Trump can't succeed in business even while trying, so how can we expect him to succeed as President?

By Glen Wallace

How can we expect Trump to solve America's wide ranging problems when he is so quick to say "I can't" when it comes to solving his own business problems?  After all, he is supposed to be a business specialist, and it turns out he is not so great even at that.  He has said "I can't" four times oven when asked if he can keep his failing business enterprises out of bankruptcy.  And contrary to his own claims, four bankruptcies is far in excess of a typical or average number of bankruptcies filed, if one is ever filed, by an entrepreneur like Trump.  And contrary to his claims that only large banks had to eat the losses from those bankruptcies, that is false as well.  Most, if not all of those bankruptcies involved bonds that the bondholders had to take a haircut on.  Very often, corporate bonds are held by a variety of ordinary citizens, including senior citizens that rely on the payments from those bonds for a very limited fixed income.

If he had to tell the truth under penalty of perjury and was asked "can you ever give a straight truthful statement about your weaknesses and failings when you're not under oath?" Trump would have to answer "I can't".  While still under oath, if he were asked if he were President, could he honestly put a plaque on his desk like President Truman did, that says "The Buck Stops Here", Trump would have to answer "I can't, because I 'm too much of a weasel, I like to weasel out of taking personal responsibility for what I say or do."

 Instead of trying to find ways to manufacture his shirts in the U.S., Trump just throws out more excuses for why he can't.  Did he even bother asking New Balance how they can manage to still manufacture shoes in the U.S.?  Did he try to figure out that if they can make shoes here, and Faribault Woolen Mills can make blankets here, and Red Wing can make boots here, then why can't I follow their successful models to make my shirts here?  I highly doubt it.  How can we expect him to explore ways to help the American worker as President when it doesn't seem like he is willing to lift a finger as a business man to avoid offshoring the jobs that make his shirts to foreign shores?  Trump couldn't be bothered by the unwashed masses other than finding the right buttons to push and strings to pull that get their emotions turned in his favor.

Trump's Disastrous Deportation Plan

A mass deportation of all the undocumented immigrants, as Trump has vowed to do if elected President, would likely be a humanitarian disaster.  Already, an estimated half of all undocumented aliens detained by ICE are housed in private prisons.  Additionally hundreds of those detainees were wrongly detained even though they were legal US citizens.  In one case, a US citizen named Hector Veloz was detained by ICE for over a year, all the while Veloz did everything he could, including presenting his birth certificate to the immigration courts.  Additionally, widespread reports of abuses of those detainees, regardless of their legal status, has also been reported.  If Trumps plans were implemented, I believe we would be seeing a modern day Trail of Tears for the undocumented and wrongfully deported US citizens.  But Trump's plan would be a huge windfall for the private prisons, who would no doubt milk such a deportation for all its worth -- including delaying the deportation process and hold inmates longer than necessary in order to keep our public dollars flowing that are tied to those inmates remaining in those private prisons.

The estimated total number of  illegal aliens that would be deported under Trump's plan is 11 million, coincidentally, 11 million is the estimated total number of human victims of Hitler's Holocaust.  Remember, to handle that volume people, the Nazis had to use freight trains to haul such a vast number of individuals.  But, unlike the Holocaust, we still would require a system of due process to determine  for each one of those 11 million whether or not they were indeed here illegally.  One wonders if the initial number of individuals rounded up might be much greater than 11 million.  That is, perhaps everyone with dark skin, speaking with a Latino accent would be rounded up as a suspected illegal alien to be sorted out at a later date.

Until all those individuals can be processed and their cases reviewed and heard before a magistrate, they would of course have to be held somewhere.  Since our prisons are already overcrowded, some sort of makeshift detention, or concentration camps would have to be set up across the country -- complete with barbed wire, armed guard towers, dogs and spotlights.  And, as it is currently, it is not as though our courts and judges and public defense lawyers have all sorts of time on their hands with everyone looking for something to do.  So, in order to process all those millions, many detainees would likely have to wait years if not decades to have their case heard.  A detainee could be a full U.S.Citizen, but not be able to see anyone for years to simply hear their case.  They would be trapped in one of the camps, knowing they are innocent but not be able to prove that to anyone who could get them out.  There is often no way of knowing right away who is here illegally and who isn't.  Those here illegally, perhaps by illegal means, are able to obtain many of the same documents that would appear on its face to prove citizenship, as legal citizens have.  It is not as though the undocumented aliens have a sign on their forehead flashing 'illegal alien' that ICE agents can use to sort them from those here legally.  As a result, some sort of manual judicial sorting process involving one on one meetings with lawyers and judges needs to be performed for each and every detainee in order to determine citizen status.        

Of further concern, given Trump's notorious thin skin, if he might utilize those deportee detention camps as de facto political prison camps.  Maybe Trump will wield his power to make his critics suffer from an administrative 'oops' that result in them being suspected of being here illegally and have to be sent to a camp for further processing.  Such a victim may cry that they suspect they are a political prisoner to the clerk processing them in the camp.  The clerk might then respond that the inmate will have their case heard before a judge in approximately 5 years if everything goes smoothly.  Meanwhile, here is your uniform, your number and a map to your tent.

I find it rather ironic that some of Trump's most fervent supporters are Internet and Radio conspiracy theory celebrities like Alex Jones that have warned us for years that we can't trust the federal government because they are bent on imprisoning us in mass Fema camps.  Who does Jones and company think will carry out Trump's deportation plan?  The Federal Government will, of course.  Why do they suddenly think the government can be trusted to fairly, and justly carry out such an enormous mass arrest, detention and processing of human beings?  But regardless of anyone's general trust or mistrust of the government,  there clearly is no means to fairly and justly carry out Trump's deportation plan.  And the history of ICE even under the normal circumstances of a relatively small number of deportations, has shown itself to be unreliable and prone to miscarriage of justice and abuse in the detention and processing of detainees.  The detention and processing of millions can only lead to a nightmare scenario as bad or worse than any warning ever painted by even the most imaginative conspiracy theorist.