Scott Mitchell, retired District Attorney, Clark County, Nevada.

[Dick Littlefield]

I thought you might find this interesting….

I recently received this Facebook note from a friend:  Scott Mitchell, retired District Attorney, Clark County, Nevada.

Scott’s father was one of my athletes coaches at Cabrillo College, Aptos, California. 

Scott is also an active member of the LDS CHURCH.

“To Trump voters:
Would I love you to be able to point out what a pleasant surprise Trump has been? Yes! It'd be great to know the country was on the right track, and that Trump had started out as impressively as he promised he would, even if it proved me wrong with my predictions that he wouldn't deliver on his promises. I didn't want to be right about him.
But alas, his vow to bring down all the powers of hell onto Hamas if they didn't return all the hostages by his inauguration day didn't scare them as much as he thought it would. Four weeks later, they're nearly starving the male hostages they haven't already killed, and they're dragging this thing out with three hostages every week unless they don't feel like it. And Trump hasn't killed any of them, of course. He's even admitted that's not his call, it's Israel's.
Then there's Ukraine and the war he said he'd end in one day. It continues on unabated, except that Trump's chosen emissaries, led by Pete Hegseth at DoD, are telling Ukrainians they should just give up trying to defend themselves from the Russian invasion and seizure of their land. Their desire to remain free, and to resist Russia's thievery, isn't "realistic," you see. Meanwhile, Trump is talking to Putin on the telephone without Ukraine being a party to the talks. The only bone he's thrown Ukraine is to tell them if they let us have access to their petroleum and rare earth resources, we'll split the profits with them, and maybe give them aid. MAYBE. He'll have to gauge Putin's reaction to that idea first.
Remember Trump said he wanted to stop the loss of life among Russians and Ukrainians? Shockingly, it turns out that SURPRISE! He doesn't care about that at all. He couldn't care less. Ukraine isn't his priority, and no, he doesn't have the ability to stop the war in a day. He was just lying to get elected, and he knew his supporters wouldn't hold him to his promise anyway.
Regarding inflation, so far, no change. Trump doesn't know how to force prices down after all. He hasn't even tried to do anything about that, except maybe to fuel more inflation by making imported goods more expensive through new tariffs.
Still, he's at least focused on important stuff, like renaming the Gulf of Mexico, because it offends him that it's not named the Gulf of America. So now, he bars AP reporters from his press conferences because they're still referring to it as the Gulf of Mexico. Makes sense. After all, what's power for, if not to bully people into adopting your preferred names for geographical places and things? Denali must return to being Mt. McKinley, too, because big high mountains have to be named after US Presidents. Trump is now looking around the U.S. at the mountain he wants named after him. Care to place bets on which one it will be? 
He's also busying himself with proposals on how to most efficiently make every single Gazan hate us: Tell them to leave their country so we can turn it into a Cancún-like strip of beach resorts. Dude's a regular foreign policy savant! Why didn't we think of that?
His other genius moves are to take the Panama Canal back illegally just because we want it, and to pressure Denmark into selling us Greenland, for the same reason. Only what Trump wants matters, you see. The fact that people own land, or live on land, and don't want to relinquish it, means nothing if Trump covets it. He's seen what Putin's doing (seizing valuable land from other countries by force) and think's it's a good idea.
He's also forcing a looming confrontation with the Supreme Court, three of whose justices he appointed, over the limits of Executive Branch authority to avoid Congressional oversight. He thinks he can create federal agencies and then give them power to perform functions the Constitution says belong to Congress. He pretends to be against the sprawling, out-of-control "deep state" and unelected bureaucrats, so he's created his own unelected bureaucrats in a brand new government agency. DOGE may sound like a good idea, but it's already shown it doesn't recognize any Constitituonal limits on its decision making power. Soon we'll learn how much Trump's own appointees to the courts agree with him. They've already ruled he can't deny people citizenship who were born here. As world emperor, he thought that question should be his to decide, instead of it belonging to the legislating power of Congress or that old, dusty US Constitution.
One more prediction millions of people made about Trump that has definitely been fulfilled even faster than even the most cynical folks anticipated: No matter what promises Trump broke, his adorers would never complain that he disappointed them as long as he kept at least one promise. So he put out an Executive Order against DEI programs, and that was enough. Wars can continue. Prices can stay high or climb higher. Foreign policy brinksmanship can flourish. It was foreseeable. The political and policy issues of the day were never as important as propping up the clueless bigshot at the center of Trump's cult of personality. His MAGA zealots wouldn't jump ship. And almost all Republicans politicians would be too afraid to.
We who predicted this truly wish we were wrong, but these results were all too easy to foresee.
So, say hello to RFK, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, a prostrate Congress and their puppeteer boss, who walks loudly and carries a small, papier mache stick!”