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Today NBC News reported that the God-King was “unglued” when he launched a trade war with steel and aluminum tariffs and the Washington Post’s Philip Bump thinks most Americans probably figured that out for themselves. Meanwhile, the Post’s Randall Eliason reports that special counsel Robert Mueller is tightening the net on the God-King’s inner circle and NBC’s Carol Lee, Julia Ainsley, and Robert Windrem say Mueller is looking at whether Jared Kushner’s business ties influenced U.S. foreign policy as The Intercept’s Clayton Swisher and Ryan Grim report that Kushner switched to supporting a blockade of Qatar just days after Qatari officials refused to loan $180 million to Kushner’s businesses. Oh … and God-King confidante Carl Icahn dumped over $30 million in steel-related stocks last week, just before the God-King announced his steel tariffs. Will the God-King and his cronies go down for influence-peddling and plain old corruption, regardless of whether they helped Russia meddle in our elections?
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While I doubt that Republicans will get off the stick and impeach him, I think this administration is going to set records for number of staffers/officials going to jail on corruption and other charges.
Oh … I couldn’t squeeze this in, but … the AP reports that the SEC dropped an investigation of a firm a month after the firm loaned Kushner’s companies $180 million. So yeah, neck deep in influence-peddling and plain old corruption … regardless of what ultimately comes out about the God-King’s campaign and Russia….
The more members of the Trump mafia that go to prison the better. I really don’t care what lands them in the pokey.
Are you asking us to guess how many pardons the God-King will issue? The phrase “go down for influence-peddling and plain old corruption” implies that they will be found guilty.
We can only hope for the best outcome.