Grifters
Corruption, Crime, Grifters, Wall
Trump Operatives View Their Own Supporters as Fools and Pigeons
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Matt Zapotsky reports Stephen Bannon, three others charged with defrauding donors to online fundraising campaign for border wall: Federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday unsealed criminal charges against Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, and three other men they alleged defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors using an online crowdfunding campaign that…
Government Spending, Grifters, Trump
Leave Me A Loan
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Gluttony, Grifters, Trump
GOP Cribs
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
The Never Trump Republicans of the Lincoln Project have criticized Trump more than once, and are now burrowed deep under his oddly-pigmented skin. They’re highly effective in the way that Russian dissidents were highly effective against the brutality of the Soviet Union: no one knew both those experiences and the character of the regime that…
Authoritarianism, Bigotry, Conway, Ethics, Gluttony, Grifters, Impeachment, Kakistocracy, Medicine, Mendacity, Nepotism, Never Trump, Official Misconduct, Sloth, Trump, Trump-Russia, Unfit
Trump’s Condition: Unfit by Many Standards
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
It’s enough, as an indictment of Trump, to see and then reject his role on purely political grounds: a bigoted autocrat of limited knowledge & reasoning ability with a love of foreign dictators and contempt for American liberal democracy. One doesn’t need a training in medicine to reject Trump. There are, however, compelling critiques of…
Conflicts of Interest, Federal Government, Grifters, Trump, Unfit
Lining Their Pockets – White House For Sale
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Ethics, Grifters, Kushner, Poverty
Jared Kushner, Slumlord Millionaire, Wants the Rent ‘ASAP’
by JOHN ADAMS •
AJ Vicens reports As the Coronavirus Hit, Jared Kushner’s Company Told Renters to Take Action to Pay “ASAP”: On Thursday, March 19, Westminster Management—which is owned by the Kushner Companies and boasts of holdingmore than 20,000 apartments across six states—sent residents in at least one property a notice about rent collection—but it wasn’t about giving them…