The Reality at the Federal Level

If you really want to have some fun with the media biases that are occurring among what has been termed the “Fake News” by President Trump, and his only source of “truthful news,” the Fox News Network, you need to watch both.

For those Fox News groupies, I would like to bring you up to date on some comments made by someone closest to President Trump and which seem to be totally missing from reporting by Fox News.

In 1987 a bestselling book entitled ‘The Art of the Deal’ was written by Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz.  Donald Trump claims he wrote most of the book with assistance from Schwartz.  In the reality world it was the other way around.  However, Donald J. Trump has regularly boasted about ‘The Art of the Deal,’ his best-selling autobiography, as a business bible that demonstrates the sharp negotiating prowess he would bring to the presidency. The book details his rise to the top of New York’s real estate world.  It helped spawn his career as a reality television star and cemented his image as a winner with a golden touch.  It held the No. 1 spot on the New York Times’ nonfiction best-seller list for 51 weeks.  President Trump highly respected Tony Schwartz and claimed that he really “understood him.”

Taking President Trump at his word that Schwartz really “understood him,” I find the following observations by Schwartz about President Trump somewhat alarming.  Warning Alert: You will only find it on the “Fake News” media. 

Schwartz claims that Trump “doesn't feel the ordinary human emotions most of us do," “For example, he's free of shame because he has no conscience, nor any self-awareness.  So while his behavior certainly suggests he feels increasing fear and isolation, he would be the last one to know it.”  He further claims Trump followed the tactics he learned from his late mentor, the hard-knuckled New York lawyer Roy Cohn — "Lie about everything, attack back twice as hard as you've been hit, keep at it relentlessly until people finally give up and (they) stop arguing with your fabricated reality."

He also notes that, “the reckoning Trump (now) faces follows decades of operating under a belief that he was above the law. He got away with so much, for so long, that he came to believe he was untouchable and invincible."

In regards to the hush money payments made to the two women to keep Trump’s alleged adulterous affairs quiet, the knowledge of which was initially denied by Trump, Schwartz points out that “nothing at the Trump Organization was ever done unless it was run through Mr. Trump.”

As the economy rages, although the stock market has lost all of the gains it made in 2018, one has to wonder how much lower the moral ethics of the Office of the Commander-in- Chief will go?  Even our congressional representative Senator Bill Cassidy now seems worried when he stated, "Am I concerned that the president might be involved in a crime? Of course."