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Meanwhile, as Americans have been struggling, Trump has been grifting taxpayer dollars like no one's watching.
So last year we learned that on Trump's orders, the Pentagon acknowledged that it had been sending US troops to Trump's failing Turnberry golf resort while they were on overnight layovers at the nearby Glasgow Prestwick Airport in Scotland. All so that Trump could line his greedy pockets with taxpayer dollars.
Then we learned that Trunp wanted to hold this year's G-7 Summit at his Doral resort in Florida, so that he could again line his greedy pockets with millions in foreign money and taxpayer dollars.
Now we've recently learned that Trump asked the American ambassador to Britain, Woody Johnson, to see if the British government could help steer the lucrative British Open golf tournament to the Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland.
This is a level of corruption that we have never seen before, or even imagined. Its naked, gratuitous, egregious and overt corruption on steroids. Nixon's ghost can finally rest in peace, for Nixon is no longer the most corrupt president in American history. Trump's face belongs on the Mt Rushmore of corruption....all by itself. At this point, they should just wrap the entire White House with yellow police tape, and declare the whole thing a crime scene.
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Trump's presidency will be remembered as "The Great Oppression." And he will be remembered as "The Great Pretender." Trump is, and has always been, a fraud. Therefore his failure as a leader and as a president was inevitable.
Trump was always going to fail, and he was always going to blame his failures on someone else, or something else.
In her new book, Trump's niece says Trump was scarred by his father and developed habits of lying and self-deception that shadowed him into the White House.
"This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism," Mary Trump writes in her book. "Donald is not simply weak, his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be."
"In Donald's mind, even acknowledging an inevitable threat would indicate weakness. Taking responsibility would open him up to blame. Being a hero – being good – is impossible for him," she writes in the book.
"The people with access to him are weaker than Donald is, more craven, but just as desperate. Their futures are directly dependent on his success and favor," she said. "Although more powerful people put Donald into the institutions that have shielded him since the very beginning, it's people weaker than he is who are keeping him there."
"His pathologies have rendered him so simple-minded that it takes nothing more than repeating to him the things he says to and about himself dozens of times a day – he's the smartest, the greatest, the best – to get him to do whatever they want, whether it's imprisoning children in concentration camps, betraying allies, implementing economy-crushing tax cuts, or degrading every institution that's contributed to the United States' rise and the flourishing of liberal democracy."
Trump's initial response to the coronavirus "underscores his need to minimize negativity at all costs," Mary Trump writes.
She points to Gov. Cuomo's response to his state's outbreak of COVID-19 cases as an example of "real leadership," further revealing the president as a "petty, pathetic little man – ignorant, incapable, out of his depth, and lost to his own delusional spin."
At the end, Mary Trump writes "Donald isn't really the problem after all" – it is his enablers, from his father to the celebrity media to the congressional Republicans who acquitted him of impeachment.
"This is the end result of Donald's having continually been given a pass and rewarded not just for his failures but for his transgressions – against tradition, against decency, against the law, and against fellow human beings," she writes.
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