Trump's True Agenda: Smoke and Mirrors, Autocracy and Corruption

Autocracy seems to be what form of government Donald Trump thinks this country is instead of a Democracy. His love and admiration for Vladimir Putin is poof. Besides this is his blatant disregard of laws and rules as well as his lack of morals and manners. 
This country is about to witness corruption similar to that which exist in Putin's Russia.

According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Corruption in Russia is perceived as a significant problem in Russia impacting all aspects of life, including public administration, law enforcement, healthcare and education. The phenomenon of corruption is strongly established in the historical model of public governance in Russia and attributed to general weakness of rule of law in Russia. In the Corruption Perceptions Index published by Transparency International Russia was scored 136 in 2014.
A notable worsening of this ranking for Russia – from 90th place to 126th – occurred at the beginning of Vladimir Putin's second term as president; a drop of 36 places in only one year. An equally pessimistic picture emerges from the estimates of the average size of bribes which has substantially increased over the last five years.

According to economist Alexandra Kalinina corruption in Russia remains “not a problem, but a business.”

Corruption has penetrated all levels of government and most other aspects of life in Russia. According to Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, corruption in Russia is worse than in many African countries.

At the government level the five top areas for corruption are as follows:

1) Government contracts and purchases.
2) Issuance of permits and certificates.
3) Law-enforcement agencies.
4) Land distribution and land relations.

5) Construction.

Independent experts maintain that corruption consumes as much of 25 percent of Russia’s GDP. A World Bank report puts this figure at 48 percent. ~ Corruption in Russia as a Business Published: 29 January 2013 Written by Alexandra Kalinina

Trump's agenda will more than likely have our country in similar situation as in corruption filled Russia. Why else would most of his cabinet and advisors be millionaires, billionaires and generals? Why have most of them not submitted financial disclosures just as Trump has yet revealed his tax records and forms? Too many global conflicts of interest are not being revealed and we the people are supposed to just allow this to go down without a fight? NOT AT ALL! As patriots we must oppose this tyranny.

Trump's make America Great and White again was the message and tactic used to get him in the White House. It was a part of the smoke and mirrors. Now he is on his way to autocracy and corruption like we have never seen in this country at the highest levels of the government. Everything seems upside down!

  

Trump and His Foolish Birther Movement and How the Media has been unfair

The most graceful and dignified indictment of the U.S. media you’ll see in 2016

By Peter Daou |
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

With some notable exceptions (David Fahrenthold comes to mind) the national political media have failed America in 2016. There is overwhelming, objective evidence that they are tipping the scales in favor of Donald Trump, offering cursory coverage of his myriad transgressions while obsessing over Hillary Clinton's every word. As a result, trust in the mass media is at an all time low.

On a day when Donald Trump has again invoked the assassination of Hillary Clinton, this response, from Kierna Mayo, is stunning in its simplicity and power:


Time is winding down and most of the 2016 race is in the rear view mirror. The view is ugly.
Hillary Clinton’s emails have been covered by major media outlets for 451 consecutive days (and 558 out of the past 562 days). Her every mistake is magnified and turned into a massive controversy. Even her cough is analyzed by pundits. She is scowled at while recovering from pneumonia and treated with dripping disdain at a Commander-in-Chief forum.
Meanwhile, Trump coasts along, leaving a trail of filth behind him. He mocks the press, toys with them, teases them. And they ask for more. Studies come out that confirm he gets better coverage. And they give him more.
Clinton is saddled with the Romney-esque 47% label for speaking the truth (inelegantly) about some of Trump’s supporters, while Trump is given a free pass for actually adding 3 points to Romney and calling 50% of the country lazy freeloaders.
Brian Beutler of the New Republic sums it up:
Whether you have a short or long view, you’ve seen enough to say authoritatively that Trump is different from all major party nominees in living memory. It is not normal in modern times for a major party nominee to be an erratic, racist demagogue; and it is almost definitionally abnormal for a major party nominee to be described as such by leading members of his own party.
These are the cardinal facts of this election. They should be the dominant upshot of any significant increment of news coverage and analysis—the thing that reaches and sticks with casual news consumers, in the same way that even musical dilettantes can hum the leitmotif of Beethoven’s fifth symphony.
For several weeks now—including since Labor Day, when most Americans truly began paying attention to the campaigns—these truths, which we all took for granted six months ago, have not been communicated to glancing news consumers. They’ve receded from most article leads, headlines, front pages, and A-block TV segments.
That development is the product of many collective choices and thousands of individual ones. It is an institutional failure, and as such, a major and abrupt course correction seems highly unlikely. But that doesn’t absolve reporters, editors, producers or anyone else who is part of the system.
There will be a reckoning when this race is over, a moment of truth for the mass media. And it is unclear whether they can ever recover from the damage they’ve done to their own credibility.








