{"id":18951,"date":"2026-04-02T18:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=18951"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:05:04","slug":"don-the-con-is-in-deep-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/don-the-con-is-in-deep-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Don the Con Is in Deep Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lafe Tolliver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq\u2019<\/strong>
\nGuest Column<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you have been watching just a smidgen of the news these past few days, you will come to the easy conclusion that Donald Trump, the self-professed \u201cstable genius\u201d and who \u201cknows more than all of the generals,\u201d is in a sand trap up to his neck.<\/p>\n

However, this sand trap is different. As in Florida, sometimes a sand trap can be a rest stop for a weary alligator on his way to the waterways. But for Trump, this economic and political sand trap of his own making, is loaded with alligators, water buffaloes and pythons.<\/p>\n

Trump, due to dysfunctional thinking and an ego that rivals that of the size of the planet<\/p>\n

Jupiter, is boxed in due to his constant lies about everything about the economy and the disastrous war with Iran.<\/p>\n

Trump has played hopscotch with his statements about who is doing what to whom and how he is the greatest negotiator for all time and that Iran will and is capitulating to his 15 point peace plan.<\/p>\n

In a word: hogwash! Trump is flaying like a drowning man in a rough ocean and he is seeking any face-saving exit so that he can exult that he is the one person who ended the war that he started. How brave of him! How noble!<\/p>\n

Mind you, I am no proxy or friend of the Iranian brutal regime and do not want them to get long range missiles that would jeopardize any nation that any ayatollah could, on any given day, threaten with a nuclear holocaust.<\/p>\n

The acts of Trump in gas lighting the American public about the war and its now serious ramifications are worthy of impeachment or at least the cabinet members (will never happen)<\/p>\n

using the 25th<\/sup> amendment to oust him.<\/p>\n

It is an enigma to see the American public becoming complacent bystanders as Trump<\/p>\n

plows ahead with a cacophony of political gibberish as to the great economy and his successful war, \u201cgoing well\u201d (remember, Trump said the war was won on the first day).<\/p>\n

And who can forget Trump figuratively pounding the table saying he will not engage<\/p>\n

America in any more foreign wars. Now, in light of the 82nd<\/sup> Airborne being sent to the region, that lie got kicked to the curb!<\/p>\n

If you are happy with the Trump telling the facile GOP not to approve TSA funding in the hopes that the Democrats will crumble and Trump can get his Jim Crow lite voting bill passed, think again.<\/p>\n

The political disaster that is looming over the GOP in the upcoming midterms will be a<\/p>\n

test case of the resolution of the American voter to halt this further insanity of TSA lines,<\/p>\n

gas lines, bombing innocent civilians and Trump blaming Biden (yes, Biden is still his go to<\/p>\n

whipping boy when Trump is boxed in a dead end corner) for the high gas prices and the war!<\/p>\n

If a screen writer were to have submitted such a story line for a movie deal, he or she would have been laughed out of the production offices of a movie company saying that such a plotline was to bizarre or fanciful. Not now, because in Trump\u2019s Alice In Wonderland thinking, nothing is too farfetched not to be believed or see put in place.<\/p>\n

Maybe, just maybe Trump is bluffing about dropping the airborne troopers on Iranian<\/p>\n

territory and he is using it as a poker game bluff, but if the Iranians call that bluff, you could very well see dead American soldiers coming home in body bags to Dover, Delaware (the airport site for the return of deceased military personnel).<\/p>\n

What are the chances that by the time this article is printed and read, \u00a0that Congress, in order to save their Easter break time, will have settled this fiasco of their own making because none of them had the moral grit to speak truth to power?<\/p>\n

And just think of it! A Democrat won a seat in the Florida Statehouse that encompasses Mar-A-Lago!<\/p>\n

You talk about a red seat being blown out of the water! Of course, Trump will default to his usual position and talk about voter fraud or the Deep State but, whatever, Trump will be represented in his district by a Democrat.<\/p>\n

So, I will say it again, if you are a resident of Lucas County, it not too soon to check your voter status and make sure you are registered to vote and that you know your voting precinct.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t wait until the last minute and if there is a problem due to you being lazy and you are stopped from voting\u2026oh well. Just mumble and grumble to yourself, go home and order a pizza with sausage and banana peppers for dinner. You don\u2019t deserve anything else.<\/p>\n

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Contact Lafe Tolliver at Lafe5x@gmail.com<\/em><\/p>\n

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