Two and a half days to go: Sixty hours of pardons and grift
It's almost here. Out with the old; in with the new. The king is dead; long live the king. Enough with cliches, what's important is our country's four year nightmare is coming to end. Joe Biden will be inaugurated on Wednesday at noon. The only question that remains is how much more damage can Donald Trump do by then?
It basically comes down to pardons and grifting....and in a lot of cases, both of those will be done simultaneously.
We've already seen members of his staff leaving for the final time. Some of them look like they are taking "souvenirs" with them as they leave the White House forever. Pictures hanging from the walls, documents, even this bust of Abraham Lincoln pictured at the top, gone! Of course, none of it belongs to them. They are all part of the White House collection. What that means is they belong to us...the American people. But the current administration doesn't care about that. With them, anything goes. They learned that over the last four years. They learned that from their leader. If he can grift, it must be okay. If he can do it, why not us?
If we're seeing what seems to be minor artifacts going out the White House door, imagine what it's going to be like on Wednesday when Donald, Melania and the rest of his family leave for Florida. The front lawn of the White House is going to look like a weekend yard sale in the burbs.
Then there's the pardons....it's been fairly quiet on that front recently. We haven't seen any undeserved pardons since the triumvirate of Flynn, Stone and Manafort. Everyone knows that he's not going out on only those. We all know that by January 20, 2021, at 11:30 am there will more....many more...and all the controversial will be given at around that time. His entire grifting family-pardoned. Rudy G.-pardoned. Republican members of Congress who were instrumental in the events of January 6th-pardoned. Maybe even all the rioters who have been charged in the insurrection-pardoned. What about Donald Trump himself? PARDONED!!!!
As disgusting as all of that is, wait until we find out that Don is going to make money from the pardons. The New York Times has already broken a story where Trump flunkies have been charging people looking for a pardon to gain access to the president. You can't possibly believe that Don isn't getting his piece of that pie? No one can be that naive, can they?
And there you have it...the perfect combination of pardons and grifting. A Donald Trump specialty!
Two and a half days to go. Sixty hours! The original question was how much damage can Donald Trump do in that time. The answer is plenty. After all, he is Donald Trump.
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