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Donald Trump Presidency Easily The Most Corrupt In American History, Bar None!

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If there was any doubt about the level of corruption of Donald Trump in his first term in the Presidency from 2017-2021, his one year and four months so far of his second term, with two thirds of the term still ahead of us, settles the issue. It has escalated to the certainty of a multitude of observers, that his Presidency is the ultimate level of corruption without any debate on other Presidents and their administrations.

It is also fact that there can be no debate that the Presidencies that stand out as corrupt are all Republican Presidents.

Richard Nixon’s Presidency was seen as the worst and most corrupt, but now Trump replaces Nixon at the top of the list, without any debate.

Once we get past Trump and Nixon, the remaining Presidencies with high levels of corruption, would include

Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
George W. Bush (2001-2009)

No other Republican President comes close to the level of corruption and scandal of the above six Republican Presidents.

So Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, and George H. W. Bush are not to be compared with the horrendous record of the six Republican Presidents who had large scale illegalities in their administrations.

And one would have to scrape very far to find any Democratic President since Andrew Jackson established the “Spoils System” in the 1830s to attempt to put any leaders of that party on the level of corruption being discussed here.

There is no such thing as perfection, but other than personal scandal, sometimes known in their lifetime, and other times not known, not one Democratic President—Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, or Joe Biden—comes anywhere near the scandal ridden times of the six Republican Presidents.

Trump Presidency Most Corrupt And Scandal Ridden In All Of American History!

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Massive grift and corruption and scandal, without any apology, or attempt to hide—that is the Donald Trump Presidency, by far the worst, most evil Presidency in American history, far surpassing the Richard Nixon, Warren G. Harding, Ulysses S. Grant, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush administrations!

Notice that all of the most corrupt administrations were under Republican Presidents, a tragic reality that the party that was founded in the opposition to the expansion of slavery in 1854 has become the party of a totally different perspective on everything that the party represented under Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War Era and Theodore Roosevelt in the Progressive Era.

But Donald Trump is far worse in the level of venality than any of the earlier Presidents, with the only competitor for that unfortunate distinction being Richard Nixon.

When the era of Donald Trump is part of history, it will provide legions of investigation and research to uncover so much grift, corruption and scandal that at present is not even fully understood or realized.

Presidential scholars already rank Trump in the bottom three Presidents, alongside James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson, but the horrible events and controversies that are occurring now insure that Donald Trump will end up solidly in the basement as the worst, and in many ways, most dangerous President in American history, bar none.

The tragedy of it all is that Donald Trump really does not care about public opinion or Presidential experts, and the American population still contains 30-40 percent who think everything is fine, a troubling scenario that will undermine the American future for many decades moving forward.

Trump Corruption And Malfeasance In Long Line Of Past Republican Presidents, But Worse Than Any Of Them!

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The level of Donald Trump, Cabinet, and Advisors corruption and malfeasance is the most massive in American history, and right out in the open, without any apology or shame!

But this is nothing new for Republican Presidents.

Historians, Political Scientists, and other scholars have made clear by research and living through the past few Republican Presidents, that the Republican Party is manifestly a party of privilege and open abuse of office under SIX Republican Presidents.

In order historically, the following Republican Presidents have presided over massive corruption:

Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)—most famously Credit Mobilier Scandal but others as well.

Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)—most famously Teapot Dome Scandal but others as well.

Richard Nixon (1969-1974)—most famously Watergate Scandal but others as well.

Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)—most famously Iran-Contra Scandal but others as well.

George W. Bush (2001-2009)—most famously Iraq War Scandal but others as well.

It is often felt that Grant, Harding, Reagan, and Bush may not have been intimately involved personally, but they had corrupt adviers and Cabinet members around them.

In the case of Nixon, clearly, he was the most corrrupt personally and administration of any of these Presidents, until Donald Trump, who has surpassed Nixon by leaps and bounds!

The Trump Cabinet The Worst, Most Corrupt In American History!

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Past Presidents of the United States have had Cabinet officers who have been corrupt or outrageous in conduct, but never has any President had so many as Donald Trump.

There are no redeeming qualities for most of the Trump Cabinet and other top advisors, but some are the worst of the worst.

This select list would include, in no special order the following nine advisers to Trump:

Secretary of Defense (War) Pete Hegseth
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Attorney General Pam Bondi
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard
Director of the Office of Management And Budget Russell Vought
White House Border Czar Thomas Homan
White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Adviser Stephen Miller

Interestingly, when one looks at other Presidents and their Cabinet members, it is reality that Republicans are infamous for presiding over more corruption, particularly so under

Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
Richard Nixon (1969-1974)
Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
George W. Bush (2001-2009)
Donald Trump first term (2017-2021)

While there have been some examples of corruption under Democratic Presidents, none of them match anywhere near the level of these six Republican Presidents, including Donald Trump!

Donald Trump Speech And Interview On 100th Day Of Presidency Proof He Is Totally Mentally Incompetent!

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Donald Trump’s speech in Michigan and his ABC interview on his 100th day in office demonstrated clearly how mentally incompetent and deranged he is. He lives in a fantasy world, rather than in reality!

Trump is more of a threat with his declining mental state than Joe Biden ever was, and yet his supporters and sycophants in his Cabinet do not care and are enriching themselves and producing a level of corruption unmatched in any earlier administration, including that of Ulysses S. Grant, Warren G. Harding, Richard Nioxn, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and even Trump’s first term.

Trump with his declining mental state is endangering American national security every day, and taking us into a massive economic recession that may end up as another Great Depression, more than like the Great Recession under George W. Bush.

Trump is on the road to making Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression seem tame by comparison, as 123 million people lived in the United States in 1930, while now in the mid 2020s, 95 years later, we have 327 million, nearly 275 percent more!

