[Peace-discuss] Robert Reich’s letter to ‘MoveOn’ CORRECTED

[C. G. Estabrook]

A president of the US should surely try to correct it when a vice president and his son extort large amounts of money from a foreign government. 

And using a private lawyer to make arrangements with a foreign government is a typical example of a “back channel’ - hardly unusual.

But I agree with you on what people should care about.

The evidence that Trump is pretending to be opposed to abortion is that he (and many others) make no move to support pregnant women with health care, child care, housing, or education - the lack of which lead people to end their unborn children’s lives. (And that’s encouraged by the government: as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, "Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”) 

—CGE

> On Dec 2, 2019, at 11:40 PM, Karen Medina via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> > By “corruption is blatant,” you mean Trump’s phone call to Zelensky?
> Extortion for personal gain is corrupt, yes, but I was thinking more along the lines of having his personal lawyer do negotiations on behalf of the United States. 
> 
> Even Al Capone was not tried for his real crimes.  
> 
> I would prefer that people cared about the issues that Trump is intentionally ignoring: climate change, the Nuclear Posture Review, deregulation, health care, war and peace; while he is doling out lavish gifts to the wealth and the corporate sector—namely the tax bill and massive deregulation (including by having people like Scott Pruitt be the head of the EPA, and then when he stepped down, hiring his underling Andrew Wheeler to be indefinite acting administrator -- as just one example). FWIW, Wheeler's main goal is to reduce government regulations on industries that generate greenhouse gases.
> 
> Trump's other skill is pretending to be opposed to abortion and for gun rights and against immigrants, those are all lessons from past presidential candidates. 
> 
> Basically, Trump is wasting our country's time.  
> 
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