For those who have never read Mary Trump's Too Much and Never Enough I suggest you pick up a copy and take in the insights she provides into the character of her uncle, Donald J. Trump. Given the level of family disfunction she describes, it's quite understandable that her perspective would be one of the results. Essentially, Mary says that Trump is unable to accept any responsibility for wrongdoing or admit mistakes, and he is especially enraged when he is beaten. He cannot put it down, cannot accept the loss and must find a way to get even with the person or persons who defeated him.
She was proven correct in her analysis by Trump's behavior following his election defeat to Joe Biden in 2020. He has, according to her prediction, failed to accept the fact that he lost along with subsequently blaming it on "massive voter fraud," and was incapable of acknowledging the lack of any such evidence, through over 60 different court challenges, some of which turned up evidence that Trump allies had tried to corrupt the vote totals to his advantage.
There was really no doubt that he would run again. And here we are, a nominated Republican candidate who is still facing federal indictments for inciting an insurrection, for document theft and possible espionage, for election interference in Georgia, a case which still stands in spite of the recent horrific Supreme Court immunity ruling, and has been convicted in a civil trial of rape, and on 34 felony counts of business fraud in New York, with a postponed, but not overturned, guilty verdict.
The biggest enemy in his life is still Joe Biden. President Biden is the one person who legitimately, and rather convincingly, defeated Trump in the 2020 election. And if there was any doubt left in anyone's mind, the current chaos and confusion in the Democratic party, regarding President Biden's fitness to serve a second term, is being instigated and pushed along by Trump interests. He is the one who stands to benefit the most from what could be a very disastrous result for Democrats. And regardless of all possible speculation, there's no question, based on evidence provided by Mary Trump, and from a news media that seems bent on running on rumor, inuendo and unconfirmed "sources."
Trump Does Have the Resources to Cause This Confusion
Trump is the favorite candidate of virtually every American billionaire. Oh, there are a few who see through the fraudulent schemes, but he and they share what they value in this life the most, and that's the acquisition of massive amounts of money, because of the power that comes with it. When Russia finally threw off its oppressive Communist rule, while attempting to fight the battles necessary to establish credible democracy, the billionaires stepped in and created an oligarchy. They run the country, the legislature is meaningless and so are elections.
Billionaires are not proponents of democracy, because it invests power in the people, not in their money interests. So Trump is their guy and they give him the resources he needs to push his candidacy. They also have influence and power, because of the amount of money they control, within the Democratic party. And that's been the key they needed to unlock the door to Biden's vulnerability, which is his age, and try to capitalize on that weakness in order to help Trump back to the Presidency.
Russia, too, is involved. This is not just a smear or a rumor. I have, sitting on my bookshelf, 538 pages of evidence indicating exactly how Russia is involved on Trump's behalf, what they did the last time they helped out, and what they are capable of doing and getting away with. It's called The Mueller Report, the evidence of a travesty and miscarriage of justice unseen in American political corruption before. And I think what we are seeing develop right now in this election is quite similar to previous events. The money is being used to buy the influence, even reaching to big contributors to the Democratic party, who will all benefit from the $8 billion or so that Trump will spend of our tax money to give them tax cuts.
It appears that Democrats have fallen for it. At this point, I'm reserving judgment regarding the sincerity and commitment of those Democrats who have publicly called for Biden to step down, to the idea they've been pushing ever since Trump started running for President, that he is an existential threat to democracy, and must be defeated or he will destroy democracy and the Constitution, and turn the United States into another oligarchy of the rich. Perhaps the stock they are putting in relatively flaky and inconsistent poll results, which ironically have showed Biden increasing his percentages while Trump's have been dropping, since the debate, is causing their panic. Or, maybe they aren't sincere, don't see Trump as a threat and, as all politicians do, are thinking about feathering their future political nest.
What Do We Do About It?
This particular attack, and the orchestrated, regular release of new information popping up every few days to keep this in the news cycle, along with the lack of any evidence confirming the alleged conversations Democratic leaders are supposedly having and no sources being reported is a very clear indication that Trump and his campaign still greatly fear the fact that they will lose this election. And frankly, if Democrats would just sit still, ignore this public polling data because it is not even August yet and no one else is paying attention, stay the course, let the convention delegates, overwhelmingly won by the President, do what they are supposed to do and move forward with a campaign.
They have multiple issues on which to attack Trump that he supports and which are known to be extremely unpopular. A woman's right to choose is one. The draconian platform worked up in collusion with the Christian nationalists of the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, has only begun to horrify people who read and see what's happening.
Then, there are character issues. Trump is a convicted felon, on 34 counts, plus a civil rape conviction. There is increasing evidence pointing to his involvement, at some level, with child trafficker and abuser Jeffrey Epstein, whose death in prison while under the supervision of the executive branch is still a mystery.
Even at this point, with the Republican convention just ending, Trump is clearly not taking the direction of attempting to add more moderate voters to his base. His choice of J. D. Vance as his running mate is a clear indication of this. And it is somewhat of a slap in the face, or an acknowledgement that he already has white Evangelicals in his pocket, choosing a running mate who is not only not Evangelical, but is one who converted from conservative Evangelicalism to Catholicism, and then married a Hindu. Typically, Evangelicals deliberately ignore, and give easy passes while swallowing their pride and accepting another denial of their principles from Trump. It's hard to say what the white supremacist branch of MAGA will do, since they get violent and their hatred is vitriolic and consistent.
So I think we just move forward, after, of course, an effort has been made to stop the ridiculous chaos going on among a small and relatively insignificant group of Democrats. Get on board, be supportive, understand how this all works in an election, and if you sincerely believe that Trump is the threat that he's been characterized by Democrats as being, then vote and be a spokesperson supporting his re-election.
The support for Biden staying in that has erupted over the past three weeks has been phenomenal. I have not seen anything like it since the surge from the grassroots finally put Jimmy Carter over the top in 1976. And before that, not since Lyndon Johnson's 1964 campaign. This chaos has lit a fire under the grassroots of the party and they're going to see it to success. With the record of a successful president behind him, and the gross and horrible conduct of the opposition, I believe we will win this 2024 election comfortably, for the President, and with enough of a shift in Congress to do the things the President wants to do, such as reform the Supreme Court.
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