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     Roger Stone broke the law. In February 2020, Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison. He was found guilty in November 2019 of obstructing justice, witness tampering and five counts of lying to Congress. It was obvious that Stone was involved in working with Russia to help the president win the election. The justice system under President Trump is broken. There are 2 systems, one rich – one poor, one White – and one Black.

     Even before I returned to the United States from my combat tour in Vietnam, I had decided that we were fighting an unjust war. More than 50 years later, watching Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods” set off my internal alarm bells, warning against African Americans blindly participating in U.S. foreign policy.

    During the uprising following the brutal filmed murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, Trump called some of the rioters’ thugs and tweeted that “when the looting starts the shooting starts.”

      Most of the time in America, when you break a record, you are congratulated for a job well done. During the reality of Covid-19, breaking a record generally means that the numbers are going in the wrong direction. In the last week over 56,000 Americans on a daily level are being infected by the coronavirus pandemic.