SPECIAL PROSECUTORS TO INVESTIGATE LICIT ACTIVITIES?

Now that Donald Trump has confirmed that even though some of his tax returns have completed their audits, he still will not make them public, it is, in my opinion, unconscionable, for the Press to give any credence to his allegations of criminal activity by a person who has released 33 years worth of returns. 

The media should preface any reporting of Trump's allegations, by a statement that Mr. Trump, by refusing to release his returns, may not have clean hands, in any matter in which he is accusing Hillary Clinton.

The Supreme Court has already ruled that arranging a meeting with a Government official is  unacceptable evidence of there being a quid pro quo, since it is a public duty of officials to meet with citizens, yet Trump is calling for a special prosecutor for Hillary Clinton having, for donors to the Clinton Foundation, a bona fide charitable organization, noted for its good works, facilitated meetings with officials, which is a licit activity.   Better, Mr. Trump be pressed to tell the American public what he is hiding.

STRONG LEADERSHIP REPUBLICAN STYLE

With the buildup of the forces, under U.S. leadership, for the assault on Mosul, the first Iraqi city to fall to ISIS, most of their forces outside of Mosul, in Iraq, have gone back to being guerrilla units as they were in the days of George W. Bush.

If Republicans win the coming Presidential election, they promise they will provide the strong leadership to rid us of the threat once and for all.  They claim that the ISIS only exists because of the weak leadership of Obama.  Yet, Bush had 160,000 U.S. boots, on the ground, in Iraq, and could not defeat the guerrilla insurgency that raged there.  Inherited by Obama, from his first day in office, was an ongoing guerrilla war, with a date certain for U.S.troop withdrawal, negotiated by his predecessor.  

In many ways, the position of the U.S. is much stronger now, with few boots on the ground, than it ever was under Bush.  Bush's man Maliki has been replaced by a Government of inclusion and Iraqi forces, including the Kurds, assisted by U.S. Special Forces,  are actually doing the fighting, and winning.

Republicans, always better at criticizing than doing, promise to change all that.  

SINCERE CONCERN FOR THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY

If Donald Trump is so concerned with the well-being of the African-American community, wouldn't it be a nice gesture, of his sincerity, if he would come out, forcefully, against his own party's admitted attempts to suppress the black vote?  

IS THERE A LINK BETWEEN A DUBROVNIK VACATION AND MANAFORT'S RESIGNATION?

With the Feds closing in on Paul Manafort, for possible violations of the law requiring agents of foreign governments  to register, it became necessary, for the Trump family, to establish alternate ties to a rich source of funding that the former Soviet Union represents.

There may be no coincidence that Ivanka Trump chose this time to vacation with an old friend, the girl friend of Vladimir Putin.  There may also be no coincidence in the timing of Manafort's resignation, and rumors of the formation of another news agency by the Trump family, which will include Roger Ailes and Stephen Bannon.  It may be that Putin has given his financial blessings to such a venture. 

IS TRUMP THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WITH AIDS?

The only medical document, submitted to the public by Trump, issued by his Gastroenterologist, clearly states that his test results are all positive.  We assume that, as is normal, his tests included one for the HIV virus.  Based on his own physician's report, Trump is HIV+ and thus shows the medical strides that have been made in the field, as well as the social progress made in the philosophy of the Republican Party, in accepting Trump as a candidate.   

CHARACTER ASSASSINATION BY INNUENDO VS. TAX RETURNS

Many of those innuendos about corruption and ties to foreign governments can be cleared up through examination of income tax returns.  For example, if only Hillary Clinton would release her tax returns, it might clear up all those innuendos about she and her husband having profited from the Clinton Foundation.  Up to date she has only released 34 years of her returns; we don't know what happened 35 years ago.

Donald Trump, however, because he is a Republican candidate, should be taken at his word that he has no ties to the Russian government, and there is nothing to learn from his tax returns.

TRUMP'S SURROGATES

Basis media interviews with Trump's surrogates, on TV and radio, one can only conclude that they are expected to know everything about Hillary Clinton and nothing about Trump, whatsoever.  When questioned,  by the interviewer, about the Donald, they immediately launch into a diatribe against Clinton, offering little or nothing about their candidate.