Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff noted that Trump’s war on Iran had already caused the deaths of 13 US soldiers, and thousands of civilians, triggered “skyrocketing inflation” and done “massive damage to our reputation” and yet “the regime is intact” as is “its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, which it only assembled after Donald Trump shredded President Obama’s Iran deal”.

“Donald Trump depicted himself as Jesus Christ,” Ossoff said, referring to the AI image the White House defended and then removed from social media after blowback from even some Trump supporters. “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice, while he and his family rake in billions from foreign princes, while he plunders our healthcare to cut taxes for the rich.

“Meanwhile, rent, power, groceries and healthcare have all hit all-time highs this year,” the senator said. “While you pay more for everything, the first family’s wealth is growing by billions of dollars – because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.

“How much do you guys know about Jared Kushner, Ivanka’s husband?” Ossoff asked. “He’s on the Saudi payroll for $2bn, did you know that? And now he’s leading American diplomacy in the Middle East, apparently, while at the very same time asking princes and sheikhs across the Arab world to give him billions more.

“Can you imagine, like a normal, sitting US ambassador just hitting up Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman for billions of dollars? But he’s a Trump, a royal, a princeling. The rules are for us, not for them. And it’s not just Jared getting in on the action,” the senator said, adding that the president’s sons had also sought to profit, as had his defense secretary, according to a Financial Times report.

“Never before have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights,” Ossoff said. —The Guardian