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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The corruption and malfeasance of the Trump administration is unprecedented in U.S. history."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-trump-administrations-no-good-very-bad-wednesday/2018/03/01/7dc60fd2-1d69-11e8-ae5a-16e60e4605f3_story.html?utm_term=.115f2319a974One of the great non-mysteries of the Trump administration is why Cabinet members think they can behave like aristocrats at the court of the Sun King. The Department of Housing and Urban Development spent $31,000 for a dining set for Secretary Ben Carsons office while programs for the poor were being slashed. The Environmental Protection Agency has been paying for Administrator Scott Pruitt to fly first class and be protected by a squadron of bodyguards so he doesnt have to mix with the great unwashed in economy class. The Department of Veterans Affairs spent $122,334 for Secretary David Shulkin and his wife to take what looks like a pleasure trip to Europe last summer; Shulkins chief of staff is accused of doctoring emails and lying about what happened. The Department of Health and Human Services paid more than $400,000 for then-Secretary Tom Price to charter private aircraft a scandal that forced his resignation.
Why would Cabinet members act any differently when they are serving in the least ethical administration in our history? The our is important, because there have been more crooked regimes but only in banana republics. The corruption and malfeasance of the Trump administration is unprecedented in U.S. history. The only points of comparison are the Gilded Age scandals of the Grant administration, Teapot Dome under the Harding administration, and Watergate and the bribe-taking of Vice President Spiro Agnew during the Nixon administration. But this administration is already in an unethical league of its own. The misconduct revealed during just one day this week Wednesday was worse than what presidents normally experience during an entire term.
The day began with a typically deranged tweet from President Trump: Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. . . . Why not use Justice Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL! Translation: Trump is exercised that the Justice Department is following its normal procedures. Sessions fired back: As long as I am the Attorney General, I will continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor. Translation: The president is asking him to act without integrity and honor.
This is part of a long pattern of the president pressuring the beleaguered Sessions a.k.a. Mr. Magoo to misuse his authority to shut down the special counsel investigation of Trump and to launch investigations of Trumps political foes. Because Sessions wont do that, Trump has tried to force him from office. The president does not recognize that he is doing anything improper. He thinks the attorney general should be his private lawyer. The poor man has no idea of what the rule of law even means, as he showed at a White House meeting Wednesday on gun control, during which he said: Take the guns first, go through due process second. This from a supposed supporter of the Second Amendment.
But wait. Wednesdays disgraceful news was only beginning. Later in the day the New York Times reported that Jared Kushners family company had received hundreds of millions of dollars in loans from companies whose executives met with him in his capacity as a senior White House aide. The previous day, The Post had reported that officials in the United Arab Emirates, China, Israel and Mexico had discussed how they could manipulate the presidents son-in-law by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements, financial difficulties and lack of foreign policy experience. Oh, and dont forget that during the transition in 2016, while Kushner was trying to refinance a family-owned office building, he met with a Russian banker close to the Kremlin and with executives of a Chinese insurance company that has since been taken over by the Chinese government.
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No shit Sherlock Holmes.......duh.
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"The corruption and malfeasance of the Trump administration is unprecedented in U.S. history." (Original Post)
sunonmars
Mar 2018
OP
It may be duh, but it needs to be said over and over until it penetrates the public mind. NT
enough
Mar 2018
#4
"Drain the swamp" really meant "get rid of the Democratic party in Washington".
Hong Kong Cavalier
Mar 2018
#12
gopiscrap
(23,757 posts)1. no kidding
HipChick
(25,485 posts)2. And no one doing shit about it...
Gothmog
(145,152 posts)3. Who is surprised by this?
Trump does not believe in ethics
enough
(13,257 posts)4. It may be duh, but it needs to be said over and over until it penetrates the public mind. NT
tblue37
(65,336 posts)5. To avoid copyright infringement, limit quotations to 4 paragraphs. nt
sinkingfeeling
(51,448 posts)6. Glad it's finally being said.
burrowowl
(17,639 posts)7. Beats Tea Pot Dome
etc.
Gamecock Lefty
(700 posts)8. Where is the Republican Outrage???
Im still waiting for Benghazi-like investigations into what happened to those four soldiers in Niger.
Not a peep.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)9. Because this is an occupying force. I'll bet Vichy was this corrupt.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)10. k&r
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)11. K&R
Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,572 posts)12. "Drain the swamp" really meant "get rid of the Democratic party in Washington".
A few Republicans who wouldn't play ball with this "regime" would get wiped out, too.
But notice that most of them are now kowtowing to Tangeranus?
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)13. I worry he's aiming for "in human history"
Johnny2X2X
(19,060 posts)14. They will take it all!
This is like the show the Sopranos, when the crooks get their hooks into a business they bleed it dry.
They will come up with unimaginable ways to steal from us. And they won't stop until it's all gone.
poboy2
(2,078 posts)15. Extinction level event. WARNING. code red. We are about to be destroyed. Please do something.-eom