As the endless allegations against President Donald Trump keep popping up on what seems like a monthly basis, and witnessing MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, PBS, CNBC, CNN and the dinosaur print media all a twitter over each one, guaranteeing this is the one that will destroy President Trump, I remember President Bill Clinton.I and many military types did not think much of President Clinton, and during his presidency many of us hung on every word of scandal, and there were a lot of scandals. We hoped he would be impeached and convicted or at least kicked out of office. A few of the scandals:
*Whitewater Development Corporation
*The Travel Office employees’ firing
*Vince Foster’s Death under questionable circumstances
*Jennifer Flowers sex for employment
*Paula Jones sexual assault
*Monica Lewinsky Sex scandal, with undeniable lying under oath.
*File Gate
*Attacking the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan to distract the media from other scandals.
*Mrs. Clinton’s cattle futures controversy
*Lincoln bedroom campaign funding controversy
*Bombing of Iraq, Yugoslavia, Bosnia/Herzegovina
*The Branch Davidian siege in Waco Texas
*Ruby Ridge siege, the FBI shooting a mother with her baby in her arms
There were many more, a lot more; after each one I felt he could never survive this one, but he did. I fully admit to disliking President Clinton, so my judgement was clouded, and I read more into each allegation than most folks. President Clinton surrogates painted all the women with whom he was involved with titles like trailer park trash, or mentally ill, gold diggers and some not fit for print.
President Clinton was the brunt of jokes from the late-night comedians and rejected by some foreign leaders. He was re-elected for a second term, not a popular vote win, but an electoral college victory, as was his first.
The difference between President Clinton and President Trump is that many in the media approved of President Clinton because he was a very liberal president, especially in his first term. Many in the media were enablers supporting his story without questions and tossing the young women into a cesspool. The National Organization of Women (NOW) supported President Clinton, one of the officers even stating, “If we have to toss a few women under the bus to save women’s right to choose so be it.”
So, to all the good folks who are hanging on every word condemning President Trump, who are reading into each allegation the worst possible scenario and giddy over each report that reads perhaps or maybe, could result in, if blank can do or say blank Trump is toast, have caution. President Clinton was re-elected with a full blown hurricane over his head; as much as I disliked President Clinton he served for eight years.
The only solace I have is that history remembers presidents for two things: scandal and war. President Clinton will be remembered in history for having sex in the oval office with employees and being impeached.President Trump will survive the allegations, and as badly as you may want theories and musings of the media to be facts, they are not. Please look to the “Russian Scandal,” alleging that the Russians colluded with President Trump to destroy our democracy. Please remember the media telling us the President will be proven guilty any minute now… 26 months ago. Russian collusion was a mainstay of the media after the election, with hundreds of reports that the President was on his way to jail and the proof will be revealed in a few….
As much as I and millions of others wanted President Clinton to be removed from office, he never was; facts are pesky things as they get in the way of our preconceived notions of how things must/should be. The American judicial system and the rule of law demand proof, not what you want things to be but what they are.
Ask yourself how many times you were told by the anti-Trump media that it was all over for President Trump. If more than once, perhaps you should not put much credence in what they say. Your choice; however many want outlandish allegations and reports to be true, so they blindly believe them, as I did with President Clinton.
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