Should We Take Trump Seriously Or...

Is Donald Trump the GOP’s savior or sellout?

Posted on July 15, 2015 by John Myers

Is it just me, or is there something wrong with this picture?

I so want to take Donald Trump’s word on making things right in America, on illegal immigration and on his criticisms of Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton. But the truth is she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had first-pew seats at The Donald’s third wedding in 2005 — and why not? It’s a match made in heaven — not for The Donald and his wife, Slovenian former model Melania Knauss-Trump, but between The Donald and Hillary. After all he is a New York billionaire who loves to build his wealth and influence in New York, and she was an ambitious New York senator who loved having rich donors in high places.

Let’s face it; The Donald and Hillary are members of the 1 percent club, otherwise known as the ultra-rich, the wealthy elite or America’s oligarchy. Their interests coincide much more closely with each other than with Americans like us. For all anyone knows, they may work for the same bosses: that Goliath known as the New World Order.

I want you to ask yourself one question: Who sat in the first row at your wedding?

My problem with Trump is there’s something phony with him regarding Hillary. Either he is not a loyal friend, or he is loyal to the end. And it’s not just hugging and smiling at social functions either. Trump has been a generous financial contributor to Hillary’s Senate campaign as well as to the Clinton Foundation. As recently as 2012,he told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren:

Hillary Clinton, I think, is a terrific woman. I am biased because I have known her for years. I live in New York. She lives in New York. I really like her and her husband both a lot. I think she really works hard.

There you have it. He not only told Fox News that he liked Hillary, but in 2013 he also spoke glowingly of her as a presidential candidate for 2016. Trump said:

It would certainly seem Hillary’s going to get the nomination and she will be tougher to beat. Actually, she’ll be tougher to beat than president Obama in my opinion. So they need the perfect candidate.

Apparently, Trump believes he is the perfect candidate. But he is the perfect candidate for what: his presidency or Hillary’s?

I really want to give Trump the benefit of the doubt and believe that he has seen enough of America slipping into the gutter that he believes — and perhaps rightfully — that he can resurrect the American dream. The last president who, I think, legitimately did that was Ronald Reagan. And there is something else that is interesting about Reagan, he was close friends with the late Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy, although the two couldn’t have been more different regarding how America needed to change. But seriously, before Reagan’s 1980 bid for the presidency, could you imagine that he would give money to elect Kennedy? I somehow doubt that, don’t you?

Watch out for the aliens!

I don’t have a problem with Trump on U.S. immigration policies and illegal aliens coming to the United States. It’s a serious problem, but it’s not just Mexicans. It is also Canadians, Swedes and other immigrants, including, I am sure, some Slovenians. But wrap them up all together, and illegal aliens are hardly the biggest threat to America. People like Hillary Clinton, her husband Bill and the federal government love to go on about everything except one inescapable fact: Those who have been constantly depleting the purchasing power of the dollar and have pursued such destructive spending as to leave us an inch away from a financial abyss are those in Washington who are propped up by rich financial backers.

The stock market collapse in China last week and another bailout for Greece so that it doesn’t drag the entire financial system down worry me much more for my children’s and grandchildren’s future. The more than $17 trillion in U.S. federal debt scares me a lot more than an illegal Mexican breaking into our home and killing my wife and me. And regardless of whatever anyone has to say about Trump, the fact is he is a brilliant investor. So on this I find it likely that what really keeps Trump awake at night is the state of the economy that his old friends like Bill and Hillary Clinton helped create.

And while Trump keeps saying that he is the only one telling the truth in this presidential race — and on this he is probably correct — he isn’t telling us the whole truth. Because the whole truth would involve talking about the state of affairs for not only the greenback but more urgently the two-legged stool that the U.S. financial markets stand upon. To do so would involve a self-fulfilling prophecy and that would put Trump’s financial interests at stake.

I don’t think Trump is a terrible candidate compared to the field he is running against, especially Hillary. But I don’t believe he is Reagan either. And to think he is Reagan without giving it some serious thought is wishful thinking.

Yours in good times and bad,

–John Myers