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Financial Graft And Malfeasance From Spiro Agnew And Abe Fortas A Half Century Ago To Donald Trump And Clarence Thomas Now!

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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, we had famous financial graft and malfeasance that led to the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1973, and Supreme Court Associate Justice Abe Fortas in 1969, both over comparatively small amounts of corruption, as one looks back on that time. Both were held accountable, and had to resign their positions of influence.

Now in 2025, we have massive financial corruption by President Donald Trump, and Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (accepting major gifts from Harlan Crowe and others).

And neither Trump nor Thomas, nor many others in the Trump orbit, who are also engaged in financial malfeasance, even try to hide it.

There was a crypto investors dinner last night, hosted by Donald Trump, where wealthy investors, paying at least $1 million to Trump for the opportunity to invest in his memecoin, had the opportunity to have their corrupt requests listened to and accomplished. But apparently, Trump made a brief speech and left the gathering, so those who paid to speak with him did not get that chance, but invested in making Trump and his family ever more wealthy.

This comes after Trump’s business trip to the Arab oligarchs of the Middle East, and his sons and son in law gaining investment opportunities in many countries, because of their connection to Donald Trump. It also follows Trump being offered the “gift” from Qatar of a replacement for Air Force One, which has already been accomplished despite many questions and doubts about the veracity and safety of accepting such a gift, from a nation that has backed the Palestinian terrorist group, Hamas.

This is how deteriorating the sense of honesty and ethics have occurred, as there is no shame in today’s politics!

It makes the corruption of past administrations, including Ulysses S. Grant, Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush, look minor by comparison!

And much of the corruption of those Presidencies was not personal, rather people around the Presidents, who served in their administrations and enriched themselves, as a result of their being part of those administrations.

So in the time of Donald Trump, the corruption level is greater than at any time in American history, and yet, it seems to be unstoppable!

50th Anniversary Of Gerald Ford Becoming President

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In the midst of commemorations of the 50th Anniversary of the Richard Nixon resignation from the Presidency, not as much attention is devoted to the accession of Gerald Ford to the Presidency for the next two years, five months and 11 days, as the only President NOT elected President or Vice President.

Ford was approved to be Vice President under the recently enacted 25th Amendment to the Constitution, upon the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew, arguably the most corrupt, scandalous, and obnoxious Vice President in the history of that office.

Agnew’s involvement in scandals, corruption, and in attacks on the news media and common decency, was horrifying, and it was a great sense of relief that he was forced out in October 1973.

The selection by the compromised President, Richard Nixon, at a time when the Watergate Scandal was metastasizing, was a relief as Ford, the House Minority Leader, was well respected and admired by members of the House of Representatives and the Senate in both political parties.

Ford conducted himself honorably as Vice President for about eight months from early December 1973 until his elevation to the Presidency on August 9, 1974.

And while Ford would lose election for a full term to Jimmy Carter in 1976, looking back on Ford, it seems clear that he has been underestimated in history, and deserves a better shake from the American people and Presidential scholars.

His wife, Betty Ford, was a major contributor to the history of First Ladies, often considered the “best” Republican First Lady of modern times.

While many would not agree with all of Gerald Ford’s views and stands on issues and policies, he comes across as the most decent Republican President in the past six decades!