Trump allies threaten Deloitte contracts after employee shares Vance chats

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/07/vance-messages-deloitte-retaliation/

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https://archive.ph/MeS6C

Republicans backing Donald Trump are threatening Deloitte, a consulting firm that is one of the federal government’s largest business partners, with the loss of billions of dollars in contracts because an employee shared messages from 2020 in which GOP vice-presidential nominee JD Vance criticized the former president’s record.

On Sept. 27, Donald Trump Jr. exposed the employee’s name and photograph to millions of people on social media, writing, “Maybe it’s time for the GOP to end Deloitte’s taxpayer funded gravy train?” Others — including Vance’s chief spokesman and a Republican senator — circulated Trump Jr.'s comments, and the conservative website Breitbart published a story naming the man and highlighting his job.

Deloitte receives about $3 billion annually from federal agencies including the Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Defense.

Ethics experts said the episode is a potentially ominous preview of how a second Trump administration might use the enormous power the federal government wields over private industry to punish political acts by individual workers. Although federal contracting laws prohibit cutting off a business because of its workers’ private political views, such threats could have a chilling effect, they said.

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[sanatanadharma]

1. A post-Jan 2025 Trump world will bring a new word to American lips

A post-Jan 2025 Trump world will bring a new word to American lips.
"Los desaparecidos"

[magicarpet]

2. Why can't donnie dipshit jr. be our next,....

.... Generalissimo pResidante ? He is so smart and quick on his feet. Where oh where does he get all his energy ? Is it all the cocoa and hot chocolate he snorts ? Such a wizard that boy is.