The Strait of Hormuz and America's Mafia President
Donald Trump is floating a 20% fee for commercial passage through the Strait of Hormuz, reminiscent of a small-time mafia protection racket.
Trump, Corruption, and the Grift that Keeps on Grifting
Those of us not inexplicably under Trump's spell have to watch a sleezy, transparent conman degrade the office of the presidency and make decisions based not on what helps the country and its people but on what fattens his and his immoral family's wallets.
The Reflecting Pool Renovation Debacle
President Donald Trump decided to make renovating the pool one of his top priorities, but we are all familiar by now with the Trump duet of incompetence and corruption.
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Malice and Division
At the White House UFC event, Josh Hokit regurgitated the bizarre and baseless rumor of former first lady Michelle Obama being born a man. Just like so much that involves or surrounds Trump, Hokit's comment was unnecessarily malicious and divisive.
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Elon Musk and the Looting of Americans' Retirement
SpaceX is an unprofitable company with no reliable track record. Yet, within weeks, millions of American's retirement money may be shifted into SpaceX stock, which SpaceX has itself valued at an unprecedented $1.75 trillion.
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Legal Brain Drain
About 20% of all lawyers employed by the federal government left in the 14 months following Trump regaining office. If you are an attorney who still retains a moral compass or believes in the foundational principles on which our justice system and nation were based, it is hard to imagine how you can justify continuing to work for the federal government.
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Revenge and the Investigation of Trump Victim E. Jean Carroll
The Department of Justice, which is overseen by Trump, is criminally investigating a woman a jury essentially found Trump raped, not because she supposedly lied about the rape, but because she may have initially lied about whether somebody helped pay a portion of her legal bills, which her attorneys corrected on the legal record before the trial began.
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Ken Paxton and the Shamelessness of Texas Republicans
In nominating Paxton, Republicans have shown once more that they have become morally unmoored, if they ever seriously cared about morality and right and wrong at all. As long as a Republican politician slavishly supports Donald Trump and hates the right people loudly and nastily enough, he can be thoroughly corrupt and disregard the law without losing the support of Republican voters.
Bottomless Corruption
As part of President Donald Trump's corrupt settlement with the government he oversees to create a slush fund that would permit payouts to cronies and supporters using $1.776 billion of tax payer money, Trump, his family, and his business received additional, unprecedented legal immunity.
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The Corrupt Settlement
The President of the United States has essentially agreed to settle a lawsuit with himself for which he will decide which allies, supporters, and entities associated with him will receive $1.7 billion of tax payer money ostensibly for what he perceives as unjust treatment by his political opponent. This should be shocking, but it is not.
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