The Monster Is Revealed

Happy Halloween, Friends,

Not only did the ambiguous letter from FBI director James Comey about 'additional emails' related to Hillary Clinton's private server throw a wrench in this election, but it also may violate the Hatch Act, which bars the FBI from influencing elections.

That may be litigated in the future, depending on the election's results. Most of the offense will be forgiven should Hillary win. The poop will absolutely hit the fan if Trump takes the election.

In the latter scenario, I see YUGE repercussions for Comey--including federal charges--in the lame duck Obama presidency

In any scenario, there is no way that Comey keeps his job.

But what I find really scary about this whole mess is how Donald Trump is completely demagoguing it. It's become the focal point of his campaign without there being one shred of evidence that any of the emails in question are incriminating.

Again, Trump is making a huge assumption based on nothing. And this time, he could swing an American presidential election on his bullshit.

This is Trump's M.O.--shoot first, ask questions later. I want to be sarcastic here and say it's exactly the quality we need in our President. But this is too serious a matter to joke about.

For Halloween, Donald Trump has decided to drop the pumpkin
makeup and crazy hair and go as himself.

I said it in a post months ago after Trump immediately blamed this past May's EgyptAir Flight 804 crash on terrorists (it turned out to be an electrical fire in the plane's avionics system). We can't have a President who jumps to conclusions.

If you remember, he did the same thing with the horrific Orlando nightclub shooting, blaming it immediately on foreign Islamic terrorists. That turned out to be one American Muslim shooter born in Trump's own hometown.

But the danger of this man is that he never learns from his mistakes--and never backs down.

He's still insisting that the Central Park Five--whom he demanded be put to death for raping a white woman, but who were later completely exonerated--are still guilty. This, even after New York City paid each of the innocent black men, who spent 13 years in prison, $8.2 million.

Perhaps Trump believes the city could have saved the $41 million if the then teenagers had been executed, as he demanded in a full page ad in the New York Daily News.

Only a true monster never backs down in the face of irrefutable facts.

I understand the rage of white working class Americans who've seen their jobs lost to foreign countries and their white privilege melt away. They want the old days back, and Trump is promising this to them.

But the fact is, the only thing that won't change in life is change. So either embrace it, or be left in the dust.

A monster can't save you. Monsters kill people.