Astounding facts:
- Dozens of high-level Trump Administration officials still working with temporary security clearances after one year.
- Trump campaign still under investigation for collusion and obstruction with no end in sight.
- Secrets made public for political purposes against the advice of intelligence agencies.
- Trump appointees Sessions, Rosenstein, and others demeaned by President Trump.
- President Trump won’t read briefings; insists on oral reports.
- President Trump reportedly acts on information from TV news he favors.
- President Trump stoops to trading insults with the North Korean dictator.
- President Trump demands appointees put loyalty before duty.
- President Trump still tweeting recklessly.
- President Trump accuses Democrats of disloyalty for not applauding his remarks.
- Trump Administration cites “alternative facts.”
- Wars in Levant, Afghanistan recklessly reinvigorated.
- Department of Justice attacking state laws, sanctuary cities.
- ICE officers dragging people out of their homes for deportation.
- President Trump’s public lies reportedly over a thousand in the first year.
- Little or no action to prevent future Russian interference in our elections.
- FBI attacked by the Trump Administration for partisan bias.
- President Trump involved in sex scandal.
- Ignoring emoluments clause, President Trump and family shamelessly profiting from public office.
- President Trump failed to release tax return as promised.
- Republicans pass budget busting tax cuts.
- Republicans back budget busting budget.
- President Trump still insisting on something he can call a wall.
- Doomsday clock moved closer to midnight.
How can this be the new normal?
Readers, please add more astounding facts to the list.
New NY 23rd 
A president of the US, while sitting in office, has been forced to pay a $25,000,000 fine for fraud for running a scam out of his “Trump University”.
A Republican dominated Supreme Court has ruled that the Republican party of Pennsylvania must stop cheating the voters with their crooked gerrymandering schemes.
Mr Kelly, the chief of staff is caught blatantly lying about a black Congresswoman and then ignoring the FBI reports that he has a wife abuser as an assistant to the president. And he keeps his job.
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So little outrage and no likely remedy makes our situation all the more frightening and unbelievable.
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Once I was on a hike with boy scouts; we were carrying a flagpole. We met another scout riding a horse. We pretended to joust with the flagpole as a lance. The horse took one look at that, bucked off the rider, and went about his business. I wish we collectively had as much sense as that horse.
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The most mind-boggling, astonishing fact of all: There are still millions of people who somehow still believe Trump and his cronies are doing a great job!
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