My Comments: What follows here was triggered when my cousin in England sent me an email the other day telling me about an article that appeared recently in his local newspaper. Turns out it’s something I wrote that appeared in the Gainesville Sun in November of 2019.
It appeared in the Sun when it was still a very viable local paper. Unfortunately, local newspapers are now an obsolete business model. Yes, the Sun still appears 7 days a week, but the local staff has become almost non-existent. Most of what you see is digitally created somewhere else.
Mindful of what is relevant politically here in the US right now, I decided to share my earlier comments with whatever audience I still have. Here’s what appeared on November 18, 2019:
Tony Kendzior: An impeachment insight https://tinyurl.com/4sfvy296
With the public hearings on impeachment now ongoing in Washington, D.C., here are some thoughts that might help people better understand the questions asked and the answers that follow.
For more than 20 years, I’ve served as a board member of a public foundation, sometimes known as a not-for-profit charity. For all board members, it’s imperative we understand the difference between a public purpose and a private purpose. Charities only exist to serve a public purpose.
There are private charities, also known as private foundations, and they too exist to serve a public purpose. Both types, be they private or public, enjoy a special tax status because they serve public purposes. Money transferred to them, or gifted to them by others, are considered charitable deductions by the Internal Revenue Service for income tax purposes.
All monies, after accounting for operating expenses, are to be used for public purposes. They cannot be used for private purposes. An example of that might be someone establishing a private foundation to use tax-deductible dollars for something that has a private benefit. Doing so, whether, by a public or private charity, jeopardizes the tax status of the offending charity.
If you wish to serve as a board member of a public charity and don’t have a fundamental grasp of this concept, you soon will. It’s a fundamental precept associated with the inherent responsibility of any board member.
The same understanding drives the acceptable behavior of anyone across these United States elected or appointed to public office. This includes local government up to, and including, members of Congress and the president. If you violate this precept, you subject yourself to penalties.
As you listen to or watch the hearings currently underway in D.C., you’ll hear it argued that Trump engaged in actions and/or behaviors that conditioned the use of public purpose monies for private purposes. It’s also argued that by not divesting himself of his business empire, he should not use his office to benefit that empire.
I’ve concluded that Trump has no meaningful understanding as a public official that his only role as president is to serve a public purpose. He appears to have no understanding or ability to differentiate, or make a distinction between, the two purposes.
His insistence that the July 25 conversation was “perfect” serves to reinforce his inability to separate the two. This inability now exposes him to public censure and potential penalties, as outlined in our Constitution. If proven, or established beyond a reasonable doubt, he should be penalized. As these hearings unfold, I encourage you to filter what you hear and see and ask yourself if Trump and his associates have violated the public trust by commingling, either purposefully or unwittingly, public purpose with private purpose.
Helping Define Your Financial Future 
So what was your point? Trump said, “maybe you should look into this corruption before I send you any money.” That is being a good steward….why send money to a known, corrupt entity? He was looking out for us. As it turns out, the DOJ and FBI KNEW at the time that Biden was corrupt and his son was the bag man. Trump was right.
And the whole DC establishment is corrupt.
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It is bad form to criticise the politicians of an allied country, let alone suh a great country as yours, Tony, but I have to say that we have never ben able to fathom out how it is possible to end up with a President as awful as Donald Trump appears to us mere observers!
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Toby….it’s been a while since I wrote that…before the attacks. I ask you now….really? REALLY? After two years of the most incompetent, corrupt president, barely cogent, who has us on the brink of WW3?
Let’s pretend it’s three weeks ago, BEFORE the attacks. I can explain it to you very simply.
Trump was in fact, an excellent president. We can only hope he wins again in 2024. Russia would not have invaded Ukraine, terrorism was NOT discussed in either 2020 presidential debate, as it was not an issue. Peace was breaking out globally. People like Tony K hate the messenger so much, they hated the message.
The fact is this: the wealthiest counties on the planet are NOT in Silicon Valley. They are NOT in the Permian Basin in Texas. They are, in fact, Loudon, Fairfax, and Montgomery counties….the suburbs of Washington DC. This is “the swamp.” Pigs at the trough, skimming the money from the US citizens is their business model. Along comes Trump, a populist fighting for the little guy. He was a billionaire, so he couldn’t be bought. He’s a loud, obnoxious blowhard (or a typical New Yorker), and in his own words, “I’m no angel.” But he had a skill set.
He wanted to refinance our staggering debt at low interest rates, but the Democrats could not give him a win. When oil prices crashed, he wanted to refill our strategic petroleum reserves at prices we’d never see again, but Democrats could not give him a win. The first president in decades to not start a way.
Everything he did, he did for the citizens; it’s no wonder “the swamp” wanted rid of him. They installed the candidate of Big Pharma, Wall Street, the military industrial complex, the Pentagon, Hollywood celebs, famous athletes, the media, and the wealthy.
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*start a war, not start a way
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Toby – unfortunately the woods are full of people over here who have lost their way and believe a “strongman” running the show will serve them better. For Democrats over here, and especially me who lives in the progressive wing and has for about 60 years, it’s painful. I find myself somewhat happy that my future years are numbered and won’t have to put up with his BS much longer.
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Tony, you are indeed broken. You hate the man so much, you can’t see the good he did. Remember that glorious four years of peace and a strong economy?
Funny you should mention “strongman.” Again…you just hate the messenger, so much, you ignored the message.
Strong men create good times. Weak men bring on bad times…..as we have seen since Biden took office.
Let me remind you “sophisticated” Western people of something you don’t understand about “primitive” people in the rest of the world.
They’re more honest than you. They don’t pretend that strength is bad. They crave it. And it’s the only language they understand.
Some people say the rest of the world “hates us because of our freedoms.” No…they hate us because we are stronger than them. And if they had our military, they would occupy our lands and subjugate us in ways that would make “American imperialism” look like a humanitarian mission.
It’s the great achievement of Western civilisation that we don’t operate solely on the basis of might is right.
But you have forgotten that everyone else does.
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The swamp mentioned above is so evil…..Let’s say Trump has an insurmountable polling lead over Biden during the summer of 2024. Which seems likely.
Under that scenario, I see no possibility Democrats would let the election go forward. It would be canceled for some bogus reason.
After the Russian Collusion Hoax and the Hunter Laptop Hoax, it should be obvious to all of us there are no ethical boundaries in play.
I mean, the CIA (probably) assassinated JFK in my lifetime. We are the same country as then.
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