Dear Editor,
I will admit immediately that I have tricked Mr. Hopkins and all the other Hillary supporters into reading this with the headline. You are expecting an attack piece about Mr. Trump but you will be disappointed. The headline is only half of what I would have expected the Trump campaign slogan to actually be, namely, “The Problem with Trump is that he is right about everything.”
And make no mistake, he is right about everything. On every single meaningful issue from immigration reform to trade to the national debt and all in between, his stated positions directly reflect both the truth of the matter and the root of the problems in all respects.
You may not like his manner, you may not like the way he speaks and you may not like his choice of language but in the end he articulates directly the root causes of the very most critical issues that plague the United States today.
He is a lousy public speaker. There’s no question about that. Listening to him trying to string enough words together all in a row to make a coherent thought into an understandable sentence is often painful for the listener, but that in its own right is telling.
This is a candidate who doesn’t run his mouth for a living like all the other politicians. He give orders to the people that work for him and they know what he is talking about and get the job done. And therein lay the very foundation of the unprecedented success of his campaign so far and why he has received more votes than any other primary candidate in history.
Ordinary people –people like you and me who work for a living and actually endure the failed policies of the Obamas and Hillarys– know what he is talking about because they live it every day.
Ask Trump a direct question and you get a simple, direct and straight answer and you know for fact that he means what he says. He isn’t smart enough nor does he have the patience to finely craft deniable lies at the drop of a hat like Hillary or invent convoluted, ridiculous and absurd propositions to satisfy some corner of the demographic. You get small words, short sentences that tell you directly what he believes.
It may be the first time in history that a political candidate has tried that approach (barring Ronald Reagan) and it has resonated with Americans in a way that is simply beyond the understanding of the political establishment as it exists now.
When he says, “I’ll build a wall,” absolutely no one believes there is going to be brick and mortar 12 feet high and for 3000 miles across the Mexican border. What they know is that if elected, the open door immigration system will end the next day and rigid and absolute controls will be put in place. The existing immigration laws will actually be enforced and new ones defined to plug the loop holes. People believe him because they know that he is right. And most importantly they know he can’t be bought.
Let’s compare Trump and Hillary in basic and simplistic terms. Trump is a self-made millionaire. He started his own business and grew it into a minor empire. He won some, lost some, took giant risks with his own money and won big and he took giant risks with his own money and lost big.
Hillary married Bill who already had his snout buried in the public trough and, as a lawyer, produced nothing, built nothing and was immediately deeply involved in a billing scandal that would have gotten most lawyers disbarred and put in jail. The records that would have put her in jail were “lost” and only found after political intervention ended her risk of sanction.
Trump continued to prosper. His won /loss rate as far as his businesses went was extremely good and he got rich. Hillary went to the white house with Bill where she ran the white house travel office which was immediately involved in a scandal that would have gotten anyone else put in jail but again, mysteriously, the records disappeared, other people were fired and bought off and Hillary escaped sanction even though it was her department, and her direct orders and instructions that were followed and later shown to be corrupt and illegal.
During their tenure in the white house the Clintons amassed a huge fortune from direct bribes, kickbacks and influence-pedalling, all well documented, and ending with the sex scandal involving Bill in which two famous quotes emerged that tell you everything you need to know about these individuals. The first from Bill, the Rhodes Scholar and draft evader who when caught in a direct lie in testimony under oath said, “well, it depends on what your definition of the word ‘is’ is.”
Really? And after Hillary single handedly destroyed the lives of the women that Bill had sexually assaulted and only after the hard and indisputable evidence was produced of her lies, deceit and involvement in the whole sordid affair was exposed said, “well … I really didn’t know what was going on.”
Starting to sound familiar?
So, the Clintons make a deal with Obama to not fight the primaries and in return she gets to be Secretary of State. Her tenure there is a disaster in all respects, starting with trade deals with China which, during the negotiations Bill gets a direct cash payment from the Chinese. Amazingly enough, shortly thereafter, the trade deal gets done that benefits the Chinese hugely, and ending with the Benghazi attack in which the department she ran refused hundreds of requests for security and during the actual attack refused again to send help resulting in the ambassador being killed.
Instead, she and her staff spent the time during the attack working up a cover story that was a complete lie and was immediately exposed as such. That is Hillary’s priority. Evade responsibility at all costs even if people are dying.
She quit the job at the State Department, finally, after it became crystal clear that the record she was creating would follow her forever and preclude any run for the Presidency. Amazingly, I know, and hard to believe, but the 30,000 emails that document her correspondence during all this have been deleted from her illegal server. Missing records. The Clinton trademark.
So what of these two candidates? Trump, not a politician, not the best businessman that there ever was, but willing to take the simple direct and honest approach to solving the problems of the United States in the best interests of the United States.
And you have Hillary who has never done an honest day’s work in her life, lives on the fruits of corruption and graft and would rather lie when the truth would serve her better. A woman whose entire professional career has been one corruption scandal after another, ending now with the email deal where, note, her entire state department staff had to avail themselves of their 5th amendment rights to avoid testifying about her conduct.
For those of you unaware, the 5th amendment means you can “refuse to testify because what I say may put me in jail myself.” To people like you and me that means that her entire staff is saying “we were directly involved in all of her criminal activity and can’t talk about it without going to jail ourselves.”
When Hillary says she is the most qualified to become President it makes me smile because it simply reinforces everything I know about politicians, that being, if being qualified means an entire career of corruption, incompetence, and having your snout buried in the public trough then yes, Hillary is your candidate for sure. And for those of you in Texas worried about the border, not to worry, Hillary has already made a deal where in exchange for a big cash payment to the Clinton foundation, she will deed Texas over to Mexico by January.
Steven Johnson
