Trump's Dilemma: Go To Mar-a-Lago And Get Criticized? Or Disappoint Dues-Paying Members?
Is it worse to disappoint your rich, dues-paying club members who have shelled out $1,000 a ticket to mingle with you at your Palm Beach resort’s New Year’s Eve party?
Or to attend and have photographs taken of your Secret Service detail protecting you amid the Champagne and caviar while they worry about their next paycheck?
Such are the horns of the dilemma President Donald Trump faces in the coming days because of the partial government shutdown he forced in an attempt to get billions of American taxpayer dollars to build his border wall — a border wall that he originally promised Mexico would pay for.
“For any normal president, travel to Mar-a-Lago would be completely out of the question,” said Norm Eisen, who was a White House ethics lawyer under President Barack Obama and is now chairman of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. “But then, any normal president would not be operating a for-profit resort to benefit himself, selling memberships at that resort to those with special interests before his White House and then squeezing extra money out of those people for a New Year’s Eve party.”
Whether Trump winds up going to Florida is not known and perhaps — given his track record — not knowable until the party is underway.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-mar-a-lago-party-government-shutdown_us_5c268585e4b0407e90827e75
(pull my finger?)
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