Today is Friday, August 30, 2024. The backlash heaped on the former president’s gross, sickening political stunt at Arlington National Cemetery this past Monday is covered again for Raw Story in the online article by Matthew Chapman entitled “Ex-Trump official: Arlington thumbs-up pic was ‘narcissism to the point of sociopathy.'” I would hope that the Harris campaign will seize on this disgraceful act by a convicted felon in pursuit of a photo op at the expense of the hundreds of thousands of service members interred in that hallow ground.

Thus the Dump campaign tried to stage a fake memorial service for fallen troops in Afghanistan in the cemetery and then attacked Vice President Kamala Harris for not attending it, only to be thwarted by the fact that such a campaign event is illegal to photograph in that section of the cemetery and ended up quarreling with caretakers.

Kevin Carroll, a senior counselor to John Kelly during the Drumpf administration, in a new analysis for The Guardian, wrote that the ex-president’s stunt was reprehensible. Carroll writes, “Donald Trump and his staff knew – and were reminded of – federal regulations specifically prohibiting the misconduct their campaign engaged in at Arlington’s Section 60 this week.” He added angrily, “But the law aside, only a gross lack of manners, decency, and humility could incline a person to film a fundraising appeal over the resting places of dead men and women who cannot decline to participate in the coarse spectacle. The photo of a grinning Trump giving a jaunty thumbs-up over these patriots’ graves is an indelible image of narcissism risen to the point of sociopathy.”

The fact that the campaign is accused of physically assaulting a woman employed with the Department of the Army who tried to enforce the law makes it much worse, Carroll writes. “The victim reportedly refrained from filing charges due to a reasonable fear of violence or harassment from Trump’s supporters. Meanwhile, Dump’s staff defamed this woman as mentally ill. His running mate, JD Vance, said Kamala Harris could ‘go to hell’ for her campaign’s suggestion that the unauthorized footage was intended for use as political footage – just before Trump used it for exactly that,” Carroll writes.

Carroll additionally states that it’s just another case of the twice-impeached president showing no respect for the service and sacrifice of American troops – best exemplified by his characterization of fallen Marines as “losers and suckers.”

“Trump sees the armed services as yet another entity to be misused for his personal benefit, damaged and then discarded just as he has with his bankrupt businesses, the evangelical Christian churches, and the Republican Party.” Carroll concludes his excoriation of Dump, stating, “The idea of serving others, much less giving one’s life for others, is anathema to Trump. This attitude would be a sad commentary about any man, but ought to disqualify someone seeking to serve as commander-in-chief.”

In the meantime, Donald Dump is getting flak for doing a flip-flop over the contentious issue of abortion, this time in his home state of Florida. Today the out-of-step repugnican candidate said he would not support a ballot referendum to expand abortion access in Florida just 24 hours after infuriating religious conservatives – his horrible base – with an in artful attempt to sidestep questions about how he would vote in his home state. Already the Harris camp released a statement slamming Dump’s pledge to vote “no” on the referendum that would protect the right to have an abortion until a fetus is viable and override the state’s six-week abortion ban, passed by Governor Ron De”Satan” sometime ago. This action by the man who singularly overturned a woman’s reproductive rights in Roe v. Wade will serve to alienate him more from millions of women voters and their supporters.

In another article involving disgraced former mayor Rudy “Ghoul”iani, lawyers for the two Georgia election workers who successfully sued the former consigliere to Dump and won a multimillion-dollar settlement, are seeking a court order requiring that Giuliani turn over within the next seven days his properties in New York and Florida, his Mercedes-Benz, more than two dozen luxury watches, various sports memorabilia, including three New York Yankees World Series rings, and other personal items. The CNN online article is written by Tierney Sneed and is entitled “Georgia election workers seek Giuliani’s condos, Mercedes and Yankee rings in bid to enforce defamation case judgment.”

It was the two election workers who asked a federal court today to enforce the $146 million judgment in their favor, listing a wide variety of personal items that could be used to pay off the money they’re owed. Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss argue that they’re entitled to payments that Giuliani has said that he is owed from the 2020 Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee for his work on the 2020 election.

The nut job’s Manhattan condo is worth an estimated $6 million, while the Palm Beach property – for which Freeman and Moss want to be appointed receivers – is worth $3.5 million.

It is believed that one of the World Series rings could be worth nearly $30,000, according to bankruptcy filings.

Freeman, and her daughter Moss, sued Giuliani after they were the target of false claims that they had rigged the election in Georgia.

Of course, it was Giuliani’s side that had the temerity to accuse Moss and Freeman of harassing and intimidating their client. Hah, how this is reminiscent of the pot calling the kettle black – that Guiliani’s representative has the balls to accuse Moss and Freeman of doing exactly the same thing that the former New York mayor was accused of doing to the two Black women.

In emotional testimony before the House January 6 committee in 2022, Moss recalled receiving “hateful” and “racist” threats because of the smears.

Speaking to CNN’s Kaitlin Collins from the Republican National Convention, Giuliani said he had “no regrets at all” about his false accusations (what an asshole!), while comparing his legal plight to “the Japanese internment during the second war.” What the fuck! The man has definitely lost his mind. He deserves to be brought low by this judgment against him and to be rendered penniless as a result of his unlawful actions against two innocent election workers.

Tomorrow Elliot and I are leaving early to drive to Elliot’s former bungalow colony in Sullivan County. We’ll visit “Serena” who still lives there by herself. So I’m not sure if I’ll be home in time to write my blog. We’ll see. It depends on traffic and what time we decide to leave Serena.

So have a good weekend.

Stay safe and be well.