By Elizabeth Luther-Olave, El Cajon
By now, we’ve all heard the news that Donald Trump was found guilty of all 34 felony counts of falsifying his company's business records to keep information from voters that he knew would harm his 2016 presidential campaign.
This isn’t just about “hush money” payments. It’s about breaking the law to hide the truth from the American people 11 days before a presidential election.
Trump has a clear pattern of lying to the American people and trying to undermine our elections in order to cling to power. He still faces three additional indictments and 54 criminal charges, including federal charges for inciting an insurrection to overturn the 2020 election. In spite of all of this, he’s still running for president.
Donald Trump is a convicted fraudster and criminal who still poses a massive threat to our fundamental freedoms. We can’t let him hold the highest office in our land in 2025. It’s up to all of us to hold him accountable and defeat him at the ballot box in November.
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Trump battle of words with women of NABJ!
It was a sad sight to see and listen to the former President Donald Trump denigrate the black women reporters of the National Association of Black Journalists, it was downright disrespectful! I am very familiar with the NABJ, as being from Chicago I would attend their meetings, and knew the former President of the organization, Dorothy Tucker, who attended my church in Chicago, and also graduated from the same high school as my sister, Austin. It was a shameful display of respect, or lack there of, especially coming from a former President of the United States. And, to top it off, former President Trump, questioned if the presumptive Democratic candidate of the United States, Kamala Harris, was even black! Shameful!
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Tim, you don’t know Chicago like I know Chicago!
Tim, you don't know Chicago like I know Chicago, otherwise you would not have made such an outrageous comment as you did about former President Barack Obama or former Mayor Richard M. Daley. Barack Obama gave that famous Father's Day speech about a father's commitment to their children at my former church on the south side of Chicago, Apostolic Church of God! Also, I wrote the review of a book in which this East County Magazine; "Obama Talks Back", which contributed towards the author winning the NAACP Image Award in Literature. I actually worked in the Daley Administration as a Specification Engineer at O'Hare International Airport writing and awarding millions of dollars in contracts for the purchase of vehicles and equipment at the airport, in addition to negotiating MBE/WBE/DBE participation on contracts. I also am pictured at City Hall in Chicago with Daley and my children, celebrating my son being honored as the Prince of the "Bud Billiken" parade on the south side of Chicago. Additionally, when former President Barack Obama was running for president, I covered him in a story at the San Diego Convention Center in his campaign against John McCain, who was also at that event. Tim, we should be careful and more precise about making those types of outrageous statements and pronouncements as you have made in your subject comment.
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