The President and the Pandemic

  Trump's media enemies and his Democratic opponents have each become the victims of their perceived hate-Trump policies - playing right into Trump's welcoming embrace President Trump’s confrontational relationship with what he terms the “fake news” media is set to take centre stage in the 2020 election campaign following the commencement of defamation proceedings by Nicholas Sandmann against the Washington Post claiming $250 million in compensatory and punitive damages. Threatened further actions  against other leading media outlets based on the same circumstances will see a real lawyers picnic keeping the courts very busy whilst the media coverage promises comprehensive and sensational reporting. The complaint filed by Sandmann’s attorneys sets out the  following allegations : In a span of three (3) days in January of this year commencing on January 19, the Post engaged in a modern-day form of McCarthyism by competing with CNN and NBC, among others, to claim leadership ...

Safeguarding America's security--and American lives--should be paramount and non-negotiable President Trump’s   Proclamation of a National Emergency on the Southern Border   has ensured that the consequences of the illegal entry of drugs, criminals and foreigners through that porous border will now be owned by the Congress and not the President—guaranteeing him certain victory in the 2020 Presidential elections. The rush to test the legal validity of Trump’s Proclamation in the Courts was clearly in Trump’s mind even before he had signed the final papers: “So the order is signed. And I’ll sign the final papers as soon as I get into the Oval Office. And we will have a national emergency, and then we will then be sued, and they will sue us in the Ninth Circuit, even though it shouldn’t be there. And we will possibly get a bad ruling, and then we’ll get another bad ruling. And then we’ll end up in the Supreme Court, and hopefully we’ll get a fair shake.” Trump’s readiness to go t...