When it comes to Trump and corruption, I made a stupid mistake. With the cryptocurrency shakedowns or the Qatar’s gift of 747 airplane to him or the scams of his son-in-law and sons, I thought, well, it can’t get worse. How naive.
Then this week, he and his former criminal attorney and new Pet Rock Attorney General Todd Blanch launched a $1.776 billion slush fund to be doled out any way they want to those supposedly quote, victimized and quote by the previous administration, which of course they weren’t. Whatever it claims, you know Trump will get his cut because he always does.
Maybe he’ll use some of that slush fund to create his own security army. Any hang gives. There are no limits. There are no disclosure requirements. It really is even worse because the ruse to create this slush fund was it was established in exchange for Trump withdrawing his $10 billion suit against the Internal Revenue Service for the leak of his pre-2021 tax returns.
Most everything about that suit was a fraud like most of his suits. The suit was filed after the statute of limitations expired and with the absurd notion the president suing an agency, the IRS, that he controlled, a judge was probably on the verge of tossing it out. So they pivoted very cleverly and very disingenuously and gave up nothing in launching this obscene slush fight.
It really is sleazy. In the 2016, let’s remember, this is the context, Trump promised to release his tax returns as every other president has done for the past 40 years. He reneged, not a surprise. And some of those returns later were leaked. Now we still haven’t seen the returns for the past five years, which he could put out any time he wanted to if he ever wanted to keep his word, but don’t hold your breath.
The focus now should be on challenging the Trump slush fund which will be overseen by the acting Attorney General Blanche, the quintessential apparatchik. There is no transparency required in this order. If Congress won’t do its job, which it should, and block this rape of taxpayers, then let the leaks begin.
We are the resistance that must take action immediately against the unlawful, blatantly corrupt and greedy regime that has taken over federal government. The time is now to rise up against the atrocities perpetrated by MAGA.
We should turn July 4th into a mass protest against the injustices being perpetrated on us by the oligarchs, billionaires,SC judges and dishonest Grand Old Pedophile toadies that have infected our institutions with malice.
On Saturday, Nov. 15, 1969 over 500,000 anti-war activists marched in D.C. and showed up at demonstrations throughout the country and the world to protest the war in Vietnam. I was there.
Wouldn’t it be grand if a couple of million showed up on the 4th to protest autocracy and the vulgar displays such as the UFC fight on the front lawn of the white house that further the MAGA grifters?
Al Hunt and James carville standing up with the truth for democracy, thanks