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Grinch or Santa?
Author: BobR
Date: 12/23/2020 13:59:23
Is tRump Santa or the Grinch? It depends.
For 15 people, he's probably Santa:
The latter two named were Republicans convicted for corruption. Collins actually admitted in court to insider trading. Hunter pled guilty to embezzling his own campaign funds for personal expenses.
There were also 4 former Blackwater contractors who murdered more than a dozen unarmed Iraqi citizens. They are pretty happy. The families of the murdered Iraqis, whoever, likely see tRump as a Grinch for sure.
DeutscheBank probably see's tRump as the Grinch. Two longtime employees who worked as financial concierges for tRump are abruptly resigning by the end of the year:
For Americans struggling during the pandemic, the House is Santa and the Senate is the Grinch (with Scrooge McConnell at the helm). The House tried to push through a $3T aid/spending package, and the Senate wanted it to be "only" $500B. They ultimately compromised on a deal that will result in $600 checks being provided to Americans. That seems like too little / too late.
In the "stopped clock" department, tRump agrees, and is threatening to veto the bill unless the checks are bumped up to $2000. His motivations for doing so are unknown, but given tRump's tendencies towards self-aggrandizement, it's easy enough to guess. He wants to be the Grinch at the end of the show, riding into town giving people back what he took from them, and basking in the praise for doing so.
We celebrate a secular non-Christian Christmas in our house, and I hope everyone has a great holiday, regardless of how you celebrate it. May your Grinches be few and your Santas be many.
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For 15 people, he's probably Santa:
President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned 15 people, including Republican allies, a 2016 campaign official ensnared in the Russia probe and former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad.
The pardons included former Republican Reps. Duncan Hunter of California and Chris Collins of New York.
The latter two named were Republicans convicted for corruption. Collins actually admitted in court to insider trading. Hunter pled guilty to embezzling his own campaign funds for personal expenses.
There were also 4 former Blackwater contractors who murdered more than a dozen unarmed Iraqi citizens. They are pretty happy. The families of the murdered Iraqis, whoever, likely see tRump as a Grinch for sure.
DeutscheBank probably see's tRump as the Grinch. Two longtime employees who worked as financial concierges for tRump are abruptly resigning by the end of the year:
[Rosemary] Vrablic became President Trump's private banker at the German lender in 2011, at a time when Trump was having difficulties borrowing money due to his history of defaulting on loans. Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, already a client of Vrablic, introduced her to Trump.
[...]
... Deutsche Bank in August opened an internal investigation into a real estate deal in which Vrablic and a longtime colleague at the bank, Dominic Scalzi, invested in an apartment building partly owned by Kushner. Scalzi is also resigning at the end of the year.
[...]
Deutsche Bank has been exploring how it can end its heavily scrutinized relationship with Trump, Reuters reports. But for Trump, his "key contacts at his biggest financial backer are leaving at a perilous time for the departing president," the Times reports. "He owes Deutsche Bank about $330 million, and the loans come due in 2023 and 2024. Mr. Trump provided a personal guarantee to get the loans, meaning that if he fails to pay them back, the bank can pursue his personal assets."
For Americans struggling during the pandemic, the House is Santa and the Senate is the Grinch (with Scrooge McConnell at the helm). The House tried to push through a $3T aid/spending package, and the Senate wanted it to be "only" $500B. They ultimately compromised on a deal that will result in $600 checks being provided to Americans. That seems like too little / too late.
In the "stopped clock" department, tRump agrees, and is threatening to veto the bill unless the checks are bumped up to $2000. His motivations for doing so are unknown, but given tRump's tendencies towards self-aggrandizement, it's easy enough to guess. He wants to be the Grinch at the end of the show, riding into town giving people back what he took from them, and basking in the praise for doing so.
We celebrate a secular non-Christian Christmas in our house, and I hope everyone has a great holiday, regardless of how you celebrate it. May your Grinches be few and your Santas be many.
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