It's difficult for some folks to grasp that their President is a criminal.
But, he was a criminal before he became President. There was no conversion on the road to Damascus. He's just in a better position right now.
The people in one of the marches today were asking, "If there is nothing to hide, what's the big problem?" Excellent question.
There is very little that is transparent in our government today. There are a lot of secrets. The White House has even refused to release the visitor logs to the White House. As if it were his House, not the People's House? As if the people do not have the right to know.
He is too big to jail. Or so he thinks. He has paid little in taxes for many years, all the while bragging about all the billions of dollars he has made. When money got a little tight for him and the banks in this country would no longer lend him the money he needed to build huge buildings with his name on them, then he had to go elsewhere. One of those places he went now appears to have been Russia.
There was a bank in Cyprus that laundered money for Russia oligarchs and crime figures. The present Commerce Secretary under Donald Trump was previously a VP in one of those banks in Cyprus. The Russian that bought one of Trump's mansions in Florida, and paid $50 million above the purchase price, worked thru one of the banks in Cyprus. It was nothing more than money laundering. Once it went into real estate, it was washed clean.
This is the criminal that now occupies the Oval Office in the White House. That is a fact that some people will never admit. But that is the fact of the matter.
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America can do no wrong thinking that always translates into thinking a president is above it all as well.
You take a human, give said human a title, and suddenly the human stops being a human? Or the human said person always was and has clearly demonstrated?
That defies everything about being human. Humans can and will do horribly bad things. A title in front of the name will never change that.
President, Senator, Representative, Father, Preacher, Rabbi, Mullah, Teacher, Mom, Dad, Doctor, Nurse, Lawyer, Queen, King, General, etc., - whatever the title - does not change anything basic and essential to the character of the human bearing the title.
A liar remains a liar. A crook remains a crook. Saying so-and-so asswipe is "Taking up the mantle" and "Looking Presidential" are both (all too often) bullshit phrases meant to imbue assholes with qualities we wished they had. Qualities we need them to have to make sense of how we see the world.
My view of the world - admittedly cynical - is if someone tells me they want to serve the people/ the public - I wonder on what type of platter and using which fork. Will we be the entree or a mere appetizer?
I don't start with trust. Trust must be earned. I will use the words, "I hope", but the entire time I am calculating the odds.
That said, I do not begin with distrust either. Many get a chance, but that chance should never imply I trust. Instead, let's say I allow for the possibility.
Politically, no republicans/conservatives get even a chance. I already know the outcome there.
And, no, I am not a miserable person. I am actually an annoyingly peppy morning person. I can find something amusing about even the most mundane, so I stay cheerful throughout the day. Unless otherwise engaged in dust bunny observation. Which is amusing in its own right. Though with a much darker undercurrent.
I'm currently in dust bunny mode - in which my cynicism takes the forefront.
Sorry.
I'm sure I haven't allowed for the basic goodness of people-kind.
Snort.
Sorry. (again)
Blame Trump. I do. 
... the fact of the matter.
