Truth and empirical reality have been debased and corrupted by Trump’s movement and the global New Right

Novelist Jonathan Lethem told me in a recent interview that President Donald Trump is dreaming, and there’s a whole industry committed to keeping him asleep. In the several months since Lethem offered that wisdom, I have kept on wondering what happens when Donald Trump is finally forced from his slumber?

We now know the answer.

Over the tumultuous last two weeks, it has become clear that a patriotic whistleblower had documented how Donald Trump abused his presidential power to extort and bribe Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for crimes the latter has not committed.

View the complete October 1 article by Chauncey DeVegal from Salon on the AlterNet website here.