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August 6, 2020 - July 21, 2022
“What they’re trying to do is establish power: they are lying to flaunt power. They are saying to us: ‘We know that you know that this is a lie, and we don’t care, because there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.’”
Cohn trained him in the strategy he refined under McCarthy and Nixon: counterattack, lie, threaten, sue, and never back down.
This development belies any claim of surprise from federal law enforcement about the threat posed by Trump’s campaign. Instead we are left with institutional failures and unanswered questions.
Growth in worker productivity between 1979 and 2017 grew by 70.3 percent while hourly compensation grew by 11.1 percent.28 (Earnings of the top 0.1 percent of Americas grew 343.2 percent by comparison.)
protest is more of a financial risk than a political one, and financial risks form the backbone of modern American terror.
We are too busy doing GoFundMe’s for the funerals of our friends whose previous GoFundMe failed to cover their health care.
The same names recur over and over in the sordid Trump saga, indicative of an interconnected web of relationships between politicians, spies, and crime lords that were built in the 1980s and continue to the present day.
On February 21, 2017, the New York City medical examiner’s office announced that Churkin’s autopsy suggested the need for a toxicology test. Trump’s State Department, with Russia’s backing, immediately issued a gag order and prevented public disclosure of the cause and manner of death.40 Churkin had been the fifth Russian diplomat to die unexpectedly and in an unexplained fashion since Trump won the election.41
Trump needs to be a brand because he’s terrified of being a person.
The crimes are much worse than the scandals, but the media will always take the scandal bait.
In June 2016, an anonymous plaintiff, using the pseudonym Katie Johnson and later Jane Doe, filed a lawsuit accusing Trump of raping her when she was thirteen years old—the same age that Ivanka was that year. Jane Doe’s claim was consistent with verifiable facts from the court case against convicted billionaire underage sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, for whom Jane Doe was forced to work.
There are plenty of routes to personal profit. Why choose the one that is in direct ethical conflict with current US policy and may endanger your country?
The Trump administration is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government. The foundation of this edifice was formed not when Trump took office, but decades before, through prolonged engagement with criminal or criminal-adjacent actors linked to hostile regimes, in particular, the Kremlin and its oligarch network.
No one could see the forest for the treason.
One nation, under God, collateral damage.
