{"id":4932,"date":"2020-11-23T00:11:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T05:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=4932"},"modified":"2020-11-23T00:18:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T05:18:01","slug":"elizabeth-cook-lynn-removing-the-menace-known-as-trumpism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/11\/23\/elizabeth-cook-lynn-removing-the-menace-known-as-trumpism\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Cook-Lynn: Removing the menace known as Trumpism"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" data-attachment-id=\"4939\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/11\/23\/elizabeth-cook-lynn-removing-the-menace-known-as-trumpism\/lafayettepark\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/lafayettepark-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"lafayettepark\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo by Indianz.Com &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/&quot;&gt;(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/lafayettepark-1024x768.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/lafayettepark-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"lafayettepark\" class=\"alignnone img-fluid wp-image-4939\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\"> A view of a fence at Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C.,  on November 7, 2020, the day Democrat Joe Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election. The area around the White House has become increasingly barricaded since June 2020, with fences and barriers preventing anyone from getting near the complex. \r\nPhoto by Indianz.Com <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Making a mockery of the Democratic process<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Monday, November 23, 2020<\/div>\r\n<div class=byline>By Professor Elizabeth Cook-Lynn<\/div>\r\n<div class=byline>Native Sun News Today Columnist<\/div>\r\n<div class=source-website><a href=https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/>nativesunnews.today<\/a><\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nIsn\u2019t it time for the people of\u00a0this country and the Republican Party and the Trumpers to say that we\u00a0are done with\u00a0the former president Donald Trump, that we have counted the votes,\u00a0that President Donald Trump has lost his bid for a second term,\u00a0that the people have spoken and we have a new president named Joe Biden,\u00a0the Democratic leader from Delaware,\u00a0and\u00a0the long time US Senator?\u00a0\r\n\u00a0<P><\/P>\r\nIsn\u2019t it time for someone to say we can remove Trump physically if he chooses not to go willingly? We have been given 70 days\u00a0for the transition and it is my hope that if we must call out the army to remove a criminal president,\u00a0we\u00a0have the will to DO IT.\r\n\u00a0<P><\/P>\r\nIt is quite clear by now that the defeated President Trump, suffering a clear defeat in both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote\u00a0is not going to go willingly. The question is: How much longer must we as citizens be denied our rights as a majority of American voters?\r\n\u00a0<P><\/P>\r\nHow much longer must we put up with this ridiculous\u00a0and corrupt man who has in his presidency made\u00a0fools of the\u00a0entire Senate,\u00a0corrupted federal law scholars and committed several federal offenses? What offenses,\u00a0you ask?\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<div class=row><div class=col-md-7>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1171\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/09\/24\/elizabeth-cook-lynn-shedding-light-on-the-impostors-in-power\/elizabethcooklynn\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/elizabethcooklynn.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1195,1673\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"elizabethcooklynn\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/elizabethcooklynn-731x1024.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1195\" height=\"1673\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/elizabethcooklynn.jpg\" alt=\"elizabethcooklynn\" class=\"alignnone img-fluid wp-image-1171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/elizabethcooklynn.jpg 1195w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/elizabethcooklynn-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/elizabethcooklynn-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/elizabethcooklynn-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/elizabethcooklynn-1097x1536.jpg 1097w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1195px) 100vw, 1195px\" \/> \r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"col-md-5 align-self-end\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. Courtesy photo\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n<P><\/p>\r\nFor starters,\u00a0the obstruction of Congress,\u00a0violation of\u00a0campaign finance laws,\u00a0paying off prostitutes, and most troubling,\u00a0soliciting\u00a0in plain sight of his co-conspirators a bribe in the form of pressuring the president of a\u00a0foreign country to help him win his election by asking him to dig up \u201cdirt\u201d on his opponent. It is called a quid-pro-quo.