What the Crisis over Greenland Reveals about the Real-Life Perils of “Citizens United”
Excerpt from article by COURIER author Lisa Graves. Read the whole piece here!
Trump’s menacing words and actions are shattering alliances that have helped keep Americans safe for decades. The unnerving situation we and the world find ourselves in is not just the consequence of Trump’s egomaniacal and seemingly demented threats. It is also a world-shaking effect of America’s broken “campaign finance” and anti-corruption system, which is directly due to the partisan interference of the Roberts Court in election law–and in creating anti-constitutional criminal immunity for Trump.
How did we get to the brink of a hot war with Denmark, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union? The answer is money in U.S. politics, money that is now proving to have disastrous effects not only here at home, but on a global scale.
It is also a combination of greed and Trump’s obsession with dominating people and places. As he once told Billy Bush, there was a pretty woman he wanted “to f*ck” so, though she was married, he “moved on her like a b*tch” and “failed.” But this time, it is not a woman–or unwilling women, like E. Jean Carroll–but an unwilling island bound to Denmark and the European Union, some of America’s closest allies.
According to The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, the origin of Trump’s plan to take over Greenland was spawned by Ron Lauder, a billionaire heir to the Estée Lauder cosmetic fortune, who backed Trump’s election. Here’s the story in that book:
‘A friend of mine, a really, really experienced businessman, thinks we can get Greenland,’ Trump told [National Security Advisor John] Bolton, ‘What do you think?’ Lauder then came to see Bolton, revealing that he had been discussing Greenland with the president and had offered himself up as ‘the back channel to the Danish government to negotiate Greenland,’ as Bolton would later recount.
When the Wall Street Journal broke the news of Trump’s obsession with Greenland in 2019, its ministry responded succinctly that the island was “open for business, not for sale.”
Since Trump returned to the White House in 2025, his fixation has only intensified.
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