by Brian Huba
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he faked a foot injury to avoid the Vietnam War.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he said the death penalty should be enacted against five black men accused of robbing and beating a woman in New York City in 1989, then refusing to apologize when those men were exonerated.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… The first, second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth time he filed for bankruptcy.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he questioned the citizenship of the first black man elected President of the United States.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he declared his intentions to ban all Muslims from entering America if elected President.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he mocked a disabled journalist.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he mocked Sen. John McCain for being a POW during the Vietnam War, “I like people who weren’t captured.”
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he encouraged his supporters to “Knock the crap” out of protestors/hecklers, before promising to pay their “Legal fees.”
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he refused to release his financial records, falsely citing an IRS audit as the reason why, even though the IRS publicly stated that an audit was “no barrier to disclosure.”
This Should’ve Been Stopped… With the Access Hollywood tape.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When his eponymously-named “University” was proven to be a fraudulent operation, and he was forced to pay $25 million in penalties.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he declared there were “Very fine people” on both sides in defense of a White Nationalist protest.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… In Helsinki, Finland, when he took sides with Russian President Vladimir Putin over American Intelligence.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he gave a Russian Diplomat classified intelligence linked to Israel, leading a “Horrified” Israel to ask “What is going on?”
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he repeatedly obstructed Robert Mueller’s “Russian Interference” investigation, an investigation that produced 34 criminal indictments and eight guilty pleas/convictions.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he unconstitutionally began separating migrant children from their families at the Southern US Border.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he tried shaking down the Ukrainian President to announce an investigation into Joe Biden, threatening to withhold desperately-needed arms if the demand was not carried out.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he admitted to investigative journalist Bob Woodward that he lied to the American Public about the severity of the Covid-19 Virus, ” I wanted to always play it down.”
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he instructed Americans to combat the Covid-19 virus by injecting bleach into their bodies.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… During the first 2020 Presidential Debate, when he told white supremacists, such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, to “Stand back and stand by.”
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he was caught on tape asking Georgia State Election Officials to “Find” him “11,000 votes.”
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he encouraged supporters to storm the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to thwart the peaceful transfer of power.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he was criminally indicted the first, second, third, or fourth time.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he was caught on audio passing secret war plans, which he stole from the US Government, around a room filled with writers and reporters.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he declared, if re-elected to the White House, he would operate as a dictator “For a day.”
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When it was revealed to the public that he dismissed servicemen and women who died in combat as “Suckers” and “Losers.”
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When Fox News was ordered to pay a $787 million-dollar settlement for amplifying his 2020 election lies.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When a court of law ruled he had committed business fraud against the State of New York, and was made to pay $465 million in penalties.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When a US District Judge confirmed he had raped E. Jean Carroll, then a jury ordered him to pay $90 million to Carroll because he defamed her.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When the “Project 2025” plan was made public.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he promised there would be a “Bloodbath” in America if he did not win re-election.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he asked oil executives to hand him a billion dollars, promising to change US law to their benefit if re-elected President.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he refused to testify on his own behalf at the end of the New York State election interference trial.
This Should’ve Been Stopped… When he falsely accused the sitting President and the FBI of plotting to assassinate him and his family during the execution of a legal search warrant in 2022, claiming in a circa-2024 email they were “Locked & loaded” to kill him.
This Should’ve Been Stopped…
Brian Huba has placed op-eds in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Democrat & Chronicle, New York’s Journal News, the Syracuse-Post Standard, the NY Daily News, and the Utica Observer-Dispatch. Brian teaches 12th-grade English in Upstate New York.
