Opinion: Donald Trump’s corruption knows no bounds or precedent

Trump has used the U.S. presidency mainly for his own personal gain.

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There are few days now when I don’t think to myself: what has happened to the America I once knew and loved? What has happened to the people who once made their country the greatest republic on Earth?

It now seems impossible to imagine that this same nation, not that long ago, elected a highly educated, progressive and deeply principled Black man to become their president. Barack Obama may not have been everyone’s grande chai latte, but he had a strong moral foundation upon which he governed.

Opinion: Donald Trump’s corruption knows no bounds or precedent

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