The Washington Post got its greedy little mitts on an interesting list—the tab for the president's Temu Versailles, presently doing business as an ugly scar where the East Wing of the White House used to be. Try not to faint when you hear the next part. I am neither an independent expert nor a scholar, but I did spent several years hanging around the Massachusetts state legislature, and this arrangement sets all my antennae quivering.
It also reeks of the kind of blackjacking money out of sources that was part of the fundraising of the Nixon campaign in 1972. (One of the primary victims of the latter shakedown was the late George Steinbrenner.) And the top of this scam is infinitely worse than Nixon ever was. God help me, he believes it, One day, he might make a tough witness.
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