United Nations: “Blackwater Pardons Violate International Law, Undermine Human Rights”

As anyone could have predicted, Trump’s decision to pardon the mass murders who, until their incarceration worked for the brother of the president’s Education Secretary, has been met with international condemnation.  The United Nations made this statement on the subject: “These pardons violate U.S. obligations under international law and more broadly undermine humanitarian law and human rights at a global level.”

There has never been a time in this nation’s history when the United States was more detested on a global scale than it is right now.  We’re universally reviled by the entirety of the civilized world, and it will require decades of herculean efforts on our part to turn this around.

Most Americans understand that all this is driven by Trump’s efforts to burn the country to the ground between now and the time he leaves office.  Writing for the “no holds barred” Irish Times, staff columnist Fintan O’Toole said this: Trump has unfinished business. A republic he wants to destroy still stands.