the White House even though his constitutional power to do so is arguable.
Alternatively, a day or two before his final day in office he may resign from office and have Pence pardon him for any federal crimes he committed from the day he was born.
After all, Trump is the guy who suborned criminal conduct by telling his subordinates, “‘Do it. If you get in trouble, I’ll pardon you.’”
Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime partner-in-crime Roger J. Stone Jr. who was convicted on seven felony crimes. Stone is walking the streets free.
Trump has pardoned a whole bunch of convicted criminals. No doubt he will pardon tons more before he voluntarily leaves the White House or is unceremoniously ushered out.
But there is no self-pardon in a state criminal conviction for a has-been president.
Of course, Trump could petition for clemency with N.Y. State Governor Mario Cuomo.
But clemency under the N.Y. State Constitution (Article IV, Section 4) applies only “after convictions for all offenses except treason and cases of impeachment, upon such conditions and with such restrictions and limitations…”
N.Y. State Attorney General Letitia James has an ongoing active investigation of Trump and his organization after his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen testified before Congress and said the Trump crime family has been cooking the books to evade taxes for years, falsifying financial records and inflating the value of his assets to obtain bank loans (a violation of N.Y. Penal Law § 175.10 and N.Y. Tax Law § 1806).
James is also looking at allegations Trump made hush-money payments in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election to two women who claimed they had sexual relations with Trump.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has been investigating Trump for some time and has substantial evidence of “extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization” involving bank fraud, tax fraud, and insurance fraud under N.Y. state law.
Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, is cooperating with investigating authorities to avoid charges of conspiracy and aiding and abetting the preparation of a false tax return.
Trump’s longtime accountant, Allen Weisselberg, is ready to sing like a canary at trial.
There are dozens of other cases pending against the Trump organization and Trump personally including sexual misconduct and defamation cases.
What is Trump going to do when the hundreds of millions in loans he personally guaranteed come due in the next few years?
There is one and only one thing Trump can do now.
Make a deal.
Trump trumpets himself to be the master of the art of the deal.
Donald Trump, the Great Deal Maker, will now have an opportunity to make the biggest deal of his life with the Manhattan District Attorney and the N.Y. State Attorney General.
How about making a deal and pleading guilty to the same charges to which his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen pled: tax evasion, making false statements to a federally insured bank, misuse of campaign contributions, unlawful corporate contribution and so on with a 3-year cap on jail time?
Like Cohen who is serving his time at home because of COVID-19, Trump should be able to serve his sentence at Trump Towers.
The howl of the toothless wolf
Trump has so far refused to concede. He continues to squeal like a stuck pig and spews out lies, damned lies and statistics about his imaginary victory.
Speaking to his supporters on Planet Denial-stan, Trump proclaimed, “We’re winning Pennsylvania by a tremendous amount of votes. We’re winning Michigan by 300,000 votes. And we’re winning Wisconsin.”
Having landed on Planet Earth for Planet Denial-stan, Trump found out he had lost fair and square.
Trump began acting like the big bad wolf in the story of the three little pigs.
Lyin’ Don started huffing and puffing, “This is a major election fraud in our nation. I’m gonna sue in the Supreme Court!”
He huffed and puffed again. “The mail-in voting is a corrupt system tremendous corruption and fraud going on.”
Trump thought he and his gang of proud boys can huff and puff and blow down the White House.
It was all bravado and bluster from the hardened nitwit-ter.
The deed was done.
Sensible, rational and fair-mined American voters dumped a big kettle of cold water on Lyin’ Don just like the big bad wolf got a big kettle of boiling water dumped on him.
So ended the story of “DUMP TRUMP” on November 3, 2020.
Farewell Humpty Dumpty Trump
Trump is now caught in the vortex of the abyss of mendacity, criminality, hypocrisy and pathological narcissism he created in his lifetime.
The lying braggart wanna be monarch who set out to destroy the Republic now sits shattered like Humpty Dumpty in the White House.
Humpty Dumpty Trump had a great fall
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men and all the lies that oozed out of his mouth couldn’t reelect Humpty Dumpty Trump again.
The Constitution is safe, for now.
In the November 3, 2020 election, I voted for Biden-Harris.
But that was just a vote.
In truth, on November 3, 2020, I did something far important than vote.
I re-pledged Allegiance to the Constitution of the United States.
So many decades ago, I took a solemn oath before God and man to defend and protect the very life source of the Republic. The U.S. Constitution.
Over the past four years, I witnessed the sun setting on the Constitution and darkness enveloping the Republic.
America had almost become AmeriKKKa in the age of Donald J. Trump.
