Nobody is guilty

F Scott Fitzgerald and US president Donald Trump.
Shaun Ley interviews media mogul Christopher Ruddy of Newsmax, who has known Donald Trump well for 20 years (see, bbc hardtalk). He has accused democrats of playing politics with impeachment, while the president himself calls the impeachment inquiry a witch hunt. But after this week, how much trouble is Donald Trump actually in? 
Recently, I watched a program about a famous American writer who was covered in black clouds, at one time, although for another reason, namely alcohol abuse. My voice only wants to show that people do not change. So, I saw a film in which novelist Jay McInerney explores the life and writing of F Scott Fitzgerald, whose masterwork ‘The Great Gatsby’ has just been filmed for the fifth time. Fitzgerald captured the reckless spirit of New York life in the roaring twenties – the flappers, the parties, the bootleg liquor, the inevitable reckoning, and the hangover to come. In Gatsby, he created a character who reinvented himself for love – just as Fitzgerald would, not once, but twice. Fitzgerald never wrote an autobiography. He left us something better – letters. Romantic, arrogant, humble letters; letters to editors, publishers, lovers, or friends. These letters reveal the inner thoughts of a man whose real life was never far from the fiction he wrote. Look, we always make the same mistakes, however bigger or smaller. Nobody is guilty.

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