Every day in today’s chaotic America, a troubled nation with a convicted felon as its corrupt president and too many subservient Republican MAGA Maggots, a sinking democracy continues to sink into a toxic swamp.
Donald J. Trump, a wannabe fascist dictator, launched an unconstitutional war against Iran, tore down the East Wing of the White House to build, without approval, a vanity ballroom that is now a target of federal judges trying to stop it, and tried use a $1.8 billion slush fund to award criminals he pardoned from convictions to support his sedition’s Capitol riot. As long as he remains in the White House, America is threatened by his criminal activity.
Emeritus Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Eastern Michigan University, Gregg Barak, in his book, Criminology on Trump, charts what he calls the disgraced president’s “his history of crime and sociology. One review notes:
Barak has undertaken a unique analysis of Trumps’s background and business ventures using criminological research methods and frameworks to examine Donald Trump’s history of crime and social impunity. The crimes of this infamous entrepreneur have only recently begun to surface, but Barak shows that the accusations of sexual assault, tax evasion, money laundering, non payment of employees, racketeering, and obstruction of justice have been accumulating for decades.
Donald J Trump has been given many names throughout his rise to infamy. According to Professor Gregg Barak’s criminological analysis of Trump’s lifetime of criminality, the most suitable label would be the Houdini of White-Collar Crime. Barak’s research explains how Trump as a con artist, cunning racketeer, and master gaslighter, used the Trump Organization as a legitimate front for criminal activities for more than four decades. Trump’s entry into the White House was an opportunity to pursue his lust for power and wealth and to orchestrate a kleptocracy. Barak’s research has been published in his latest book: Criminology on Trump. In this work, he demonstrates that rather than being irrational, unhinged, or crazy, Trump’s background and business ventures from a framework of criminological analysis, show him to be none other than a calculating and compulsive liar.
Donald Trump’s relationship with crime is increasingly obvious when a closer look is taken at the financial performance of his businesses. Barak says that an analysis of his financial records reveals that he used his intelligence and deceit to operate a criminal enterprise. The parallels between Donald Trump and famous mobsters like Bugsy Siegel and John ‘Teflon Don’ Gotti are not a coincidence, according to Barak’s analysis. Instead, they exhibit the ability for a powerful, albeit maniacal, businessman to exert influence over other people’s behaviour. Symbolically feared for his ruthlessness as a businessman, Trump not only embodies characteristics of famous American mob bosses – authority, charisma, corruption, intelligence, and persuasion – but he has done business with numerous organised crime figures.
According to Distinguished Criminology Professor Henry Pontell of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Barak uses ‘a broad criminological perspective that draws on issues central to white-collar and elite offending’, providing an importantly ‘deep and novel analysis of Donald Trump’s behaviours before, during, and after his presidency
The evidence continues to mount on the corruption and criminality of Trump. He’s done the crime. It is past time for him to do the time behind prison bars.