Lyin’ Don had made the Republic his playground, his plaything.
Donald “The Ignoramus” Trump who had not read a single word of the Constitution used the office of the presidency as a backyard jungle jim set for his childish nonsense.
I venerate and defend the U.S. Constitution because it is the bedrock foundation of American liberal democracy.
In other words, the singular purpose of the U.S. Constitution is to set limits on the authority and power of government and maximize individual liberty. The Constitution accomplished this objective brilliantly by creating a system of separation of powers, an independent judiciary and a system of checks and balances between branches of government.
In my view, democracy, liberal democracy to be sure, is the highest achievement of mankind. Francis Fukuyama is right in his quintessential observation.
Winston Churchill once said, “‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’
I would add only one qualification to Churchill’s observation. I do not pretend that liberal democracy is perfect or all-wise.
Churchill’s predecessor in the 19th century Gladstone proclaimed, “The U.S. Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man”.
The U.S. Constitution, despite its numerous and inexcusable flaws, is the bedrock foundation of our liberal democracy.
In Federalist No. 51, James Madison, the Father of the American Constitution observed, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”
The U.S. Constitution very unfortunately was not written by angels but mere mortal men.
It was written by mortal men who declared to a candid world, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.- “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
That, to me, is the essence of liberal democracy promised and secured in the U.S. Constitution.
Donald J. Trump was a threat to liberal democracy in America. He was the quintessential antitheses to the proposition, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…”
Trump wanted to make America AmeriKKKa.
Trump wanted to build Fortress America and wall out the world.
I said it in 2015 and I said again in 2020 in the words of Abe Lincoln, “We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”
I am thankful to all of my compatriots who voted out Donald J. Trump and nobly saved the last best hope of earth.
The Constitution of the United States and Donald J. Trump on the ballot on November 3, 2020
On November 3, 2020, the contest was between the U.S. Constitution and Donald J. Trump.
The Constitution and We the People who wrote the Constitution WON the election!
There will soon come the time when Donald J. Trump will be singing from a facility in N.Y. State called Sing Sing the old song by The Bobby Fuller Four, “I fought the law (Constitution) and the law (Constitution) won.”
Breakin’ rocks in the hot sun
I fought the Constitution and the Constitution won
I fought the Constitution and the Constitution won
I needed money ’cause I had none, even though I claimed to be a billionaire
I fought the Constitution and the Constitution won
I fought the Constitution and the Constitution won
Robbin’ people with falsified tax returns and bank loan applications
I fought the Constitution and the Constitution won
I fought the Constitution and the Constitution won
Americans, remember old Ben Franklin!
Ben Franklin warned us over 200 years ago we have a republic but only if we can keep it.
What Old Ben meant was that democratic republics are not merely founded upon the occasional votes. The process of voting is only half the task.
The other half is active and informed involvement of the people in their self-government.
It has been said, “The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.”
I say the price of preserving our liberal democracy against the omnipresent threat of neofascism is eternal vigilance.
We have saved the Republic for now. Let’s try to keep and save it for another two hundred years!
Hooray for the victorious Constitution of the United States!
Hooray for We the People of the United States!
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER, WE THE PEOPLE!
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER, THE REPUBLIC!
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER, WE THE PEOPLE!
Posted in Al Mariam's Commentaries By almariam On November 8, 2020Legend has it that as American Republic Founder Benjamin Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall in Philadelphia after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a lady shouted out, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”
Franklin responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
On November 3, 2020, We the People of the United States came out and voted. Over 75 million voters, an all-time record, cast their ballots to keep The Republic.
Joe Biden is the President-elect of the United States!
As fate would have it, the quintessential votes that saved the Republic were cast in Philadelphia. PA.
On November 7, 2020, Donald J. Trump was handed his walking papers by We the People and the boot: “YOU ARE FIRED!”
Of course, Lyin’ Sack Don knew his reelection was in deep do doo long before November 3rd.
In Johnstown, PA, Trump begged, “Suburban woman! Will you please like me?!”
Ha!
“Suburban woman” did not find much to love about a man whose guiding maxim is, “Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”
As the polls showed Trump falling behind in a tight race, Trump could see his living nightmare finally come to pass.
Alas! The jig is up!
Trump, the sexual predator, once proclaimed, “When you’re a star, they let you do it.”
Behold the man whose star has fallen and is perched on the event horizon of a legal blackhole from which there is no return.
Behold the U.S. Justice Department waiting just outside the gates of the White House on January 20, 2021 at 12:01PM.
