Nixon asked people to pray for him and ended with “God bless America” to remind the nation that he was religious and therefore moral, and thus either innocent or deserving of forgiveness. Trump is doing the same with his gaggle of evangelical bootlickers.
The president’s businesses made themselves appear more profitable to lenders and less profitable to tax officials. One expert calls the differing numbers “versions of fraud.”
Turk pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday for stealing more than $17,000 from her mother’s Social Security, reportedly to pay for her own lavish lifestyle.