Giridharadas: ‘Criminal’ Trump Is Trying to Distract Us from the Fact that ‘a Crime Family Is Atop the White House’

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GIRIDHARADAS: "And that’s why I started with the point about safety, and that’s an issue that needs to be addressed. It’s an issue that is normally addressed locally, and I think it can be addressed capably locally. I agree with you that some partnership could be helpful. D.C. is special. But we can’t ignore what he is actually trying to do here, which is weaponize this fear of not just this city, but all cities. He can’t get Chicago out of his mouth. He’s now trying to intervene in the mayoral race in New York. And he is doing this to distract us from the fact that right now, a crime family is atop the White House. Right now, he is running crypto schemes. He is running policy to do the upward redistribution of wealth that you were just criticizing to enrich his billionaire cronies and donors. So I think we have to have a sense of proportion. The republic is being stolen. This is the big crime story. And he is using a very comparatively smaller crime story. And see, I’m talking about both. We can talk about both. But he’s using the one to do the other, right? He’s using the small crime story to entrench the big crime story in which he, a convicted felon, is the criminal."