Author: Joy Crane and Nick Tabor - Introduction by David Cay Johnston
Source: New York Magazine
Publication Date: April 1, 2018 9:00 pm
Link: 501 Days in Swampland
Stephan: Donald Trump is a grifter, has always been a grifter, and the people with whom he associates are not surprisingly also grifters. The fact that about 35 per cent of Americans are okay having a grifter as president is a measure of the failing "profit above all" American culture.
But when I have said this I have done so concerned that many readers would think I was exaggerating, wouldn't understand how utterly corrupt Trump is, so I have been looking for someone with the funding to really dig out the facts beyond my ability to do so.
Finally, a team has done the heavy lifting and published a report on how bad the situation really is. It is much worse than even I thought. Trump is a mobster and, after I read this fact based piece, my main takeaway was: Why isn't this man in prison? Why aren't several of these people in prison? There are people serving life sentences who have done only a fraction of what Trump and his band of vampires are guilty of. Read it and make up your own mind.
Credit: Joe Darrow
On the day he took the oath of office, Donald Trump delivered two messages about what to expect from his administration. First came the lofty promise of his inaugural address. “The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer,” he vowed. “For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished — but the people did not share in its wealth.”
The second message, which Trump delivered without speaking a word, was aimed at a much smaller, but very rich, audience. As the new president’s motorcade left the Capitol, rolling past knots of supporters and protesters, it suddenly stopped three blocks short of the White House. Trump, the First Lady, and the rest of his family got out of their limos and took a three-minute turn in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue.
This was no random spot. The very […]
