Friday, April 24, 2020

Seth Abramson Outlines How Trump's Coronavirus Response Is Related to His Company's Business In China, Huge Loans He Owes China, And The Trade Deal



It's a long thread, but well worth reading.  Abramson has written two books on Trump - Proof of Collusion and Proof of Conspiracy.  He wrote both by stitching together thousands of news reports, pulling together details into a coherent story about Trump's corruption.



What's A Twitter Thread?
It's a group of Tweets linked together that allow the writer to present a longer story than a single tweet allows
The intro of this Twitter Thread goes over some of those stories to put Trump's current actions with China and the Coronavirus into context.

I guess Trump is trying to demonstrate the maxim that if you commit big enough crimes you don't get caught.




Basically, Abramson outlines when Trump learned of the Coronavirus (in November while working on a trade deal with China), that Trump (or his companies) owes China tens of millions in loans that are coming due tsoon, and how all of this adds up to a conflict of interest and using the office of the presidency for personal gain of such a magnitude that it boggles the mind.

And all his antics at the so-called press conferences are simply diversions to not only shore up his base, but also to divert attention from the most serious, but more complicated abuse of office that's going on.

Abramson's background is in law and journalism.  The story is so stupefyingly huge that Trump might just get away with it, because people aren't ready to take the time to put the pieces together.  That's why we need people like Abramson.  Like everything else he does, it's so outrageous that it seems like has to be made up.

I'll give you some of the tweets in this long thread - here's where you can just read it straight through yourself.   













Posted by at 6:25 PM
Labels: , , , , , ,

3 comments:

  1. Barbara CarlsonSaturday, April 25, 2020 at 3:22:00 AM AKDT

    Seth is the Ur-journalist I’ve followed for years. His research is impeccable and trustworthy.

    This is just more evidence of balls-to-the-wall corruption by Trump, and his selfish and corrupt way of being. It's what predators do, without mercy.

    But will this amount to anything? Trump is worse than a virus for I fear we'll never get rid of him no matter how many times we wash our hands of him.

    However, he's the tip of a destructive iceberg of men and women as deeply involved as he is who are using him, a pathetically predictable & manipulable little man.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Jakob Dugan-BrauseSaturday, April 25, 2020 at 5:43:00 AM AKDT

    Gee, Barbara, what's not to like?

    Anyway, thought I'd say hello from a fellow post-American!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Barbara CarlsonSaturday, April 25, 2020 at 3:27:00 PM AKDT

      Ha!
      When did you leave and are you still a U.S. citizen? I was told I had denounced it back in 1971, when I became a Canadian citizen... then the U.S. IRA rules changed. Seven years of filing tax forms to catch up later...I keep my citizenship , if only to have one little progressive vote on behalf of my poor birth country.

      I also follow the arc of impending authoritarian rule. Born during a war to fight Fascism, now seeing if it can be defeated once again. The outcome is on a knife edge.

      Delete

Comments will be reviewed, not for content (except ads), but for style. Comments with personal insults, rambling tirades, and significant repetition will be deleted. Ads disguised as comments, unless closely related to the post and of value to readers (my call) will be deleted. Click here to learn to put links in your comment.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)