February 16: Tim Trainer, the proud Army brat who grew up to be an IP attorney and author, reflects on Presidents Day 2026
Monday Morning Magic from Inkandescent® PR + Publishing Co. — Today, our Inkandescent client Timothy Trainer, author of The Fortunate Son, asks the question: On President’s Day, are we supposed to be celebrating something? If so, it’s difficult to identify what that would be, given the speed with which the current president has undermined the constitution, the rule of law, and defied the courts.
He explains: Trump’s great 2020 election complaint about having the election stolen is worth keeping in mind. The spotlight should be on who really wants to steal an election or, going beyond that, eliminate future elections: Donald Trump pushes harder for nationalizing elections despite backlash. There’s no confusion about who is truly the wannabe thief: it’s the current occupant of the White House. And there’s no confusion as to who is consumed with the idea of going beyond stealing an election to cancelling them altogether.
On the flip side, despite the U.S.’s involvement in global wars, elections were held during both world wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the war on terror as we engaged in warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thus, any rhetoric by the Criminal in Chief about future elections is all about how he can fulfill his desire for the greatest election theft of all time, eliminating them and keeping power.
On this President’s Day, we see daily how this President defies the Constitution, laws, and court orders.
I’ve previously written about judges who have pushed back on ICE tactics and ICE’s routine violation of the rights of people, whether immigrants or citizens. A recent Reuters report dove into court actions arising from ICE’s actions and found that the courts have ruled over 4,000 times on how ICE has imprisoned people illegally.
A recent Reuters report dove into court actions arising from ICE’s actions and found that the courts have ruled over 4,000 times on how ICE has imprisoned people illegally. Click here to read more about it.
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About the Timothy Trainer: Writing books is a passion for attorney Timothy Trainer, who for more than three decades focused on intellectual property issues in his day job. He has worked in government agencies and in the private sector and his assignments have taken him to 60 countries around the world.
Tim found time to pen a few non-fiction tomes, including his first book, Customs Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights; the 15th edition was published in 2022. Thomson Reuters’ Aspatore Books published Tim’s next title in 2015, Potato Chips to Computer Chips: The War on Fake Stuff.
Fiction was a genre he always wanted to try. In 2019, Pendulum Over the Pacific, was released by Joshua Tree Publishing. “This political intrigue story is set in Tokyo and Washington, D.C., and centers on trade tensions between the U.S. and Japan in the late 1980s,” Tim explains.
In 2023, his first series hit bookstores: The China Connection.
In 2025, he published the sequel, The China Factor, which ranked #63 on the Amazon Asian Literature list in May.