So much for draining the swamp. Trump is filling it with corruption

[BWK]

blob:https://www.msnbc.com/55908e9c-ed08-452d-bced-blob:https://www.msnbc.com/9423ba2f-e0b1-4766-840a-110bb23a4e98 Now that John Kelly is gone, there is an acting chief of staff who essentially has no role, and was sent to the Eisenhower building to hide with his new cushy job, and could get a nice retirement after six months. Mick Mulvaney said, "we will have to find him something to do". Lol! This administration is a total joke, and Republicans could care less.

The total cost of Trumps corruption will probably never truly be measured accurately by the time he is gone, but I think we can safely say it will be a heist against the American taxpayer, the likes this country has never seen before.

 

[Rustic]

blob:https://www.msnbc.com/55908e9c-ed08-452d-bced-5f8e2c3c8757 Now that John Kelly is gone, there is an acting chief of staff who essentially has no role, and was sent to the Eisenhower building to hide with his new cushy job, and could get a nice retirement after six months. Mick Mulvaney said, "we will have to find him something to do". Lol! This administration is a total joke, and Republicans could care less.

The total cost of Trumps corruption will probably never truly be measured accurately by the time he is gone, but I think we can safely say it will be a heist against the American taxpayer, the likes this country has never seen before.

The Swamp = career politicians/deep state... exclusivity

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

blob:https://www.msnbc.com/55908e9c-ed08-452d-bced-blob:https://www.msnbc.com/9423ba2f-e0b1-4766-840a-110bb23a4e98 Now that John Kelly is gone, there is an acting chief of staff who essentially has no role, and was sent to the Eisenhower building to hide with his new cushy job, and could get a nice retirement after six months. Mick Mulvaney said, "we will have to find him something to do". Lol! This administration is a total joke, and Republicans could care less.

The total cost of Trumps corruption will probably never truly be measured accurately by the time he is gone, but I think we can safely say it will be a heist against the American taxpayer, the likes this country has never seen before.

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[C_Clayton_Jones]

blob:https://www.msnbc.com/55908e9c-ed08-452d-bced-blob:https://www.msnbc.com/9423ba2f-e0b1-4766-840a-110bb23a4e98 Now that John Kelly is gone, there is an acting chief of staff who essentially has no role, and was sent to the Eisenhower building to hide with his new cushy job, and could get a nice retirement after six months. Mick Mulvaney said, "we will have to find him something to do". Lol! This administration is a total joke, and Republicans could care less.

The total cost of Trumps corruption will probably never truly be measured accurately by the time he is gone, but I think we can safely say it will be a heist against the American taxpayer, the likes this country has never seen before.

True.

And there was no ‘swamp’ to begin with, the notion was just another Trump lie.

Sound governance and responsible public policy will always require experienced, talented, and dedicated administrators who seek only to serve the American people and benefit the American Nation.

To have referred to patriotic administrators and civil servants as the ‘swamp’ was wrong and reprehensible.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

MSNBS?

 

[depotoo]

Uhmm , there has always been a position for a Chief of Staff. What are you complaining about?

blob:https://www.msnbc.com/55908e9c-ed08-452d-bced-blob:https://www.msnbc.com/9423ba2f-e0b1-4766-840a-110bb23a4e98 Now that John Kelly is gone, there is an acting chief of staff who essentially has no role, and was sent to the Eisenhower building to hide with his new cushy job, and could get a nice retirement after six months. Mick Mulvaney said, "we will have to find him something to do". Lol! This administration is a total joke, and Republicans could care less.

The total cost of Trumps corruption will probably never truly be measured accurately by the time he is gone, but I think we can safely say it will be a heist against the American taxpayer, the likes this country has never seen before.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

SSDD

 

[H B Lowrie]

blob:https://www.msnbc.com/55908e9c-ed08-452d-bced-5f8e2c3c8757 Now that John Kelly is gone, there is an acting chief of staff who essentially has no role, and was sent to the Eisenhower building to hide with his new cushy job, and could get a nice retirement after six months. Mick Mulvaney said, "we will have to find him something to do". Lol! This administration is a total joke, and Republicans could care less.

The total cost of Trumps corruption will probably never truly be measured accurately by the time he is gone, but I think we can safely say it will be a heist against the American taxpayer, the likes this country has never seen before.

The Swamp = career politicians/deep state... exclusivity

Trump’s Watered-Down Ethics Rules Let a Lobbyist Help Run an Agency He Lobbied — ProPublica


Trump Campaigned Against Lobbyists, but Now They’re on His Transition Team


Is Donald Trump Draining the Swamp?


Donors and lobbyists already shaping Trump’s ‘drain the swamp’ administration


https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-...ry-lobbyist-to-hud-transition-team-1480453288


https://theintercept.com/2017/01/27/coal-doj-trump/


http://fortune.com/2016/11/16/trump-lobbyists-dc-establishment/



Amd another of Don’s Swamp Rats Bails …


... just before publication of this New Yorker article. Must be "fake" n shit.


Icahn’s role was novel. He would be an adviser with a formal title, but he would not receive a salary, and he would not be required to divest himself of any of his holdings, or to make any disclosures about potential conflicts of interest. “Carl Icahn will be advising the President in his individual capacity,” Trump’s transition team asserted.


