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Monday, June 12, 2017

Trump Doesn't Even Want the Travel Ban

The key part of the executive order suspended travel from six predominantly Muslim countries for 90 days to give the administration time to conduct a review. If that review can be completed, the justices may decide that the case is or will soon be moot. 

Like the Fourth Circuit, Judge Watson blocked major parts of the revised order on the ground that they violated the Constitution’s ban on a government establishment of religion. Judge Watson wrote that the statements of Mr. Trump and his advisers made clear that his executive order amounted to an attempt to disfavor Muslims.

“A reasonable, objective observer — enlightened by the specific historical context, contemporaneous public statements and specific sequence of events leading to its issuance — would conclude that the executive order was issued with a purpose to disfavor a particular religion,” Judge Watson wrote.
Trump's second travel ban was supposed to be temporary, but was sabotaged by Trump's own anti-Muslim statements, causing the ban to be hung up in court for as long as it was supposed to last.

The thing is, Trump's guys had to know this would happen, because the first Muslim ban was smacked down fast and hard, and the rewrite was not substantially different.

Either these people are total idiots (a definite possibility), or they just don't care that the ban will never take effect. My guess is that they never really wanted it.

Trump and his cronies are just putting on a show for the rubes, pretending to be all anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant. Meanwhile Trump is selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, which has been supporting anti-American terrorists for decades, and cutting deals with Middle Eastern countries, opening a golf course in Dubai with his name on it just a month after his inauguration. And then Trump insulted Qatar, the Middle Eastern country with the largest American military base. (Remember, 9/11 happened because Osama bin Laden was insulted by the presence of American military bases in Saudi Arabia.)

The only apparent purpose of the travel ban is to create a pretext for Trump's continued attacks on the courts. He's rallying support among the Republican base to further undermine the standing of the entire judicial system.

To what end? Is Trump hoping to foment assassination attempts against federal judges in the same way he has sparked attacks on Indian engineers in a Kansas bar and girls on a Portland light rail train? Is Trump purposely sowing chaos and murder? Or is he so oblivious that he has no conception of the damage he is doing to this country?

Trump loves to say that the world is laughing at us -- he's said this literally hundreds of times.

But the truth is, they're laughing at Trump. They think he's a coarse, bumbling buffoon. The British don't even want Trump in their country.

Every day it becomes clearer that Trump isn't the president, he's a comic book villain -- the clown prince of the United States. In the comics Superman's Lex Luthor was elected president, but in this reality show world we got stuck with Batman's Joker.

No, the rest of the world isn't laughing at the United States -- they're shaking their heads in sorrow and disbelief that the people of the United States were conned by an incompetent racist, sexist provocateur who doesn't even want the job of running the country.

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