Why you should vote for Trump — or not: 4

Sue Nethercott
7 min readNov 2, 2024

A lifelong grifter, he lies, bribes, cheats, extorts, abandons allies, and insults almost everyone. He’s a menace.

List of contents of this series of 6 articles

Why not vote for Trump? Cont.

A lifelong grifter, he bribes, cheats and extorts

He tried to extort Ukraine. He diverted funding for military housing to build his wall. He used the office of president to feather his own nest. He’s raised a vast amount of money from his cult followers on the basis of stolen election and other lies. Several of his officials were corrupt, too. Many of his officials have gone to jail and he has given pardons to people who should not have been pardoned.

His family have been involved too, for example Ivanka getting Chinese patents. They even promoted products at the White House! Son-in-law Kushner got $2bn from the Saudis.

Mitch McConnell abused the system to give Trump enough Supreme Court justices to get his way. His campaign team and Elon Musk kept a leaked dossier on Vance off of X.

He tried to get the G7 to meet at one of his golf courses, and the Secret Service had to pay exorbitant prices for his security detail to stay whenever he made his frequent visits to his own golf courses and other properties. He sent Putin some COVID-19 tests when there was…

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Sue Nethercott
Sue Nethercott

Written by Sue Nethercott

Open University BA, UMIST MSc, OU BSc Environmental Studies. Interests: environment, COVID19. Double #ostomate. Thom Hartmann’s newsletter editor. Views my own.

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