Mind-Boggling Grift and Graft

We learned this month that the total of Trump’s personal corruption now exceeds 4 billion dollars. This bloated sum was achieved through complicated crypto deals and contributions from United Arab Emirates, Pakistan and other favor-seekers.  Much of these gains are of questionable legality. It all started more than eight years ago as seen in this piece from Trumpworld Begins (now available on Amazon).

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Minneapolis and Greenland

Protesters in New York

They are all narcotized with power—all of Trump’s enablers. You saw that in their lying canned responses to the Minneapolis killing of an innocent woman. Trump is never going to stop his lies. When asked by the New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” He meant, I think, his own mortality, a typical verbal confusion for him. And of course he has no morality.

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The Importance of Trump 1

Finally, unless I croak, Trumpworld Begins should be published in a couple of weeks. There have been problems, naturally. The book consists of blog posts, from the period 2016 to 2018, that clearly show the chaos unfolding as the participants fumbled their way through Trump 1. As characters in this earlier drama they are almost, but not quite, as batty and inept as those in our contemporary cast. Continue reading “The Importance of Trump 1”