Free Advice to Trump Aides: Quit While You Can

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/opinion/free-advice-to-trump-aides-quit-while-you-can.html?_r=0

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Why would Trump have the backs of his aides when he uses a "CHARITY" for criminal dealings and doesn't pay his workers?????????????????????????????????

Those people working for Trump don't make enough to defend themselves in a criminal case:

From the NYT:

Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, President Trump’s widely admired national security adviser, held a hastily convened news conference to try to knock down reports that Mr. Trump had shared highly classified information with Russia — only to have Mr. Trump appear to confirm the reports in two Tuesday morning tweets.

The journalist and former speechwriter for George W. Bush, David Frum, asked: “How does McMaster not resign today? That thing he said ‘did not happen’ the president has just defended doing.”

No one knows the next national joke that will have Mr. Spicer as a punch line, but one thing is clear. As long as he works for this president, he is unlikely to recover his dignity.

The same is true of most people in Mr. Trump’s orbit. To serve this president is to be diminished.

Trump associates have tried to pin the blame for the president’s manifold displays of incompetence on the White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus — whose internal nickname, according to The Week, is Rancid — but the truth is that Mr. Trump is ruining Mr. Priebus’s reputation, not vice versa.

They are allowing themselves to be permanently tarnished through their association with a man whose name is destined to become the root of a political epithet signifying disgrace, like McCarthyite or Nixonian.

They aren’t just selling out their country. They’re selling out themselves.

It would be worth the price of a hardcover just to learn how Kellyanne Conway — who, according to the “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, said she needed to shower after defending Mr. Trump during the campaign — sleeps at night.

The time is ripe to get out.

 

[deanrd]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...ant-stop-blabbing-about-how-hes-a-madman.html

Nearly a dozen of Trump’s closest confidantes helped plant an embarrassing news story about how their boss can’t handle embarrassing news stories. Which is to say: A president who prizes loyalty in his subordinates has already been betrayed by a huge swath of his inner circle.

 

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Media to Trump: Don’t Cozy Up to Dictators–Unless They’re the Right Dictators

“Trump keeps praising international strongmen, alarming human rights advocates,” reported an upset Philip Rucker (Washington Post, 5/2/17). Post contributor Tom Toles (5/2/17) added, “Trump invites ruthless dictators to the White House.” Trump had gone too far, was the media message, crossing a line with his enthusiastic outreach to brutal tyrants.

Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen has killed at least 10,000 civilians, resulted in near-famine conditions for 7 million people and led to a deadly cholera epidemic—all made possible with US weapons and logistical support.

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I remember when Republican embraced American ideals. Now they embrace murderers, scam artists, thugs, liars and the worst degenerates the world has to offer. Worse, they want these awful people to be role models for their kids.

 

[TheOldSchool]

The people still on that sinking ship are only there because their only options are going to jail, or somehow bucketing out all the water.

 

[deanrd]

The people still on that sinking ship are only there because their only options are going to jail, or somehow bucketing out all the water.

I didn't think of that. Could be true.