Ex-MAGA Rep to Americans: Know who’s to blame for Trump’s blatant corruption? You are.

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President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gesture as they meet delegations at the Royal Palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP

The headlines keep rolling at us like an avalanche, threatening to bury Americans under tons of grift and corruption — with no hope of ever digging out.

The Hill: “Trump accepting Qatar plane raises ethical, security concerns: ‘It’s humiliating’

Yahoo: “Syrian leader ‘offers to build Trump Tower’ in Damascus”

New York Times: “Tiny company with China ties announces big purchase of Trump cryptocurrency”

Yahoo Finance: Dar Global and the Trump Organization launch $2B Trump Tower

And Joe Walsh, the former Republican representative and MAGA member, says Americans are responsible. By re-electing Donald Trump, they’ve sent a message to the wheeling-and-dealing and most corrupt president the United States has ever seen:

“We don’t care about the corruption. Line your pockets. Run self-enriching crypto schemes. Pilfer from the federal government for you and your cronies. Manipulate the markets. Tighten or loosen tariffs based on money piped into your bank accounts. Accept gaudy gifts — with likely strings attached — from corrupt foreign leaders. It’s all good."

Because, after all, Joe Biden is slow, and Kamala Harris is a Black woman. A faster-talking, lying white guy, no matter how corrupt, was the better choice, right? Even the Supreme Court thought so.

"Trump is openly corrupt and openly lawless,“ Walsh tweeted. ”Because he thinks he’s untouchable. He thinks he can get away with anything. And who can blame him for thinking this? The American people have told him he can get away with anything."

If Americans don’t see what’s happening, it’s because they don’t want to see. Or, as Walsh says, they just yawn because they’d “rather be entertained.” Or, they’re MAGA and it’s perfectly fine with them.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has been endless mocked for lying that Trump is not out for himself, he’s working for America.

“I think it’s frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit,” she said last week. “He left a life of luxury and a life of running a very successful real estate empire for public service ... this is a president who has actually lost money for being president.”

The watchdog group, Citizens for Ethics connected the dots in a tweet:

“1. Trump Org announces new development in Qatar

2. Trump admin announces stop in Qatar as part of first foreign trip

3. News breaks that Qatar plans to gift America a $400 million plane

This is all unprecedented and quite obviously corrupt."

Coast-to-coast protests are still gaining momentum. But is this a sign that America is waking up to the dishonesty, deceipt and double-dealing — and is ready to reclaim the country? The answer is 18 months away.

Walsh writes:

Donald Trump is who he has always been. He’d sell our most sensitive intelligence to our enemies if he could personally profit from it. The more disturbing part is how many people are willing to look away. Vanishingly few congressional Republicans have come forward to seriously question this obscene deal and demand transparency.

Once again, Trump is testing whether the rule of law still means something in this country—or whether our institutions are too paralyzed, partisan, or complicit to act. And again, we are failing miserably.

We deserve better. We deserve a President who works for the public interest—not for the highest bidder. It’s going to fall on We the People to hold him to account.

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