The sums of money involved are staggering, running into many billions of dollars, much of it accruing to the President and his family. Just today, I was struck by the revelation in the Financial Times that not one penny of the $17 billion pledged to Trump's so-called Board of Peace has thus far been received by the World Bank, which was supposed to oversee the accounts. Instead, money is said to have poured into a previously undisclosed account with the New York bank JP Morgan, beneficiary unknown.
All of the plump, well-fed commentators I follow are agreed that the extent of the corruption goes far beyond anything previously experienced. Trump is stealing not only from taxpayers, but from foreign governments, while at the same time extracting cash for pardons as if he were a medieval bishop flogging indulgences. And he doesn't care who knows it. He glories in his crimes.
The broadcasters, podcasters and columnists might as well be pissing in the wind.
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