Donald Trump says immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” As always, the erstwhile President is mute regarding facts to support his allegation.

Whose blood is being poisoned, by whom?  My guess—who knows?—Trump views the blood being poisoned flowing from Eastern Europe: Britan, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, the Rus’?  Iberian, Italian, Greek, and Balkan blood probably would not pass muster.  Mexican, Central and South American, African, Middle and Far Eastern, and Asian immigrants, three-quarters of Earth’s population, conspire to poison America’s blood.

Donald’s paternal grandparents, his mother, and two of three wives are immigrants.  Trumps were German.  Mom, Mary Anne (née MacLeod), Scottish.  Wives number one, Ivana Marie (née Zelnickovia) and three “Malania” (Melanija née Knavs) are Czech and Slovenian immigrants.  Do immigrant mothers’ blood poison Donald Jr.’s, Ivonka’s, Eric’s, and Barron’s Trump blood?

The proposition that any race or nationality is inferior or superior to others is antithetical to America’s fundamental principles and creed, the heart of human-caused suffering.  To assert that any human is “vermin,” that they poison “the blood of our country,” is stereotyping, prejudice, and bigotry at its very worst!

From Jamestown to L.A., Plymouth Rock to Seattle, American is a nation of immigrants.  What became of,

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The retched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

  Emma Lazarus’s sonnet, “New Colossus,”
  on a plaque inside the Statue of Liberty 

As a hardcore Liberal, and given the vagaries of human existence, I resist calling things “wrong  .  .  .  an injurious, unjust, or unfair act.” (Merriam-Webster)

This said, when Americans live in tents and scrounge of food, while illegal immigrants are housed and fed at taxpayers’ expense, something in our laws and regulations is fundamentally, terribly wrong!

The Supreme Court will decide if “executive privilege” protects Donald Trump from prosecution for his actions as President of the United States.  If such an exemption were affirmed, any President would seem exempt from censure for raping children on the White House lawn!

The notion of the law precluding prosecution of the President for alleged illegal acts calls to mind Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist: “If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, “the law is a ass—a idiot!”

Trump’s lawyer argues that Donald should not be on trial while he is campaigning for election as President of the United States.  Under this reasoning, by announcing her or his candidacy for the office of President, any indicted person could forestall and potentially preclude prosecution.