Something Rotten

8/31/2022 “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” Marcellus famously told Horatio in Act 1 of Shakespeare’s best-known play, Hamlet. The something rotten in Denmark was the royalty, the leadership, the rulers. Hamlet’s uncle Claudius had murdered Hamlet’s father to become king, and then he married Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude. Shakespeare quite possibly chose the word “rotten” because, as the old saying goes, “fish rot from the head down”, and the rot in Denmark was coming from the top. The rot, the corruption had not only infected the elite, the ruling class in Denmark but it was also permeating and infecting the rest of the country.

We are witnessing this same thing in real time America. The raid on Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago is evidence that something is rotten in the United States. It shows that the corruption at the highest level of our government and our institutions is real, entrenched and pervasive, and it is permeating to the rest of society. This rotten corruption can be traced to the Clintons. Why did Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton have a private e-mail server set-up in her home on which she conducted state business which is not only illegal but dangerous to our country? Over one hundred classified documents were being held on that server, and that server was unsecure and had been hacked by outside parties. She was using a private server to conduct state business so the people at the State Department would not be able to see what she was doing – how she was leveraging her position to enrich and empower herself. There was no legitimate or legal reason to have her own private server, yet she did. And there was no legitimate or legal reason to Bleach-Bit 33,000 emails that had been subpoenaed after the private server was discovered. Yet she did that also.

The Clinton foundation is one of the most corrupt organizations in the world and was being used by the Clintons to launder money to themselves. Hillary Clinton was using her position as Secretary of State to further enrich that corrupt organization which in turn enriched her and her husband. In the years Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and up to the 2016 Election when she was odds on favorite to win the Presidency, her husband, Bill Clinton was receiving upwards of $500,000 from foreign countries, like Russia, for a 20-minute speech. This is equivalent to anonymous people paying $100,000 for Hunter Biden’s finger paintings. The 20-minute speeches and the paintings were merely the guise foreign actors were using to purchase influence that the Bidens and Clintons were more than willing to sell.