SAN DIEGO−A year ago Donald Trump praised the Kurds for helping the United States defeat ISIS, but now he wonders why they didn’t fight alongside the Allies on D-Day. Come to think of it, they didn’t even warn us about Pearl Harbor!
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Trump often has expressed reservations about American obligations to other NATO members, but proved his commitment to the alliance by countenancing Turkey’s invasion of Syria. He didn’t even require Turkey to open an investigation of the Bidens first.
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A fake video of Trump assaulting journalists and political enemies was screened at a fundraiser held at his Doral Resort. Trump disavowed the video by saying that he only has contemplated killing someone on 5th Avenue.
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Reading documents has become un-Donstitutional. As I often have said about Trump, I can’t make this stuff up. The joke is that he contends Schiff and the Democrats have distorted what he said even though he released a transcript that confirmed the whistleblower’s account.
Here’s the transcript of the phone call released by the White House.
President of Ukraine: We are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps specifically we are almost ready to buy more Javelins from the United States for defense purposes.
Trump: I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. …There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution, and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great.”
“Perfect call” or perfect smoking gun?
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Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com. San Diego Jewish World points out to new readers that this column is satire, and nothing herein should be taken literally.