Tinker, Traitor, Liar, Spy - and - Mercury's Message, part 2

                                                   Mercury's Message  ( Carnival No.15 )

                                                  An original acrylic painting, on stretched canvas

                                                  24" X 18", unframed

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     In my last posting to this blog, I had a few things to say about the

willful ignorance of the Trump MAGA clan loyalists, who refuse to accept the 

truth of Trump's additional new crimes of obstruction of justice, which have been 

presented to them by credible news sources.  They still prefer to attack the 

messengers,and the lawful government agencies who are working to protect all 

Americans, rather give up their belief in Trump's Berlin wall of lies.

     Now we have learned even more about Trump's egregious thievery of

our most top-secret government documents, and his refusal to return them to

the safety of the national archives.  In the massive hoard of classified material

he had taken away to Mar-a-Lago, they found over ninety empty document

folders, forty eight of which should have held classified documents.  So now

the big question is, what did he do with all of that classified material?   How

was he using it for his personal benefit?  He had already attempted to try 

and overthrow the United States government by force, and that had not 

quite succeeded, so how much lower could he go?  The answer to that

as always, seems to be that there is no depth which is too low for Trump.  

He is well known for collecting dirt on the private lives of local government

officials, and threatening to expose that information if he didn't get the kind

of zoning or assistance he needed to advance his building projects.  So, 

were all of these secret documents providing some kind of leverage to 

help him overcome political opposition in his own party.  Or, even more

sinister, has he been in private dealings with foreign leaders who are our

enemies, offering this secret information in exchange for some kind of 

personal assistance?    Someone like his pal Putin would no doubt be

keenly interested in acquiring much of this secret government material,

especially since we have now learned that one of these documents is

the entire nuclear inventory and capability of a foreign nation.   The

fact that Trump had this information, and was using it as he pleased,

threatens the lives of those who provided the documents to our government,

and makes it less likely that our allies will be willing to share such secret 

information with us in the future. 

     Trump's great wall of lies is still standing, for his MAGA supporters  to

stand behind for the moment, despite all of the cracks and holes in the wall's 

weakened mortar.  But as all of the grand jury investigations continue and the 

department of justice gathers more evidence for indictments, will the wall 

begin to crumble and let some light of truth come through?   Only those who 

have been so blind and deaf to the messengers of truth for so long, can provide

the answer to that question.

                                                                  Eugene P. McNerney