2017 June 2^nd

Our president is a fountain of misinformation about the Paris Accords from which he has withdrawn our country. Anyone with a computer and access to the internet can discover that this is a volunteer group whose members set the Carbon Dioxide emissions standards they hope to achieve. If they don’t achieve their goal there is no penalty. It is nonsense to claim that that “standards are very unfair to the United States.” We set our own standards and absolutely nothing will happen if we don’t meet them. This agreement was set up by the Obama administration; it follows that Trump must trash it and withdraw from it even if withdrawing makes no sense.

Trump asserts that European leaders will stop laughing at the United States. He believes they did that during his trip. These leaders were not snickering at the United States, they were snickering at Donald Trump and that will certainly continue. Trump is a splendid comic figure even if he doesn’t realize it.

Trump claims that he will negotiate a better deal on climate with members of the Climate Accord.  Trump does not know that there is no mechanism in the accord agreement for doing that. In fact, Martin Schultz, Angela Merkel’s opponent in the coming German elections and one who bitterly resents Trump’s treatment of Merkel, has said that changing the accord agreement is a lot harder than shoving a NATO statesman out of the way as you move to the front row for a photo op.

Some of the holdover Obama people have claimed that the Trump transition folks wanted them to put in motion a mechanism for the removal of the economic sanctions against Russia. It quickly became apparent that this would be unacceptable even to Republican lawmakers who let it be known that if such a move were pending the congress would make those sanctions a matter of law.

What in the world was that about? Why would the Trump administration want, as its very first move, to eliminate the economic sanctions against Russia? Recall that the Trump people also wanted, and got, the elimination of the Republican Party platform plank regarding the provision of defensive arms for the Ukraine.

We also have Trump hosting a meeting with Ambassador Kislyak and Foreign Minister Lavrov in the Oval office where Trump instantly declassified some intelligence about the bomb potential of laptop computers on commercial aircraft. Why did Trump arrange this curious meeting? It was because Putin asked him to.

Lastly we find that Trump wants to restore to Russia the use of a large compound in New York and one in Maryland that President Obama closed in response to Russia’s meddling in our elections. Both of these residences were known to house intelligence agents. Now Trump wants them restored to Russian control.

Trump declares at length that there is nothing to investigate about his connections with the Russians…absolutely not! Who believes him?