The Grift Keeps Rolling Along
The president’s avarice is never ending.
It’s like a boulder rolling down the side of a mountain, continuing to pick up speed and momentum as it destroys everything in its path.
The list of casualties destroyed or damaged by his greed include:
· The American news media
· The Justice Department
· The IRS
· The American taxpayer
The president settled a lawsuit with ABC News with the network agreeing to a $1.5 million donation to the Trump Presidential Library and issuing an apology.
He also reached a settlement with CBS News over a defamation lawsuit.
The Justice Department and the IRS just settled with the president after he sued them for $10 billion dollars for leaking his tax returns. In exchange for dropping the lawsuit, the Justice Department agreed that the IRS will never prosecute the president, his family, or his businesses for tax issues, and also stipulates the creation of a $1.8 billion slush fund to “compensate” individuals and groups who were “weaponized” by previous administrations.
This slush fund is expected to be administered to the January 6 insurrectionists, although how much money any of them will actually see remains unclear.
And the president is moving ahead with plans to build his pet project, a presidential ballroom complex that will include a bunker, a military research hospital, and meeting rooms underneath the ballroom.
Although he said that he and donors would fund the project, Senate Republicans tried to include a $1 billion White House and Secret Service funding proposal in a budget reconciliation package but were foiled by the Senate parliamentarian.
Never in American history has a president been so open with greed.
This man proudly extolls his billionaire status but can’t seem to squeeze enough financial juices from entities he deems ripe for picking.
Think of two of the big three television networks kowtowing and paying extortion.
The IRS, known as the greatest, most ardent collection agency on the planet, and responsible for bringing down notorious gangsters like Al Capone, say they not only aren’t pursuing tax investigations involving the president and his businesses, but have promised not to investigate or prosecute him or his family.
Finally, we the people, we the American taxpayers are the ones who will pay the lion’s share of the cost of the president’s ballroom.
As each days passes, any pretention of his caring a whit about the American people dissipates.
Instead, one has a vision of him running through the White House with a large bag of money like Mr. Monopoly, aka Rich Uncle Pennybags.
The difference between Mr. Monopoly and the president is that Mr. Monopoly acquired his wealth with business acumen.
The president inherited his wealth and continues to build upon it not with savvy dealmaking or innate business skill, but with lies, blackmail, and coercion.
He does this while people lose their jobs, gas prices continue to rise, and his cult members continue to mimic ostriches with their heads in the sand or somewhere else.
Next time a billionaire tells you they care about common people, believe them as much as you would believe someone trying to sell you the Eiffel Tower.