October 21, 2020: Add another Felon to the Wall of Shame

10/21/20: Day #4 of Character Counts Week! Paul Krause, former president of Blue Bell Creameries, is definitely not going to be held up as an example to children by America’s schoolteachers.

 

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Bloated capitalism has a bad day.

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Rather, Krause proves a liberal maxim. Government regulations are often necessary to curb the excesses of bloated capitalism. Just weeks after his company agreed to pay a $17.5 million fine for price fixing – that is, cheating customers – Krause was indicted on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy.

 

Has “Law & Order” Trump ever talked about attacking white collar crime? Most of his family – but not Barron or Tiffany, and probably not the First Lady – and half his cabinet would go to jail.

 

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WE KNOW President Trump likes to lead cheers at almost every rally, where loyal fans chant about locking up Americans who have never been tried and convicted, let alone indicted.

Nader and Trump: buds!

Broidy: Add another felon to the Wall of Shame.

 

Has he ever laid out his feelings toward plea-deal accepting felons? If you missed it, Team Trump added another name to the “Wall of Dishonor.” But first, a little nuance and context. If you are a big fan of this president – and you love to chant, “Lock her up!” Or “Lock him up!” Or “Lock them all up!” you probably haven’t ever considered this point. Since it’s Character Counts Week, and our topic today is bloated capitalism, don’t forget that not so long ago the Chinese offered to bail out Jared Kushner and his family, who were carrying a massive debt on a property at 666 Fifth Avenue, in New York City.

 

If it had been Obama who owned that building, QAnon supporters would have said, “Of course: ‘666,’ the sign of the beast.” 

Anyway, bad publicity ensued – the president’s son-in-law and family getting bailed out by commies. The deal was torpedoed.

 

Jared is always trying to bring peace to the Middle East. So, one day, he met with some folks from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. They really wanted the U.S. to support a blockade of rival Qatar. Jared said he’d talk to his father-in-law and see what he could do. Meanwhile, Elliott Broidy, pal of the president, snagged a lucrative contract (worth at least $200 million) from the Emiratis.

 

The Qataris heard the news and got antsy. Would they be odd-country out, in terms of deals with Americans? Suddenly, a Qatari sovereign fund bought up most of the debt on 666 and bailed out the Kushner clan.

 

When the free press broke that story, Qatari fund managers claimed all they saw was a really good investment opportunity. What???? You don’t mean 666 Fifth Avenue is owned by the Kushner family!

 

Boy, were they surprised!

 

Later, George Nader, an ally of President Trump and Mr. Broidy, gets busted for child sex trafficking. He pleads guilty and gets sentenced to ten years in the slammer. (Definitely not a good example during Character Counts Week!) Nader, who helped Broidy snag that $200 million deal with the Emiratis, agrees to cooperate with investigators. Broidy gets investigated next. The feds get the goods. Today he pleads guilty to one act of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Until he was caught, Broidy had been piling up the big bucks, selling access to the White House to sleazeball characters. Take for example, Najib Razak, former Prime Minister of Malaysia. Razak looted his country, got caught, and now finds himself sitting in jail. 

In exchange for leniency, Broidy has also agreed to cooperate with investigators and forfeit $6.6 million. 

Prosecutors are clear: Broidy had been a walking, talking, money-grubbing threat to U.S. security. 

“Elliott Broidy sought to lobby the highest levels of the U.S. government [emphasis added on this blog, unless otherwise noted] to drop one of the largest fraud and money laundering prosecutions ever brought and to deport a critic of the Chinese Communist Party, all the while concealing the foreign interests whose bidding he was doing,” Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers said in a statement.

 

“Such conduct poses a serious threat to our national security and undermines the integrity of our democracy,” added acting assistant attorney general Brian C. Rabbitt. (See: 10/16/20 for more detail on Broidy.)

 

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IN OTHER NEWS, Trump fans are bummed to learn that the “Deep State” has infiltrated the Trump campaign.

 

Members of the Satanic, pedophile, cannibal, liberal cabal convinced organizers of a Trump rally in North Carolina to ban anyone from wearing QAnon gear or waving patriotic, flag-themed “Q” signs. If followers of “Q,” who make up a sizeable lump of the Trump base, wanted to flash their secret sign at Trump rallies, they’d have to do it quick, and not get caught on TV.

 

Well, QAnon fans, take heart!  The “Deep State” can’t stop Marjorie Taylor Greene, GOP candidate for Congress.

 

Greene is a big believer in “Q” and his/her idiot theories and an equally big believer in owning all the guns you can afford. Because we all know, “Only a good guy with a gun can stop a cannibalistic liberal from gnawing off our legs.”

 

Behind the scenes, Trump lawyers have been helping her advance her campaign, which makes one wonder. Did Team Trump ban QAnon gear, because most Americans think the QAnon line is nuts, and they didn’t want to look bad with less than two weeks to go until the election?

 

Or was Team Trump tricking the cannibals?  Did Team Trump have a secret plan to defeat them once and for all?