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    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 13 12:54:23 2024
    This got punted by my usual venue as it was felt the piece would only
    lead to flame-wars and shouting at this time.

    Corrupt Heads of State

    Imagine the impossible: a corrupt American President! These authors did.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/post/corrupt-heads-of-state
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  • From John Savard@21:1/5 to Nicoll on Sat Jul 13 14:56:00 2024
    On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 12:54:23 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
    Nicoll) wrote:
    This got punted by my usual venue as it was felt the piece would only
    lead to flame-wars and shouting at this time.

    Corrupt Heads of State

    Imagine the impossible: a corrupt American President! These authors did.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/post/corrupt-heads-of-state

    The "recent Supreme Court decision" is, I presume, the immunity ruling
    I had commented on here.
    While some have _speculated_ that Trump may be a Russian asset, this
    hasn't been proven. He enouraged people to believe he won the 2020
    election, and he was dilatory in his response to January 6.
    Thus, while some improper conduct has been found, it's unclear if
    something that can be classed as corruption is among his faults.

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to quadibloc@servername.invalid on Sun Jul 14 00:13:29 2024
    John Savard <quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:
    The "recent Supreme Court decision" is, I presume, the immunity ruling
    I had commented on here.
    While some have _speculated_ that Trump may be a Russian asset, this
    hasn't been proven. He enouraged people to believe he won the 2020
    election, and he was dilatory in his response to January 6.
    Thus, while some improper conduct has been found, it's unclear if
    something that can be classed as corruption is among his faults.

    I don't think he needs to be acting on behalf of a foreign government
    to be considered corrupt. I think merely acting on his own behalf and
    making decisions in office specifically for personal gain counts as
    corruption.

    President Clark from Babylon 5 and Lex Luthor would both count on that
    point; neither one was controlled by any foreign government although
    there is always room for a sequel.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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