The National Crisis We’re Ignoring: The Urgent Need to Address Trump's Ongoing Threat to Our Nation’s Safety
by Annette Dion
Donald Trump is a many-times-over proven enemy of the United States of America. Donald Trump commits crimes against the United States of America. Repeatedly. It doesn’t stop. Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to this nation.
The reason I am saying this thing that is obvious to me is because it seems to me that this is not the national conversation. At times I have that ripping-my-hair out feeling of frustration and anger. It is not pleasant. None of this is pleasant.
Can we imagine, with the upcoming anniversary of one of the worst days in American history, September 11, 2001, that when that horrible day happened if the media was there on the news saying to us “oh, no big deal. It’s not really occurring. Just a couple of buildings in NYC and a few highjacked planes. Go back to shopping at the mall”. (incidentally, in the mass of confusion of how to cope, George W Bush actually told us to do just that).
January 6th, 2021 happened. It was a violent, physical, medieval style, hand-to-hand, lethal combat; a riot that Donald Trump very much incited. It lasted for hours. And yes, people did die. It was 100% planned. It was designed to take down our government completely.
Part of that plan that miraculously didn’t go through was to hold public executions of our government leaders. They built a gallows to “hang Mike Pence”. They equipped themselves with zip ties and weaponry and were tracking down Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and others in order to tie them up, torture them and kill them. It was incredible that they did not succeed in that part, for they got so close.
At a recent trip I took to Washington DC, it was hard for me to imagine what had happened there at our nation’s Capitol. “Pooping” and smearing it on the walls, desecrating our sacred Capitol and its history, bringing in the Confederate flag. This, in the home of the greatest democracy in the world; the representation of our commitment to government by-the-people and for-the-people. There were tourists there visiting from all different countries, speaking other languages. We all marveled.
Donald J Trump, on January 6th, as the attack was ongoing watched with actual glee. His family and other minions were simultaneously watching, dancing and partying under a big tent as it was happening. Donald Trump literally sat there at the White House, and, like a petulant and stubborn child enjoying a superhero movie, watched in real time as it was happening. Being the one and only person who could do so, he absolutely refused to call it off.
I heard reports afterwards that he was rewinding the most violent parts so he could watch them again. Hours went by. The bludgeoning continued. Pools of blood were everywhere.
He had started it. He had whipped his cult of personality followers into a wild frenzy through repetition of his Big Lie. His cohort, criminal Steve Bannon said the day before that “all hell was gonna break loose.” It clearly was planned.
Donald Trump is a serious, proven enemy of these United States of America. It is all over the front page of court documents; “Donald Trump vs The United States of America”. Trump lets people die, and he enjoys watching them suffer. He cares about nobody but himself. Trump has been diagnosed by the experts who have observed and diagnosed his insane behavior as being a malignant narcissist sociopath who is absolutely dangerous. The alarm bells have been going off. Continuously.
His criminal and defiant behavior has been repeated so often that to some Americans it has become normalized. Mainstream media is grievously responsible for not telling Americans the truth; for not repeating over and over that he poses a constant threat to the United States and all of her people. THIS. IS.
WRONG. Trump’s criminality is vast and unacceptable in the behavior of any human being, let alone a person running to be President of these United States.
I cannot understand why our national conversation is not 100% about this. It is beyond my comprehension how any single person could fly a TRUMP flag. Do they not love this country? Are they that brainwashed?
Do they think that, like conspiracy theory that the first moon landing was staged, that January 6th was staged, and did not actually happen?
I’ll never forget when the MAGAs started blaming the Democratic party for being the ones at that rally at the Ellipse on that fated day. I felt like I had entered the twilight zone. They started blaming it on Antifa. (I have never known much about that organization, have you?)
Yes, in the face of hundreds of TRUMP flags waving and all the rally goers cheering for Trump as it was happening, they tried to tell us that actually the entire lethal incident; the violent coup, was hosted by democrats. Gimme a effing break.
Later they made up their fictional “ghost buses” stories, claiming that the FBI had shuttled in undercover people to incite the riot for some unexplainable reason. They called it a tourist visit.
Donald Trump is a proven clear and present danger to the United States of America. He even sold our national security secrets for God’s sake. At the very least, he shared them. But knowing what we know about him, I highly doubt that he share them for free.
That this nation is not having a national conversation about this, and only this, boggles my brain. He is a, proven again and again, bully and a tyrant. Trump is a dictator needing a platform.
When there is a rule or a law, as if obsessed with a need to do so, he makes sure that he breaks it. And then he makes sure he does it publicly.
For anyone to desecrate and insult our United States military, as he did once again in Arlington cemetery yesterday, having minus zero decency or sense of having respect for those Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice, (no surprise there), is abhorrent. It is unacceptable. That Trump is in the race to be POTUS again is a national embarrassment.
There is something seriously wrong if we do not start, 10-weeks to election day, screaming from the rooftops to the mainstream media and everyone else we encounter what a threat he is to ALL of us.
Every single one of Donald Trump’s actions shows us what a monster he is. It’s all about being on the front page and doing whatever he can to keep it that way. Negative attention is better than no attention. I shudder to think of what he is capable of, if we are not stopping him, when he deems that he is not getting enough media attention to fill that bottomless pit in his soul.
Recently I saw that one of the newest of 200+ items that Trump is hawking to his supporters is a brand new RED FLAG with the words “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN”.
RED flags, people. Hello?
This is not the time to sit back and pretend it is not as bad as it is that so much of the media is ignoring this. They are distorting the truth. It is up to we-the-people to take serious and persistent action to be certain that this man never gets even within 100 miles from our sacred White House and Capitol again. All of our lives, and those of our loved ones, are at risk.
I look forward to seeing you all tonight at our Grassroots Of Democracy discussion group. We talk about the issues at hand and what we are all doing to save our democracy from the threat of Trump and the fascist takeover of our country that is spelled out clearly in Project 2025.
Every Thursday at 7p ET, our group meets online for a 1-hour discussion. Email grassrootsofdemocracy@gmail.com to express your interest and to receive the Zoom information.
And here’s my new song video about January 6th. Play it, then please share it. It’s called “We Won’t Be Backing Down”