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Trump Effect 12

September 9, 2025 by Guest Post

by Linda Schmitt, Corvallis

Trump is trying to disembowel the United States. He’s trying to destroy your health. He’s after your money. He is waging war on women. He is after US companies, one after another, taking stakes and controlling their decisions. He’s trying to get you accustomed to soldiers with guns in your streets. He eviscerates his “enemies,” anyone who disagrees with him. He hosts shameful meetings, with Putin, with his Cabinet toadies who fawn over him like courtiers around Louis the 14th. He is wagging his tail for Putin like a little puppy. He will give away Ukraine, Palestine, India, Mexico, Greenland and no doubt more, in his drive for power and headlines. He is trying to destroy our government, placing toadies rather than professionals.  

He will NOT tell you about his sleazy, SINFUL times with Epstein. He will NOT abide by any rule that tells him it’s unlawful to seek personal gain from his position. He will NOT honor you, his party, his country, our laws, our judges, the military, the democracy, the Constitution. He is power mad with no restraints.  

Get up off the sofa. It’s your country, not his. Do something about it.

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  1. Tom Potts says

    September 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM

    “Stand back and stand by” – then pardon the convicted and blame the left. This did not unify America or discourage violence.

  2. PF says

    September 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM

    The only violence and destruction happening today is by the vile left, as proven yesterday with the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Democrats vomit their hate and disgusting name calling while supporting the mutilation of our children and promoting this horrific transgender agenda. You all should be ashamed. You have caused our youth to resort to violence with your messaging. You all have Charlie’s blood on your hands.

    • Roger Mitchell says

      September 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM

      Linda Schmitt’s letter is mostly emotional melodrama and deficient in facts and reason, but I think she is right in some of what she says, especially about the Epstein Affair, about which we will hear nothing unless TPTB are literally forced to surrender that information. Which might happen, BTW.

      Nevertheless, your comment about the Charlie Kirk murder is incorrect. It was only a few weeks ago that Donald Trump ordered a Hellfire missile loosed on a small boat off the coast of Venezuela, killing eleven crew members. Now, please don’t tell me that wasn’t violence and destruction since it wasn’t the “vile” left which committed the deed. Don’t tell me that the boat was running drugs nor that the crew were members of Tren de Aragua, neither of which has been proven, only narrated from the White House as justification. In this, if you voted for Trump, then some of the responsibility of this action is “blood on your hands”.

      Why did Trump order the massacre (mass shooting, since more than four people died)? Why didn’t the US Navy which is patrolling the area stop the boat, search it, and arrest the crew if drugs were found? Why weren’t they brought back to a courtroom in the US where their “crimes” could be examined and they could be punished for them? Instead, just shoot them out of the water and let loose the dogs of war.

      Except in scale and legality (which doesn’t amount to much), this is no different than stabbing Iryna Zarutska three times in the neck and letting her bleed to death, is it. Both these instances, and the Charlie Kirk murder, were cold-blooded killings, without cause, without warning, without mercy.

      “By swearing and lying, killing and stealing and committing adultery, they break all restraint, with bloodshed upon bloodshed. Therefore the land will mourn; and everyone who dwells there will waste away.” — Hosea 4: 2-3a, NKJV

      Anyone who has his eyes open can see that America fits this description and will suffer the consequences laid out therein. Instead of fighting each other over political differences, we ought to be focusing on the spiritual condition of America and working to change that, beginning with our own soul.

      People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

      • PF says

        September 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM

        Democrats have no leader, you have no platform, you have no message, you have no purpose. Your rebuttal is foolish and you look like a very small man with nothing to say – just like Linda Schmitt never has anything of value to say.

    • WMA says

      September 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM

      Melissa and Mark Hortman

  3. Tracy says

    September 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM

    I like the lions share of what he is doing and you are delusional. Bad case of TDS! ORANGE MAN BAD!!

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