Betting that things can’t get worse with Donald Trump has constantly been a losing proposal, and never ever more so than in these dying days of2020 That’s the last, unambiguous, Signal of 2020.
Last week, Trump pardoned a who’s who of venal politicians (including ex-Representative Duncan Hunter and his partner), corrupt advisers (Paul Manafort and Roger Stone), relatives (Jared Kushner’s odious daddy), and child-killing mercenaries founded guilty of a massacre in Iraq.
There’s no “process” to this pardoning spree. Trump has actually bypassed Department of Justice protocols, arrogating to himself regal-like powers to reward cronies and (in Manafort’s case in particular) make great on his guarantee to safeguard those who went to the wall to safeguard him from prospective criminal liability.
There is talk that Trump will issue pardons-in-advance to his children and to close advisors such as Rudy Giuliani. There is talk that Trump will attempt to pardon himself for any federal wrongdoing he might be accused of when he leaves workplace.
Meanwhile, countless Americans are dying of Covid-19 each day. Healthcare Facilities in Los Angeles, the country’s second-largest city, in addition to the rest of Southern California, are so overloaded with patients that ambulances with seriously ill clients are having to circle for hours before finding one that will admit them. Some health centers are reporting that they are running low on oxygen products.
How has America’s president reacted to this intensifying crisis?
After decamping to Mar-a-Lago for the holiday weekend, Trump introduced a Twitter barrage versus the Supreme Court, Congress, Democrats, and the Justice Department, as he sought to keep the fiction that he won the November 3 election. And he continued to position himself as an insurrectionist leader rather than a president, prompting his supporters to protest in D.C. on January 6 versus congressional ratification of the Electoral College vote.
When he wasn’t fascist-tweeting, he was playing golf
And when he wasn’t playing golf, Trump was going out of his method to undermine the fastidiously worked out Covid relief plan. On Christmas Eve, he pulled the carpet out from under Congress, after huge, bipartisan majorities in both homes passed the expenses authorizing $900 billion in spending to counter the continuous economic effect of the pandemic. Without any caution, he unexpectedly announced that the legislation didn’t meet with approval and that he wasn’t going to sign it. And till Sunday late evening, he didn’t. As of Saturday night, due to the fact that of Trump’s inactiveness, millions of Americans– particularly independent professionals who have actually received joblessness insurance coverage considering that March– who were counting on broadened benefits to tide them over into the new year lacked financial support. And even though Trump belatedly signed the bill, the hold-up warranties a minimum of a short-term break in unemployment payments for those Americans whose advantages ran out on the 26 th. Merry Christmas, America.
It wasn’t just the out of work who were held captive to Trump’s tantrums this past weekend. All of that help was put into limbo by Trump’s shenanigans. Trump, in a fit of rage over his having actually lost the election, is now trying to take the country down with him.
For Trump, it’s all about being center-stage, all the time. And if countless individuals see a pause in their welfare as a repercussion, well, that’s simply the price that should be paid to keep the headlines concentrated on No.45
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