SAN DIEGO−Though she disapproved of Trump’s tactics in Ukraine, Susan Collins justified her vote against convicting Trump because “”she hoped that the president would’ve learned from the fact that he was impeached by the House.” To celebrate his acquittal, she threw rice as he entered the East Room. He quickly launched into his diatribe against his enemies because it turned out it was Minute Rice.
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Even though several Republican Senators conceded that Trump’s extortion of Ukraine to get dirt on Joe Biden was wrong, Lindsey Graham requested documents from the State Department related to Joe Biden’s activities in Ukraine. After all, Trump and he oppose outsourcing.
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At the Prayer Breakfast, Trump indirectly criticized Mitt Romney by expressing his dislike of people “who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong.” That’s the difference between Mormonism and Mammonism.
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Trump charged Nancy Pelosi with committing a crime by ripping up his State of the Union speech. Apparently, he considers this a greater transgression than ripping up the Constitution.
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Trump transferred Colonel Vindman from the NSC and fired the EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland for testifying that the president engaged in a quid pro quo withholding of Ukrainian military aid and a White House meeting with the country’s president in return for opening investigations into the Bidens and Ukrainian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The Department of Justice is expected to issue a new oath for trial witnesses in federal cases: “Do you solemnly swear that you will conceal the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to exonerate the president so help you God under pains of firing and penalties of vilification.”
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As I write these words, ICE agents are pounding on my door with a warrant to deport me because my grandfather illegally immigrated to the United States from Ukraine in 1905.
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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.