

Routine for him to use his ill-gotten power to abuse and deflower everything held sacred by his fellow men.ĭonald Trump came to power promising to "drain the swamp", but the swamp has only become deeper, and more fetid since he attained his high office. Trump's official duties and his commercial interests, both in Washington and around the world, is that it has now become almost routine". The New York Times is quoted as saying "To ethics lawyers, the most extraordinary aspect of the daily merging of Mr. By threatening to withhold military and financial assistance unless Ukraine exposes some fictitious malfeasance perpetrated by the vice-president's son, Trump hopes to undermine Joe Biden's spotless credibility and defeat him electorally through coercion, using sleazy and underhanded manipulation of a sovereign nation as a tool.

Joe Biden's son may have experienced some unfortunate personal incident in that country, which Trump is now bent on turning to political gain for his own twisted purpose. Having failed in that seditious expedition, he is now bent on subverting democracy in his own country by conniving with reluctant Ukraine to tarnish the name of his political opponent in upcoming elections. But such qualifying stipulations would never intervene in his calculations. The acquisition of sovereign territory is rightfully accomplished only by negotiation between equal and independent parties. He could see no moral equivalence between himself trying to buy Greenland and the Russian annexation of Crimea. The price that others may have to pay is of no account in his estimation and features only as juxtaposed to his own avarice. And measures success only by the count of his extortion. Lying comes easy to one so wrapped in devious corruption that he cannot see the value in virtuous living. When confronted with an unfamiliar situation, he is wont to turn to deception as a convenient solution. He has never been to prison, not through innocence, but by the grace of his father's wealth, and he acquired his hoard of material possessions in similar fashion. Never having had to work for an honest living, he has never known the pride of possession of an item acquired through hard work and determination. On this the eighteenth anniversary of nine/eleven, and inspired by Donald Trump's moral bankruptcy, I am pressed to once again, put pen to paper to explore the fetid world of corruption.
