Mehdi Hassan
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None.
He just ignores court rulings, which no president has done before.
And Congress, which is supposed to hold him to account, basically rubber stamps everything he does.
Congress is run by Speaker Mike Johnson, who is speaker in name only.
Donald Trump jokes in private that I am both president and speaker.
And he's not lying.
He basically runs Congress.
Congress is supposed to be a check on the presidency.
It's now become an extension of the presidency as long as the Republicans are in charge.
Now, if the Democrats win in November in the midterms.
and take back control of the House, at least, if not the Senate, then yes, they can hold some hearings.
They can impeach him for corruption.
Not that it will get convicted in the Senate because they don't have a two-thirds majority.
But at least something can be done to draw attention to this insane level of corruption where the president and his family are making tons of money.
And they all complained about Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden.
Hunter Biden made max $10 to $20 million from his Ukrainian-Chinese business dealings.
These guys are in the billions right now, the Trump family.
So you've got the personal enrichment of the president and his family on one side, but what about the sort of wealth inequality in the US under his presidency?
What does life look like for the average American right now?
So Donald Trump passed a big, beautiful act last year.