LEMON: Yes. Is that something to be proud of to make the president produce his birth certificate and then be wrong about him not, you know, being born somewhere else?

BASH: I mean, I don't expect him to say anything different. If he's going to make this conclusion that the president was born in the United States, he's Donald Trump, of course he's going to go through the record of how it happened, that the president did go to great lengths to release his long birth certificate. We all remember that happening. Now, he didn't...

(CROSSTALK)

LEMON: If we could find that sound bite it would be great of the president saying, you know, we don't have time for this when he produced his birth certificate, I would like to play that moment.

(CROSSTALK)

BASH: Yes, but he didn't put...

LEMON: And also -- there's also -- there's also a moment where he's saying you wouldn't believe what -- it was an interview, I forget who -- don't know if it was Katy. I forget who is he is with. No, it was Meredith Vieira, Meredith Vieira, where he says you won't believe I had my investigators, you know, over in Africa and then Hawaii and you won't believe what I'm finding out.

So, -- and then he goes on to say, "Mr. Trump did a great service to the president and to the country by bringing closure to the issue that Hillary Clinton and her team first raised." They brought the Hillary Clinton thing up again. "Inarguably, Donald Trump is a closer, having successfully obtained President Obama's birth certificate when others could not. Mr. Trump believes the president -- that President Obama was born in the United States."

I have to give it to Jason Miller. I mean, it was, this is a pretty interesting read.

PRESTON: Here's thing that you have to ask yourself too about the whole issue for the Republican Party. And let me defend the Republican Party in this. Almost every republican official in Washington, I think just about every one of them, believes that Barack Obama was born in the United States.

LEMON: Republican officials, but not most republicans, I believe, especially Donald Trump supporters.

PRESTON: Look, I think it's like 20 percent of people who were at national polls...

LEMON: Born outside of the United States and he's Muslim.

PRESTON: Think he was born -- you know, by the way, they all don't have to be republicans. Some of those could be very conservative democrats, they could be independents.

LEMON: Or just people who are divorced from reality.

PRESTON: Correct. I mean, they don't even need a political affiliation. But the fact is that this issue should have been put to bed a long time ago. Hillary Clinton's e-mail issue should have never happened, these medical records that we got in the last 24 hours should have been put together...

LEMON: Donald Trump shouldn't release his tax...

PRESTON: The tax issue should have been released a long time ago. I mean, this is another line of transparency that we're not seeing from either candidates.

LEMON: Yes. Dana, "Mr. Trump is now totally focused on bringing jobs back to American, defeating radical Islamic terrorism, taking care of our veterans, introducing choice of school, opportunities, and rebuilding and making our inner cities safe again." End of story. It's done. This issue is over.

BASH: Well, that's what he hopes. When I was talking to the senior aide who I talked to in the commercial break who gave us the breaking news that we reported that this statement was coming, that was my first question, why now? And the answer was, so he can focus on other things, the things in that statement.

Before when we were trying to figure out why he wasn't just saying, OK, fine, the president was born in the United States, you, Don, were saying well, maybe he's waiting for the debate.

Our colleague, David Chalian just e-mailed me something that's of course smart, which is all David Chalian says are smart things, and this is it's because he wants off the table before the debate, because this is not something that...

PRESTON: Of course.

BASH: ... he wants to be even a nanosecond of a focus during the debate. And you know just from the way Hillary Clinton jumped on it tonight, the fact that Washington Post interview went online with Trump, you know, sort of declining to say that the president was born in the United States.

I think it was maybe five minutes between then. And when Hillary Clinton added to that her prepared remarks in her speech this evening. So, they knew that this was going to be a potential issue. And again, remember, take a step back, this at this point, it is about Donald Trump being really close in a lot of these battleground states and to get over the line to the -- to the v-column, he has to expand his supporters, expand his base.

LEMON: Yes.

BASH: He's got those people. He needs to appeal to others.

LEMON: Phillip, we're going to talk and I know you want to get in and I promise you we'll get into it. The interesting thing is is that you have to give them -- him credit for at least now he's admitted it, I mean somewhat. You give him some credit for that. Though, I see other people in the studio saying no it took him way too long to do it. But, the interesting thing is is that why does it take so long for the campaign to admit? Why are they so tone deaf sometimes to admit that there are issues especially when we were all sitting here, when the night that he gave his speech in Milwaukee and we said why is he giving the speech to a mostly white crowd and the night before the campaign manager just was completely floored by, what are you talking about. So I think on this one issue, they were tone deaf, now they're trying to make up for it.