There’s no manner our founders may have foreseen that on the 250th anniversary of the republic, a corrupt American president would have amassed billions of dollars in private wealth in a single yr with out a lot as an iota of accountability. Nor may these visionaries have imagined that the establishments of presidency, together with the Justice Division, the Pentagon, and the Intelligence Neighborhood, would willingly facilitate his corruption. Maybe the founders can be most astonished, as we method this momentous milestone, by the truth that at the very least half of Congress – the individuals’s representatives, went silently along for the ruinous experience.
