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

To: i-node who wrote (20158)	5/31/2017 6:02:58 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 358877

The term "personal gain or benefit" generally includes any political gain and political payoffs made for political gain So, Obama comes up with Obamacare, which pleased a lot of voters, which was a political gain. Then Trump comes along and repeals and replaces it, which pleases a lot of voters, which is a political gain. Gosh, corruption is rampant! From Wiki: Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain. Corruption need not (probably, it seldom does) involve cash in someone's freezer. Illegitimate private gain--something tangible for you and/or yours, not votes or accolades or power. Try nepotism and graft. Not saying the things on your list were cool. Just questioning the characterization.

To: i-node who wrote (20158)	5/31/2017 10:58:02 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 358877

The Trump administration is moving toward handing back to Russia two diplomatic compounds, near New York City and on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, that its officials were ejected from in late December as punishment for Moscow’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. shocker! Several members of Trump's corps of advisers have business links to Russia: former campaign manager Paul Manafort; former national security adviser Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn; and previous Congressman and Trump campaign spokesman Jack Kingston.] Also, at a 2008 Manhattan real estate conference Donald Trump Jr. said one of Trumps main sources of income are Russian customers, "Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets… we see a lot of money pouring in from Russia." After his bankruptcies in the 1990s, he borrowed money from Russian financiers. [