John Avlon: “Let’s say it plainly: There has by no means been a president as corrupt as Donald Trump. There isn’t a shut second in our historical past.”
“Take two days in Could as Exhibit A. People simply discovered that within the first quarter of this yr, Trump’s inventory portfolio made 3,600 trades — a median of practically 60 a day. This can be a rapacious tempo that might make a day dealer on meth blush. Many of those seem suspiciously timed to learn from actions permitted by the president himself. For instance, his Nvidia inventory surged after Trump introduced the corporate could be permitted to promote its cutting-edge AI chips to China. Comparable suspiciously well-timed calls have been made forward of huge authorities strikes involving different firms, from Intel to Palantir to Boeing. The Trump Group says all trades are made by a third-party funding advisor. If that’s the case, they seem like psychic.”
“However the obvious insider buying and selling rip-off being run from inside the Oval Workplace is small change — merely tens of millions of {dollars} — in comparison with the self-dealing plunder of $1.8 billion tax-payer {dollars} being pushed via the DOJ and IRS.”