Behold the Manhattan District Attorney waiting just outside the gates of the White House on January 20, 2021 at 12:01PM.
Behold the N.Y. State Attorney General waiting just outside the gates of the White House on January 20, 2021 at 12:01PM.
All announcing, “Donald J. Trump, you are coming with us!”
No, there will be no presumptive presidential immunity to save Trump.
No invocation of presidential power can keep the long arms of the law at bay.
“Coming with us?”
But where to?
Dante’s Inferno where the gates are emblazoned with the words, “Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch’intrate (Abandon hope all ye who enter here)?
Finally, a divine comedy played on a con man who conned his way to the American presidency.
No doubt about it. Donald J. Trump will be in a legal inferno until his end days.
The new U.S. Attorney General in a Biden administration will begin to dig into the mountain of criminal evidence assembled against Trump by special counsel Robert Mueller, an army of federal inspectors general and congressional oversight committees.
There is overwhelming evidence of Trump’s criminality including obstruction of justice (18 U.S. Code § 73), making false statements to all sorts of federal investigators (18 U.S. Code § 1001), conspiracy with Russian intelligence to commit an offense against the United States (18 U.S. Code § 371), tax fraud (26 USC §7207) and bank fraud (18 U.S. Code § 1344), among others.
But the federal case is no big deal. Trump will probably get away with it.
Trump will surely try to self-pardon before he leaves the White House even though his constitutional power to do so is arguable.
Alternatively, a day or two before his final day in office he may resign from office and have Pence pardon him for any federal crimes he committed from the day he was born.
After all, Trump is the guy who suborned criminal conduct by telling his subordinates, “‘Do it. If you get in trouble, I’ll pardon you.’”
Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime partner-in-crime Roger J. Stone Jr. who was convicted on seven felony crimes. Stone is walking the streets free.
Trump has pardoned a whole bunch of convicted criminals. No doubt he will pardon tons more before he voluntarily leaves the White House or is unceremoniously ushered out.
But there is no self-pardon in a state criminal conviction for a has-been president.
Of course, Trump could petition for clemency with N.Y. State Governor Mario Cuomo.
But clemency under the N.Y. State Constitution (Article IV, Section 4) applies only “after convictions for all offenses except treason and cases of impeachment, upon such conditions and with such restrictions and limitations…”
N.Y. State Attorney General Letitia James has an ongoing active investigation of Trump and his organization after his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen testified before Congress and said the Trump crime family has been cooking the books to evade taxes for years, falsifying financial records and inflating the value of his assets to obtain bank loans (a violation of N.Y. Penal Law § 175.10 and N.Y. Tax Law § 1806).
James is also looking at allegations Trump made hush-money payments in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election to two women who claimed they had sexual relations with Trump.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has been investigating Trump for some time and has substantial evidence of “extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization” involving bank fraud, tax fraud, and insurance fraud under N.Y. state law.
Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, is cooperating with investigating authorities to avoid charges of conspiracy and aiding and abetting the preparation of a false tax return.
Trump’s longtime accountant, Allen Weisselberg, is ready to sing like a canary at trial.
There are dozens of other cases pending against the Trump organization and Trump personally including sexual misconduct and defamation cases.
What is Trump going to do when the hundreds of millions in loans he personally guaranteed come due in the next few years?
There is one and only one thing Trump can do now.
Make a deal.
Trump trumpets himself to be the master of the art of the deal.
Donald Trump, the Great Deal Maker, will now have an opportunity to make the biggest deal of his life with the Manhattan District Attorney and the N.Y. State Attorney General.
How about making a deal and pleading guilty to the same charges to which his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen pled: tax evasion, making false statements to a federally insured bank, misuse of campaign contributions, unlawful corporate contribution and so on with a 3-year cap on jail time?
Like Cohen who is serving his time at home because of COVID-19, Trump should be able to serve his sentence at Trump Towers.
The howl of the toothless wolf
Trump has so far refused to concede. He continues to squeal like a stuck pig and spews out lies, damned lies and statistics about his imaginary victory.
Speaking to his supporters on Planet Denial-stan, Trump proclaimed, “We’re winning Pennsylvania by a tremendous amount of votes. We’re winning Michigan by 300,000 votes. And we’re winning Wisconsin.”
Having landed on Planet Earth for Planet Denial-stan, Trump found out he had lost fair and square.
Trump began acting like the big bad wolf in the story of the three little pigs.
Lyin’ Don started huffing and puffing, “This is a major election fraud in our nation. I’m gonna sue in the Supreme Court!”
He huffed and puffed again. “The mail-in voting is a corrupt system tremendous corruption and fraud going on.”
