Ivanka Trump told ABC News Friday that she knew “literally almost nothing” about her family’s secret pursuit of a deal to build a Trump-branded tower in Moscow during the 2016 campaign. Her claim, however, is contradicted by various sourcesnwhich indicate that the president’s eldest daughter was closely involved with the controversial project.
Two days ago, Trump tweeted out a segment from One America News Network that interviewed key QAnon enabler Ron Watkins, who claimed that Dominion Voting Systems could be hacked and suggested that the 2020 presidential election was tampered with…The Watkins family is considered to be instrumental in the perpetuation of the far-right conspiracy theory, one that has produced multiple instances of violence…
The story is the same, from the day-care panics to QAnon: It’s not really about the kids. It’s about fears of a changing social order.
Trump’s recently filed personal financial disclosures show that much of that came from hotels and resorts, two of the industries hardest hit by the pandemic. We won’t know the specifics of how Covid-19 has diminished Trump’s wealth until perhaps next year, but based on last year’s report, it could get quite ugly for the president—right before he has hundreds of millions of loans due to private lenders.
This month, Stephen Miller, the extremist anti-immigrant Trump adviser, lost a relative to the coronavirus pandemic, and his uncle tells Mother Jones that the Trump administration is partly to blame for this death…Miller helped write Trump’s Oval Office address Trump delivered on March 11 where Trump branded the coronavirus as the “foreign virus” and downplayed the damage already caused by it.
Both are decadent, exploitative and totally full of crap.
The fundamental purpose of government is to protect the citizenry. Any deliberate perversion of this priority is an exercise of corruption—especially when that basic aim is supplanted by the goal of personal gain. That’s why Donald Trump’s slow, ineffectual, self-serving, and deadly response to the coronavirus has been the most consequential act of corruption in the history of American governance.