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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts) Fri Nov 9, 2018, 02:11 AM Nov 2018

Mathew Whitaker is another crook

Donald Trump’s new acting attorney general was part of a company accused by the US government of running a multimillion-dollar scam.

Matthew Whitaker was paid to sit on the advisory board of World Patent Marketing, which was ordered in May this year to pay a $26m settlement following legal action by federal authorities, which said it tricked aspiring inventors.

Whitaker was appointed acting attorney general on Wednesday afternoon after the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, was fired by Trump.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/07/matthew-whitaker-trump-attorney-general-us-firm?CMP=share_btn_link

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Mathew Whitaker is another crook (Original Post) UCmeNdc Nov 2018 OP

Most of trump's picks are crooks and grifters too. brush Nov 2018 #1

See also here question everything Nov 2018 #2

Chosen impulsively and selfishly - cut from the very same cloth as Der Pumpkin Maru Kitteh Nov 2018 #3

brush

(53,778 posts)

1. Most of trump's picks are crooks and grifters too.

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Fri Nov 9, 2018, 02:16 AM

Nov 2018

question everything

(47,479 posts)

2. See also here

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Fri Nov 9, 2018, 02:16 AM

Nov 2018

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211392089

Maru Kitteh

(28,340 posts)

3. Chosen impulsively and selfishly - cut from the very same cloth as Der Pumpkin

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Fri Nov 9, 2018, 03:17 AM

Nov 2018

From the Trump/Whitaker perspective:

Taking money from suckers is a perfectly legit way of life - preachers do it every day, this is no different. Suckers deserve what they get. It's their fault for falling for it and it only serves to prove that we are smarter. It only proves that we deserve to get what we want. It proves that we are better, and entitled to the finer things. Rules, . . . are not meant for us.

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