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Expect Four Years of Trump Corruption, Cronyism, Criming
‘Mango Mussolini’ killed thousands, expect more of the same
This is my first column of the New Year, and it’s supposed to be one that looks forward with anticipation. But then I remembered we’re going into round two of the Idiocracy.
Yes, Americans made their second stupidest decision in history next to invading Vietnam, and reelected Donald Trump. And like most sequels, the second version is going to be much worse than the first.
So, what do we have to look forward to in the next four years?
Massive Corruption
According to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston, Trump hoovered up more than $1 billion during his first term.
One of the frequent complaints about the Trump administration is that America’s become a third-world country. However, he was one of the causes. One sign of a third-world country is massive corruption, and that’s one of the traits of Trump’s first term.
And he largely got away with it. Trump turned his Washington, D.C. hotel into a way to pad his wallet. Foreign dignitaries knew that if they spent heavily at the Trump hotel, he would reward them. Republicans also knew if they did business in the Trump hotel, they…