Today the prosecution and defence in Donald Trump’s criminal trial are due to begin their summing up. As you might expect, it’s been an unedifying spectacle.

As a businessman, Trump is the epitome of everything that is wrong with aggressive capitalism. His business practices stink to high heaven. He will trample over anything and anyone in the pursuit of wealth.

Although Trump portrays himself as a self-made man, he is a rich kid who was put on his pedestal by a wealthy father rather than climbing onto it through his own efforts. He lied his way out of conscription, and the former ‘commander in chief’ regards US veterans injured fighting for their country as ‘losers’.

In politics, he rose to the presidency by convincing enough of those he also considers ‘losers’ – the working and non-working class – that he was a ‘man of the people’, and by pledging to ‘clear the swamp’ in Washington.

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