Answering The Phone! #287 By Hank Silverberg Commentary There has been a lot of discussion this week about the conviction of Donald Trump in the hush money case in New York. I will skip the analysis of the trial and Trump's ranting about it being rigged. To my readers, I must write that this is the furthest I have ever gone in a partisan direction. I would like the voters, who DO have a big decision to make in November, to just sit and think for a moment about the future, leaving party loyalty and ideological leanings behind. Trump has gone beyond anything we have had as a major party nominee in the past. Trump is now a convicted felon--something that would disqualify him to serve in the military, yet he wants to be commander-in-chief. It's unlikely he will ever serve jail time, for this crime at least. But it's clear, if you didn't already know it, that Trump is a pathological liar. Not j