Truth Telling

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August 30, 2026

In America's founding myth about George Washington and the cherry
tree, the message was that truth telling is important in a
leader, Trump’s administration was supposed to notify US District
Court Judge Reyes before taking down trees on the grounds of the
East Potomac Golf Links, a historic publicly owned course, But
more than 60 trees have been removed and the administration has
not abided by her ruling, They claim the trees had to be removed
for maintenance purposes, Trump is hailing an oil deal with
Venezuela, although there is little information about it, It
appears to involve the family of Alejandro Betancourt López, who
has been accused of corruption and investigated for money
laundering, The deal is built on a legal environment that does
not exist, The deal is also built on US aggression, the
kidnapping of President Maduro, the installation of Maduro’s vice
president instead of the opposition candidate, As journalist
David Rothkopf pointedly explained, we do not know where the
money is going, and whether it will end up being a “mafia-style
shakedown scheme” benefitting anti democratic forces in
Venezuela and the US, and the president’s friends, and possibly
the president’s family, and himself.

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