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To: longnshort who wrote (1082321)	8/9/2018 7:37:14 AM
From: Mongo2116	1 Recommendation Recommended By sylvester80 Respond to of 1576587

The Whole Republican Party Seems to Be Going to Jail NowBy Jonathan Chait@jonathanchaitShareShareTweetPin ItComment Manafort, Collins, Ross. Photo: Getty Images The entire Trump era has been a festering pit of barely disguised ongoing corruption. But the whole sordid era has not had a 24-hour period quite like the orgy of criminality which we have just experienced. The events of the last day alone include: (1) The trial of Paul Manafort, which has featured the accusation that President Trump’s campaign manager had embezzled funds, failed to report income, and falsified documents. His partner and fellow Trump campaign aide, Rick Gates, confessed to participating in all these crimes, as well as to stealing from Manafort. (2) Yesterday, Forbes reported that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross may have stolen $120 million from his partners and customers. Meanwhile Ross has maintained foreign holdings in his investment portfolio that present a major conflict of interest with his public office. (The “Don’t worry, Wilbur Ross would never do anything unethical just to pad his bottom line” defense is likely to be, uh, unconvincing to the many people filing suit against Ross for allegedly doing exactly that.) (3) Also yesterday, ProPublica reported that the Department of Veterans Affairs is being effectively run by three Trump cronies, none of whom have any official government title or public accountability. The three, reports the story, have “used their influence in ways that could benefit their private interests.” (4) And then, this morning, Representative Chris Collins was arrestedfor insider trading. Collins had been known to openly boast about making millions of dollars for his colleagues with his insider knowledge. He is charged with learning of an adverse FDA trial, and immediately calling his son — from the White House! — urging him to sell his holdings. It has been, in sum, quite a day. Some level of corruption is an inescapable part of political life in general, and certainly Democrats are not (and never have been) immune to it. But it has been especially chronic in the modern Republican Party, whose last experience with control of government ended in a series of corruption scandals so blatant they provoked widespread soul-searching on the right as to how the party and the conservative movement could so easily open itself up to grifters. (Remember Jack Abramoff? Bob Ney? Tom DeLay? Grover Norquist?) The temptation to use government as a vehicle for self-enrichment is especially strong in a party dedicated to a credal skepticism about the possibility government can do good.

To: longnshort who wrote (1082321)	8/9/2018 8:28:54 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 1576587

BOMBSHELL: Morning Joe hammers GOP’s ‘culture of corruption’ in epic rant: ‘The swamp is up to Trump’s neck’ (VIDEO) BRAD REED 09 AUG 2018 AT 06:58 ET rawstory.com MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on Thursday hammered the Republican Party for what he described as a “culture of corruption” that has led to multiple indictments of allies of President Donald Trump. Reacting to Wednesday’s indictment of Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) on securities fraud allegations, Scarborough went off on an epic rant about how many Republican lawmakers and officials have found themselves caught up in corruption scandals. In addition to Collins, Scarborough noted that former Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen is reportedly being investigated for tax fraud; that Trump Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has been accused of stealing money from some of his business associates; and that Trump cabinet officials Tom Price and Scott Pruitt both had to resign amid multiple reports of corruption. “Talk about the swamp!” Scarborough said. “It’s now up to Trump’s neck! There is such a culture of corruption there. Somebody yesterday said that Collins had to feel picked on when you had Wilbur Ross, in their words, doing insider trading at a pace the guy thought he only had two weeks to live… Just a culture of corruption and, as they say, the fish rots from the head.” Watch the video below.