Most corrupt ever:
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And Trump isn't shy about admitting what he's up to. When asked in an interview earlier this year why he has been so much more open about pursuing his own business interests in his second term than he was in his first, he replied, "Because I found out that nobody cared. I'm allowed to." He does not bother to say that the public has a right to expect integrity in its leaders. The only question is whether he can get away with using his office personal gain. If he can, he will.
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In 2024, the Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled in Snyder v. United States that a mayor who took a $13,000 payment for steering a government contract to a company could not be convicted of bribery because he had only received a "gratuity" afterward. In her dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined by the court's two other liberal justices, wrote that officials using their positions for their own gain "makes governments — at every level — less responsive, less efficient, and less trustworthy from the perspective of the communities they serve." For Trump and his party, that's exactly the point. They want people to distrust their government and expect nothing from it. Once you've grown that cynical, why bother voting for the party that believes in government's ability to solve problems?
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On the campaign trail this year, some Democrats — including Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff and James Talarico in Texas — have been trying to tie all this corruption together and weave it into a larger story about what ails America. Corruption, they say, is not just why Trump has expanded his wealth so dramatically in office. It's also why Jeffrey Epstein got away with what he did for so long, why the rich keep getting tax cuts, and why healthcare is unaffordable. According to the polls, almost all the voters believe corruption is a problem. The question is how much longer they're willing to tolerate it.
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Trump’s ‘Catch-Me-If-You-Can’ presidency keeps finding ways around the law
Examples are too numerous and pervasive to excerpt. :angry-banghead:
"Congress has shrugged." :angry-cussing:
... But it will be an interesting question for Democrats who want to replace Trump in the White House in 2029. Should they spend even more taxpayer money to tear down the East Wing behemoth he's building? They won't be able to go back and take the coins with his face out of circulation. They can't un-deport people who didn't get a hearing. And it will take time and effort, if the next president is so inclined, to rebuild the system of scientific and medical research funding the Trump administration cut back.
On so many of the things Trump has done, catching up may not even be an option.
It's tragic that MAGA is too irresponsible and cowardly to admit they screwed up.
, but 
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