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The Washington Post has a new report onthe financial ties between Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, twice-impeached seditionist ex-president Donald Trump, and Trump top adviser and grifting son-in-law Jared Kushner. The short version is that the relationship has been brazenly corrupt since, at the absolute latest, Mohammed's successful operation to murder Washington Postwriter and regime critic Jamal Khashoggi.
The longer version is that the corruption is of that special American sort that elected officials in this country insist is not corrupt, because reasons, and because they're the ones writing the laws everyone else tends to nod their heads and go along with it. Corruption in the United States is the same as it is anywhere else: In exchange for government favors, an elected official receives a financial payout from the person, company, industry, or foreign government that benefited from them. When this is done in a single meeting it's called bribery and everyone readily agrees it's crooked.
Put a few days between the quid and the quo and it's not called anything. It's just a presumed part of the lifecycle of the American politician. And both seditionist Republican leader Donald Trump and his in-charge-of-everything offspring by proxy have been hoovering up cash from their best bud, the Saudi crown prince, in such vast quantities that it's making all the other post-elected now-lobbyist crooks in America look very small indeed.
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An American journalist was murdered. Trump and Kushner are accessories after the fact. With Trumps admission to saving him, there should be an investigation leading to an arrest. There are no statute of limitations on murder.
The longer version is that the corruption is of that special American sort that elected officials in this country insist is not corrupt, because reasons, and because they're the ones writing the laws everyone else tends to nod their heads and go along with it. Corruption in the United States is the same as it is anywhere else: In exchange for government favors, an elected official receives a financial payout from the person, company, industry, or foreign government that benefited from them. When this is done in a single meeting it's called bribery and everyone readily agrees it's crooked.
Put a few days between the quid and the quo and it's not called anything. It's just a presumed part of the lifecycle of the American politician. And both seditionist Republican leader Donald Trump and his in-charge-of-everything offspring by proxy have been hoovering up cash from their best bud, the Saudi crown prince, in such vast quantities that it's making all the other post-elected now-lobbyist crooks in America look very small indeed.
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An American journalist was murdered. Trump and Kushner are accessories after the fact. With Trumps admission to saving him, there should be an investigation leading to an arrest. There are no statute of limitations on murder.
