Tears in Tijuana

I’m just a plainspoken Colorado criminal defense lawyer, but the way I see it…

The armed forces of the United States are commanded by a coward.

He is no ordinary coward. In his own mind, if he accepted the fact he is a coward, he would have to be the greatest coward of all time.

He’s been one for more than fifty years. He pretended to a physical defect, supported by a doctor he paid to lie for him, to avoid the risk other men and women of his generation shouldered instead during the Vietnam War.

He boasts that he would rush a gunman unarmed yet is so afraid a little rain might expose his balding head that he dishonors American war dead at home and abroad by hiding high and dry indoors.

And yesterday he presided over the tear-gassing of women, and of children in diapers. Had they picked up a stone he had already expressed a cheery confidence that he would have the right to shoot them.

Legally interesting, is the fact that United States forces didn’t use tear gas on U.S. soil, but fired it across the border into Mexican territory. Mexico’s foreign ministry demanded an investigation.

The American president said it was just too bad children were gassed, and suggested people who were not their real parents held the babies and children in front of them as human shields, his only evidence of that, of course, being it was the kind of thing he would do.

He called the folks seeking asylum “stone cold criminals” and vowed he would keep them out by any means, even if he had to shut down the U.S. government to build a big beautiful wall.

That’s a close-up of three of the stone cold criminals he gassed, at the top of this piece.