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This story is a couple of days old, but it took me that long to process how vivid a look it is into the bone-deep malignant corruption of this administration. Those in power today who are not completely crazy are complete crooks. And that is my conclusion . From The New York Times:
... [Steve] Witkoff sat down with a member of the ultrarich ruling family of the United Arab Emirates. He was meeting Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a trim figure in dark glasses who controls $1.5 trillion of the Emiratis’ sovereign wealth. It was the latest engagement in a consequential alliance.
How nice.
Over the past few months, Mr. Witkoff and Sheikh Tahnoon had become both diplomatic allies and business partners, testing the limits of ethics rules while enriching the president, his f