Persuasive Essay

According to Newsmax, “The Washington Post has assigned 20 reporters to look into every aspect of Donald Trump’s past as the presumptive GOP nominee seeks to become the next president of the United States, famed Post associate editor, Bob Woodward, said Wednesday.” Woodward is looking into Donald Trump’s real estate deals saying that “The New York real estate world is more complex than the CIA. Look, the job at The Washington Post has to be tell us everything about who the eventual nominee will be in both parties, 15-part, 16-part series, 20-part series, we want to look at every part of their lives and we're never going get the whole story of course but we can get the best attainable.” It was also said that the Post is working to get the essence of Hilary Clinton. Woodward does not believe that Clinton purposely tried to use her private email server to send out classified information. In another article by Newsmax, “Woodward called Hillary Clinton's connections to "pay for play" through the Clinton Foundation and the access she had given when she was secretary of state "corrupt" and something that voters should be troubled by. Yes, it’s corrupt; it’s a scandal,” Woodward told the "Fox News Sunday" panel monitored by Wednesday's presidential debate moderator Wallace, and referencing back Wednesday's

Tosossian said he was of interest to Mueller because he was approached in 2012 by Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, and Rick Gates, an associate to Manafort, about doing public relations work for the Ukrainian government.

What makes all of America concerned about President Trump. The relationship between President Trump and many citizens is shaky. This makes Leonhardt question why President Trump helps with his campaign when those people had a limited role in his success. Leonhardt questioned, "Do you remember Paul Manafort, the chairman of Trump's Champaign, who ran the crucial delegate-counting operation?” Leonhardt did not ask this question on accident. Leonhardt purposefully asked the question to answer it. The question interacts with his audience, which in effect guides one reading his editorial in the direction he wants one to think about President Trump. Leonhardt wanted to emphasize how Trump is a hypocrite. There is no way that Trump won his election by himself without much help, establishing an irritated angry tone. Leonhardt also adds a rhetorical questions by Adam Schiff in which Schiff asks, "Is it possible that all of these events and reports are completely unrelated, and nothing more than an entirely unhappy coincidence?" The rhetorical question means is that can the suspicious ties and encounters between Trump and Putin seriously be a fluke? Maybe; but nonetheless, Leonhardt incorporates this rhetorical question into his editorial even though he did not say it because it is not a coincidence. If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and smells like a duck, then that mysterious animal is a duck. The rhetorical question has an implied answer of maybe; however, the purpose of that rhetorical question is to further guide one reading his editorial in the direction Leonhardt wants his audience to think. Leonhardt does not trust President Trump and he wants everyone to understand why. President Trump is playing the hide and seek game, but it is not the same game children play. It is the game every lying president has

After Mueller’s indictment of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates on Monday, many Americans have begun to wonder what Mueller’s next move will be. A look into what Mueller’s probe into possible collusion between the Russians and Donald Trump is currently doing also may have came into focus on Monday. Trump’s former foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos admitted to making false statements to FBI agents about making attempts to set up meetings between Trump campaign and Russian officials. Papadopoulos is now giving Mueller information about other people that may have been involved in collusion or that violated federal law. The fact that Manafort is being indicted at the moment means that he likely did not talk like Papadopoulos. Trump still won’t necessarily be indicted, but these recent indictments mean that this is only the start for Mueller, not the end as Trump hoped.

Flynn was one of the earliest supporters of Trump's campaign. Often known to have harsh political views and fondness of conspiracy theories, Flynn was no stranger to controversy. In a hacked email scandal, former Secretary of State Colin Powell called him "right-wing nutty"—but Trump that did not matter to Trump and he rewarded Flynn's loyalty by making him his national-security adviser (SCHMIDLE, NICHOLAS). The Washington Post publicized that Flynn, who was still a private citizen at the time, had talked about American sanctions against Russia with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian Ambassador while he was in Washington. This scandal was revealed when Flynn was only three weeks into his new job as Trump's national-security adviser. The conversations were between the two were thought to be illegal. The Obama Administration declared the removal of 35 Russian diplomats in retaliation for Russia's attempts to swing the election in Trump's favor; ironically, Flynn and Kislyak's communications, by phone calls and text messaging, happened on the same day (SCHMIDLE, NICHOLAS). Flynn had denied talking about sanctions

In the Nunes' four-page memo, it was revealed that the FBI and DOJ used Steel's dossier not only spy on Trump's campaign, but to lay the foundation for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

“Within our own staff, under my direction, the counsel to the president, Mr. Dean, has conducted a complete investigation of all leads which might involve any present members of the White House staff, no one in this administration, presently employed was involved in this bizarre incident.......what really hurts is if you try to cover things like this up.” (WHT 828)

In June of 2016, Donald Trump Jr. expressed interest in meeting someone described as a Russian government lawyer who had damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. This contradicts what members of the Trump presidential campaign have been saying for months, which is they never sought or received help from Russia to defeat Clinton. The denials and subsequent disclosure of the emails from Trump Jr. are only escalating the controversy surrounding President Trump’s administration.

