A “governing crisis”?
[New Yorker cover illustration, ‘Closing In,’ by Barry Blitt (Detail). A contributor since 1994, has drawn more than a hundred covers for the magazine — and, since 2015, more than fifteen featuring President Trump.]
Bob Woodward recently warned of a “governing crisis” related to Trump’s governance on issues ranging from North Korea to Iran. “All these balls in the air,” he said. “And they are being juggled by perhaps the most unsteady hands we’ve had in the American presidency, ever.” How did the US let this happen? How can it prevent anything of the sort ever happening again, eg.: a functional idiot in the White House, hands on the reins and finger on the button?
How about making it a REQUIREMENT, not a choice, that presidential candidates release their tax records, like every other public employee at the executive level, which would have, in this case, instantly revealed (a) the degree to which Trump was indebted to hostile foreign powers’ state and affiliated banks and oligarchs, and therefore dangerously compromised, for his huge and dramatic bail-outs from looming bankruptcy via massive, illogical Russians’ investments in his money-losing golf courses around the world which were obviously illegal functions of money-launderings, and (b) the amount of tax fraud, general fraud, and doctored returns submitted over years, and (c ) the degree to which his father and siblings bailed him out to protect him from both business and personal bankruptcy on multiple occasions, all adding up to edifying evidence of what a totally abysmal, corrupt and fraudulent ‘businessman’ he actually is, which is pertinent in this case as his fictional ‘Apprentice’ persona, as a great businessman who would share his expertise and business acumen with the country is the platform on which he won, and on the basis of which his boondoggled 30% voted him into office, apparently not realizing that the Trump image was a TV entertainment product!
In point of fact, as has been established by the release of historical tax documents for only a few years, and which will be further established by the release of further tax documents enforced by subpoena. Trump is the WORST businessman in the history of the country, who has LOST the MOST MONEY OF ANYBODY, EVER, and who has already lost the middle and working classes in the US, most notably farmers and manufacturers, BILLIONS with his totally stupid trade policies and tax scam solely benefitting the 1%.
Lest anyone still buy the line that the economy is doing great and that the stock market is booming, please be aware that these illusory abstract constructs do NOT filter down to the average Americans, AT ALL, which should have become evident from the credit crash and subsequent ruination of millions of ‘average’ Americans’, and others’, finances in 2008. Trump’s abysmal business ineptitude has indeed been shared with the US and world markets.
