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Fri May 16, 2025, 03:56 PM May 16

Taken for a ride by the high plane grifter

By Sid Schwab / Herald Columnist

If people charged with oversight look away, does corruption exist? If deporting migrants is all MAGAs care about, is Donald Trump selling his “presidency” to the highest bidder not happening? (tinyurl.com/2cashin2u) If a crime falls in Trump’s forest, does it make a sound?

So sure is Trump of the hypovertebral cowardice of Republican Congressfolk and the yes-boss, how-high sycophancy of his appointees that he’s not bothering to hide the corruption, greed and grift that, were it anyone else, would have led to bipartisan impeachment and removal. What Trump is doing makes the alleged transgressions of the “Biden crime family” seem like kids selling lemonade without a license. Nevertheless, Republicans conducted years of made-for-Fox “hearings” about it; all up with which they came were crimes to which Hunter Biden had already confessed. Now? With unprecedented corruption screaming for investigation? Butkis (sp?).

Had Joe Biden, right before taking office, created eponymous cryptocurrencies for himself and his wife and encouraged foreign governments to purchase them, had offered White House tours and private dinners to individuals who purchased the most (New Republic: tinyurl.com/eatit4u), Republican outrage would be at 11 and he’d be removed from office in the blink of an “aye.”

For comprehensive explication of the trail-blazing conflicts of interest in Trump’s crypto-kleptocracy, read this: (Democracy Defenders: tinyurl.com/conflicts4u). And this: (New Republic: tinyurl.com/evenmore4u). Then this: (Atlantic: tinyurl.com/klepto4u). I could “tinyurl” this Trumpery till the cowed come home and still not cover it all.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/schwab-taken-for-a-ride-by-the-high-plane-grifter/

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