The House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-CA) released a report that asserts President Trump “hijacked” the nation’s 250th celebration. It claims to expose how “Donald Trump hijacked what was supposed to be a unifying, non-political celebration of our country’s 250th birthday and made it all about him – his vanity projects, his political and religious agenda, his business ventures, and his cronies who gorged on public funds under cover of a shadow corporation shielded from public scrutiny.”
The report, titled, “From Vanity to Insanity: How the White House Cheated the American People Out of Their 250th Birthday,” claims that the process by which the 250th celebration was planned was “commandeered” into an “apparatus for raising and spending money in service of the President’s ego, political agenda, and personal financial interests,” a press release explains.
Huffman said in a statement accompanying the report that Trump’s so-called “hijacking” of the celebration “will go down as one of the most corrupt, brazen abuses of public trust in presidential history, even by the dubious standards of this administration.” He added that Trump’s team “proceeded to deceive donors, solicit foreign money, sell access to the President, award no-bid contracts to Trump loyalists, harvest Americans’ personal data, and push a white-washed, Christian nationalist version of history.”
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) condemned the report, declaring that Democrats “would rather Donald Trump fail and America fail than celebrate the success of our founding fathers and the fact that we are the greatest nation on the planet.”
“We are the greatest nation in the history of the world. Anyone can become anything in America because of the sacrifices of our founding fathers, the sacrifices of our soldiers, the sacrifices of our American heroes, and that’s what last night was all about.”
