As America begins its descent into hell.

In the 1930s, the German people began their descent into hell.

Donald Trump admitted he did receive money from foreign governments, such as China, while he was president, as his business was providing a “service” for them.

The U.S. Constitution’s foreign emoluments clause prohibits federal officials from accepting money or gifts from foreign governments without permission from Congress.

During his first two years as president, four businesses owned by Trump received around $7.8 million from 20 countries during his time in office, including at least $5.5 million from China.

The report was released amid House Republicans’ attempts to impeach President Joe Biden over allegations he benefited from his son Hunter Biden’s foreign dealings while in office, despite no evidence to back up the claims.

Although Trump continually accuses the Democrats of “weaponizing” the Justice Department, it is Trump’s Republicans who have spent many months fruitlessly trying to invent evidence against President Biden for doing precisely what Trump admitted he did.

Trump said he plans on retaining his stake in his real estate empire, The Trump Organization if he wins the 2024 election while defending the money he previously received from foreign officials.

“If I have a hotel and somebody comes in from China, that’s a small amount of money. But I was doing services for them, people were staying in these massive hotels, these beautiful hotels—because I have the best hotels and the best clubs, I have great stuff—and they stay there and they pay.

“I don’t get $8 million for doing nothing,” Trump added.

Whether Trump’s hotels are “beautiful” or “have great stuff” is irrelevant. The Constitution prohibits the President from receiving money from foreign nations. Period.

All federal officeholders are forbidden from “accepting money, payments, titles, offices or gifts of any kind “from any king, prince or foreign state” under the Constitution without the consent of Congress. Trump never sought this approval.

Here is a list of illegal payments Trump received from foreign nations: China ($5,572,548), Saudi Arabia ($615,422), Qatar ($465,744), Kuwait ($303,371), India ($282,764), Malaysia ($248,962), Afghanistan ($74,810), Philippines ($465,744), United Arab Emirates ($65,225), Democratic Republic of the Congo ($25,171), Kazakhstan ($23,772), Thailand ($11,340), Self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ($8,800), Mongolia ($8,486), Lebanon ($7,720), Albania ($6,002), Kosovo ($4,950), Latvia ($2,739), Turkey ($1,894), Hungary ($1,011), Cyprus ($590)

Lest you believe Trump is the only criminal in the Republican party, his influence can be seen throughout the right wing.

GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert’s decision to run in the more GOP-friendly 4th Congressional District was front-and-center in the debate, with her rivals for the nomination calling her out as a carpetbagger.

In particular, State Representative Mike Lynch (R) fired back at her after she brought up his DUI arrest by asking her, “Can you give the definition of ‘carpetbagger’ to me?”

According to the Times report, “At one point, candidates were asked to raise their hands if they had ever been arrested. Six of the nine candidates onstage raised their hands to cheers and applause from the audience.

Can you imagine that politicians would be cheered and applauded for being arrested in previous years? In today’s GOP, being arrested is a sign of loyalty to Trump. 

Trent Leisy, a Navy veteran and business owner, high-fived Mr. Lynch and Ms. Boebert while their hands were raised.”

Boebert admitted to having been arrested only once over “a simple traffic violation that was unpaid,” the Times’ Chris Cameron added, “the local news media have reported at least two additional arrests.

In one incident in 2015, Ms. Boebert told police officers who were arresting her that she ‘had friends at Fox News’ and that the arrest would be national news.”

Is it hopeless? Is America doomed to follow Germany, Italy, and so many other nations down the dictatorship rabbit hole?

Or will our innate “Statue-of-Liberty” morality rise again (sometimes at the last moment) and prove to ourselves and to the world that we are not only the finance and military leaders but the moral leaders we believe ourselves to be?

More than 20,000 Christians have signed a petition calling for the boycott of pro-Trump evangelist Franklin Graham’s tour for the U.S.-Mexico border that is set to begin next month.

Faithful America, an organization of Christians supporting social justice causes while opposing “Christian nationalism,” published a petition last November calling on boycotts of Graham’s “God Loves You Frontera Tour.”

The organization is calling on venues hosting the tour to “stand up to Graham’s anti-LGBTQ hate and political violence,” writing that it is “critical that we show the public and the press that Graham’s right-wing ideology doesn’t represent all of Christianity.”

The petition has already received over 20,000 signatures and has a goal of 25,000 signatures.

“Despite the tour’s deceptive name, Graham is a divisive figure who tries to hide a series of deeply hateful messages behind his father’s Christian legacy. His message is not one of Christ-like love but of anti-democracy, anti-LGBTQ, partisan bigotry and harm.”

Are we beginning to come to our senses? Is there still hope for our nation and for our children?

Or have we awakened too late? Is this the end of the UNITED STATES of America?

Has evil defeated us?

Far-right Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene called for a “national divorce” between red and blue states as a means for far-right Republicans to get extreme, conservative policies implemented in red states without having to go through the democratic process.

Updated list of states announcing they stand with/ Texas in border dispute w/ federal government: Florida, Virginia, Georgia, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Alabama, Montana, Idaho, Utah, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Louisiana

Have we begun an unstoppable descent into hell?

You tell me.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

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