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 was in high school for the Bicentennial, and I wondered if I’d live to see 250, and really looked forward to it.
Now it’s here, and I have literally zero interest in it. The original concept, which they had been working on since 2016, sounded great, but then Trump hijacked it, stole nearly all the money, and left about 2% of the budget to try to put on some excuse for a celebration.
Fuck these MAGAs, they destroy everything they go near, mostly by stealing all the money. Even if they left the money, and did their very best, they’d still fuck it up, because MAGAs have hillbilly taste, and are virtuosically incompetent.