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Trump's Trump by G. Murphy Donovan
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Trump by G Murphy Donavan

This is an interesting commentary, written by a Vietnam-era Air Force 

Intelligence Officer. Take it for what it is worth. You fans of old “Hands 

Across The Aisle” McCain will not appreciate this. 

“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” 

B.Hussein Obama, 

at the UN, 2012 

From a navy friend. Interesting.  As Trump continues to lead in

the polls, as conscientious voters, we need to understand more about him. 

Is there a moral imperative that compels Trump to run for President? 

Here’s a little additional info on the author of the following piece:

G.Murphy Donovan

G.Murphy Donovan is a Vietnam veteran, a former Intelligence officer and

Director of Research and Russian (nee Soviet) Studies, USAF

Intelligence, at Bolling AFB when DNI James Clapper was the Assistant

Chief of Staff for Intelligence, HQ USAF. The author was also a former

senior research fellow for Intelligence at the RAND Corporation, Santa

Monica.

                                                                           

Trump's Trump

    

DonaldTrump is a piece of work even by New York standards: tall, white, loud,

brash, entrepreneurial, successful, rich, ruthlessly candid,

well-dressed, and fond of heterosexual women. He has married at least

three delicious ladies in fact. Trump has five children and seven

grandchildren. Indeed, his progeny are well above average too, smartly

groomed, photogenic, and successful to boot.

As far as we know, Donald does not have any tattoos, piercings, unpaid

taxes, or under-aged bimbo interns. He is not a drunk or a junkie

either. Trump projects and enterprises probably employ more folks than

the NYC school system -- or the United

Nations.

You could say that Trump is living the life, not the life of Riley, but more like Daddy Warbucks with a

comb over. “The Donald,” as one ex-wife calls him, is not just living

the American dream. Trump is the dream -- and proud of

it.

You could do worse than think of Trump as upwardly mobile blue collar. He is the grandson of immigrants and the

product of Long island, a Queens household, and a Bronx education. The

Donald survived the Jesuits of Fordham University for two years before

migrating to finish his baccalaureate at the Wharton School at the 

University of Pennsylvania.

When readers of the New York Times , The New Yorker , and the New York Review of Books

speak of “the city”, they are not talking about the Queens or the

Bronx.  Growing and schooling in the blue-collar boroughs gives

Trump a curb level perspective, something seldom found in Manhattan. Or

as any “D” Train alumnus might put it, Trump has “a pretty good Bravo

Sierra detector.”

So what’s not to like about Donald Trump? He doesn’t just stay in four-star hotels; he builds them.

He doesn’t just own luxury condominiums; he makes them. He doesn’t just

own historic buildings; he restores them. He doesn’t just eat at the

best restaurants; he creates them. He just doesn’t belong to the best

country clubs; he builds those, too.

And Donald Trump, unlike the Manhattan/Washington fantasy Press and every

Beltway political pimp, doesn’t just pay lip service to a bigger and

better economy, he creates micro-economies every day.

The only thing we don’t know about Donald Trump is why he would like to immigrate to the District of

Columbia.

In any case, the merits of entrepreneurs like Trump might best be defined by the character or 

motives of his critics. Trump detractors are for the most part “B” list

politicians, ambulance chasers, and a left-leaning Press corps that

lionizes the likes of Nina Totenberg, Dan Rather, Chris Matthews, Andrea

Mitchell, and Brian Williams.

If the truth were told, most of Trump’s critics are jealous, envious of his wealth

-e- and they loath his candor.  Donald might also be hated for what

he is not. Trump is not a lawyer, nor is he a career politician who

lives on the taxpayer dime. Trump is paying for his own campaign.

Bernie, Barack, McCain, and Kerry could take enterprise lessons from a

chap like Trump.

Unlike most government barnacles, Trump can walk and chew gum at the same time. He knows how to

close a deal and build something. He is a net creator, not consumer, of

a kind of wealth that provides “life, liberty, and the pursuit of

happiness” for Americans -- real jobs not feather

merchants.

Today, Trump has nothing left to prove. Yet, success has allowed him the rarest of public

privileges, an electoral pulpit and the courage to speak his mind. Alas,

truth is not necessarily a political asset in a socialized

democracy.

Indeed, the erstwhile presidential candidate stepped on his crank recently by suggesting that Mexico, 

already exporting dangerous drugs, cheap tomatoes, and even cheaper

labor, was also exporting violent felons to the

US.

Truth hurts! Trump’s rude candor is underwritten by nearly half a million illegal felons in American jails.

Coincidentally, events have conspired to support Trump’s take on Mexican

dystopia with the El Chapo Guzman jailbreak and the murder of Kathryn

Steinle by Francisco Sanchez.

