Donald Trumps open corruption: The president-elect doesnt care that you know hes crooked

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Donald Trump’s open corruption: The president-elect doesn’t care that you know he’s crooked

By SIMON MALOY - FRIDAY, DEC 9, 2016 04:49 PM EST

Donald Trump's campaign spent nearly $3 million on his own businesses as the election wrapped up

Donald Trump ran a corrupt campaign, and he’ll be a corrupt president. It’s one of those things that everyone seems to know and recognize, but still needs to be stated plainly, especially as the procedural pomp of a presidential transition threatens to overwhelm the fact that he’s bringing an unprecedentedly large array of ethical transgressions into the White House. And while the capacity for corruption in a Trump administration seems boundless, what’s particularly unnerving is the fact that Trump doesn’t really seem to care much that everyone knows he’s corrupt.

Under normal circumstances, political corruption is something an elected officials goes to great lengths to conceal. Evidence of it typically has to be carefully extricated from elaborate cover-ups. Not so with Donald Trump. Our newly elected president doesn’t even care to go through the motions of concealing his venality. He flaunts it. Just look at the way he ran his campaign.

According to the latest Federal Election Commission filings, Trump directed close to $3 million in campaign funds towards Trump-owned properties between Oct. 20 and Nov. 28. Tag Air, Inc., the Trump-owned company that operates his personal jet, raked in $2,055,786 in travel expenses. A small galaxy of Trump-branded properties — various hotels, golf resorts, and restaurants — collected an additional $777,672.83.

This was one of the running themes of the Trump campaign prior to his election, and past campaign finance reports showed much the same pattern: millions of dollars in campaign cash being funneled towards the Trump family’s businesses. It’s a sort of self-dealing that is slightly different from the variety Trump admitted to engaging in via his non-profit charity. And it’s done with an eye on plundering as much campaign cash as possible. The Huffington Post documented that Trump jacked up the rent at his Trump Tower campaign offices the moment he started taking public donations. As the election drew near, Trump held a non-campaign campaign event at his new hotel in Washington....

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http://www.salon.com/2016/12/09/donald-trumps-open-corruption-the-president-elect-doesnt-care-that-you-know-hes-crooked/

[global1]

1. I Hope The Rank And File American's That Donated To Trump During His Campaign Realize Where.....

their money is really going to. Remember he didn't spend a lot of cash on campaign commercials, etc. The MSM gave him all the air time he needed. So now he's just kinda pocketing the money and flipping the bird to the people that gave it to him.

[think]

2. Ya. Trump is quite the con artist. Sad that he is most likely going to be our president

It feels like a really bad reality TV show....

[bdamomma]

3. Tzar

is more appropriate.