Ogebe states Trump’s case against Trump (part 1 – creating scapegoats to distract from his crimes)
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Donald Trump delights in creating scapegoats and making incendiary rhetoric to distract attention from his falsehoods and crimes because he has nothing else to offer, says Emmanuel Ogebe, a rights activist who has studied up close the antics of the former United States President who threatens to turn the world upside down if he wins the election on Tuesday and to unleash violence everywhere if he loses.
The Nigerian-American human rights lawyer based in Washington also cited Trump’s hypocrisy in lying and railing against immigrants when he himself is a mere second generation American born of immigrant parents and whose two former wives – Ivana and Maria – were not born in the US, and the current one, Melania, is a Slovenian who obtained American citizenship.
Trump easily gets away with immigrant bashing because the US media largely fails to highlight his own immigrant origin, which includes the fact his father Fred was the son of German immigrants and his mother Mary Anne MacLeod was a Scottish immigrant.
The parents of his latest wife, Melania, both from Slovenia, became US immigrants, and all of Trump’s five children – from the eldest, Trump Jr; to the youngest, Barron) were born to him by immigrant wives.
Politico reports that during the Trump Presidency (2017-2021), Melania’s father Viktor Knavs and mother Amalija Knavs both lived in New York and occasionally appeared at the White House.
Vicktor and Amalija obtained American citizenship when Trump was President, and Amalija died in January 2024 at the age of 78, announced on X (Twitter) by Trump.
Melania sponsored her parents’ immigration to the US. They took the oath of office to become citizens at a New York City courthouse in 2018, while Trump was President. Victor, a former car dealer, and Amalija, a former textile factory worker, had been living in the US as permanent residents.
Melania was a fashion model before Trump married her, and she recently proudly published her nude modelling pictures from her previous source of livelihood – of glorified prostitution – something Trump would have lambasted as immoral and disqualifying from an exalted office if it had been uncovered of Harris (to become US President) or her husband, Douglas Emhoff (to become US First Gentleman).
Resolving the Trump debacle
Below is Ogebe’s dossier on the inexhaustible infractions and crimes of Trump – who also has the tile of the world’s most litigious man who has sued or been sued more than 4,000 times in his lifetime.
The upcoming US presidential election is needlessly controversial because of the continued candidature of former President Donald Trump. However, a few pertinent facts address his key immigration issue and arguably self-resolve the Trump debacle.
1. Trump Claims Migrants are causing high real estate prices in America. However, he’s a real estate developer who went bankrupt six times and his running mate Senator JD Vance’s Acretrader app sells American farmland to foreign investors thus contributing to real estate prices. Indeed corporate investors, not migrants, are chiefly to blame for high home-buying costs.
2. Trump claims migrants are criminals but he is the one convicted of 34 felonies. Three people involved in separate suspected assassination attempts on him are all white male Americans and not migrants.
3. Trump claims America is giving aid to people abroad and neglecting Americans. But it was Trump who took critical Covid supplies and gave to America’s archenemy Russian President Vladimir Putin as one million Americans were dying.
4. Trump claims migrants are “poisoning the blood of America.” His own father was the son of immigrants, his mother was an immigrant, his wives were immigrants and all his children were born by immigrants. Immigrant blood runs deep in his family. If anything, it’s his vicious rhetoric that is poisoning America, dividing families and inciting insurrection against the state.
5. Trump says that migrants are taking American jobs. However he printed his $60 Bibles in communist China, losing American “Christian” jobs ironically. He has generally produced his products in China consistently depriving Americans of those jobs.
6. Trump says migrants are taking Black jobs. It is Trump’s company that was cited for discriminating against Black renters. Migrants continue to pick farm produce, keeping food prices affordable at a micro job level. At a macro level, immigrant medical doctors (Nigerians inclusive) provide critical human capital support for the massive U.S. healthcare system which is premised, predicated and sustained by importation of medics.
7. Trump says migrants are violent. The worst attack on the US since 911 was the January 6th insurrection which he incited. It wasn’t by immigrants but by American Trumpists. White nationalism and domestic terrorism is now America’s biggest national security threat. Trump and co were literally the enemy within, unlike Al Qaeda foreign terrorists.
8. Trump claims that FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] isn’t helping Americans because their funds were given to migrants. However, FEMA is helping American disaster victims and their funds were not given to migrants. Strangely enough, during Trump’s presidency, he actually took money from FEMA and gave it to ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] for migrants and refused to help states that didn’t vote for him during disasters.
9. Trump says illegal immigrants were eating Americans’ cats and dogs. These were legal US residents and they did not eat any pets. They were here legally because of the chaotic situation in Haiti which has been a U.S. neighbor for centuries. So Trump attacks both illegal and lawful migrants. Ironically Trump’s family is pictured killing lions (a member of the cat family) just for sport! Much worse, Trump stole the children of migrants from them in a bizarre and barbaric act that outweighs fake pet stories.
10. Trump said he would build a wall that Mexico would pay for. His top aide raised millions from Americans for the wall and stole the money. No immigration bill was passed by Trump and the first comprehensive immigration bill done in decades was sabotaged by Trump so he would have a problem to run on.
From the above, without even referencing his opponent’s platform, Trump is the biggest ad against Trump just from reviewing his inconsistent words and actions on migrants.
They are scapegoats for his failures and his crimes – a convenient political distraction by someone who has nothing else to offer.
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