Senor Sanchez sported a lengthy criminal record and had been deported on four previous

occasions. San Francisco, a "sanctuary" city, failed to honor existing

warrants and released Sanchez from jail just before he blew Kathy

Steinle away.

 As serendipity would have it, Trump then went to Phoenix on 12 July and gave a stem winder to a

sell-out crowd on the subject of illegal immigration. Senator John 

McCain was not pleased to have The Donald on Arizona’s front lawn and

intemperately called Trump supporters “crazies.” Trump returned fire

saying that McCain was no hero.

Here again Trump cut to the quick, pointing out that no one qualifies as a hero

because he was shot down or captured. Indeed, being a hostage in North

Vietnam is not necessarily heroic either. McCain is thought by some to

be a heroic because he refused to accept an early

release.

In fact, the Hanoi parole offer was a ruse, a Hobson’s choice, designed to embarrass McCain and his father at

CINCPAC.

If McCain took the parole and abandoned his fellow POWs, he would have shamed his father and been

ostracized by shipmates. Indeed, had John McCain not been the son and

grandson of famous nd victorious, Pacific Command flag officers, no one

would have noticed him then or now.

Few of the demagogues who have come to John McCain’s defense could name any of the

600 Vietnam-era POWs other than McCain. McCain is famous

today because he, like John Kerry, has parlayed a very

average Vietnam military service into a three-decade political sinecure.

We know of 50,000 Vietnam veterans that might be more deserving than John McCain. Unfortunately,

they died in a war that generals couldn’t win and politicians couldn’t

abide. A body bag seldom gets to play the “hero.”

McCain is no political hero either.

He is famously ambiguous on domestic

issues like immigration. He is also a Johnny-come-lately to Veterans

Administration rot, which has metastasized as long as McCain has been in

office. On foreign policy, McCain is a Victoria Nuland era crackpot,

supporting East European coups, playing cold warrior, and posturing with

neo-Nazis in Kiev. McCain pecks at Putin too because the Senate, like

the Obama crew, hasn’t a clue about genuine threats like the ISIS jihad

or the latest Islam bomb.

To date, Trump has run a clever campaign. He is chumming, throwing red meat and blood into

campaign waters and all the usual suspects are in a feeding frenzy.

McCain, the Press, the Left, and the Republican establishment all have

something to say about “the Donald.” It is truly amazing how cleverly

Trump manages to manipulate the establishment.

If you are trying to sell an idea or a candidacy, there’s no such thing

as bad publicity.

Who knows where the Trump campaign goes? For the moment, he has scored direct hits on Mexico and

McCain. With El Capo on the loose again, every time a toilet flushes in

Sinaloa, Mexican garbage is likely spill out in Los Angeles, Hollywood,

San Francisco, Portland, or Seattle. Indeed, it’s hard to believe that

the Left Coast could survive without cheap labor, pistileros , meth,

coke, heroin, or weed. Necrotic immigration and its byproducts are ready

made targets for a gunslinger like Trump.

Trump is no bigot. He probably employs more Latinos and Blacks than

Enrique Peña Nieto or Barack Obama. In his own way, Donald Trump is both

immigrant and POW, a refugee from Queens and still a prisoner of

Wharton. The Donald is The Dude, the guy with babes and a role of

Benjamins that would choke a shark. He is the wildly successful

capitalist that some of us love to hate.

Before democratic socialism, success and effectiveness were measures of

merit.  It doesn’t take much insight to compare Trump’s various

enterprises with federal programs.  Public education, banking 

oversight, public housing slums, poverty doles, veterans fiascos,

Internal Revenue hijinks, and even some Defense Department procurement

programs are consensus failures.  The F-35 “Lightning” fighter is

an illustration, arguably the most expensive single DOD boondoggle in

history. Pentagon progressives seldom win a catfight these days, but

they still spend like sailors.

If and when Trump fails, he is out of business.

In Trump’s world, failure has consequences.  In contrast, Washington rewards

failure with better funding. Indeed, generational program failure is now

a kind of perverse incentive for Beltway politicians and apparatchiks to

throw good money after failed programs.

The difference between Trump and McCain should be obvious to any fair

observer; Trump has done something with his talents. McCain, in

contrast, is coasting on a military myth and resting on the laurels of

Senatorial tenure.

Any way you look at it, Donald Trump is good for national politics, good for democracy, good for

America, and especially good for candor. If nothing else, The Donald may

help Republicans to pull their heads out of that place where the

sun seldom shines.

The author had two tours in Vietnam as a junior officer and subsequently served as

command Intelligence briefer in Hawaii where he updated CINCPAC, John

McCain’s father, on POW matters.

By G. Murphy Donovan