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A convicted felon, he's been judged the worst president in American history. Yet, boosted by the invincible ignorance of some, a plurality of voters re-elected Donald Trump president of a country he nearly destroyed.
He plans to finish the job, endowed by the supreme court with newly-invented criminal immunity. We may be certain he will use it early and often.
After the most expensive election in history, Republicans scored a trifeca with the presidency and both houses, but the 435-seat house is very close: 220 Republicans/215 Democrats, but three Republicans are new Trump nominees. Republican gerrymanders produce at least 16 seats, now 19, after a 3-seat North Carolina pickup: NC's 2022-elected supreme court re-allowed gerrymanders the previous court found unconstitutional.
After obstructing Biden for two years, a Republican-majority congress can't wait to undo his reforms, dismantle agencies, overturn regulations, stack courts and cut taxes for the rich.
Corruption on an unimaginable scale will return. With Trump v US giving presidents immunity, and the court's watered-down bribery jurisprudence, Trump has little to fear in legal consequences.
Kleptocracy rules, and the usual villains and lobbyists are queuing for pillaging permits. It's pay-to-play, especially if you're rich: cabinet-designees Linda McMahon and Elon Musk donated $15 million and $118 million, respectively, as "campaign contributions".
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Like Silvio Berluscone and Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump escaped prison by getting elected. Now he wants revenge.
He plans to start by prosecuting all the people who prosecuted him, beginning with Special Counsel Jack Smith. Smith was previously head of a War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague, where he succeeded in trying and convicting criminal leaders in other countries.
Berluscone - election saved him from the clink
While in office, Donald Trump won't have to worry about any of the outstanding federal crimes he's been charged with committing during and after his first term in office, and thanks to a timely ruling from the party's Revolutionary Tribunal - the Supreme Court Six - he doesn't have to worry about being charged for crimes he plans to commit or may inadvertently commit during his next term in office, self-dealing included.
He's demanding alarming additional powers, e.g, skipping senate confirmations, by recess appointments, and power for Treasury to selectively label as terrorist organisations, any non-profits that get in his way. Trump truculently stalled, then agreed, the transition's uncongenial ethics requirements.
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