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 can’t believe it! To think, someone would transform a hyper-nationalist spectacle full of historical revisionism and militant jingoism into an exercise in political ideology?!
July 4th is supposed to be about things we can all agree on, like the Founding Fathers being Saints and F-35s being the apex aerial combat machine and Liberal Democracy being the perfect political system and England being a loser country full of knobs. We’re supposed to slap one another on the back and proclaim in one voice “This is the best country in the world, no cap!”
It’s not about politics. Who would be so vulgar as to make the signing of the Declaration of Independence political?!
Thank goodness we have the apolitical organization known as the checks notes minority caucus of the national legislature to look into this.