Presumptive Purchaser of US Presidency 2020

Rich Bloomberg’s “‘rich’ history of presidents…”

POTUS (39) James “Jimmy” Earl Carter Jr., (40) Ronald Wilson Reagan, (41) George Herbert Walker Bush their administrations

…armed, trained, funded, advised Salvadoran death squads that murdered thousands of peasants and activists

…including “U.S.-trained Atlacatl Battalion” responsible for “the El Mozote massacre where more than 800 civilians were murdered, more than half children,” the “El Calabozo massacre,” and “murders of six Jesuits”

41 George Herbert Walker Bush (Ivy League: Yale)

…executed Gulf War against Iraq and “ordered the bombing of retreating Iraqi troops”;

…invaded and overthrew the government of Panama

42 William Jefferson Blythe III (William “Bill” Jefferson Clinton) (Ivy League: Georgetown, Yale)

…oversaw Rwandan and Somalia massacres; killed 500,000+ Iraqi children with economic sanctions;

…wounded and massacred thousands of soldiers and civilians in the U.S.-led NATO destruction of what was the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).

43 George Walker Bush (Ivy League: Yale, Harvard)

…declared a three-country “axis of evil” (Iran, North Korea, Iraq) to be dealt with militarily; launched a global terror campaign of extrajudicial abduction, detention and torture; and

…slaughtered (ordered slaughter), maimed, wounded and caused birth defects in thousands people in Afghanistan and Iraq (while courting Saudi Kingdom dictators and killers)  

44 Barack Hussein Obama II (Ivy League: Columbia, Harvard)

…conducted (ordered) wars, massacres, targeted extrajudicial assassinations and drone wars leaving thousands killed, maimed and wounded in at least seven countries: Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Libya;

…continued hostilities against the Far East (while courting Saudi Kingdom dictators and killers);

…persecuted and caused imprisonment of WikiLeaks founder and journalist Julian Assange

45 Donald John Trump (Hidden Ivy: Catholic Jesuit Fordham and Ivy League: University of Pennsylvania Wharton School) (net worth 2019 est. $3.1 billion)

…imposed tariff (trade restrictions) and sanctions wars against people and states of European Union, Canada, and Mexico, Iran, China, Russia; direct combat, dark ops, proxy, on-the-ground and drone wars against Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Ecuador, Yemen, North Korea, Palestine, Cuba; and other hostilities against Central American (and other countries of origin) immigrants from or traveling through (North America’s) Mexico, labeling some the “Mexican Government’s … most unwanted people …, criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc”;

…banned outright migrants from Muslim countries (while courting the Saudi Arabian dictators, killers, world’s 2nd largest arms importer whose central religion, Wahhabism, is described variously as an “ultraconservative” “far-right”, “austere”, “fundamentalist” Islamic doctrine; or a “deviant sectarian movement”);

…continued persecution and imprisonment of WikiLeaks founder and journalist Julian Assange

Michael Rubens Bloomberg set to buy U.S. presidency 2020 (Ivy League: Johns Hopkins, Harvard) (net worth January 2020 est. $61.8 billion)

…as (2002-2013) mayor of New York City

·       …declared “95 percent (of) …murderers and murder victims fit one M.O: … male minorities (ages) 16-25.… [W]e put all the cops in minority neighborhoods … because that’s where all the crime is. …And the way you get the guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them…. 

·       Supported U.S. war on Iraq, claimed “War on Terrorism” is “not only to protect Americans” (but as a controversial U.S.) “…responsibility to protect (‘R2P’) people around the world who want to be free”; 

·       2004 supported George W. Bush for U.S. President;

2020

·       supported U.S. “sanctions on Chinese officials for ‘human rights violations in both Hong Kong and Xinjiang’” 

·       (February on social media) declared:

“Our country has a rich history of presidents who respected the power, decorum, and influence of their office.

“Unfortunately, that rich history ended the day Trump became president.”

All of these men, it seems to me, present strange set of values: a sense of

what is good and just

what is honest and true

what is moral, ethical, legal and indeed

human

What are the young, what are the coming generations to think?

Sources

Real Clear Politics “Bloomberg Ad Compares Trump Quotes To Past Presidents” posted by Tim Hains February 10, 2020 https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/02/10/bloomberg_ad_compares_trump_quotes_to_past_presidents.html

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_squad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_policy_of_Donald_Trump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump#Foreign_policy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia#Religion_in_society

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_to_protect

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