Follow-Up on Administration vs. Ownership

This is just a brief follow-up on the topic of administration versus ownership, which I discussed yesterday. There’s a lot of ground to cover as to how much Donald Trump has willfully and illegally destroyed during his second term, actions that go to the heart of the idea that the president, elected simply to a four-year term, owns not only the government but, in a sense, the country itself. I have discussed this with USAID, the Ministry of Education, etc. But nowhere is the damage clearer and the damage more permanent than in biomedical research and science. There, the administration, illegally, destroyed national institutions, processes and assets that took decades and generations to build. It is a network of expertise, money, experience and connections between the government and the country’s research universities. They have not only created enormous advances in hard sciences and cures. They have been a generator of national power and economic power. A president hired for a four-year term had no legal right to destroy these things created by the American people.