Topic category:  Partisan Politics

Yesterday the God who works in mysterious ways blessed America greatly.

Donald Trump is the President Elect of the United States of America.

Ohio is again God's country and it is still true that no Republican presidential candidate has won without winning Ohio.

It was a triumph for the ages.

America was on the brink and needed fundamental change, not more of the same.

A bombastic blue collar billionaire born in New York City boldly answered the call to try to make America great again and invested tens of millions of dollars to do it.

He did not let his imperfections stop him.

The man never held office, but he knows things that others don't realize (or won't admit).

The man who knew that Brexit (British Exit from the European Union) would win despite the polls and the British political establishment realized he could become President.

A decisive number of his supporters smartly relied on the secret ballot and kept their true support secret from pollsters.

Team Clinton and the liberal media establishment had made support for Trump appear sexist, racist, misogynistic and dangerous, so some Trump supporters protected themselves from abuse and the liberal media establishment thought they had been brainwashed or at least cowed.

WRONG!

Last month, in "Donald Trump Must Beat the Media as Well as Hillary Clinton to Become President"(www.webcommentary.com/php/ShowArticle.php?id=gaynorm&date=161017), I explained:

"Next month we will learn whether Donald Trump will be elected President.

"To do so, Trump must overcome media bias as well as Team Clinton.

"To do that, Trump must discredit the media as well as Team Clinton.

"It is a daunting task that Trump has undertaken.

"The media includes ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC and Univision as well as The New York Times, the Washington Post and nearly all the other prominent newspapers.

"They have been doing their worst to discredit Trump.

"Fox News is not really pro-Trump, as Megyn Kelly, Shepard Smith and others demonstrate regularly, but it is much more fair and balanced than other media outlets.

"Trump has been advised to ignore the media.

"It's absurd advice.

"As I explained in 'To Become President, Donald Trump Should Follow Newt Gingrich's Feisty Example and Attack Media Bias, But NOT All His Advice' (www.webcommentary.com/php/ShowArticle.php?id=gaynorm&date=161003):

'...Trump is also running against mainstream media bias and the bipartisan establishment that loathes the thought of an outsider like Trump becoming President.

'Dealing with them is Trump's biggest challenge, because they want to demonize him and be ignored in the process.'

'...telling Trump to disregard character assassination attempts is asking him to be less than candid with the American people and untrue to himself.

'Not going to happen!'

"Fortunately, it's NOT happening, and the ballot is still secret, so Trump still has a chance to win."

Trump choose not to ignore the media and won.

As I wrote in "Donald Trump Must Continue to Counterattack Liberal Media Bias, Not Ignore It" (www.webcommentary.com/php/ShowArticle.php?id=gaynorm&date=160823):

"Whether or not well-meaning, those person saying that Trump should give liberal media bias a pass pose a clear and present danger to making America great again.

"These recent tweets by Trump show that Trump is not accepting the advice not to attack there biased liberal media:

1. 'Some day, when things calm down, I'll tell the real story of @JoeNBC and his very insecure long-time girlfriend, @morningmika. Two clowns!'

2. 'Tried watching low-rated @Morning_Joe this morning, unwatchable! @morningmika is off the wall, a neurotic and not very bright mess!'

"Trump became the 2016 Republican presidential nominee by being authentic and counterattacking.

"The liberal media establishment wants its bias to be accepted.

"Trump has smartly refused and needs to continue to refuse, despite some well-meaning advice to focus exclusively on attacking 2016 Democrat presidential nominee and not taking the bait to highlight distractions.

"Counterattacking liberal media bias is essential to victory, not a whimsical frolic best left undone."

Kudos to Trump supporters Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham for standing strong and being right instead of wrong.

The Florida exit polls showed Hillary Clinton winning by 2% and there was gloom among Trump supporters who knew.

They should have remembered that in 2000 the Florida exit polls showed that Gore would beat Bush.

That year CBS falsely reported that Gore won Florida.

That depressed the Panhandle vote, where the polls closed an hour later than polls in the rest of the state, and led to hanging chads and litigation that ended up at the United States Supreme Court.

Trump campaign manager Kelly Anne Conway calls those quiet Trump voters "undercover."

That's better than calling them "shy."

The pollsters assumed too much.

Trump supporters are smart and God answers prayers.

Michael J. Gaynor

Biography - Michael J. Gaynor

Michael J. Gaynor has been practicing law in New York since 1973. A former partner at Fulton, Duncombe & Rowe and Gaynor & Bass, he is a solo practitioner admitted to practice in New York state and federal courts and an Association of the Bar of the City of New York member.

Gaynor graduated magna cum laude, with Honors in Social Science, from Hofstra University's New College, and received his J.D. degree from St. John's Law School, where he won the American Jurisprudence Award in Evidence and served as an editor of the Law Review and the St. Thomas More Institute for Legal Research. He wrote on the Pentagon Papers case for the Review and obscenity law for The Catholic Lawyer and edited the Law Review's commentary on significant developments in New York law.

The day after graduating, Gaynor joined the Fulton firm, where he focused on litigation and corporate law. In 1997 Gaynor and Emily Bass formed Gaynor & Bass and then conducted a general legal practice, emphasizing litigation, and represented corporations, individuals and a New York City labor union. Notably, Gaynor & Bass prevailed in the Second Circuit in a seminal copyright infringement case, Tasini v. New York Times, against newspaper and magazine publishers and Lexis-Nexis. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed, 7 to 2, holding that the copyrights of freelance writers had been infringed when their work was put online without permission or compensation.

Gaynor currently contributes regularly to www.MichNews.com, www.RenewAmerica.com, www.WebCommentary.com, www.PostChronicle.com and www.therealitycheck.org and has contributed to many other websites. He has written extensively on political and religious issues, notably the Terry Schiavo case, the Duke "no rape" case, ACORN and canon law, and appeared as a guest on television and radio. He was acknowledged in Until Proven Innocent, by Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson, and Culture of Corruption, by Michelle Malkin. He appeared on "Your World With Cavuto" to promote an eBay boycott that he initiated and "The World Over With Raymond Arroyo" (EWTN) to discuss the legal implications of the Schiavo case. On October 22, 2008, Gaynor was the first to report that The New York Times had killed an Obama/ACORN expose on which a Times reporter had been working with ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief.

Gaynor's email address is gaynormike@aol.com.