Donald Trump is one of the most corrupt people
ever to occupy the White House.
I am certain that he’s guilty of all kinds
of crimes—war crimes as president, financial
crimes as a business person.
One of the reasons why those of us who were
so angry about this obsession on Russia and
collusion, aside from the fact that it was
so dangerous to ratchet up tensions between
two nuclear-armed powers this way instead
of trying to forge a peace between these two
countries, is precisely because it took the
oxygen away from all of the things that the
Trump administration is doing that is so damaging,
in lieu of this idiotic, moronic, Tom Clancy-type
espionage thriller, where we were talking
about Putin blackmailing Donald Trump with
pee-pee tapes and Donald Trump being a Russian
agent since 1987, which was a cover story
that was on New York magazine, that Chris
Hayes put on MSNBC.
Just all kinds of moronic conspiracies, that
we love to mock other countries’ medias
for circulating and disseminating, drowned
out our airwaves and our discourse for three
years, preventing us from focusing on the
real, substantive damage that the Trump administration
is doing and that Donald Trump’s corruption
entails.
But the reality is, the media chose to focus
on this.
Everybody knows this.
The game is over, and it’s time to be honest
about it.
And the more we try to cling to this and invent
new—you know what it reminds me of?
In 2003, when the neocons finally had to face
the truth that there were no WMDs, that they
had fabricated that, that the media had misled
millions of people around the world for years,
and they started saying, “Um, maybe Saddam
hid them in Syria.
Maybe they’re buried in places we just haven’t
looked yet.”
It’s time to face the truth.
The media got this story wrong.
They obsessed on this for three years, and
all this time there was no evidence for it.
It was just a conspiracy theory.
Rachel Maddow, the most influential liberal
TV host in the country, every single night
misled millions of liberals into believing
something that was totally false, and there
will be no media consequences for it.
And that is extremely grave and serious, no
matter how much is true about how corrupt
Donald Trump is in his financial dealings
or any of the other stuff that people are
now trying to deflect our attention onto.
Why did millions of people vote for a complete
joke of a game show host?
And how did the Democrats lose the presidency
to one of the most embarrassing spectacles
of a candidate in U.S. history?
What is the prevailing ideology of the ruling
class that has turned millions and millions
of people, and to this country, into such
angry citizens that they either refuse to
vote or vote for the person who promises to
burn down the entire system?
Why are they so angry?
What has happened to their economic security?
What ideology and what group of people are
responsible for that?
What has Donald Trump been doing in realigning
the United States away from the Western Europe
and to Saudi despots, and the collusion that
actually happened, which was from the Israeli
government during the election in order to
undermine Obama’s policies?
All those kinds of questions could have been
asked and should have been asked, but it all
got drowned out because we were all so much
more fascinated by this superficial, kind
of very appealing and melodramatic espionage
thriller, that has completely destroyed the
credibility of the U.S. media and so tragically
vindicated Donald Trump in a way that probably
is the greatest gift that has been given to
him throughout his entire presidency.
