Pulling the Scab Off

Pulling The Scab Off

D. S. Mitchell

Morning Coffee

I’m ready this morning to have a cup of coffee, eat an apple and reflect on why the American people would pick a man like Donald Trump to lead this country?  Calamity News and Politics is a progressive political blog, written from my home office at Surf Pines, Oregon. My intent is to point out bits and pieces of the ever evolving political scene to curious readers. From the last several days I’ve scratched these juicy, gossipy, tidbits on Trump from several sources.

The Habit Of Corruption

Trump is no stranger to corruption. He has been embedded in it for many  years. As President, he’s just taken it to a new level. The Trump administration is without a doubt the most corrupt presidency in American history. No wonder he keeps screaming “fake news”.  DJT has so much to hide.  If the public believed even a small amount of the truth that the press publishes every day  the White House would be surrounded with torches and pitchforks. Truth matters, and Trump couldn’t find truth with both hands. Just to refresh the reader on Trump’s history:

1.) Donald and his father blatantly participated in housing discrimination against people of color and they were sued by the Justice Department.
2.) The Mafia and Donald worked together through the construction trades in N.Y.C.
3.) He hired undocumented Polish workers to rehab the Trump Tower and then refused to pay them.
4.) Trump was fined $750,000 for anti-trust violations during his attempt to take over a rival casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

More Recently

5.) Trump has used and is currently, according to multiple sources, using undocumented Mexican and other Latin American workers to work as maids and landscapers at his hotels and golf courses. Additionally, each year he brings 100’s of overseas workers to work at his resorts based on the phony claim, he “can’t find Americans to do the work.”
6.) Donald does not pay contractors, whether they are architects, attorneys or brick layers and most end up suing him.
7.) He gave Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi an illegal $25,000 PAC donation from Trump Foundation while her department was investigating his discredited Trump University. After the payment, Bondi squelched the investigation.
8.) Trump used bankruptcy with his multiple casinos, leaving investors high and dry, while he left town with suitcases full of cash.

And The Corruption Piles Up

9.) Trump claims he “lent” his name to a couple scoundrels that then used his name rip people off.
10.) The Trump University was another Trump scam. He squashed investigations in Florida and Texas with questionable donations to state authorities. Other states pursued him and recovered $25,000,000 for victims. Several other cases remain unsettled as of this writing.
11.) A pyramid scheme called Trump Network was another way he ripped off consumers. In this one people sent in urine samples and were sent “especially formulated vitamins” by return mail.
12.) Trump Modeling Management brought foreign models to the U.S. to work illegally (lying to custom officials) while housing them in squalid conditions and paying them almost nothing. This may be how he met his current wife.

Nothing Changes

These are just some of the known historical scams, and unlawful behaviors that Donald Trump engaged in prior to winning the United States presidency. Since his election the corruption has just ramped up. The post-election scams, scandals, money laundering schemes, rumored Russian collusion, are being reported on daily, in the mainstream media and this humble blog. We are not fake news. We are the news. Trump just wants to lie and deflect attention from the truth. He has always been a con-man grifter, and being president hasn’t changed that.

At The Tax Payers Expense

The costs of maintaining this man in his Louis the XVI manner will hopefully lead to new investigations. Travel to his private clubs, charging the Secret Service to stay and eat at his hotels while guarding him are just a few alarming activities. Trump will spend more on travel and protection in one year’s time than Obama spent in eight years.

We Are Not Fake News

Calamity Politics in actively reporting on Trump and his corrupt behavior. The near constant self-promotion of the Trump brand is outrageous and in violation of innumerable laws, I’m sure. It would be great if we could get those Trump worshiping Republicans in Congress to take a serious look at Donald Trump and investigate and prosecute his unethical and corrupt activities, but that is unlikely.

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