GOP was conned

These are strange times. Truth, facts, photos and TV footage are fake, and replaced with “alternative facts”, or telling us not to believe our eyes.

Trump has over 15,000 verified lies. Trump daily attacks Democrats, dividing the country into “Us vs Them.” Until about a dozen years ago, Trump was a NY liberal Democrat, on camera supporting abortion and flag burning. Once Obama was elected, Trump continuously attacked him, sowing doubt about his birthplace and education. Trump decided to run for president to show Obama up. He was to run as an independent, because he hated the Republican Party and establishment. But Trump found that his birtherism and racist rhetoric about Hispanics, non-white immigrants and Muslims was welcome within the GOP.

When Trump was on Leno about six years ago, it caught my attention. He made sense. He railed against Bush and Obama for being allies with the Saudis. Trump said if he were president, he would have gas at 50 cents a gallon. The more I listened to Trump’s incoherent rants, I realized he was a con man, liar, narcissist and probably sociopath.

The GOP and his followers were conned. Congressional Republicans put power, party and Trump over country to get re-elected and hold on to power. They are scared to death of Mob Boss Trump’s bullying tweets. In GOP ideology, the FBI was good, and Russia bad. But now it’s the other way around as Trump has divided us, just as Putin wants.

Strange Times.

Richard Trerise

Spokane