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The Producers: Springtime for Trump

Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain

If you’re in like Flynn in the Trump administration, what’s great is that you can lie to Congress, take money and lavish gifts from the Qataris, obstruct justice as you please, go to work shit-faced drunk, ignore the law on the release of the Epstein files, vote to give Trump $1 billion to fulfill his wet dreams about a White House ballroom, 86 the Voting Rights Act and gerrymander like it’s 1963 in George Wallace’s Alabama, launch undeclared wars with impunity, use the National Guard and goons from ICE as poll watchers, whistle past graveyards filled with the dead of Gaza if not un-vaccinated American children, build a foreign policy around kidnapping and assassination, engage in sanction-busting on behalf of the Russian paymaster and president Vladimir Putin, and threaten the invasion of Greenland and nuclear holocaust against Iran—and walk free. But if you’re a Democrat or a Bush Republican (as is James Comey), you can face a grand jury indictment just for taking a picture of seashells by the seashore and posting the photograph to social media.

So who are the enablers/producers of this bankrupt system? In no particular order:

The Supreme Court. Let’s start with the Court and its chief justice, John Roberts, who seems happy to run his courtroom as if it were a personal injury law firm with Donald Trump as its only client (“…Do you sense the Democrats are winning? Call us at 1-800-BEEN-BAMMED?…”).

Looked at crudely (about the only way to measure its performance), the deal between Trump and the Roberts court is that the justices are free to earn money on the side (by giving $200,000 speeches or by accepting free vacations on private planes and RVs from cronies), so long as they give Trump a hall pass in the form of blanket presidential immunity, which is the the bedrock that underpins the administration’s criminality.

You name the violation of whatever law, and behind........

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