Helsinki Ignored
Revisited in Anchorage, Alaska
Lies unchallenged fester. Dishonesty tolerated swells. Disloyalty betrays forever.
BBC News reported, on 16 July 2018, the summit between then U.S. President Donald Trump and then Russian President Vladimir Putin, with this headline: “Trump sides with Russia against FBI at Helsinki summit.” The sub-heading read: “US President Donald Trump has defended Russia over claims of interference in the 2016 presidential election.”
The dishonest, disreputable and ever despicable DJT did not merely defend himself against accusations of tacit “collusion” with the Russian interference in 2016, which, by then, had been well documented. He actually accepted the “word” of the former KGB operative and Russian President, Putin, over the unanimous assessment of U.S. intelligence agencies.
He did this in public, on the world stage. He betrayed the United States in plain sight of the entire world, shamelessly and without consequences to himself or to his support by the vast majority of “Republican” officials.
“President Putin says it’s not Russia. I don’t see any reason why it would be,” DJT responded, when asked – at the summit press conference – whether he believed Putin, or U.S. intelligence agencies.
BBC News reported the following subsequent reactions to the event.
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) issued a statement in which he said, “No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant.”
Even the ever-self-disgracing Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who at the time served as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, noted that this was “a missed opportunity … to firmly hold Russia accountable for 2016 meddling.”
Then President Trump’s own Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, affirmed the assessment of the Intelligence Community about Russia’s “ongoing, pervasive attempts” to undermine American democracy.
An analyst for the BBC, Jonathan Marcus, reported that “Mr. Putin was already winning on points, by the mere fact that President Trump was meeting him in the first place.”
Fast forward to August 15, 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska, where the current criminal U.S. president (DJT) welcomed – on U.S. soil – the war criminal Putin, indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of committing war crimes in Ukraine. Notably, neither Russia nor the U.S. is a signatory to the ICC.
Elsewhere in the civilized world, Putin today fears arrest on the warrant issued by the ICC pursuant to the indictment for war crimes. But the despicable DJT, disdaining all morality, tars, sullies and besmirches the moral reputation of all Americans forever.
By welcoming the war criminal Putin warmly on American soil – for no good reason – the American felon, convicted of fraud, whom a narrow plurality of misguided American voters unwittingly empowered to betray the nation, ultimately sealed his own fate. Neither Americans nor world leaders will soon forget this “repeat” betrayal.
Today, August 16, 2025, Steve Holland, Andrew Osborn and Tom Balmforth of Reuters headlined their report: “Trump told Zelensky after summit that Putin wants more of Ukraine, source says.” In their lede, the Reuters reporters write, “U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday Ukraine should make a deal to end the war with Russia because ‘Russia is a very big power and they’re not.’”
What statesmanship! What insight! What high-minded leadership! What a man!
No American ever should have to endure one single moment of such an unfit and morally corrupt President, but here we are.
Ukrainian President Zelensky, naturally rejected the demand, according to the source. Reuters further reports: “Trump also said he had agreed with Putin that a peace deal should be sought without the prior ceasefire that Ukraine and its European allies, until now with U.S. support, have demanded.”
Whether the criminal U.S. president (DJT) is formally a Russian “asset” (or not) hardly matters anymore. The man does not represent, on the world stage or anywhere else, the true national security interests of the United States. DJT is America’s enemy.
The man must be impeached, convicted, and removed from office at the earliest possible moment. It cannot happen too soon. Nor is it likely to happen soon enough. But the “summits” – in Helsinki in 2018 and in Anchorage in 2025 – demonstrate, as nothing else so dramatically can do, that the morally reprehensible DJT has no business whatever occupying the White House.
Further, he has no business attempting to render true and loyal Americans throughout the land under (what he imagines as) his “occupation forces.”
The U.S. armed services will not long tolerate abuse by a “wannabe” tyrant as the repressive, totalitarian force, used to crush the rights of Americans, peaceably to dissent and to seek redress of grievances. Some few “appointees” – tainted by politics, which ought never enter into the military – may go along for a time. Some few NCOs may be tainted. But not many.
None of these honorable men and women signed up to become “New Nazi” stormtroopers. The vast and overwhelming majority of American soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines are loyal Americans serving our country with honor and courage. They will not follow illegal orders en masse, to shoot Americans who demonstrate in the streets.
The end draws near for DJT, but it will take too long, however fast it happens.
Now, let us return to the Epstein files. Let us return to all the other shameful reasons and events that continuously confirm the unfitness of this dishonest and decompensating man, wholly unfit to serve in any office of public trust under the United States.
Neither, at this late stage, is any “Republican” official fit to serve – elected or appointed – who aids or abets the open criminality, the unmistakable disdain for the U.S. Constitution, and the daily violations of American law.
Register to vote. Vote. Help others do the same. Elect only honest and honorable men and women to represent the actual interests of ordinary Americans and the nation. Restore decency to our civic life and civil society. Restore the rule of law.
Restore honor and decency to our foreign policy, our allies and ourselves.