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I have repeatedly claimed that Trump is not an American president. He refuses to support the principles and ideals which made America a revered nation around the world. I don’t know which country he represents, but it is not the United States of America.

In 2016 Trump received more campaign contributions from the NRA gun lobby than any other presidential candidate in history. In addition, a Russian agent, Maria Butina,  laundered money from oligarchs through the NRA to support Trump’s candidacy. No collusion? I call “bullshit.”

Trump spoke at the NRA gun lobby’s convention in Indianapolis on Friday. He told the greedy capitalists the following.

“We’re taking our signature back,” Trump said to thousands of cheering attendees, many wearing red hats emblazoned with the Republican president’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.

The “Traitor-President” was referring to the “Arms Trade Treaty.” The United States never signed the United Nations agreement; Mitch McConnell owes his soul to the NRA and refused to allow Republicans in the Senate to ratify the agreement. The treaty was approved by an American president, Barrack Obama in 2013.

This treaty was designed to keep firearms out of the hands of nations who deny human rights to their people. Trump and the NRA see dollar signs.

In 2013 all 193 nations approved the treaty. America exports more armament than any other nation in the world. Trump promised his owners; Wayne LaPierre, and others; that the would soon receive official notice that he informed Congress that there would be no treaty. The treaty would have cost the gun industry $70 billion each year. “Profit before people.”

Let’s be brutally honest; the NRA gun lobby doesn’t give a damn about the second amendment or the safety of the American people. I, a liberal, care about the Constitution and all Americans. It is only concerned with increasing the bloated profits of gun manufacturers and gun sellers. They don’t have the slightest courtesy to offer “thoughts and prayers” to victims of mass shootings with the use of their benefactor’s unlawful weapons.

Here are the facts. Trump has no interest in the welfare of the American people; Trump cares about Trump. The only reason he supports the NRA is because they will support him in his bid for reelection.

Finally, the truth is that during Trump’s illegitimate two years and three months in office there have been more mass shootings than days on the calendar in America. Four of the most egregious mass murders in American history occurred in 2017 and 2018, and then came the slaughter of 50 innocent men and women inside of mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on March 15, 2019. Trump encourages hatred and violence at his rallies and occasionally in press conferences. His name was attached to this tragedy as well.

When you vote on November 3, 2020, remember the innocent lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 1, 2017 when a lone gunman armed with multiple military assault rifles equipped with “bump stocks,” slaughtered 58 men and women.

In November of 2017, a lone gunman, armed with a military assault rifle, entered a small church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, and took the lives of 26 men, women, and children.

On Valentine’s Day, 2018, a lone gunman, armed with a military assault rifle murdered 17 students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

In October of 2018, a lone gunman, armed with a military assault rifle, slaughtered 11 worshipers in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The van owned by the shooter had Trump stickers all over the vehicle.

Trump offered his “thoughts and prayers,” and nothing else. (Like Satan’s son prays; please).

Tell your friends; “The Truth Lives Here.” This is one of the most important stories I have ever written.

Op-ed by James Turnage

Source
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/04/26/trump-heeds-nra-pulls-us-out-of-un-arms-treaty/23717945/

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