Before the upcoming presidential elections distract us from all another events – the first debate between the applicant Joe Biden and Donald Trump will be held on Thursday 27 June – let's thin over any scandals that are presently going on in America.
On Thursday, June 6, a national justice announced that Steve Bannon, 1 of Trump's most crucial (former) advisors, and fundamentally the chief architect of his 2016 campaign, is to go to jail. The coffin is outraged. Indirectly, the events of January 6, 2021, erstwhile any Trump voters She entered the Capitol. in the U.S. capital, trying to prevent the result of the election that Biden won. However, in fact, Bannon was convicted of insubordination and disregard of the court after he refused to appear and hand over the papers of the committee in the home of Representatives which investigated those events.
Bannon was sentenced to 4 months in prison as early as 2022, but avoided jail time by appealing the sentence. His lawyer, David Scheon, after proceeding his sentence, began yelling at the judge: “You are sending a man to prison who acted in accordance with the law!” He uses his last days at large to warm Trump voters to fight: "Ladies and gentlemen, triumph or death," he announced at the convention on Saturday 15 June. He besides announces retaliation on his and Trump stalkers as shortly as Trump wins the election and starts his second round.
Hunter Biden, the president's son, besides has legal problems. On June 3, a trial began in which Biden junior was charged with possession of illegal weapons. The president's 50-year-old boy is guilty, decided 12 jurors, which doesn't seem to be helping his father with the presidential campaign. hard point your finger at a criminal Trump erstwhile a criminal is besides his own son.
Hunter Biden broke the law in specified a way that erstwhile he bought weapons in his hometown of Wilmington in 2018, he concealed that he had drug problems. He gave false information on the form and violated national law.
His trial is simply a kind of right-wing consequence to all of Donald Trump's lawsuits. The D.A. utilized Hunter's ex-partners' testimony, texting and photos of the President's half-naked boy posing with drugs. Hunter's lawyers argued that at the time of acquisition their client had a completely different life, free from drugs.
"No 1 is above the law," stressed the prosecutor, utilizing the same phrase that Democrats enjoyed after Trump lost in Electoral fraud trial related to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Hunter will hear the conviction just before the November election. Theoretically, he is facing up to 25 years in prison, though the punishment is likely to be milder due to the fact that Biden had no erstwhile problems with the law. It's possible he'll get probation. huntsman didn't usage a purchased weapon once.
There is besides a scandal involving the "additional income" of US ultimate Court judges. After respective articles of Pro Public's investigative platform, a group called Fix the Court became involved, which took the subject seriously. According to report Published on June 6, right-wing Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted gifts worth over $2 million over the last 20 years. Additionally, the study suggests that Thomas picked up another 1.8 million in the form of travel, specified as an expedition to a hotel in Indonesia in 2019, sponsored by billionaire Harlan Crow – Thomas' long-time friend and 1 of the most crucial sponsors of the Republican Party.
A fewer days ago, the legislature committee tracked down another 3 trips on Crow's private jet, including Glacier National Park, Montana. Biden's administration supports this run against corrupt right-wing judges as much as possible. Another conservative judge, erstwhile it comes to gifts from Republican rich people, is mentioned as being nominated by George W. Bush Samuel Alito, who was to accept gifts worth $170,000.
A week ago, protests began in fresh York City against the deficiency of government in consequence to the climate crisis. In front of Citigroup Bank in Manhattan, about 150 people protested under the slogan “Summer of heat”. Over the last 8 years, the Citigroup corp has invested about $400 billion in fossil fuels, which, of course, exacerbates flooding, fires, drought and environmental pollution.
"Citigroup supports transition to a low-carbon economy," said Citibank spokesperson". "Our goal is simply a trillion dollars in sustainable investments".
Older people besides protested under the subject "Rebellion of rocking seats". 56 people were arrested, including seniors who blocked the entrance to the bank with 50 bulls, demanding a clean planet for future generations. another civic groups: halt the Money Pipeline, fresh York Communities for Change, Planet Over Profit and Climate Defenders participated in the demonstration. For now, the protests have stopped, but “Summer of heat” announces demonstrations for all week and all period of this summer.
Another interesting pre-election phenomenon is Silicon Valley policy. The California corporations are traditionally liberal, but for any time, as well as Wall Street – increasingly divided between the 2 large parties. The symbol of this change is no another than Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla and the net platform X (formerly Twitter), whose trajectory illustrates the return of the full Valley to the right.
Musk, who yet won a $45 billion wage in Tesla, even though earlier the court tried to halt the plan, now has a problem with his transgender daughter, 19-year-old Vivian Jenna Wilson, who, according to Musk, became a Marxist. Like Musk, erstwhile liberal technocrats in Silicon Valley observe how their own children, supposedly “poisoned” by leftist ideology, begin to express loudly contempt for the owners of large American fortunes and side with Palestine, and against Israel (i.e. against the American government).
The US is increasingly accused of economical colonialism. Parents blame universities, frequently the most prestigious ones, from the Ivy League, and the influence of professors.
Trying to exploit sympathy in Silicon Valley, Trump appeared in California in the first week of June, collecting millions of dollars in Beverly Hills and Newport Beach. There were even besides many willing to pay – not all of them caught up with the erstwhile president, who cost $500,000 from the couple.
To show that California inactive belongs to the Democrats, Biden went there next weekend. With Obama's help, Julia Roberts and George Clooney, the current president raised $30 million during 1 evening in Los Angeles.
The forthcoming debate between Biden and Trump may show which candidate will take the lead. They're going head to head.