\r\n\u00a0<P><\/P>\r\nThere\u2019s more: witness tampering, tax fraud, bribery,\u00a0mandating the bulging of the military budget,\u00a0putting economic sanctions on thirty-nine countries, threatening\u00a0our allies,\u00a0calling out the US Army against US citizens who are marching in peaceful protests. He sits in his splendid suites and signs executive orders streaming with cruelty, racism and disregard for the thousands of our citizens who are dying of <a href=\/covid19\/>COVID-19<\/a> the worst pandemic in history. \r\n\u00a0<P><\/P>\r\nIf we are looking for a rationale for this criminal behavior we can only ask \u201cwhere do his\u00a0guard dogs who do his bidding come from?\u201d We\u00a0probably agree that it all stems from Trump Narcissism which in itself is probably not a crime, but it\u00a0is clearly a branch of some sort of insanity and ignorance.  The Republican Senate has caught our attention and we should vote them out immediately.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n A rebuke should go to\u00a0the right-wing activists made up of people like our duly elected state governor, Kristi Noem, who is a devoted follower of this joyless and selfish man.\u00a0She seems to be related\u00a0to the same personal vision that drives them both\u00a0to imagine they are politically normal.\u00a0We are told that Noem\u00a0has recently installed a video studio\u00a0in her official offices so she can give\u00a0interviews to right wing outlets and\u00a0Christian magazines. Her husband helps with\u00a0her podcasts.\r\n\u00a0<P><\/P>\r\n<div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\" data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div><p><\/p>\r\n Noem\u00a0is clearly an evangelical and a crusader and as we know,\u00a0evangelists are not willing to compromise. She has been on a campaign tour for the better part of two years for this president,\u00a0and is presently making public pleas for online donations to \u201cbring it home for the president\u201d. Her solicitations have reached across to Maine,\u00a0New Hampshire and Florida.\u00a0\r\n\u00a0<P><\/P>\r\n Her crusader posture\u00a0is a trait even more dangerous than criminality in the thinking of\u00a0a public official like Trump because it is seated in religiosity. It goes without saying that there is a public position about mixing religion with politics as having a bad effect on governing in a democracy. \r\n<P><\/P>\r\nWe thought it would be enough that she got prayer and the flag back in every school,\u00a0but apparently not.\r\n\u00a0<P><\/P>\r\n<div class=\"card mb-3\">\r\n  <div class=\"row\">\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-4\">\r\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">\r\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2016\/09\/12\/nativesunnewstoday.png\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"native sun news today\"\/>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-8\">\r\n      <div class=\"card-body\">\r\n        <h5 class=\"card-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">NATIVE SUN NEWS TODAY<\/a><\/h5>\r\n        <p>\r\n           Support Native media!\r\n        <\/p>\r\n\t\t<p>Read the rest of the story on Native Sun News Today: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/articles\/making-a-mockery-of-the-democratic-process\/\">Making a mockery of the Democratic process<\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/p>\r\n\t\t<p>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"source-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\"><i class=\"fas fa-link fa-xs\"><\/i> nativesunnews.today<\/a>\r\n&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nsweekly\"><i class=\"fab fa-facebook fa-xs\"><\/i> nsweekly<\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/p>  \r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<HR><EM>  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is a retired Professor of Native Studies. She taught at Eastern Washington University and Arizona State University. She currently lives in the Black Hills of South Dakota.  She has written 15 books in her field. One of her latest is <a href=https:\/\/amzn.to\/2GuQfJk>Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya&#8217;s Earth<\/em><\/a>, published by University of Illinois Press.<\/em><HR>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<strong>Note: Copyright permission <A href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">Native Sun News Today<\/A><\/strong>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How much longer must we put up with this ridiculous\u00a0and corrupt man who has in his presidency made\u00a0fools of the\u00a0entire Senate,\u00a0corrupted federal law scholars and committed several federal offenses?","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[4,5,94,75,56,115,53,116,2,61,278,85,98],"class_list":["post-4932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics","tag-4","tag-coronavirus","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-elizabeth-cook-lynn","tag-joe-biden","tag-kristi-noem","tag-native-sun-news-today","tag-racism","tag-religion","tag-republicans","tag-south-dakota","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/lafayettepark-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-1hy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}