Trump: Good and evil

The Stossel TV Studio is just a block from Trump Tower. On this day, noisy helicopters hover, and sidewalks are pointlessly blocked by the usual politics/ media excess: too many barricades manned by too many bored police officers. The predicted “big demonstration!” and “possible violence” are not visible.

Donald Trump left for the courthouse around 1 p.m. Tuesday to turn himself in. He was booked and fingerprinted at the courthouse. He then pled not guilty to the 34-count charge of falsifying records to hide hush money payments. Presidents should not be above the law, but neither should they face politically motivated charges.

politicians and teacher unions so they can dictate what children are taught in public classrooms. And this House bill will curtail that.” “Society’s problems start and end with public education.”

— Michael Bloomberg

This bill follows a growing national movement for the rights of parents to be a part of policymaking and give them the right to restrict how and when teachers talk about race, gender and sex. Our parents have voiced that this is a priority for Congress since “woke Democrats” forced the teaching of CRT and LBGT sex education in public classrooms. Parents are mad and demand that this ends now.

The bill spells out five specific rights for every parent at every level of public education until a child reaches 18: “The right to know what children are being taught; to be heard by all school leaders, to review school budget spending, to protect their children’s privacy, and to keep their children safe.” granted each state the responsibility to educate their own children, President Jimmy Carter formed an alliance with the teacher unions in 1979 and federalized state education.

Manhattan district attorneys campaigned on opposing Mr. Trump, bragging, “I have sued Trump more than a hundred times!” He suggested he would be the best choice to get Mr. Trump before he even saw the evidence. That’s just wrong. Federal prosecutors did see the evidence and decided against charging Mr. Trump.

Using campaign funds to pay someone to keep silent about sex may well violate the rules, but most campaign finance rules are useless, and no serious person thinks this case would ever be brought against anyone other than Mr. Trump.

This is a slippery slope to banana republic.

On the other hand, Mr. Trump definitely is a horrible person.

In his real estate business, he cheated the little people, cleverly using our slow and expensive justice system to avoid paying what he owed. As president, he was unpresidential and childish. He’s vain, selfish and mean. He doesn’t read or listen to advice from smart people, and he lies again and again. I hate him.

“The federal government will have the loudest voice in education moving forward.”

— Jimmy Carter

Teacher unions have been fast-tracking orders from Washington and local Democrats for decades. Local school boards dictate curriculum that glorifies liberalism. Each year they remove salient U.S. events and heroes from history and replace them with obscure incidents from some identity group.

Since President Joe Biden took office, public schools have been cloning woke progressives. White kids are taught to feel guilty for being white. Black kids are taught that America is a racist nation. Children are now taught about both heterosexual and LBGT alternative sex in public elementary school.

In the 2021 Virginia governors’ race, Democrat Terry McAuliffe said, “I don’t think parents should tell schools what they can teach.”

On Election Day, indignant parents voted for Republican Glenn Youngkin.

“A quality education is good for the students and better for the nation.”

— Mitt Romney

Mr. McAuliffe woke up the sleeping giant. For the next few months Virginia school boards were filled to capacity with angry parents who demanded their seat at the table. And this was contagious. Soon there was standing room only at school board meetings across America filled with angry parents.

In reaction to the parents’ outrage, President Biden sent the FBI to school board meetings to remove parents, calling them domestic terrorists. During COVID-19 when kids were schooled at home, parents were appalled with the curriculum. School boards added or removed books they liked or disliked without consulting parents. Any parent who questioned the board about anything they didn’t like was told to go home.

Last week, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his fellow Republicans passed the Parents’ Bill of Rights, which lists parental rights in the classrooms. Speaker McCarthy said, “The past two years, we’ve seen a troubling trend taking root in the Democratic Party. They are taking power away from parents and giving it to the

“We want parents to control their kids’ education, not the government doing it.”

— Kevin McCarthy

The bill is straightforward in detailing the rights parents already have in their school districts. Yet for years, school boards made decisions long before parents arrived at meetings. And parents spend the entire meeting challenging them. Board members won’t listen to their concerns and cut them off.

Chris Dier, a teacher in New Orleans, retorted, “It will make teachers’ jobs harder by fueling the narrative that teachers suppress the parents’ rights in favor of the union and the government.” Yet that’s what they did when President Carter joined the unions and government and