Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets

When I Exhume The Truth


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Exhume: definition >> dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground* 

This poem was written on February 16 2017, and is very appropriate for today. With the details of Donald Trump's taxes finally available for examination via the New York Times. 

Donald's grandfather, Friedrich, from whom the family fortune was founded, was deported from Bavaria after returning home at the beginning of the 20th century. The government of Bavaria was displeased that he had avoided serving his military obligation.

The truth is always a casualty of Donald Trump's >>20,000 false claims/lies spoken, since assuming the Presidency a month before this poem was written.

*Oxford Languages Dictionary

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