A Busy Busy Week in Trump Outrages

By Mort Kondracke

Last week’s No Kings protest rallies were among the largest in US history, with an estimated 7 million participants in 2,700 cities. Donald Trump denied he was a king, though he posted mocking AI slop of himself wearing a crown—the crudest of which showed him flying a fighter plane and dumping feces on No Kings demonstrators.

Regardless, he certainly continues to act like a king—and an increasingly despotic and corrupt one. He pardoned crypto multi-billionaire Changpen Zhao, who pleaded guilty to charges of failing to conduct an effective money laundering program. Evidence presented showed he allowed his crypto exchange, Binance, to be used for money laundering by drug dealers, human traffickers and terrorists.

Zhao mounted a vigorous campaign for a pardon, working with friends of Trump’s sons. Trump claimed (not very credibly) that he didn’t know Zhao, who promoted Trump’s crypto company. Trump claimed he pardoned Zhao on the recommendation of “a lot of very fine people” who said what he did “was not even a crime” and that he was a victim of the Biden administration’s “war on crypto.”

King Donald also defunded Congress-approved major projects in Democratic states. And he used exaggerated estimates of urban unrest in Democratic cities to deploy federalized National Guards and masked thuggish ICE agents, and used the government shutdown to order mass firings of federal employees.

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