Trump's actions are a mockery of the central biblical injunction to care for the orphan, the widow, the stranger, and the vulnerable among us.
It's impossible for all these activities at the Willard Hotel in Washington to have been going on without the knowledge and direction of Donald Trump.
How the two parties manage these issues in the new year will determine not only their standing at the end of 2022, but for years to come.
Gorbachev comes across as disspirited and unhappy with events of the last 30 years. First, there was the USSR dissolution in 1991 and then in 1999, his beloved Raise died; he seems to have never recovered from either event.
Trump reportedly referred to his aides' headquarters in the Willard Hotel as his "war room."
Pensioner Valentina Sevastyanova, who occupies the house where Gorbachev once lived, says he “did nothing for us.”