The Case for Impeaching Donald Trump
Bombs on Latin America: it gives Wag the dog, if you ask me. The administration, apparently enthusiastic about bringing back neoconservative military conquest, has soft-launched its latest war of regime change in Venezuela launching indiscriminate attacks on ships in the Caribbean and Pacific waters off Central America. These attacks, all carried out without any congressional oversight and on the dubious basis that the boats were loaded with fentanyl bound for the United States, were single-handed murderer. But the news that the military was ordered to strike a boat already in trouble in a “double tap” attack killing survivors raised the specter of war crimes — and in a way that even many Republicans I don’t seem ready to accept.
Trump’s Binance buddy gets pardon: Changpeng Zhao started this year on disgraced former Binance CEO“terrorists, cybercriminals and pedophiles.” But Zhao, having lost the right to run Binance, wanted to return. He therefore used his connections with Trump’s family and inner circle to obtain a pardon that would allow him to direct the series again. In return, Zhao turned his attention to World Liberty Financial, using Binance leverage to enrich Trump’s private crypto fund. TNR’s Tim Noah was positively apoplectic about this shady arrangement.
Chips to China: Speaking of Tim Noah and apoplexy: It’s probably not great that one company, Nvidia, has come to possess such god-like market-changing power. Its outsized importance to the global economy led Noah to consider it one of the main pillars to collapse, when he imagined a Trump’s potential stock market crash back in October. However, Trump has done what he can to improve Nvidia’s fortunes: This year, the president broke with a long tradition of national security and announced that he was allowing the company to sell its H200 chips to China. As The New York Times“David Sanger noteThe deal – the result of “intense lobbying” by Nvidia CEO and White House gadfly Jensen Huang – raised a fundamental question: “If the chips that power the most advanced technology can be sold to the United States’ main technological, military and financial competitor, where is the new line drawn?” But that’s probably the least of Trump’s worries: The deal also guaranteed that “25 percent of all sales revenue would go to the United States,” yet another example of this administration’s affection for fascist corporatism.