Watching the 4th Cabinet meeting and the total “love fest” and praise could remind someone of authoritarian dictators such as Kim Jong Un of North Korea, in their hyperbole!

This is sickening, and the fact that the Republican Party in Congress goes along with this submission to Trump is a danger sign for survival of American democracy and the rule of law!

Calvin Coolidge Became the 30th President A Century Ago!

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Precisely a century ago, Vice President Calvin Coolidge succeeded to the Presidency upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.

Coolidge would be shocked to see how the Presidency has been transformed since his time, as he was a believer in a limited Presidency, and is seen as the most conservative President of the 20th century, with the possible exception of Ronald Reagan, who greatly admired him.

Coolidge would have been opposed to the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Great Society of Lyndon B. Johnson, based on his conservative, small government philosophy.

But he also would have been greatly disturbed by the corruption of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump, as his administration moved to prosecute the corruption of his predecessor, who had sadly presided over the most political corruption since Ulysses S. Grant.

It has often been said that Calvin Coolidge would have fit in better in the 19th century, with John Quincy Adams fitting in better a century later in Coolidge’s place!

We can also say he most certainly would not have fitted well in the succession of Republican Chief Executives, particularly Nixon and Trump!

Centennial Of Warren G. Harding’s Death, And Accession Of Calvin Coolidge Coming Up On August 2-3!

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The centennial of the death of President Warren G. Harding is arriving on Wednesday, August 2, with Harding passing away of natural causes in San Francisco, shocking the nation, as Harding was on the way to finishing a Western tour, which had included visiting the territory of Alaska.

The swearing in of President Calvin Coolidge took place in the early morning hours on August 3, with Coolidge being sworn in at his father’s homestead in Vermont, where Coolidge was visiting, and with his father, a local justice of the peace, swearing in his son, before he returned to Washington DC, and was again sworn in later in the day.

This was the sixth time a President had died in office, and was the second time that the Vice President who succeeded to the Presidency went on to win a full term of office in 1924, following Theodore Roosevelt, who succeeded the assasinated William McKinley in 1901, and went on to win a full term in 1904.

Harding is regarded by scholars as a failed President, with massive scandals occurring, similar to those of a half century earlier under President Ulysses S. Grant in the 1870s. While he had some successes, he is ranked in the bottom five of all Presidents, in the same category as Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan, Donald Trump, and Franklin Pierce.

Calvin Coolidge is perceived as higher in ranking, generally at the top of the bottom third of Presidents, but shortly after he left office, the Great Depression occurred, and his administration is perceived as having had major negative impact on the economy which led to the Crash on Wall Street seven months after his retirement.

Certainly, the Presidency is seen as having declined in the 1920s, after the Progressive Era of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson, and seeing rising fortunes after Herbert Hoover, with the coming to the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 Presidential election.

Donald Trump The Most Corrupt President In American History By Far!

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Sadly, America has had Presidents whose time in office included scandals and corruption on a wide scale.

But no President has been as corrupt personally and politically as Donald Trump.

It is also telling that the Presidents whose administrations stand out for their corruption are all Republicans!

The list would include Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877); Warren G. Harding (1921-1923); Richard Nixon (1969-1974); Ronald Reagan (1981-1989); and George W. Bush (2001-2009).

But the closest in level is Nixon, and yet, if he were here today, he would be shocked at the level of corruption, most of it personal, of Donald Trump!

Trump out of office faces legal challenges in Florida, Georgia, Washington DC, and New York, and he is the only President to be impeached twice, and have some members of his own party vote to convict him of impeachment charges!

That is why Trump has already been rated by scholars as in the bottom three of all Presidents in history, only ahead of James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson, who battle each other for last place!

Republicans In White House In Six Major Periods Of Corruption!

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The Republican Party has the unenviable record of having six of their Presidents leading the nation in major periods of corruption, sometimes with their support, and other times because of poor selection of advisers and cabinet officers.

Chronologically, they are as follows:

Ulysses S. Grant–1869-1877

Warren G. Harding–1921-1923

Richard Nixon–1969-1974

Ronald Reagan–1981-1989

George W. Bush–2001-2009

Donald Trump–2017-2021

The two worst are Donald Trump and Richard Nixon, while the others seem not to have engaged personally in scandals!

But all six Republican Presidents had people in their administrations face indictments and convictions!

While there was minor scandals under some Democrats–Harry Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Bill Clinton—they, in no way, match the horrendous record of the Republican Party!

And two recent Democratic Presidents have a totally clear record of no corruption, no indictments, no convictions—Jimmy Carter–1977-1981, and Barack Obama–2009-2017!

Trump Officially The Most Corrupt President This Early In A Presidency, And Probably, Eventually, More Than Nixon, Grant, And Harding

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The conviction of Paul Manafort on eight counts, and the plea deal of Michael Cohen, both occurring in the same hour late this afternoon, officially labels the Donald Trump Presidency as the most corrupt this early in a Presidency, in American history.

And this is not even counting the corruption and incompetence of so many Trump Administration Cabinet members and other top figures in his Presidency.

Three earlier Presidents had corruption at high levels, with usually Richard Nixon considered the worst, followed by Ulysses S. Grant and Warren G. Harding.

But it is important to know there is no belief or knowledge that either Grant or Harding personally were engaged in corruption, just that those around them were so engaged, and these two Presidents were not aware of such corruption, and did not order it.

Nixon, on the other hand, WAS involved in corruption and illegalities, but not known publicly or leading to convictions and pleas this early, in the second year of his Presidency.

So when the whole situation, in all its complexity, is revealed about Trump Administration corruption, it is likely it will far surpass even that corruption under Richard Nixon’s Presidency.