For a moment, can we forget that I wrote Italian Kisses and With Love and Gratitude? Right now I’m on a rant about Donald Trump and Bill Barr, who is supposedly Attorney General, but who behaves like Trump’s “get out of jail” free card. These two are tearing us apart.
We know Trump is a white supremacist. And yet there are supposedly Christian people supporting him. We have read numerous accounts of his cheating, and yet Republicans cheer him. We know that he lies so often that he trips himself up even after he sees himself spouting nonsense on videos.
But what is most troubling is seeing this man, accused of raping a former columnist, calling on Bill Barr to defend him. E. Jean Carroll, former Elle columnist, accused Trump of rape. She filed a lawsuit. On August 7th Trump’s attempt at delay was rejected. But a month later, what has now become a defamation lawsuit, was taken over by the Justice department. www.nytimes.com › jean-caroll-donald-trump-lawsuit-rape
The Cover-up and the Catholics: And why is the 2020 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast honoring Bill Barr? Sr. Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, is an advocate of abolishing the death penalty. A Roman Catholic nun with the Congregation of St. Joseph in New Orleans, she Tweeted this on September 8th:
“I urge anyone reading this, Catholic or not, churchgoer or not, to oppose this use of religious symbolism—an award for ‘Christlikeness’—which will only serve to legitimize government cruelty and killing.” @helenprejean.
As Trump stokes violence, he is becoming a desperate man. His niece Mary Trump, who recently wrote Too Much But Not Enough, details his life in a troubled family. Is Trump behaving the way he does because of his father?
Chester the Molester: And as for Bill Barr? This from Noel Casler (Celebrity Apprentice) on Twitter: Just a reminder Bill Barr’s Dad Donald Barr was nicknamed ‘Chester the Molester’ when he taught at The Hackley School. That was after he was fired from Dalton along with Jeffrey Espstein (who he hired w/o a college degree). Donald Barr also wrote novels about alien sex slaves. NoelCaslerComedy@CaslerNoel·
As for Trump and Barr, is it safe to say that these two men are foisting upon others an evil slice of life of their father’s life? Trump continues it. But Barr, supposedly trying to be an uber-Catholic, protects it.
Copyright 2020 Rita Watson
Photo courtesy of Deborah Steady, from my post “Anger: Making the Decision to Tame the Angry Beast and Forgive,” Nov 10, 2014.