Trump thought he and his gang of proud boys can huff and puff and blow down the White House.
It was all bravado and bluster from the hardened nitwit-ter.
The deed was done.
Sensible, rational and fair-mined American voters dumped a big kettle of cold water on Lyin’ Don just like the big bad wolf got a big kettle of boiling water dumped on him.
So ended the story of “DUMP TRUMP” on November 3, 2020.
Farewell Humpty Dumpty Trump
Trump is now caught in the vortex of the abyss of mendacity, criminality, hypocrisy and pathological narcissism he created in his lifetime.
The lying braggart wanna be monarch who set out to destroy the Republic now sits shattered like Humpty Dumpty in the White House.
Humpty Dumpty Trump had a great fall
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men and all the lies that oozed out of his mouth couldn’t reelect Humpty Dumpty Trump again.
The Constitution is safe, for now.
In the November 3, 2020 election, I voted for Biden-Harris.
But that was just a vote.
In truth, on November 3, 2020, I did something far important than vote.
I re-pledged Allegiance to the Constitution of the United States.
So many decades ago, I took a solemn oath before God and man to defend and protect the very life source of the Republic. The U.S. Constitution.
Over the past four years, I witnessed the sun setting on the Constitution and darkness enveloping the Republic.
America had almost become AmeriKKKa in the age of Donald J. Trump.
Lyin’ Don had made the Republic his playground, his plaything.
Donald “The Ignoramus” Trump who had not read a single word of the Constitution used the office of the presidency as a backyard jungle jim set for his childish nonsense.
I venerate and defend the U.S. Constitution because it is the bedrock foundation of American liberal democracy.
In other words, the singular purpose of the U.S. Constitution is to set limits on the authority and power of government and maximize individual liberty. The Constitution accomplished this objective brilliantly by creating a system of separation of powers, an independent judiciary and a system of checks and balances between branches of government.
In my view, democracy, liberal democracy to be sure, is the highest achievement of mankind. Francis Fukuyama is right in his quintessential observation.
Winston Churchill once said, “‘Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’
I would add only one qualification to Churchill’s observation. I do not pretend that liberal democracy is perfect or all-wise.
Churchill’s predecessor in the 19th century Gladstone proclaimed, “The U.S. Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man”.
The U.S. Constitution, despite its numerous and inexcusable flaws, is the bedrock foundation of our liberal democracy.
In Federalist No. 51, James Madison, the Father of the American Constitution observed, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”
The U.S. Constitution very unfortunately was not written by angels but mere mortal men.
It was written by mortal men who declared to a candid world, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.- “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
That, to me, is the essence of liberal democracy promised and secured in the U.S. Constitution.
Donald J. Trump was a threat to liberal democracy in America. He was the quintessential antitheses to the proposition, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…”
Trump wanted to make America AmeriKKKa.
Trump wanted to build Fortress America and wall out the world.
I said it in 2015 and I said again in 2020 in the words of Abe Lincoln, “We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”
I am thankful to all of my compatriots who voted out Donald J. Trump and nobly saved the last best hope of earth.
The Constitution of the United States and Donald J. Trump on the ballot on November 3, 2020
On November 3, 2020, the contest was between the U.S. Constitution and Donald J. Trump.
The Constitution and We the People who wrote the Constitution WON the election!
There will soon come the time when Donald J. Trump will be singing from a facility in N.Y. State called Sing Sing the old song by The Bobby Fuller Four, “I fought the law (Constitution) and the law (Constitution) won.”
Breakin’ rocks in the hot sun
I fought the Constitution and the Constitution won
I fought the Constitution and the Constitution won
I needed money ’cause I had none, even though I claimed to be a billionaire
I fought the Constitution and the Constitution won
I fought the Constitution and the Constitution won
Robbin’ people with falsified tax returns and bank loan applications
I fought the Constitution and the Constitution won
I fought the Constitution and the Constitution won
Americans, remember old Ben Franklin!
Ben Franklin warned us over 200 years ago we have a republic but only if we can keep it.
What Old Ben meant was that democratic republics are not merely founded upon the occasional votes. The process of voting is only half the task.
The other half is active and informed involvement of the people in their self-government.
It has been said, “The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.”
I say the price of preserving our liberal democracy against the omnipresent threat of neofascism is eternal vigilance.
We have saved the Republic for now. Let’s try to keep and save it for another two hundred years!
Hooray for the victorious Constitution of the United States!
Hooray for We the People of the United States!
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER, WE THE PEOPLE!
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER, THE REPUBLIC!
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