Conservative tears into all the 'bananas' in Trump's 'Banana Republic'

Former National Review writer Kevin D. Williamson says there just aren’t enough corruption counters to count all the corruption leeching out of the Trump White House these days.

“To recap: Donald Trump has sued the Donald Trump administration over alleged wrongdoing by the Donald Trump administration, and an out-of-court settlement between Donald Trump and the Donald Trump administration will have Donald Trump’s DOJ ponying up the better part of $2 billion to be put into a fund controlled by Donald Trump and used for the benefit of — let’s check in here with dead-eyed White House trash panda J.D. Vance — “people who voted for Donald Trump and participated in the January 6th protests,” Williamson writes in the Dispatch.

“We are going to need a whole brigade of additional tally-men to tally the bananas in this bananas republic,” added Williamson, a writer-in-residence at the conservative Enterprise Institute.

The situation amounts to “one group of Trump sycophants negotiating with another group of Trump sycophants for the benefit of Trump sycophants and Trump himself,” said Williamson. Trump did not demand outright immunity from taxes — he only demanded immunity from being investigated or prosecuted for not paying his taxes, or for tax fraud, or for other tax-related mischief.

“Immunity for himself, for his business associates, for Uday and Qusay and the rest of his ghastly cretinous spawn,” explained Williamson.

And Williamson invested extra disgust for Vice President JD Vance, who he describes as “the coprophagic charlatan who once compared Trump to Adolf Hitler before becoming the full-time monkey-butler serving the totally-nothing-like-Hitler administration.”

Vance, said Williamson, “thinks the January 6 rioters — the dimwitted brownshirts in Trump’s failed 2021 coup d’état — just need a little more love and understanding, saying, in defense of the slush fund gambit," claiming “You know who never, ever gets an ounce of sympathy when it comes to that disproportionate sentencing is people who voted for Donald Trump and participated in the January 6th protests.”

Worse, said Williamson is who’s already “lining up with their hands out,” which includes “Proud Boys gruppenführer Enrique Tarrio. Registered sex offender Andrew Taake, who got a six-year sentence for assaulting police officers on January 6, was pardoned by Trump with a bonus get-out-of-jail-free card on a separate child-sex charge."

It’s “the biggest parade of schmucks, chiselers, lunatics, conspiracy kooks, and criminals since Trump’s last Cabinet meeting,” said Williamson — and don’t expect this outrage to break the MAGA spell, he adds.

“Trump’s slavering loyalists already have forgiven him for trying to overthrow the government — you think they’re going to get big mad over his stealing a little money?” asked Williamson.“… Trump was right about his being able to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without losing any political support—and his implied contempt for his voters is entirely justified.”