Trump the corruption crusader – Digby's Hullabaloo

Trump the corruption crusader

by digby

It’s just too absurd:

From CNN’s Marshall Cohen — Trump’s latest defense — that he’s just an apolitical anti-corruption crusader — doesn’t hold up under scrutiny. New documents unearthed from the impeachment inquiry, and many of Trump’s past comments, undermine his claims that this isn’t about Biden or 2020 politics.
Here are just a few reasons:’

Trump hasn’t publicly raised these issues before with Ukraine.

So far, the supposed anti-corruption campaign is only focused on Biden.

Trump defended his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who made millions from Ukraine’s corrupt former president.

Trump has praised other world leaders mired by more well-founded corruption scandals, like Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.

Also the Trump crime family is making money hand over fist influence peddling and the president is filling his pockets with money from foreigners and others currying favor by patronizing the businesses he refused to divest. I would not be surprised if he’s been setting up branding deals with foreign leaders from the oval office. He’s said publicly that they told him he has a perfect right to do it.

The idea of this man being a crusader against corruption is hysterical. Watching the Republicans solemnly declare that their Dear Leader is just “draining the swamp” by using the government to smear his political rivals would be funny if I didn’t think their followers actually believe it. You know these elected officials don’t. They are as corrupt as he is.