This independent voter wants to know why politicians have classified documents in their homes, cars, storage facilities and offices. Presidents Trump and Biden, as well as Vice President Pence, have all had classified documents where they should not have been.
Both political teams look stupid defending their guys while attacking the opposite team for doing likewise.
A second area where political parties suck is government ethics. The Red Team defended President Donald Trump's cash franchise Trump Hotel in downtown D.C.
The glittering Trump International Hotel housed and entertained numerous Republican officials, candidates and lawmakers throughout the Trump presidency, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Once Trump sold the hotel the Red Team took their money elsewhere:
An Insider examination of FEC records show that the GOP has spent just under $2,000 there since Trump handed over the lease. That accounted for the hotel stays of four Republicans, including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert.
That's a far cry from the at least $670,000 spent by GOP officials, candidates and PACs at the hotel throughout the same five-month period in 2018 — not including revenue from bars and restaurants (including these, CREW placed the total spend at $867,000).
Both periods cover the busy midterm campaign seasons for their respective years.
The Blue Team expressed concern over wealthy citizens or foreign governments spending money at the Trump hotel to influence White House policy. The Red Team personally enriched Trump via his D.C. hotel.
Now that Joe Biden is in the White House that same concern could apply Hunter Biden's art. A former White House ethics official raised concerns about this arrangement.
Former President Obama's ethics chief Walter Shaub ripped into the first son's art venture last year during an appearance on Law & Crime’s "Objections" podcast.
"There is simply no way an artist who has never even juried into a community center art fair is going to suddenly show up in New York selling art for half a million a pop," Shaub said. "Let's talk about the magnitude of this. . . . That’s $6.5 million going to the president’s son for being the president’s son, not for being an artist, and I just think that’s absolutely appalling."
Can Donald Trump and Joe Biden take their improperly stored classified documents and challenged ethics and please leave come 2024? Please.
Update: Facebook and Instagram aren't helping Trump go away.
Update 1-26-23: A conservative columnist said Trump is “ranting like a deranged hobo in a dilapidated public park.”
Update 1-27-23: New Hampshire leaders for the Insane Red Team want Trump to go away, at least 70% would like that to happen.
Update 2-1-23: Former President Donald Trump took the fifth amendment for most questons posed to him in a deposition. Flashback to 2018 when Trump said:
"You see the mob takes the Fifth," he said in April 2018. "If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment."
Update 2-3-23: President Biden said "more than half the women in his administration are women."
Update 2-5-23: Voters want a choice between candidates not named Trump or Biden in 2024.
Update 4-23-23: A mere 6% of Americans are excited about a Biden-Trump rematch. Already 38% feel exhaustion over the prospect of a Trump-Biden race.
Update 7-11-23: The Red and Blue political teams are intent on pushing a Trump-Biden rematch. Trump's dysfunctional personality is front and center while Biden's is less visible. Axios did a story calling Biden "Old Yeller." Delusional Sexual Abuser vs. Cursing Cranky Decrepit.
Update 8-26-23: Former President Trump has a new picture he's using for fundraising (legal fees):
Update 9-4-23: Just heard President Biden give a Labor Day speech where he said he was sworn in as President January 2020. Missed it by 365 days.
Update 9-15-23: Blue Team elected officials privately say Biden is too old to run for reelection. A Red Teamer said of Trump:
"[Trump] has none of the qualities you would want in a president, and all of the qualities you wouldn’t.”
Senate Majority Leaders Mitch McConnell called Trump an idiot. A former Trump attorney cited his "malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that he’s never done anything wrong.”
Update 9-17-23: While attacking Biden's cognition Trump revealed his brain flaws in a gaffe filled speech.
Sixty seven percent of Blue Team voters don't want President Biden on the ticket for 2024. Sixty four percent said a Trump/Biden rematch would make them thing our political system is broken.
Update 11-8-23: David Axelrod said the Blue Team has a Biden problem. This after the Blue Team did well in a number of states.
Update 11-9-23: Karl Rove wrote:
“Neither party’s front-runner will be easily dislodged. But if no changes are made, Americans will get the worst dumpster fire of a campaign in history.”
Update 11-11-23: Should Trump win in 2024 he wants to implement sweeping immigration raids, giant camps and mass immigration.
Update 1-18-24: The Hill reported:
Former White House attorney Ty Cobb is sharply criticizing former President Trump for his courtroom behavior during his defamation trial regarding E. Jean Carroll, who accuses Trump of raping her in the 1990s.
“This is Trump at his worst, and I don’t think we’re going to see anything much different between now and November..”
Update 1-20-24: Cognitive... Trump confused Red competitor Nikki Haley with Blue Team's Nancy Pelosi.
Update 6-24-24: The Biden-Trump debate will take place Thursday on CNN. Uggghhhh!
Update 6-27-24: The debate left many people unsettled. "No More Trump, No More Biden"