House Democratic subcommittee report outlines web of alleged corruption, wire fraud and pay-to-play schemes
Donald Trump staged a hostile takeover of the US’s 250th anniversary celebration to enrich political allies, harvest voter data and promote Christian nationalist ideology, according to a congressional investigation released on Thursday.
The interim report, “From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People Out of Their 250th Birthday”, outlines a web of alleged corruption, wire fraud and pay-to-play schemes orchestrated through a shadow corporation embedded within the National Park Foundation (NPF).
The document was produced by Democratic staff of the House of Representatives’ natural resources committee’s oversight and investigations subcommittee. It has not been officially adopted by the committee.
“Under President Donald Trump, this anniversary has been hijacked and perverted into a hotbed of corruption and self-enrichment,” it states, contending that the machinery built for a national commemoration was converted “into an apparatus for raising and spending money in service of the President’s ego, political ideology, and pet projects.”
I never understood American patriotism outside of celebrating Sherman’s based war crime strategy, and parts of WW2.
On a related note, we need a federal holiday specifically recognizing Sherman’s patriotic and glorious March to the Sea.
I kind of understand patriotism…what I don’t understand is how, in the US, the people who are the “most patriotic” are the ones that usually hate everything about the government…
They treat patriotism as a contest and most of their personality.
Nah patriotism in the US is a facade for white Christian colonizer nationalism.
Fuck them all.