by Fred Logan
Donald Trump teems with contradictions. He just made public the sealed FBI files on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We can make a safe bet Trump’s aim is to discredit Dr. King. He cannot. Donald Trump with all of his “Executive Orders” can’t do that.
Be sure to read online the full “Statement from The King Center Regarding the Declassification and Release of FBI Files on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”
In part, it says, “The release of these files must be viewed within their full historical context. During our father’s lifetime, he was relentlessly targeted by an invasive, predatory, and deeply disturbing disinformation and surveillance campaign orchestrated by J. Edgar Hoover through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The intent of the government’s COINTELPRO campaign was not only to monitor, but to discredit, dismantle and destroy Dr. King’s reputation and the broader American Civil Rights Movement.
These actions were not only invasions of privacy, but intentional assaults on the truth—undermining the dignity and freedoms of private citizens who fought for justice, designed to neutralize those who dared to challenge the status quo.
While we support transparency and historical accountability, we object to any attacks on our father’s legacy or attempts to weaponize it to spread falsehoods. We strongly condemn any attempts to misuse these documents in ways intended to undermine our father’s legacy and the significant achievements of the movement. Those who promote the fruit of the FBI’s surveillance will unknowingly align themselves with an ongoing campaign to degrade our father and the Civil Rights Movement.”
At the very same moment Donald Trump is attacking Dr. King, this same Donald Trump is attacking and trying to dismantle the FBI. The media recently reported that “Over the past five months, many F.B.I. agents, including other top managers and national security experts, have been fired, pressured to leave or transferred to lesser roles. Hundreds have resigned on their own, unwilling to follow the demands of the Trump administration.”
Trump in words and deeds is discrediting the very same institution he is using to discredit Dr. King. This is vintage Trump, teeming with contradictions.
At the same moment, Trump has been vacillating this way and that way on releasing the files of the sex trafficker Jeffery Epstein who died in prison. There is international speculation that the files may contain information on some of Trump’s escapades that he wants to suppress. Some of Trump’s boon coon MAGA allies such as Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson have called for the files to be made public.
On July 23, the US “House Oversight Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement passed Congresswoman Summer L. Lee’s (PA-12) motion to subpoena the Department of Justice for the full, unredacted release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The files must be released to the House Oversight Subcommittee by the Department of Justice. The motion passed with bipartisan support on a vote of 8-2.” Check this out on YouTube.
The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. teaches us that the struggle is to win allies. To the contrary, nationally and world-wide Donald Trump is making adversaries on the right and on the left, in North America, in Central America, in South America, across the Middle East, in Asia, in Africa, in Europe, most everywhere.
Trump is reportedly in combat with the Washington Commanders NFL football team to change their name back to the Washington Redskins.
Harvard University, former GOP congresswoman Liz Cheney, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, SEATO nations, African American Studies, the Martin Luther King legacy, former career-long CIA and FBI agents, the five million plus “No Kings” Americans, the vast majority White, who rallied across the United States on June 14, are a few of the many adversaries who Trump created.
The heads of government from Russia’s Valamir Putin to the leaders of the other 190 plus nations–excluding Isreal–smile and smirk at Trump’s antics and continue to realign global power relations.
Some 50 years ago, the prominent African American political economist Robert S. Browne told us, “We are witnessing the end of an era, the passing away of the age of American global predominance.” Donald Trump accelerates this inevitable decline.
Trump’s domestic allies are the January 6 crowd wearing KKK robes and Vikings helmets and waving Nazi flags. Many of these White folks will now lose some of their safety net benefits. It is said those whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad—make lunatics.
Donald Trump cannot discredit Martin Luther King historic 20th century legacy and the legacy of the African American freedom movement before the masses of the 8 plus billion people around the world.
At a May 1972 tribute to Dr. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, a leading statesman of African independence, the African revolutionary leader Amilcar Cabral quoted an African proverb that is apropos, precise for Trump’s asinine attempt to discredit the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Cabral said, “Those who dare to spit at the sky only dirty their own faces.”
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