MITCH LANDRIEU, FORMER MAYOR OF NEW ORLEANS, CALLS TRUMP A TRAITOR TO THIS COUNTRY

 Mitch Landrieu, a former Mayor of New Orleans, called President Trump a "traitor" to this country.  He made the accusation of MSNBC, and was quoted on Breitbart.  Here is my basic comment on Breitbart:

Interesting that the former mayor of New Orleans is speaking of Trump and Democracy. If I recall correctly, the last time NO had a Republican mayor was around 1873, soon after the war.  It is possible that Michael Hahn, an editor of a German language newspaper in NO, was appointed mayor, but did  not serve because of the changing military basically in charge.  When there was a large meeting in NO to press for voting rights for blacks, and a few whites like Hahn attended, the Democrats, using their notions of "democracy' raided the area killing many.  The 1866 "riots" in New Orleans and Memphis killing many. 

 The 1866 "riots" in New Orleans and Memphis, angered the North and helped the radical Republicans win the Congressional elections that year.  In 1870 Benjamin Flanders, a native of New England, was appointed mayor of NO in 1870, and then elected to the post, serving until 1873.That was the last Republican mayor of NO.  Thereafter, NO became part of the one-party, Democrat, white-supremacist, segregationist, "solid South."  It was Democrat, but not democratic.

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Some will say, I am being unfair to the Democrats.  The Democratic Party has changed since the days of segregation and the "solid South."  True, the Democratic Party has changed.  It is no longer the party of white racism.  But till this day, the Democrats of today, like the Democrats of old, reject the notion that all citizens should be treated equally!  The Democrats reject the notion of hiring and promoting the best qualified for the job; instead, they want most jobs to "look like America," so if there are not 50% women scientists, that is proof of discrimination against women, a given % of Hispanics, % of blacks, % of gays, of...To achieve this end, hiring by quota becomes more important than hiring by competence.  Standards decline, and bureaucrats do their best to cover this up by changing the usual standards, lying.  From elementary schools up through medical schools, those who are failing are given passing grades if they are of certain races, ethnicities, genders. for to fail  one of the special class of students might bring problems for that teacher or professor.  It is scamming the system, paper credentials that suddenly mean little about the holder's comprehension and skills, and more about their race, ethnicity, and gender.  And the last qualities will get them to higher positions through diversity, equity, and inclusion, the new euphemism for the new racism, and sexism, so dominant in the new Democratic Party.  It was the party of white racism; now it is the party of anti-white racism, and other isms.  In that sense, the Democrats have not changed; they reject Civil Rights as equal rights for all citizens.

Trump is hated today because he is like Gen. Eisenhower, who vowed to go to Korea to end the no-win, never-ending Korean "police action." Officially, Ike failed, as the Koreas are today legally still at war. But the daily hot war was ended by Ike in the 1950s. And if given a chance, Trump will end the Ukrainian war. Trump is not an appeaser; he wants to end one of the many Democrat no-win, never ending wars. Furthermore, Ike started Operation Wetback, to round up invaders (illegal aliens) and sent them back to Mexico.  And Ike was the first President since Reconstruction to send troops to the South to defend the rights of blacks, at Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Ike generally brought America peace and prosperity; Trump is trying to do the same. And save democracy in the process.

THE ZELENSKY-TRUMP MEETING IN THE WHITE HOUSE, FEB 2024 -- 2 ANALOGIES

     This morning on America's usual left-wing National Public Radio, they had an interview with a foreign policy expert, a Republican, to analyze the Trump-Zelensky White House shouting match.  Normally, PBS invites liberal Democrats and quizzes them with soft-ball questions so they can present their views at length.  When interviewing a populist Republican, the questions are hostile, and when the guest tries to answer, the NPR reporter interrupts often so you may never hear the full reply.

     This morning, the NPR guest was a Republican, for mer American Ambassador to the UN, and an official during the first Trump administration, John Bolton.  Bolton thought the White House spat was a disaster.  He thought Zelensky was trying to defend his country, while Trump is on a mission to sell it our.  Trump is simply repeating Putin propaganda.  In effect, what Trump is planning is a new 1938 Munich conference, in which Chamberlain allowed Hitler to carve up Czechoslovakia in a way so it could no longer be defended from the growing German military under Hitler.  Trump is planning a sell out of Ukraine in the same way.  The West did not stand by Czechoslovakia, the democratic state, so Hitler swallowed it in pieces.  Chamberlain's Peace in Our Time led directly to WWII.  Bolton, a Republican, is a known war-hawk, and some have quipped , there has never been a war he disapproved.  Like Lynn Cheney and the J-6 Committee, Bolton is no fried of  Trump?

     But is Trump the new Chamberlain?  Is Trump a modern appeaser of a dictator, betraying a democratic ally?  Is his Peace in Our Time another mirage?  Should Trump be waving an umbrella?  Is he a Putin puppet?

