This Trump outrage is no mere 'distraction'

I have grown sick and tired of the word, “distraction.”

And if you are a patriot doing what you can to fight against the most anti-American administration in our nation’s history, I bet you know exactly what I am talking about.

I am done being lectured to by so-called “influencers” and Democratic “operatives” and politicians that everything the America-attacking Donald Trump and his odious fascists are doing today, is just a mere “distraction” from something they did yesterday. Every terrible thing they did yesterday, is but a mere “distraction” from some gruesome thing they did last week …

Note to all of these people: Please shut up. You are insulting as hell, are part of the problem, and are giving me a headache.

The word “distraction” is being thrown all over the Internet in response to Trump’s FBI search of the home of his former national security adviser, John Bolton. The search is allegedly just a “distraction” from the Epstein files, which were a “distraction” from any of the other 227 terrible things Trump and his panting hyenas have inflicted on this country the past decade.

Here’s what I’ll say about the Bolton “distraction” before stepping on and stomping out the drunken overuse of that word:

Rather than testify in the impeachment inquiry into then-President Trump in 2019, Bolton instead hogged the spotlight and toyed with Democrats before deciding to save his damning evidence for a book. This was grotesque, and anti-American.

Bolton is just another selfish, gutless Republican like his former boss, who believes in his interests before his country's. He is one of hundreds of Republicans with influence like, say, Mitch McConnell, who could have ended this nightmare years ago, and protected our country, but decided to profit off it instead.

Bolton helped create Trump. He could have endorsed Trump’s opponent, Kamala Harris, last year but refused to do that, too. I loathe men like this, and how little they think of the United States of America.

Was the search of Bolton’s home chilling? Yes, of course. Was it predictable to anybody paying even the slightest amount of attention, and who has managed not to get “distracted” by what has been going on in this country the past 10 years? Of course it was. Was it any more chilling then rounding up United States citizens and shipping them off to God knows where? Of course not.

Was it merely a “distraction” to drag attention away from whatever is happening with the elusive Epstein Files? Please ...

Stop insulting us with all this crap. We aren’t distracted, you nitwits, we are wide awake, and furious about ALL OF IT, and wondering when the hell it is people like you will stop worrying about us being “distracted.”

• Unless, of course, you want to go on telling us that turning our military loose on OUR streets to be used against us, is merely a “distraction.”
• Unless you think a president bombing onto our military bases to sell his cheap memorabilia, while going after his political opponents is merely a “distraction.”
• Unless you think firing non-partisan, non-political experts for delivering job numbers Trump doesn’t like is merely a “distraction.”
• Unless you think killing life-saving vaccine research is merely a “distraction.”
• Unless you think attacking safeguards on our clean air and water, is merely a “distraction.”
• Unless you think Trump posting videos of a kneeling Barack Obama being placed in handcuffs is merely a “distraction.”
• Unless you think re-writing our nation’s history by minimizing caging, beating and owning other human beings is merely a “distraction.”

NONE of these things, or the scores of other gruesome events perpetrated on American citizens by this heinous administration, are mere “distractions.”

They are awful, intentional attacks, many of which used to be crimes in this country. Taken separately any of these things would have threatened to bring down entire presidential administrations.

Now they are being treated as just another cloudy afternoon in America.

But if you are one of these feeble, simple-minded people, who are easily confused, and have a problem with all these “distractions” maybe I can help:

Trump declared war on the United States of America on January 6, 2021, when he refused to accept the results of an election he lost by more than seven million votes.

It was an attempted insurrection, in which law enforcement officers were savagely beaten with rebel flag poles, clubs, stanchions, bats, and anything else Trump’s mob could get their filthy hands on.

Millions of dollars of damage was done to OUR capitol building, where politicians — Republicans and Democrats — were hunted down and threatened with hanging and/or death.

Instead of stopping his attack, Trump sequestered himself in the White House for more than three hours and rooted for its success. When it had failed, he grudgingly stalked out on the White House lawn, and told his homegrown terrorists to surrender and go home, but not before also telling them: “We love you, you're very special.”

Read that again … HE TOLD THEM THAT HE LOVED THEM.

EVERYTHING Trump has done since that terrible day has been designed around exactly ONE thing: rebuilding his anti-American army, exacting revenge on American patriots who are standing up for our country, and putting an end to our 249-year Democracy, so Republicans never relinquish power again.

Got it?

Good.

Now try concentrating on only this, and stop lecturing the rest of us about being distracted.

• (D. Earl Stephens is the author of “Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump’s Very Important Letters” and finished up a 30-year career in journalism as the Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes. You can find all his work here.)