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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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A significant portion of Trump's supporters seem to be religious-like believers who will reflexively and fervently defend anything he does, but if a supporter were to start having doubts, there are significant intrinsic and extrinsic forces they would need to confront.
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While I too am sympathetic toward an apologetic, elderly, first-time offender, I fear that by giving Peters a break despite having undermined our elections, we may be further motivating others to commit similar or worse actions.
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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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Perhaps the LA Mayor and City Council have done a poor job handling some of the issues highlighted by Pratt, but is the answer to hand power to a reality TV star with no government experience and a bad personal history of handling money?
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We continue to honor George Washington to show members of our society what he did, why it was so extraordinary, and that it should be emulated. When someone seeks to honor someone who is alive and still has formal authority, they distort the honor calculus and create perverse incentives.
Inflation is poised to hit at least 4%, and people are feeling extremely pessimistic about their economic future. Trump denies there is a problem while simultaneously blaming the problem on others and taking credit for easing the problem.
Only 28% of people surveyed support Trump's White House ballroom project. At this point, the project appears to be little more than yet another way for Trump to honor himself and allow him to play the royal role he has seemingly envisioned for himself.
By Hassan Albadawi
Clearly, the US has little leverage at this point, or the Strait would be open, or at least Trump would have a clearly discernible plan for getting it reopened that he was sticking to. Now, he is left scrambling to find a way to keep the world economy from tumbling off of a cliff without looking like a weak, ignorant, moron by giving a supposedly defeated Iran a better set of circumstances than it had before the war began.
Faux strength and victimhood are the creed of Trump's tribe. And many will squint and pretend that everything is better for them as long as they can belong to and fit in with what they perceive as his strong tribe.