Another Indictment?

What? Another indictment in Trumpworld?

How could anyone be surprised?

In Trump's realm, crime and corruption

Have become quite normalized.

 

This time it is Thomas Barrack.

Of course, he's made a not-guilty plea,

Denying the charges of acting as

An agent for the UAE.°

 

Barrack is now the eleventh Trump

Associate, who since twenty fifteen

Has been charged with federal crimes.

This time Trump can't intervene

 

And dangle a pardon in front of him--

Something he's been known to do.

He has other challenges now

Since he couldn't pull off his coup.

 

Every day the world discovers

More of what Trump's all about.

And why people STILL support him

Is difficult to figure out.

 

Journalist Michelle Goldberg

Describes the astonishing situation

That we are experiencing

Currently as “scandal inflation.”

 

Scandal after scandal has made

The weary public become inured

To further scandals. The lines between

Right and wrong are now obscured.

 

Integrity or deceitful corruption--

Some people prefer the latter.

And many turn their heads and pretend

That certain crimes just do not matter.

 

All the more reason the U.S. needs

Leaders who put their country before

Their greed and own self-interests.

Grift and corruption, nevermore!

-by Bob B (7-24-21)

°United Arab Emirates