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From the editor:  This is not a comprehensive list, just a few reasons rolling around in my brain as to why Donald Trump or someone like him should never be President:

1. Trump is a fraudster, someone who uses criminal deception to take other people's money.

Trump is a convicted felon, found guilty of 34 counts of fraud, not by some "radical, liberal judge," but by a jury of 12 of his peers.

Trump University was shut down as a fraud.

The Trump Organization was also shut down as a fraud and the same for Trump Charities.

Based on his long record of fraudulent activity, Trump is currently prohibited from doing business in New York.

2. Trump has no respect for our military.

As reported by Chief of Staff John Kelly in 2017, Trump views U.S. soldiers who lost their lives during war as "suckers" and "losers" as he has no understanding of sacrifice or service.

Also, Trump greatly disrespected the late John McCain, a prisoner of war for 5-1/2 years, saying "He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured."

After seeing a military parade on Bastille Day in Paris, Trump decided he wanted such a parade featuring himself with one notable change.

While the French parade had several formations of injured veterans including some in wheelchairs who'd lost limbs in battle, Trump wanted his parade to not include injured war vets.

"Look, I don't want any wounded guys in the parade," Trump stated.  

"That doesn't look good for me."

Trump wanted to throw a military parade that would exclude any disabled soldiers.

There's also the more recent incident of Trump mocking Nikki Haley's husband, a combat veteran.

Haley found Trump's comments "disgusting," "awful" and "unhinged."

"If you don't respect our military, how should we think you're going to respect them when it comes to time of war, and prevent war and keep them from going? If you don't respect our military and our veterans, God help us all if that's the case," Haley stated.

Then, there was Trump's 1998 appearance on the Howard Stern Show where Trump, who avoided military service during the Vietnam War with five deferments from alleged bone spurs,  described his efforts during that period to "screw as many women as possible without getting an STD" as his own "personal Vietnam."

3. Trump's overt and obvious racism

In 2015, as Trump rode down the escalator at Trump Towers to declare his candidacy, he used racial epithets to describe Mexican Nationals, saying they were "rapists," possibly even murderers, but that some might be "good people."

Trump was sending a clear message to his so-called base, legitimizing their own fears and prejudices, sowing racial divisions in our country.

On January 28, 2017 Trump instituted his so-called Muslim ban, blocking immigration from six Muslim-majority countries to the U.S.

In short order, on February 3, 2017, a Federal Judge blocked Trump's order as unconstitutional, a ruling that was upheld in a U.S. Appeals Court.

Then, after the death of a young woman protesting a white supremacy rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump made this statement in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan:  "I think there is blame on both sides."  

"You had some very bad people in that group," Trump said about the white nationalists, but "you also had people that were very fine people on both sides."

4. As President, Trump had very little understanding of the his actual duties or the Constitutional limitations of the office.

There are so many examples of Trump's failure to grasp the his actual role as President and reports that his cabinet and administrators around him had to block his efforts to do unlawful, foolish things, such as his proposal to exchange Puerto Rico for Greenland, etc.

About two dozen who served in his administration have commented on Trump's lack of a grasp of his duties in the oval office and we'll quote a few here.

Mike Pence:   “The American people deserve to know that President Trump asked me to put him over my oath to the Constitution. … Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States.”

Bill Barr: “Someone who engaged in that kind of bullying about a process that is fundamental to our system and to our self-government shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office.”

James Mattis: “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people – does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us.”

Mark Esper: “I think he’s unfit for office. … He puts himself before country. His actions are all about him and not about the country. And then, of course, I believe he has integrity and character issues as well.”

General Mark Milley: “We don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator. We take an oath to the Constitution and we take an oath to the idea that is America – and we’re willing to die to protect it.”

Rex Tillerson: “(Trump’s) understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of US history was really limited. It’s really hard to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t even understand the concept for why we’re talking about this.”

John Bolton: “I believe (foreign leaders) think he is a laughing fool.”

John Kelly: “A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law. There is nothing more that can be said. God help us.”

Mick Mulvaney, who resigned as US special envoy to Ireland after January 6, 2021: “I quit because I think he failed at being the president when we needed him to be that.”

Anthony Scaramucci: “He is the domestic terrorist of the 21st century.”

Richard Spencer: “…the president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices.”

Tom Bossert: “The President undermined American democracy baselessly for months. As a result, he’s culpable for this siege, and an utter disgrace.”

Cassidy Hutchinson: “I think that Donald Trump is the most grave threat we will face to our democracy in our lifetime, and potentially in American history.”

5. Trump's unabashed admiration for dictators, tyrants, frequently cozying up to them while admiring their methods, particularly Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Viktor Orban and Xi Jingping.

Trump quotes on dictators:

"Xi is a brilliant man," "top of the line," with "the look, the brain, the whole thing" and Putin is "very smart." "There's nobody in the world that could play the role of President Xi--the look, the strength, the voice."

"The press doesn't like it when I say good things about {Xi}. What can I say? He runs 1.4 billion people with an iron hand."

Of Viktor Orban: "is one of the strongest leaders anywhere in the world."

"It's good to have a good relationship with Putin and Xi and all these people who have lots of nuclear weapons."  "And Jong Un I have a good relationship with.  He's a tough, smart guy."