You can’t help but think you reap what you sow here. Pecker Pickle  If you are a practicing incorrigible and surround yourself with people who are competitively unscrupulous, you are likely to get your ass in a jam.  It was just a matter of time before the shit really hit the fan.  And we have hardly had a glimpse of what Mueller is turning up.  It seems unlikely that state prosecutors won’t extract more salacious information about Trump from Pecker and what was stored in the Enquirer’s secret safe.  For one thing, one of those smarmy characters Trump palled around with is  American financier Jeffrey Epstein, recognized more as a registered sex offender than as a philanthropist.  What fertile fodder for the Enquirer.  Jeffrey Epstein

So there’s that.  Then there are all the guys with connections to Russia and its former satellites- Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Carter Page, Michael Flynn. Felix Sater.  Don’t forget all the shady fringe political figures- Roger Stone, Sebastian Gorka, Steve Bannon, and the late Roy Cohn.  And of course there’s his notorious fixer Michael Cohen, who has revealed that yes, as Donald Trump so adamantly complained, the fix was in on the 2016 presidential election, but it was Donald Trump himself who contributed to the fix.

When Trump was in the business of constructing buildings, it was common practice for him to award contracts to firms with connections to organized crime. The Russian mob is intertwined in many of his commercial developments.  And look at his cabinet.  Price and Pruitt were forced out because of ethics and corruption violations.  Commerce Secretary Ross shorted stock and used pending news of his own dubious investments as an opportunity for insider trading. A cloud of suspicion surrounds  Interior Secretary Zinke and his “foundation” that is run by his wife and is playing a key role in real estate deals whose companies stand to benefit from Interior department decisions to open public lands to oil exploration. Education Secretary DeVos is basically running a corruption racket, awarding student loan debt collection to a firm she is heavily invested in.

And of course there might not be any person on earth more corrupt than the president himself.  Just the tip of the iceberg  are egregious emoluments clause violations going on on a daily basis that congress refuses to do anything about.  I can’t imagine Pecker not having at least a few revealing stories to tell.

I understand most of the dynamics of the 2016 presidential election.  For many what they saw was choosing the lesser of two evils.  Staunch Trump supporters are presently entrenched    They will vote to protect him and his program because they believe they are protecting themselves.  But look around.  If this president is providing protection for your engrained bigotry, or you are a true believer that disruption and chaos are just the thing the country needs, no doubt your mind will not be changed.  But any single-issue voters out there, especially pro-life or second amendment supporters, please give serious thought about wiping the slate clean.  Protect your beliefs, just don’t put your faith in a despicable man who’s loyalty is only to himself and is slowly undermining the very institutions that serve to protect all of us.

Now Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, like Pecker, is providing information with immunity protection.  This is the beginning of path through the money trail, and as many have predicted, it is probably what leads to the end of this presidency.  Resigning might at least save Trump from some embarrassment, but it would definitely save the country from dysfunction and discord that is only going to get worse if he doesn’t.  if a person picks a peck of profiteering peckers for protection, that particular person will probably end up in a pickle.

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