A mad grifter in the white house-chapter 1

So I've been sitting on World War C for a while as I planned to rewrite it.
I now see a good place to start.  This is a work of fiction, any similarity to persons living or dead is a coincidence.

I plan to finish soon the fourth act of AuT, but I have to cool my mind.

A mad grifter in the white house

The news doesn’t leave much to the imagination.

He is a Russian asset.

Why?  He has plenty of money?

Clearly the reason is that he is in so much trouble politically he has to find allies he can rely on and these are the ones that are offering two things, one is to help him financially and politically and the other is to not cooperate with the prosecutors who are after him.

Will it work?

I don’t know.  As Lincoln showed, the presidency is clothed with tremendous power, the power to conduct war within the country.  All he is doing is stacking the justice department with lackeys who will do his bidding.

Why?

To some extent they believe in his political message, to some extent they believe in the man, to some extent they expect rewards.

But to betray the country?

What is betrayal?  To many of these people giving the vote to minorities was tantamount to treason.

Surely his base will wake up?

Ha!  You grossly overestimate the intelligence of the average voter and his willingness to follow the issues.  As long as there are new sources that follow his line, the hard line, right wing authoritarian government, then you better believe that he can stay in office and win.  Worse still, if he starts to lose, there is nothing to stop an authoritarian movement in this country.  You already see it where states are changing their laws to stop incoming democrats.

I still cannot believe the system is not strong enough to resist this.

This system?  Ha.  The system is only as good as the people in it.

The people in it are good, by and large.

People are cattle, they will sit back and be slaughtered before they react to anything.

But there is another party.

Sure, but where’s the money.  You buy politics and influence here.

There will be plenty of campaign money…

Who gave billion dollar tax breaks to the rich corporations?  They will not forget that.

But he’s so obviously caving into foreign governments and selling out the country.

That is how our system works, and don’t think that matters to money managers.  When Hitler made orders for tanks, no one objected to making them.

What is going to happen.

I am not sure.  Depends on what the foreign handlers decide to try.  The president doesn’t have enough independent backbone to do anything on his on.  He’s a coward, but I will say this, if he does act independently on anything, his instincts are terrible.  His tax cuts have already bankrupted the country and the stock market is crashing now which will finish the job.  Those tax breaks were what you need to prop up a failing economy and they’ve already been paid out to line the pockets of people who will not put the money back into the economy.

Wasn’t that the purpose?

Yes, but they were not tax breaks for putting money into new business, they were just a gift of money to himself and his cronies.  He’s a grifter and now he’s the grifter in chief.

I think he’s coming.

Yeah, let’s talk about Christmas.