Presidents are supposed to set a moral and ethical example for the country. Right? What happens if a president possesses neither morals nor ethics?
We know what happens. They get rich using the office. They abuse the power given to them by we the people. They put self-interest and greed before their oath to the country.
And dare anyone to do anything about it.
The country learned last week that president Trump went on a share-buying spree in the first months of this year. Purchasing stock in companies that were about to get lucrative contracts, from his own government.
On January 6, Trump purchased between $500,000 and $1,000,000 in Nvidia stock. A week later, the Commerce Department announced permission for Nvidia to sell chips to China.
He also purchased stock in AMD, another AI chip maker, right before they too were granted the right to sell in China.
Also in January, Trump purchased shares of Palantir for between $65,000 and $150,000, days before that company secured a billion-dollar contract to provide services to DHS.
Trump bought shares in Axon, a taser-manufacturing firm. And coincidentally, ICE announced a plan to spend $200M over five years on new tasers.
But a WH spokesman helpfully explained that “President Trump only acts in the best interests of the American public . . . President Trump’s assets are in a trust managed by his children. There are no conflicts of interest.”
That’s some Pinocchio-level spin. What we’re watching an American president do, in our faces, is the definition of a conflict of interest.
What do they take us for?
People go to jail for this. Just ask Martha Stewart.
But this is just another day in the most corrupt administration in our history. Where anything goes. And the GOP Congress makes sure of it.
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