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President Trump Runs the Nation Well

President Trump Runs the Nation Well

by Daniel Gardner, Special to the Gazette The Democrats, media, and others suffering with Trump Derangement Syndrome are drowning attempting to extricate themselves from their own clever plans to beat President Trump....

by Daniel Gardner, Special to the Gazette

The Democrats, media, and others suffering with Trump Derangement Syndrome are drowning attempting to extricate themselves from their own clever plans to beat President Trump.

Their shenanigans began during the 2016 race for president. At the beginning of that race none of the cool kids believed Donald J. Trump had any shot at winning the GOP candidacy against 12 other contenders. In fact, many in the Democrat party hoped Trump would win the nomination. After all, he had never run for office and knew nothing about the rough and tumble of back-room politics.

After Trump won the nod for the GOP nomination, opposition forces scurried to scour for scandals and other disqualifying factors to bring him down early. Hillary Clinton had been voted “Next In Line” for the Democrats. No doubt she would win regardless of opponent since she had been tapped by none other than King Obama himself.

Some crafty staffers in Hillary’s court believed Trump could be easily tripped up with exotic charges of international escapades. He was very rich. He loved many women. All they had to do was document his philandering.

They talked Hillary into buying an English spy for information he claimed came from reliable sources in Russia. All the stories bloomed out of what became the Steele Dossier. None were true.

The Russian Hoax played well for Democrats and the Deep State during Trump’s first term. He was hobbled by inside traitors and Deep State operatives, not to mention hostile media.

Joe Biden, the Democrat’s nominee in 2020, stayed in his basement and received enough votes to win the presidency. But Trump’s opposition didn’t stop there. It began with Democrat’s orchestrating an “insurrection” and continuing with four years of the worst administration and president in history.

During the 2024 campaign Democrats and their kin flailed like fish out of water. They had no issues, no policies, or no positions to attract voters. Their one shot was TDS, and they blasted that mantra with lies and innuendos.

The first six months of President Trump’s second term has established his administration solidly as the best in the history of America. Therein lies the challenge.

Things have been going swimmingly for President Trump and his administration. So far TAW. Trump Always Wins. Not that the opposition hasn’t stopped trying to divide Americans and ruin America.

The past two weeks Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard has declassified enough intelligence regarding the Russia-Hoax to sink a battleship. It’s been too much for the usual opposition to handle, and they switched their attention to Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual enterprises.

The themes behind the Steele Dossier and Jeffrey Epstein scandals are not coincidental. Democrats and TDS folks have demanded total transparency of all things Epstein in hope of catching President Trump in their net.

Last week Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche interviewed Epstein’s partner Ghislaine Maxwell, for ten hours over two days, asking specifically about more than 100 named individuals. Maxwell’s lawyer David Markus said she “answered every single question asked of her over the last day and a half.”

Very suddenly, Democrats and media stopped asking for transparency. They are terrified of Maxwell’s testimony. Bless their hearts.

Apparently President Trump knows a lot about the rough and tumble of back-room politics. He continues to run the nation well.