By any Stretch of Logic

Vincent J. Curtis

5 Jan 2018

The Hamilton Spectator is practically CNN-like in its hatred of Donald Trump.  They will publish anything, including Democratic Party talking points memos.  The author of the piece referenced is a dual national who lives in the Hamilton area.  Obviously, he is Democrat in sympathies.  But what is notable is how deeply prolonged belief in the Democratic party corrodes the thought processes.

The piece referenced was published after the book "Fire and Fury" came out, but before Trump held a televised conference with Congressional leaders that demonstrated his command of the issues and his command of the room.

See below.

RE: Trump fits the bill of American oligarch

In the course of regurgitating the most extreme of Democratic Party talking points, John Kneeland writes “Donald Trump should not by any stretch of logic be in the White House.  How about by the logic of the American constitution?

By the logic of the U.S. constitution, with its method of indirect election, Donald Trump won the election of 2016 by a vote of 304 – 231 in the Electoral College.  The contention that he “hugely lost the popular vote” to Hillary is quite irrelevant.  Hillary’s small margin occurred because of her outsized total in California, and under the American Federal system one state does not a victory make.

Besides making libelous and utterly unsubstantiated allegations of money laundering and dependence upon Russian money, Kneeland alleges that Trump is an “oligarch” on the grounds that “he behaves like one.”  His examples of oligarchic behavior have nothing to do with the concept, or with the behavior of Russian oligarchs after whom Kneeland seeks to smear Trump.

Look, Hillary lost.  She would have been a corrupt disaster to the American body politic had she won, speaking of fitness for office.  Democrats like Kneeland have to get over it.

As for himself, Kneeland could get a job as a speechwriter for any of the most extreme Democrats in the party’s leadership – if the DNC weren’t bankrupted by the poaching and contempt it received from its previous hero, Barack Hussein Obama.

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