It is said that those who live in glass house do not throw stones and whatever measure you attribute to others will certainly revert to you. Calling back to memory the analytical reflection written by Chuks Uzorka of National Impact editorial section and published on our online platform titled “TRUMP DESPISES AFRICAN LEADERS FOR AFRICA’S RETROGRESSION, IGNORANCE, SHAME AND POVERTY” and another titled “TRUMP DARES WORLD LEADERS OVER JERUSALEM AND SHIT HOLE REMARK”; Says “UN are hypocrites, a gathering of market women”, one will be completely convinced of the Machiavellian guts of the man in question.
Chuks described Donald Trump as a colour that can be described by the blind, and a sound that is heard by the deaf; on his outspoken way of whopping the world. “Once again, he has done it again to the African leaders. Africa the most blessed continent, but still have the poorest people in the world. I think destiny has just presented to us the man for the job for such a time as this. Thank God for the president of America MR DONALD .J. TRUMP, Take the GOLD and leave the ore. In his usual caricature and satirical opulence Donald trump has rubbished the reputation of African leaders.” He says; “I don’t need to harass you like the French presidents say that France-African is over, yet they keep sending you the fake tourists who spy on you and come back and tell them how you should be recolonised. If after 50 years of independence, you have not built the necessary infrastructure for your people, are you humans? If you sit on gold, diamond, oil, manganese, uranium and your people don’t have food, are you human? If to stay in power, you don’t hesitate to buy weapon from strangers to kill your own citizens, are you humans? If your only social project is to stay in power for life, are you humans?
If you despise and shoot your own citizens like game, who will respect them?” Concluding, Chuks said “For me, I do not call this racism, but a voice showing us our undoing as Africans, and directing us to the path we should go. Will these words be enough for these African leaders?”
In another development courtesy of our thinking corner piece in Feb. edition, Donald Trump while trying to Challenge the UN security summit and vote for or against Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem as capital of Isreal, he said “UN are hypocrites, Loyal to Islam. I don’t need their approval to do the right thing. My coming into power brought an end to the unofficial defeat of ISIL, the total annihilation of Islamic extremists in Syria which warranted the withdrawal of Russia troops by Putin. These were done just within a year after I was sworn in. The UN was there witnessing the massacre of the Christians across the globe and did nothing. Terrorism was on the rise and they did nothing. But barely four days of my declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, UN summoned a security summit. I have said it before and I’m saying it again that UN’s gathering is like gathering of market women which after they are done deliberating and decisions are made, it ends right there in Geneva. The UN sect is filled with Muslims and people who are loyal to the Arabs, they are all hypocrites and cannot be trusted…”
The recent headline from CNN via Gloria Borger titled “Trump’s tabloid past may come back to haunt him” summarized the entire sense I am trying to make. It says that Donald Trump’s tabloid lifestyle made him rich, famous and ultimately built the personae that made him President. Yet his back-to-the-future encounter with his sensational and melodramatic past might become his Achilles’ heel. Given his history, it’s perhaps no surprise that Trump’s presidency is now entwined in legal theater peopled by outsize characters, including a porn star, a Playboy model, hustling lawyers and a mystery celebrity. Those staples of a tabloid tale thickened the plot in court Monday in New York in the first step of a legal battle with potentially grave consequences for Trump, following the stunning FBI raid last week on his personal attorney Michael Cohen.
The identity of Cohen’s other client did little to flush the scent of scandal. Sources told CNN last week that Cohen had facilitated a payment plan totaling $1.6 million last year to a former Playboy model who says she became pregnant by Elliott Broidy, a leading GOP fundraiser. But the barely believable tabloid twists could not obscure building danger for Trump, which might explain his public fury over the raid. The Cohen case may mark a perilous moment of convergence between his scandalous previous life and his presidency. That’s partly because, were it not for a $130,000 payment Cohen made to Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged affair with Trump, the Cohen raid and Monday’s hearing may never have taken place.
It is not clear exactly where prosecutors from the hard-charging Southern District of New York are headed, but the payment could amount to a campaign finance violation. Daniels’ telegenic lawyer, Michael Avenatti, is an adept media manipulator- playing the President at his own game, stoking newsy moments and leveraging the legal system to inject his client’s case into the media bloodstream. There’s an irony to the law of the tabloid jungle by which Trump lived for years possibly coming back to bite him.
From the moment he entered the White House, Mr. Trump has had his share of trouble with federal courts around the country, where judges have ruled against him on policy issues like immigration and transgender soldiers, as well as on possible conflicts of interest involving his businesses. But the matter before Judge Wood touched on a much more intimate issue for the president, involving one of his closest relationships and potentially inching him closer to personal legal jeopardy. Again, this time around the judge on the case Says Trump and Cohen Can’t Yet Review Materials Seized by F.B.I.