Zurcher discusses all the Republican party has gone through with trump through the elections and how they may be loosing their patience. The report brings the reader back to Trumps dinner party in which he released information with Russia. The National Security Adviser stating that the information Trump released was “appropriate”. Lastly, Lurcher gives seven reasons on why Trumps last slip up isn’t going to go away. The first reason he gave was, “ High Crimes and Misdemeanors,” stating that with people calling this act treasonous many are calling for immediate removal. The second reason was, “The Russian Factor,” he explained that with Trumps current investigation with being involved with Russia during the election the fact that he leaking the information to Russian officials seems almost to validate the issues in his FBI investigation. The third reason, “Skeptical allies,” explains exactly what the title states and that with him leaking information to Russian officials it makes our allies such as Israel very skeptical of the United States at the moment. Reason four, "A leaky ship of

Manafort infamously came into the Trump campaign with guns blazing and aimed right at Trump’s public persona, making grandiose pronouncements that the presidential candidate would become more “presidential” and shed some of his most disturbing character traits.

Donald Trump, The President of the United States has stated that he has not had any interactions with Russia in years, but his own words say otherwise. Trump has told reporters that he has had no interactions with Russia for the past 10 years, but weeks later he told reporters that he has had talked to Russia. As the leader of the United States, Trump needs to tell the truth, for his own safety and America's safety. There is no doubt that our current President, Donald Trump would be impeached. If president Trump cannot tell the truth, there needs to be something the American people can do about it.

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“Your assignment is to write a persuasive essay and present it to the class in a week. You will be graded based on how convincing it is. Today we will be choosing topics,” announced Mr. Bowerbank, my 7th grade English teacher and ruler of classroom 110. My class simultaneously groaned at the prospect of work. I simply lifted my head with intrigue as it was already May and about time we had our first essay. He then proceeded to give examples of topics we could choose and gave us some time to think before we had to tell him our topic. My classmates were already rushing to tell the teacher their idea lest someone else steal it. That meant the usual abortion, death penalty, or drug use topics were out. I really couldn't think of anything and the teacher was slowly making his way through the remaining students like an executioner beheading criminals in a line. I have always thought that he would make a marvelous supervillain if he had a curly mustache, a tophat, and a cape. Eventually my name was called. I slowly dragged myself over to his desk. Even sitting down, he still seemed to tower over me. “What is your topic Cindy?” As usual in such desperate times, my mind turned to food. “Waffles are better than pancakes.” I figured that a waffle was just a differently shaped pancake with a nicer texture. “Hmm. Excellent topic. I look forward to your essay!” I survived to live yet another day.

British publicist, Rob Goldstone, with ties to the Trump family, said that the Russian Government “offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to (Trump)” (qtd. in Barrett et al. 37). As investigations into whether or not Trump was involved grew, they were soon halted when the new President fired the leading investigator, James Comey (Williams 12; Osnos et al. 5).

Having escaped rule from a tyrannical British government, the United States was founded on ideals of freedom and equality for all people. These fantasies of universal egalitarianism turned out to be merely that: fantasies. American history is full of stories of the oppressed struggling to get the rights they deserve and of the controversy over these issues that consequently ensues. “The Hypocrisy of American Slavery” by Frederick Douglass and “We Shall Overcome” by Lyndon B. Johnson are two speeches made confronting two of these issues. Douglass’s speech, delivered in 1852, condemns the institution of slavery and maintains that slaves are men and are therefore entitled to freedom. Johnson’s speech, on the other hand, was written in 1965 and discussed the civil rights movement. In it, he implored local governments to allow all American citizens, regardless of race, to vote. Despite the significant gap in time between these two addresses, both speakers use similar persuasive techniques, including ethos, pathos, and parallelism, to convince their audience that change needs to be implemented in America.