Under the control of a debased, corrupt Donald Trump, the con man who claimed he would "make America great again," the once land of the free and home of the brave has become the toxic swamp of a madman, wannabe dictator who plunders and loots at will.

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From Capitol Hill Blue

America today can best be described as a floundering, drowning whale.

Under the control of a debased, corrupt Donald Trump, the con man who claimed he would "make America great again," the once land of the free and home of the brave has become the toxic swamp of a madman, wannabe dictator who plunders and loots at will.

The mentally-challenged half-child who calls others "enemies of the people" should be talking about himself.

No president in the history of this once-great nation has lied so openly, so blatantly ignored both the norms and the legalities of his office or turned the White House into a mob-central with a sole purpose of serving his ego or the wallets of his family.

And he continues to plunder and pillage under the protection of a emasculated Republican party that controls the Senate and serves his impulses with no regard for the nation it is supposed to serve.

Trump is served by equally corrupt GOP leaders like "Moscow Mitch" McConnell in the Senate, Kevin McCarthy in the House and others like supportive traitor Lindsey Graham.

A few Republicans -- too damn few -- have seen the light.

Former Congressman Joe Walsh, now a long-shot primary candidate for the GOP nomination for Trump's job, calls Trump a traitor.

"I'm running against President Trump because he's unfit and a clear and present danger to this country," Walsh says. "There's no way in hell I would vote for him in November. The election is about Trump, period."

Sadly, Walsh was not much a Congressman, just like Anthony Scaramucci wasn't much of a White House Communications Director during his brief time on the job, but even he now considers Trump a traitor.

"The American president is a traitor to the United States. He is literally the most un-American president that we've had, probably since Andrew Johnson," Scaramucci said on CNN.

He adds:

"I would have thought that the leadership in the Congress would have broken by now, the Republican leadership in the Congress. Where is the leadership?"

Where indeed. Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, now Utah's Senator, supports the impeachment inquiry, but has not said if he supports impeachment itself. This is enough for Trump to attack Romney.

Trump calls Romney a "pompous ass," who is "so bad for Rs." Romney is said to be among at least 10 Republicans who are learning towards impeachment less than half of the number needed in the Senate.

The Democratic leadership of the House is in the beginning stages of impeachment proceedings against Trump, something long overdue. Trump's attempts to recruit the president of Ukraine to help his re-election efforts brought a formal "whistleblower" complaint that started the impeachment outcry.

Involvement in Ukraine brought down former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort election and sparked the Special Counsel investigation of Russia's involvement in helping Trump win the disputed election where challenger Hillary Clinton won the majority of the vote by a record three million ballot margin but lost in the Electoral College, where gerrymandered district overrides the wishes of voters.

Now, two Ukrainian-born clients of Trump's equally-corrupt attorney Rudy Giuliani, were arrested as they attempted to flee the U.S. after federal investigators found they were violating campaign finance laws. Those same prosecutors are investigating Giuliani as well.

Trump's involvement in Ukraine is a tawdry part of his failed foreign policy. Michelle Goldberg writes in The New York Times:

"If America can be said to have a foreign policy at this debased stage of the Trump administration, it mostly consists of sucking up to strongmen while betraying everyone who ever believed in America's putative ideals. Trump has given Turkey his blessing to assault the Syrian Kurds, America's crucial allies against ISIS. In June, he reportedly promised China that he wouldn't speak out in favor of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, some of whom have been carrying American flags, as long as trade talks progressed.

"Here in Ukraine, a country locked in a proxy war with Russia, coping with a deluge of disinformation and propaganda and struggling to transcend a history of corruption, reformers are trying to figure out what it means when the American president sides against them.

"Pro-Western reformers, the Ukrainian philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko told me, had seen the United States as a "a perfect democracy functioning very well, with an admirable system of checks and balances. ...And now this image is crumbling and that's very dangerous."

Sadly, that perception is correct. America itself is crumbling and Donald John Trump is the destroyer of what once was a great nation.

Authors Bio:

Doug Thompson published his first story and photo at age 11 -- a newspaper article about racism and the Klan in Prince Edward County, VA, in 1958. From that point on, he decided to become a newspaperman and did just that -- reporting news and taking photos full-time at his hometown paper, becoming the youngest full-time reporter at The Roanoke Times in Virginia in 1965 and spent most of the past 55+ years covering news around the country and the globe. He spent a short sabbatical as a political operative in Washington in the 1980s but returned to the news profession in 1992. Today, he is a contract reporter/photojournalist for BHMedia and owns Capitol Hill Blue and other news sites.