Furthermore, coming from WASHINGTON D.C, President Trump and James B. Comey could not avoid an all-out war recently. ABC News aired an interview with Mr. Comey, the president’s fired F.B.I. director, as he uses a publicity blitz for his searing tell-all memoir, “A Higher Loyalty,” to raise the alarm about the dangers he says Mr. Trump poses to the country. In the interview, Mr Comey called Mr Trump a serial liar who treated women like “meat,” and described him as a “stain” on everyone who worked for him.
He said a salacious allegation that Mr. Trump had cavorted with prostitutes in Moscow had left him vulnerable to blackmail by the Russian government. And he asserted that the president was incinerating the country’s crucial norms and traditions like a wildfire. He compared the president to a mafia boss. “Our president must embody respect and adhere to the values that are at the core of this country,” Mr Comey told ABC’s chief anchor, George Stephanopoulos, on the program “20/20.” “The most important being truth. This president is not able to do that. He is morally unfit to be president.”
The interview with Mr Comey and the publicity tour for his book, amount to a remarkable public assault on a sitting president by someone who served at the highest levels in the government. The stakes for both men could hardly be higher. Mr. Comey seems likely to be the star witness in any obstruction of justice case that might be brought against the president by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel in the sprawling Russia investigation. Mr. Trump’s legal fate, as well as his political fortunes in Washington, may depend on whether he succeeds in undermining the credibility of Mr Comey and the law enforcement institutions he views as arrayed against him.
While many of Mr Trump’s critics believe that the proper remedy for his perceived transgressions is impeachment, Mr Comey insisted that would just “let the American people off the hook.” He said the public was “duty bound” to vote Mr. Trump out of office in the next election.
“You cannot have, as president of the United States, someone who does not reflect the values that I believe Republicans treasure and Democrats treasure and independents treasure,” Mr. Comey said. “That is the core of this country. That’s our foundation. And so impeachment, in a way, would short-circuit that.”
Mr Comey’s intensely personal attacks — a reflection of his self-righteousness, his detractors say — are all the more combustible because they are aimed directly at a president who has said with pride on Twitter that “when someone attacks me, I always attack back” Hours before the interview aired, Mr. Trump called Mr. Comey a “slimeball” for the second time in three days, saying in a pair of early-morning Twitter posts that he belonged in jail for what the president said were lies to Congress and leaks of classified information. In another post, Mr. Trump said Mr. Comey would go down in history as “the WORST FBI Director in history, by far!” He added that “he is not smart!”
In the ABC interview, Mr Comey said, he did not think the president suffered from mental incompetence or was in the early stages of dementia. He said Mr Trump struck him as a person of “above average intelligence.” But Mr Comey responded to the president’s Twitter posts with a more subtle dig of his own.“My book is about ethical leadership and draws on stories from my life and lessons I learned from others,” he wrote on Twitter. “3 presidents are in my book: 2 help illustrate the values at the heart of ethical leadership; 1 serves as a counterpoint.”
It is unclear where this epic battle of wills will lead, other than a sustained escalation of insults between two men who have each admitted to having outsize egos. But it is certain to be a test of powerful forces in the modern media landscape: the presidential megaphone, amplified by 50 million Twitter followers, and the global reach of an adversary who is on a seemingly endless, 24-hour, cable-news-driven book tour.
However you look at it I think, James Comey’s Attacks on Trump May Hurt a Carefully Cultivated Image as observed by The New York Times. According to JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and JONATHAN MARTIN “With the release of his memoir this week and a set of high-profile media interviews to publicize it, Mr. Comey — whose firing by President Trump made him a hero to the president’s critics — has veered onto risky terrain, shedding the trappings of a high-minded referee and looking instead like a combatant in the country’s partisan battles.”
“Mr. Comey’s description of the president as an unethical liar “morally unfit” for office; his call for voters to decide Mr. Trump’s fate at the ballot box in 2020; and even his observations about Mr. Trump’s appearance — his “orange” skin, his too-long ties, his hands — are stark departures from the law-enforcement mission of his old agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
“The personal potshots in particular have surprised some former colleagues who thought of Mr. Comey as relatively sober and serious. Observers on both the left and right — including many who count themselves as fierce critics of Mr. Trump’s — say that in embarking on his star turn, Mr. Comey may be undercutting his own indictment of the president’s character and conduct.”
“The real impact of having the former head of the F.B.I. calling the president unfit is dependent on the just-the-facts professional image of the F.B.I.,” said Michael Steel, a Republican strategist who has been critical of Mr. Trump. “To the extent that the former director appears petty and anything less than high-minded, it diminishes the impact of his critique.”
Mr. Comey plainly considers himself to be a figure who is above the political fray, driven and guided solely by facts. His friends and advisers say he wants the book to stir a conversation about the value of honesty.“Telling the truth should not be seen as a political act,” said Keith Urbahn, Mr. Comey’s book agent. “It should just be the truth.”
