Trump’s Corruption
The attempt to use public money for his own personal causes is unsettling even in a Washington accustomed to scandal.
Enough time has passed since Donald Trump’s inauguration to begin to understand that the president lacks any proper political strategy for the United States, much less a coherent vision for his country’s role in the world. Trump’s political plan consisted primarily of avoiding prison, and once in power, to enrich himself and his family as much as possible by shamelessly exploiting the system’s gray areas as leader of the world’s superpower His is a systematic plan of corruption and subjugation of institutions to his will.
From accepting the gift of a luxury jet from Qatar to trading his own stock on the market while simultaneously making decisions in the White House, examples of corruption will fill the history books for years to come. The most recent example is stark and illustrative of his methodology as U.S. president. As part of his revenge strategy through lawsuits, at the start of the year, Trump sued his own Internal Revenue Service for leaking his tax returns in September 2020, two months before losing the election to Democrat Joe Biden. The lawsuit gave rise to an unusual settlement in which the president’s interests were represented on both sides of the table. It was as if he were both the plaintiff and the defendant. As a result, Trump settled with himself in an agreement whereby the IRS agreed to never investigate his tax returns, nor those of his family. The coda to this is the creation of a $1.776 billion fund to compensate anyone he considers to be victims of repression by the Biden administration. These include people convicted for the attempted Jan. 6, 2021 coup on Jan. 6, 2021, people who Trump already pardoned.
The fiscal self-protection and attempt to create a slush fund for his political allies with public money are so scandalous that they have even embarrassed some usually docile and servile Republicans in the Senate and provoked a rebellion among their ranks.
Trump now feels like he owns the federal government. It is the institutions charged with checks and balances, such as Congress and the Supreme Court, that have convinced him he can exploit any constitutional loophole to his advantage. The fact that something has never been done before is no deterrent for him, but an incentive. Absolute power has clearly revealed his true nature. Trump does not know the meaning of words like responsibility, restraint or prudence. Only the November election can limit the president and restore some balance to American democracy before the aberrant becomes the norm.
Enough time has passed since Donald Trump’s inauguration to begin to understand that the president lacks any proper political strategy for the United States, much less a coherent vision for his country’s role in the world. Trump’s political plan consisted primarily of avoiding prison, and once in power, to enrich himself and his family as much as possible by shamelessly exploiting the system’s gray areas as leader of the world’s superpower His is a systematic plan of corruption and subjugation of institutions to his will.
From accepting the gift of a luxury jet from Qatar to trading his own stock on the market while simultaneously making decisions in the White House, examples of corruption will fill the history books for years to come. The most recent example is stark and illustrative of his methodology as U.S. president. As part of his revenge strategy through lawsuits, at the start of the year, Trump sued his own Internal Revenue Service for leaking his tax returns in September 2020, two months before losing the election to Democrat Joe Biden. The lawsuit gave rise to an unusual settlement in which the president’s interests were represented on both sides of the table. It was as if he were both the plaintiff and the defendant. As a result, Trump settled with himself in an agreement whereby the IRS agreed to never investigate his tax returns, nor those of his family. The coda to this is the creation of a $1.776 billion fund to compensate anyone he considers to be victims of repression by the Biden administration. These include people convicted for the attempted Jan. 6, 2021 coup on Jan. 6, 2021, people who Trump already pardoned.
The fiscal self-protection and attempt to create a slush fund for his political allies with public money are so scandalous that they have even embarrassed some usually docile and servile Republicans in the Senate and provoked a rebellion among their ranks.
Trump now feels like he owns the federal government. It is the institutions charged with checks and balances, such as Congress and the Supreme Court, that have convinced him he can exploit any constitutional loophole to his advantage. The fact that something has never been done before is no deterrent for him, but an incentive. Absolute power has clearly revealed his true nature. Trump does not know the meaning of words like responsibility, restraint or prudence. Only the November election can limit the president and restore some balance to American democracy before the aberrant becomes the norm.
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