The fish rots from the head of the Toddler wearing an adult Depends:
NEW — The son of one of Trump’s pardon recipients gave $85k to Trump victory this August. His wife gave $50k that same month. On top of that, they made an in-kind contribution for $75k in air travel. https://t.co/M585LiH6Bu
— Sam Stein (@samstein) February 18, 2020
Maddow Blog: Trump insisted his actions in the Ukraine scandal were motivated by his concerns about corruption.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 18, 2020
With Trump's new pardons and commutations, "the whole idea of Trump as some kind of corruption-fighter has become a punch-line to a sad joke."https://t.co/wy9AigYxtB
Trump, who promised to drain the swamp, pardons Milken at the recommendation, among others, of a billionaire who threw a $10 million fundraiser for the president on Saturday. @shearm @maggieNYT https://t.co/nbb3qx6Fnp
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) February 18, 2020
Among Trump's pardons: A woman who stole $205 million from Medicare, a man who paid a $400,000 bribe and Bernard Kerik, who committed tax fraud and recently lobbied Trump to pardon Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher for killing civilians. #LetsCleanHouse https://t.co/R2fPrcoUNC
— Swing Left (@swingleft) February 18, 2020
Trump is probably the most corrupt public official that this country has ever experienced with the possible exception of “Boss” Tweed.
But……..
Every time he makes a peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan somebody throws a “Spaniard in the works.”
It was war criminal John Bolton who blew up Trumps deal the last time which is why Trump fired him last year.
This time it’s the CIA who is throwing sand in the gears of the peace deal with the help of Abdullah Abdullah the leader of the Northern Alliance.
Abdullah has been on the CIA’s payroll for thirty years and has repeatedly denied that he was responsible for the assassination of the previous leader of the NA, Ahmad Massoud on September 9, 2001, two days before the attack on the WTC.
Trump can’t fire the CIA.
But if he had any sense he’d “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.”
Let’s hope that the CIA doesn’t do to Trump what they did to Kennedy when he tried to end the war in Vietnam.
Bring our 12,000 troops home now.