Donald Trump is President Elect

December 19, 2016

This is only the second post of "Wading Into the Stream" for 2016.  The first was just a video filmed by my niece.  It was a video review of my father's ninetieth birthday party in May. She did a great job and I am proud of her and my Dad.

Today I write about the Presidential election of 2016.  To review, after a grueling Primary season, Hillary Clinton, Democrat, ran against Republican, Donald Trump.  All of the pundits and experts were shocked and amused by Trump's outrageous campaign, but on Election Day, they predicted Clinton would be the victor.  To more than half the voters amazement, Trump won the electoral vote. Clinton received well over two and a half million more popular votes than Trump did, but he became the President elect.

The College of Electors met and voted today, officially electing Trump.  This man will be President of the United States.  A great many extremely smart, accomplished, successful people are afraid of the various probable outcomes of his administration.  They have spelled them out in endless articles, blogs, interviews, speeches, and by now, even books.  The people Trump has nominated and has spoken of appointing to his administration represent many kinds of backward, destructive, divisive, earth-destroying, profit driven, bizzarely religious, and wantonly immoral ideas that American public figures have expressed in the last thirty years.

Several of these people have failed at the highest offices and jobs they achieved. A couple were fired. One or two were nearly prosecuted.  And among these individuals, it is my opinion, based on what I have read, seen, or heard, most of which, I assume, is factual, Donald Trump is the most likely one to have committed serious felonies.  I think it is only a matter of time before his crimes are exposed. Even with a Republican House and Senate, I think he has the best chance of being impeached and removed from office.  That is, assuming those who supported and voted for him don't rise up in civil war, which is a remote and horrible possibility.