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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (3454)	12/25/2016 5:19:13 PM
From: combjelly	2 Recommendations Recommended By altair19 bentway Respond to of 358956

Could you provide an example? You mean when they tried to raffle off coffee time with Ivanka? They pulled it when it was noticed and complaints were made. The top bidders were open about their hopes they could press Ivanka with their concerns and that would get communicated to Trump. That is about as openly selling access as it gets. You know, the stuff y'all were accusing Hillary of. Note the 'about'. Qusay and Uday were even more openly selling access when they formed that "charity" that if the buyers paid enough would get quality time with the two of them, plus get to meet Trump himself. And, if history is any guide, those 'charity events' would have been held at Trump properties. And so the Trumps would get to skim off the top. Trump apparently had his campaign pay his properties and companies $12.5 million during the run up to the election. How about when the Trump DC hotel started to solicit the business of DC diplomats and other foreign interests and told them that using their services was a great way to get the president's attention? Or where the Trump Tower started advertising Secret Service protection as a perk of leasing there? Those are just a few of the examples. Was this from an anonymous source at the Trump Hotel, or what? You don't have a quote or anything to back up the claim I'm guessing? Two things. 1) The Reagan administration is on record as the most corrupt in modern history. Why, you ask? Reagan had an affection for nominating business people to various posts. And, as it turns out, running a government department is nothing like running a company. Things that are perfectly acceptable for a CEO can even be illegal when head of a government department. Trump is appointing an even larger percentage of business people. 2) If anything, many of his appointees have just as many conflicts of interest, if not more, than Trump does. And the scramble is already on to camouflage those conflicts. What happens when people try to disguise or coverup questionable things instead of eliminating the problem? Ask Nixon about that one. So no anonymous source. Just an awareness of the facts.