Two disparate cases in which Trump sissied out on doing the right thing, to preserve his own skin from the corporate interests which actually run the Empire.

The Semi-Inside Story of Why Trump Refused to Pardon Snowden and Assange

Why didn’t the ex-Prez pardon either Assange or Snowden though he had strong reasons for wanting to do it?

TLDR: Because the average Republican senator, beholden to the military-industrial complex, would have stepped aside and let the Dems destroy him if he had.

US war lobby fuels conflict in Russia, Ukraine, and Syria: ex-Pentagon advisor

Trump also wanted peace in our time, including Iraq and Afghanistan withdrawal, and cooperation instead of conflict with the Russians.

The same forces cut him off on that one too, according to this bulletheaded Pentagon drone Douglas Macgregor.

He paints a picture for us, of how there was very little difference on this score, from Obama to Trump.

Biden barely comes up, because he’s irrelevant, incoherent, and obviously a pawn of the same forces. It hardly merits discussion.