‘The Pet Goat’

Anyone else remember that little children’s book? The one that George W. Bush was reading when the Twin Towers were attacked on September 11, 2001?

 

Upon being told that the US was being attacked, W sat, frozen and stunned; totally inappropriate behavior from anyone in a leadership position, let alone the Leader of the Free World.

 

Fast-forward to January 6^th, 2021, when Donald Trump sat in the dining room next to the Oval Office and watched gleefully(!) as the attack he had organized on the Capitol transpired.

 

This a very ugly juxtaposition of tableaus which should shame and enrage all Americans and all lovers of liberty, freedom and democracy.

 

The first scene revealed George Jr as an inept and cowardly leader who could not process a proper response to horrific acts of terror. The later bravado at ‘Ground Zero’ did not redeem him as a failed leader.

 

What Donald J. Trump did was far more heinous and egregious; Trump was the planner of the January 6^th attack on the Capitol. Donald J. Trump was the Usama bin Laden of that attack, no less than Charles Manson was the planner of the Tate/LaBianca murders.

 

Make no mistake, Donald J. Trump was a terrorist who planned the attack and set about organizing the attack with the help of Roger Stone, Steve Bannon and many other deputies just as bin Laden had deputies and co-conspirators, just as Manson had deputies such as ‘Tex’ Wilson.

 

The January 6^th Select Committee has laid out Trump’s culpability in plain sight. What must be inferred is that Trump’s deputies (Bill Barr, Mark Meadows, Mick Mulvaney and others) are also culpable just as Mohammed Atef was culpable as bin Laden’s deputy.

 

Further, it must be kept in mind that even those who chose to testify to the Jan 6 Committee had previously chosen to serve a monster in order to advance their own careers. Mike Pence and Pat Cipollone knew that Trump was a person of low integrity, lower ethics, devoid of a sense of civic duty, and yet they chose to serve a monster who would devour their very souls. 

 

Do not lose sight of that fact. Amid all the back-slapping and kudos for their service to the nation, do not forget that they chose to serve a monster whose lack of character led him to attack the very government that they had sworn an oath to protect.