{"id":123,"date":"2026-05-20T22:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:08:16","slug":"corruption-is-who-trump-is-and-voters-hate-it-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Corruption is who Trump is \u2014 and voters hate it: analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bloomberg Editor Tim O\u2019Brian minced no words on what kind of man President Donald Trump is.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhy does he feel so emboldened?\u201d asked MS NOW anchor Katy Tur. \u201cWhy does [Trump] feel so free to talk about the ballroom and the gilding, etc. [with inflation like it is]<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause this is who he is,\u201d snapped O\u2019Brian. \u201cI don’t think it’s necessarily that he feels free to do it. It’s just this is, at his core, who Donald Trump is. And he’s been doing this kind of stuff since he was in his 20s. The only thing that’s changed is the scale of it and the power he has to affect it have dramatically increased as he’s moved through life. But he did it as a businessman. He did it as a celebrity, and he’s now doing it in the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n

And while the Trump is at his heart a thing of corruption and rank opportunism, O\u2019Brian said what\u2019s \u201cnot specific to him is the inability of the Republican Party and the unwillingness of the Party, and the federal institutions\u201d that were meant to put a check on him.<\/p>\n

\u201c[That] check on presidents or people in power of either party aren’t functioning right now to rein him in. And they’re not functioning right now to rein him in because Trump’s party is scared of him. And he oversees institutions that would otherwise normally check this behavior, like the Justice Department, like the Securities and Exchange Commission, like the IRS and so on,\u201d O\u2019Brian added. \u201cAnd trump himself is happy to do it because he’s craven. He really lacks any kind of moral gravity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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O\u2019Brian added that Trump sees the White House as a \u201cpiggy bank\u201d and public policy as a method to \u201cfeather his own nest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s motivated constantly by money and self-aggrandizement. I don’t think he really cares about the future of the Republican Party once he’s out of office, [but] \u2026 the way that translates into electoral realities is I think there is a growing part of the electorate that doesn’t forgive this, that ultimately voters are probably going to be the only check on him when the midterms roll around.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Brian said pollsters are identifying an expansion in people calling themselves Independents, and even through his core base in the GOP will forgive him anything, independent voters are \u201ctired of all of this, and there might certainly be a price to pay for it at the midterms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha told Tur the facts are on the ground among voters with Democrats having \u201cflipped 28 state House seats, while Republicans have flipped nothing,\u201d primarily because of the lopsided enthusiasm between Republican voters and everybody else.<\/p>\n

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