    A BETTER ANALOGY.  In 1950 Kim Il Sung, leader of the New North Korean Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, got permission from Soviet leader Josef Stalin to invade South Korea.  So began the Korean War.  Or was it a war?  Soldiers and civilians died.  In America, pressure mounted on Dem. Pres. Harry Truman.  South Korea, surprised by the attack, was losing.  Would the war be lost before America could decide? To intervene or not?  Truman decided to intervene, but not alone.  He asked the UN to do so too.  The only way the resolution passed was because the USSR was boycotting because the UN Security Council because the seat for China was still occupied by he Republic of China (Nationalist) and not the new Peoples Republic of China (Mao's Communists who had control of the mainland and proclaimed the PRC from a Beijing balcony in 1949.)  Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur would lead the American effort and any smaller efforts by our allies.)

     In South Korea, only a small south-east corner round Pusan was still free from the invaders.  Mac Arthur ordered naval invasions around Inchon, near the middle of the peninsular cutting supply lines to the North, and the Communists began their retreat.  Some Brits, Filipinos, and other American allies joined the fray, and the anti-communists now invaded the North.  Suddenly the North was crumpling. retreating toward the Yalu River, the border, mainly with China, and a little bit with the USSR.

     If the Communists were surprised by the naval invasion of the center of the 2 nations at Inchon by Mac Arthur's counter attack, now Mac Arthur was caught off-guard.  Mao had called for a mass of Chinese volunteers to help the comrades in Korea against the capitalist imperialists.  Vast numbers of Chinese were suddenly crossing the Yalu, pushing back the Americans, in extremely cold winter conditions.  America had almost won, and victory was now being snatched from them by the masses of Asia and the bitter cold.  Mac Arthur had a plan to steal back the victory form the Chinese "volunteers" - he would up the ante of the war by using a nuclear bomb.  Truman had played the international card; this was not an official war; it was a police action, with the UN.  Truman decided, no nukes, and no more Mac Arthur.  He fired the general.  The war dragged on with more and more casualties.  Korea was the first of America's No Win Wars.  The fighting, and casualties continued.

     For the Presidential election of 1952, Truman's polling was dismal, about 25%.  He chose not to run again, but Adlai Stevenson, who sounded like a liberal elitist became the Democratic candidate.  Gen. Eisenhower led the Republicans with Richard Nixon as his VP candidate.  In the campaign, Ike announced he would go to Korea to END THE WAR.

     Officially, Ike failed.  Officially, North and South Korea are STILL at war.  But, with difficulties, which POWs should be returned, etc., still, the fighting generally came to an end.  Without Ike's promise, the fighting war might still be going on in Korea, with killing Koreans AND Americans.  Was Ike a weakling for pushing peace?  Was Ike like Chamberlain encouraging Hitler?  Or was Ike a very wise man?  Ike was not perfect, no one is.  But he was wise in ending a no-win war (police action).  Trump is not like Chamberlain bringing on WWIII; Trump is like Ike.  Bolton is wrong.  So are the European leaders: Macron, Starmer, King Charles, et al.  By contrast, Trump is a wise leader, trying to find a way to peace and prosperity for most.

     ANOTHER QUESTION - How many foreign prime ministers and presidents actively campaign in American Presidential elections?  In the campaign of 2024, Zelensky actively campaigned for Kamala Harris and the Democrats, against Republican Trump.  Was this not an example of foreign influence on the campaign?  Trying to sway America to keep up the flow of dollars and arms?  Was this not also an example of "foreign collusion" in our affairs?  When Zelensky arrived at the White House in February 2025, Pres. Trump should have met him at the door, "If you are here to request help, I suggest you go instead to the offices of Kamala Harris.  You campaigned for my defeat.  Ask her for help instead." 

     Bottom line - Trump is for peace, but he is not an appeaser.  He follows the tradition of Pres. Eisenhower, who did not want never ending, no-win wars that were detrimental to our nation, (but profitable for some in the military-industrial complex.  Ike had courage to use Operation Wetback to round up illegal aliens, and send them back to Mexico.

    Is Trump a puppet of Moscow?  It was Bill Clinton who received $500,000 for a speech in Moscow.  It was the Biden family that received special deals, getting millions of dollars from Chinese firms, and even getting Hunter on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm.  And the American corrupt deep state *remember the 51 American intelligence agent leaders, who without seeing the Hunter laptop, but at the behest of then Democratic Party operative Anthony Blinken, LIED to the American public signing their names that the Hunter laptop was Russian disinformation.  Doing this just before the 2020 election to help corrupt Biden and help defeat Trump.  But when Hunter finally went to trial, no one challenged ther validity of Hunter's laptop.  It shows that the head of CIA, and other agencies were Deep State, liars, not to defend America, but to defend their private intersts and harm their personal foes.  One more reason for Trump to have a clean sweep of the swolen government.

     In the end, all we are saying - is give Trump a chance!          

HUGH MURRAY