The election of Donald Trump is “illegitimate.” This is the drum beat, the die for the mold we shall have hurled at us for the next four years.

Because Hillary Clinton's trusted adviser, through negligence, allowed his emails to be compromised, “hacked” and those emails were then leaked over the last few weeks prior to the election, “The Russians” robbed our presidential election. Somehow, the truth of the information contained in Mr. Podesta's emails, their actual content, means nothing.

Somehow Mrs. Clinton's, “reset” some years back with the Russians; somehow President Obama's assurance to the Russians to just be patient until after he was re-elected in 2012; somehow Putin's, “in your face” fly-by of our entire Western seaboard by a pair of nuclear-weapon-capable aircraft, just last July 4, have morphed into and prove Putin would rather have Donald Trump as this country's president — and, he had the capability to control the minds and votes of millions of Americans, in the most important electoral college swing states in the country, in order to put his man in the White House. Wow!

Yet at the same time, Putin couldn't control the voters in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago as those votes cast actually gave Hillary an approximate 1.2 to 1.6 million “popular” vote majority. You see this also de-legitimizes Mr. Trump's election...?

Obama's legacy of $20 trillion national debt; the worst employment participation rate since the early ’70s, and his native city of Chicago having the worst black-on-black murder rate ever, with his former chief of staff as its mayor; his utter failure in international policy via the rise of ISIS; Obamacare failing across the nation, (remember keeping your doctor and saving $2,500 a year on premiums?) — these facts have nothing to do with Hillary's electoral loss. He told the world she was “The most qualified” human being to ever seek the office of President! “Vote for Hillary to protect my legacy!”

Hillary's inept campaign, her blatant use of her political position, power and privilege to build a $100-million-plus fortune since she and Bill left the White House, “broke”, and her 30,000 plus deleted emails... none of these facts had any impact on the hearts and minds of the American voter. “It was the Russians!” Oh yes, and the FBI director writing a letter to Congress late in the campaign. Just weeks prior to this letter, he was a hero to the democrat supporters.

Obama is going to stay in Washington. John Kerry is going to stay in the media mix. Obama is going to do everything he can to protect his "legacy." The alphabet media will give Obama a microphone any time he desires.

He is going to set the modern-day precedent of how a former president can undermine the nation's new choice of a leader.

All the while, sadly blinded acolytes like Carol Sherman will continue to believe with all their hearts that evil itself, in the form of conservative Republicans and rich businessmen, now occupy the halls of the Execuctive, the Congress, and the Judicial branches of our government. Donald was not even my second choice but a vote for the proven poster woman of lies, greed and corruption at the highest levels? No way!

We are going to face a whole new era of politics never seen before. Hold on to your seats folks. It's a full-court press now to destroy our nation's new president with blatant open lies and deceit. Totally manufactured stories are already being broadcast as news, such as the “Golden Stream” dossier. The truth will require discernment, historical knowledge and critical thinking. Not your favorite progressive blog site...

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Jon Keith is a resident of Coeur d Alene.