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kentuck

(111,052 posts)
Wed Nov 24, 2021, 07:35 PM Nov 2021

Trump White House was like a magnet for grift, corruption, and criminality.

Depending on your own personal character, you were either repelled by it or attracted to it.

It began with characters like General Flynn as his National Security advisor and Paul Manafort as his Campaign Manager, both of whom were to later face criminal charges. Manafort actually went to jail for a while.

Still, people defended Trump, and their grift was usually rewarded with a position in the White House.

Those that refused to go along with the corruption and grift did not last long in the Trump White House. He wanted "his" people in every position of the government. Many times, even in government agencies and departments, he fired those that thought too independently and hired his own "acting" heads. This was happening up until his last day in office.

Like a magnet, grifters and corrupt individuals were drawn to the Trump White House. It was no place for those interested in public service. They had to want to please their boss and get paid for defending him. Sometimes they acted in criminal ways to protect him from outside charges. They lied consistently for him and covered up his criminality.

It was like a national obsession. People were attracted to the crude and cruel criminality or they were repelled by it. The entire country was divided by these loyalties.

Lies had equal weight to the truth. Those that had no problem with lying found it very easy to work for Donald Trump. Like iron filings on a magnet, they stuck with him.

Now, as the door is very slightly cracked open, the light is beginning to shine on the terrible division that has nearly destroyed our country.

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Trump White House was like a magnet for grift, corruption, and criminality. (Original Post) kentuck Nov 2021 OP
It was a Kakistocracy malaise Nov 2021 #1
Thanks, I learned a new word today and so true. walkingman Nov 2021 #9
i wasn't the first person on DU to so describe the Slobfather's regime malaise Nov 2021 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author malaise Nov 2021 #12
SO WHEN ARE THEY ALL GOING TO JAIL??? 🤬 🤬 🤬 a kennedy Nov 2021 #2
Jail may be a bit optimistic? kentuck Nov 2021 #4
and I know that......but damn, I want prosecution, guilty of SOMETHING. 🤬 🤬 🤬 a kennedy Nov 2021 #5
As he said: "Only the best!" MyOwnPeace Nov 2021 #3
I want all of them to suffer the worst possible fate. LiberalFighter Nov 2021 #6
kentuck, cilla4progress Nov 2021 #7
The truth is being attacked... kentuck Nov 2021 #15
"You will never find edhopper Nov 2021 #8
The real Trump University lame54 Nov 2021 #10
Prosecutions will come with time. Of course..we are all impatient .. Stuart G Nov 2021 #13
I recognize that I was impatient... kentuck Nov 2021 #14

malaise

(268,701 posts)
11. i wasn't the first person on DU to so describe the Slobfather's regime
Wed Nov 24, 2021, 09:38 PM
Nov 2021

and it accurately described his corrupt criminal gang.

Response to walkingman (Reply #9)

kentuck

(111,052 posts)
4. Jail may be a bit optimistic?
Wed Nov 24, 2021, 07:52 PM
Nov 2021

The challenge at the moment is to survive with the truth. The lies cannot be victorious. It is probably a much longer struggle than any of us can imagine?

MyOwnPeace

(16,917 posts)
3. As he said: "Only the best!"
Wed Nov 24, 2021, 07:50 PM
Nov 2021



History will not be kind to the society that somehow allowed this 'CON' to be the President of the United States.

cilla4progress

(24,718 posts)
7. kentuck,
Wed Nov 24, 2021, 08:45 PM
Nov 2021

Why has this taken so long?

I bet almost everyone of us here saw this coming a mile away..back before he started running in 2015.

Why do humans seem to need the perspective of time to see, accept?, truth?

I guess it's SOME humans...

kentuck

(111,052 posts)
15. The truth is being attacked...
Wed Nov 24, 2021, 11:38 PM
Nov 2021

..by big lies and disinformation. They are not easy to counter.

I remember the knot in my stomach on election night. Who did not feel something similar?

If they celebrated that night, they did not send their very best people...

We do not wish to be judgmental but there is a difference between fact and fiction.

Time will tell.

Stuart G

(38,414 posts)
13. Prosecutions will come with time. Of course..we are all impatient ..
Wed Nov 24, 2021, 09:43 PM
Nov 2021

...Now, some of us want it now, but later is better ...Why? With later comes proof.
Sometimes it takes time to get proof. Also, some will risk all to testify. That will also
take time...

...To tell the truth, involves risk...an example: Michael Cohen

...Yes, he paid the price of telling the truth. And there will be more, but that will take time

No, I don't know anything...could be wrong on this..won't be the first time, nor the last..

kentuck

(111,052 posts)
14. I recognize that I was impatient...
Wed Nov 24, 2021, 11:29 PM
Nov 2021

It's similar to the old adage, "no wine before its time".

It will take time. The sooner the better. But we know that in such a mass of disinformation, nothing will be as quick as we would like.

There is a lot of hate and anger. Those must be replaced with patience and trust.

Trust and truth are like brothers.

We must trust the truth.

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