2GreenEnergy supporter Gary Tulie writes as follows:
From the New York Times: How Trump Uses Supporters’ Donations to Pay His Legal Bills–Facing a wide array of criminal charges, the former president is using money from small donors to defend himself legally — a practice that raises ethical questions.
So, are his actions here unethical? Believe it or not, I wouldn’t say so.
Trump’s base understands that the former president uses their donations to forward his political career and return to the White House as quickly as possible. In my estimation, he’s keeping his end of the agreement, since he knows that serving a life term in prison will make it quite difficult for him to fulfill the duties of the 46th U.S. president.
Now, if you’re Steven Bannon and you solicited donations to complete the wall on the southern border, only to put those funds into your pocket, you’ve crossed a big fat line from potentially “unethical” to “blatantly criminally fraudulent.”
Going back to Trump, we’re really wasting our breath if we’re talking about borderline unethical acts when we’re talking about a man charged with 91 felonies, including his attempt to overthrow the United States government. Discussion on this issue is equivalent to calling him out on his makeup or his hiring a prostitute.
Billionaires are under no legal imperative to use their wealth for the good of anyone but themselves. And it’s refreshing to see a person like Dolly Parton come along and make a huge difference in millions of young people’s lives.
The net worth of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are two orders of magnitude larger. Either of them could end world hunger, or greatly reduce the impact of climate change. That they are building vanity rockets doesn’t speak too highly of their moral character.
At left is a “survey” circulating on social media.
Did Hunter Biden act illegally? There are tens of thousands of replies thus far, almost all of which are, “Of course! And his father too!”
If I were to be asked, I’d have to say, “I have no idea, and neither does anyone, possibly including the people in the DoJ. I guess we’ll find out as the investigation unfolds.”
Now, I fully understand the Fox News narrative here, i.e., that, for the first time in U.S. history, a president has “weaponized the Justice Department” against a political rival. If it seems probable to you that the “Biden Crime Family” has corrupted the 115,000 employees of the DoJ, I don’t know what to tell you.
The only values I share with traditional Republicans are honesty and a respect for science. Of course, if you’re talking about a Republican president, you have to go back to Eisenhower to find one. Nowadays, they and I have exactly nothing in common.
As an American, I’d far rather see the GOP re-invent itself in terms of at least some level of integrity and intelligence rather than to continue to serve as a gross embarrassment to the United States.
What about nominating Liz Cheney? Nope, too honest and decent. And what’s in it for her to trade childish insults with the people at this year’s Republican debate.
One has to presume that she’s thinking about 2028, giving her party five full years to reorganize its thinking around sanity.
From 2GreenEnergy supporter Joe Spease (pictured):
A reader mentioned recently that we can’t expect Trump’s removal to change much in American society, at least anytime soon. He reasoned that Trump granted us permission to act like ass****s to one another, and there is no mechanism by which that permission can be withdrawn.
I’m afraid he’s correct, by and large. There is a certain percentage of our population, and it’s considerable, that revels in hate, greed, fanatical Christianity, and the rejection of science. They are like kids in a candy store at this point, and they aren’t going to want to leave.
At left we have the words of 18th Century British philosopher John Locke, who made this timeless observation. Sadly, United States is knocking on the door of the horrific outcome.
Fortunately, the majority of Americans support the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump for his attempt to overthrow the U.S. government following his loss of the 2020 election. Yet about 30% of voters believe that the former president is the victim of political oppression from Democrats, the Deep State, the Hollywood Elites, or whomever. What they don’t seem to understand is that the indictments came down from grand juries, whose members are most certainly not acting out some sort of vendetta against the defendant.
Be this as it may, it really doesn’t matter what the American people think about Trump; at this point, the wheels of justice are in motion.
The NYT writes: “Facing a wide array of criminal charges, the former president is using money from small donors to defend himself legally — a practice that raises ethical questions.”
There are so many different horrific impacts that Donald Trump has had on the common American. This is just one more: middle-aged people all over the nation are thinking, “Yikes. Dad’s a Trump supporter. I wonder how much of my inheritance I’ve lost to this criminal conman?”
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