With the election just a few days away, considering all the information that has been dribbling out about the Clintons and the criminal enterprise that is the Clinton Foundation, in the emails from Podesta's Gmail account and the State Department, and Anthony Weiner's laptop, it is inevitable that people may compare the Clintons to the Borgias.  The Borgias were the Italian-Spanish family of the Renaissance era who attained great power but were perhaps the most corrupt political family in world history – until now.

The Borgias corrupted the Catholic Church as well as the body politic of their realm. Like the Clintons, they were, above all, only interested in accumulating wealth and power for themselves and their children.  They obeyed no laws, lived by no rules, that applied to others.

Rodrigo Borgia bribed his way to the papacy in 1492 and was a preview of Bill Clinton: charming, witty, and an inveterate womanizer.  Like Bill Clinton, he sought powerful office for what he could get out of it, not because of any religious fervor (in Rodrigo's case) or love of country.  He became pope to become rich and powerful.  He was a capable leader, but his rule was tainted by his constant debauchery.

Like Bill Clinton, Rodrigo was a serial adulterer.  He had numerous children by several women, as Bill Clinton might have had in the 15th century.  Had Bill Clinton behaved then as he has in the 20th century, he would most likely have contracted syphilis and been disfigured by it, as was Rodrigo's son, Cesare.  Cesare Borgia was famous for hosting Sunday suppers with fifty prostitutes or courtesans in attendance, who would dance naked for him and his guests.  This sounds much like the purported goings on at Bill's penthouse at the Clinton Library in Arkansas and on Jeffrey Epstein's "Orgy Island," to which Bill Clinton has traveled to at least 26 times.  Anthony Weiner's perversions are now well known, and WikiLeaks emails prove that the Clinton camp has known of them for at least five years and did nothing to stop him.  Our modern-day Borgias are a sybaritic bunch as well.

The Borgias were also known for their cruelty and murder.  While never proven, Cesare likely murdered his older brother.  Many more assassinations were carried out in the family's quest to control all the papal states.  In short, the Borgias let nothing stand in the way of their determination to amass wealth and power.

The essential facts of the family's history are uncannily similar to the Clintons.  Over their thirty-five years on our political stage, the Clintons have indulged in all manner of skullduggery on their way to the White House the first time, and they are doing it again. They lie, cheat, steal, threaten, bribe, and manipulate in the corridors of power and in the backrooms of campaign offices.  They seem able to control nearly all the institutions of power meant to be non-partisan and that, for the previous two hundred and twenty years or so, were bound by the Constitution: the Department of Justice, the FBI, the NSA, the IRS, etc.  All of these agencies have been corrupted by the Clintons and their sycophants.  If Hillary is elected, they will not alter their political style one bit.  She will continue to sell her influence to the highest bidders around the world, the American people be damned.

Plans are likely in the works to one day install Chelsea Clinton in the White House.  She lacks the legendary charms of Lucrezia Borgia, but that will make no difference, because the fix will have been set in stone years in advance.  Cesare Borgia blamed his own depravity on the "mark of Borgia," the stain of his family.  Chelsea already bears the mark of Clinton; she married into a family of wealth and criminality, her father-in-law having served five years in a federal prison for fraud.

Donald Trump just may be the divine intervention necessary to stop this deplorable family from wreaking further damage on the United States.