In the months after the election, the stock price of CVR, Icahn’s refiner, nearly doubled—a surge that is difficult to explain without acknowledging the appointment of the company’s lead shareholder to a White House position. The rally meant a personal benefit for Icahn, at least on paper, of half a billion dollars. There was an expectation in the market—an expectation created, in part, by Icahn’s own remarks—that, with Trump in the White House and Icahn playing consigliere, the rules were about to change, and not just at the E.P.A. Icahn’s empire ranges across many economic sectors, from energy to pharmaceuticals to auto supplies to mining, and all of them are governed by the types of regulations about which he would now potentially be advising Trump.


Janet McCabe, who left the E.P.A. in January, and now works at the Environmental Law and Policy Center, told me, “I’m not naïve. People in business try to influence the government. But the job of the government is to serve the American people, not the specific business interests of the President’s friends. To think that you have somebody with that kind of agenda bending the President’s ear is troubling.”


Conflicts of interest have been a defining trait of the Trump Administration. The President has not only refused to release his tax returns; he has declined to divest from his companies, instead putting them in a trust managed by his children. Questions have emerged about the ongoing business ties of his daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, who, since Trump took office, have reaped nearly two hundred million dollars from the Trump hotel in Washington, D.C., and from other investments. Although Trump promised to “drain the swamp,” he has assembled a Cabinet of ultra-rich Americans, including two billionaires: Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education, and Wilbur Ross, the Secretary of Commerce.


But Icahn is worth more than the Trump family and all the members of the Cabinet combined—and, with no constraint on his license to counsel the President on regulations that might help his businesses, he was poised to become much richer. Robert Weissman, who runs the watchdog group Public Citizen, told me, “This kind of self-enrichment and influence over decision-making by an individual mogul who is simultaneously inside and outside the Administration is unprecedented. In terms of corruption, there’s nothing like it. Maybe ever.” In conversations with me, financiers who have worked with Icahn described his appointment as a kind of corporate raid on Washington. One said, “It’s the cheapest takeover Carl’s ever done.”


http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/28/carl-icahns-failed-raid-on-washington

 

[BWK]

blob:https://www.msnbc.com/55908e9c-ed08-452d-bced-blob:https://www.msnbc.com/9423ba2f-e0b1-4766-840a-110bb23a4e98 Now that John Kelly is gone, there is an acting chief of staff who essentially has no role, and was sent to the Eisenhower building to hide with his new cushy job, and could get a nice retirement after six months. Mick Mulvaney said, "we will have to find him something to do". Lol! This administration is a total joke, and Republicans could care less.

The total cost of Trumps corruption will probably never truly be measured accurately by the time he is gone, but I think we can safely say it will be a heist against the American taxpayer, the likes this country has never seen before.

True.

And there was no ‘swamp’ to begin with, the notion was just another Trump lie.

Sound governance and responsible public policy will always require experienced, talented, and dedicated administrators who seek only to serve the American people and benefit the American Nation.

To have referred to patriotic administrators and civil servants as the ‘swamp’ was wrong and reprehensible.

Absolutely! And look who we replaced the previous administration with. A bunch of flunkies ripping off the taxpayers. We have got to start having accountability. Trump and his band of criminals are on borrowed time. And they need to pay every dime back to the country. Hopefully the new Congress will reign these hood rats in.

 

[BWK]

blob:https://www.msnbc.com/55908e9c-ed08-452d-bced-5f8e2c3c8757 Now that John Kelly is gone, there is an acting chief of staff who essentially has no role, and was sent to the Eisenhower building to hide with his new cushy job, and could get a nice retirement after six months. Mick Mulvaney said, "we will have to find him something to do". Lol! This administration is a total joke, and Republicans could care less.

The total cost of Trumps corruption will probably never truly be measured accurately by the time he is gone, but I think we can safely say it will be a heist against the American taxpayer, the likes this country has never seen before.

The Swamp = career politicians/deep state... exclusivity

Trump’s Watered-Down Ethics Rules Let a Lobbyist Help Run an Agency He Lobbied — ProPublica


Trump Campaigned Against Lobbyists, but Now They’re on His Transition Team


Is Donald Trump Draining the Swamp?


Donors and lobbyists already shaping Trump’s ‘drain the swamp’ administration


Trump Names Mortgage Industry Lobbyist to HUD Transition Team


Donald Trump Puts Coal Lobbyist in Charge of Prosecuting Environmental Crimes


Only Lobbyists Can Help Trump ‘Drain the Swamp’



Amd another of Don’s Swamp Rats Bails …


... just before publication of this New Yorker article. Must be "fake" n shit.


Icahn’s role was novel. He would be an adviser with a formal title, but he would not receive a salary, and he would not be required to divest himself of any of his holdings, or to make any disclosures about potential conflicts of interest. “Carl Icahn will be advising the President in his individual capacity,” Trump’s transition team asserted.


In the months after the election, the stock price of CVR, Icahn’s refiner, nearly doubled—a surge that is difficult to explain without acknowledging the appointment of the company’s lead shareholder to a White House position. The rally meant a personal benefit for Icahn, at least on paper, of half a billion dollars. There was an expectation in the market—an expectation created, in part, by Icahn’s own remarks—that, with Trump in the White House and Icahn playing consigliere, the rules were about to change, and not just at the E.P.A. Icahn’s empire ranges across many economic sectors, from energy to pharmaceuticals to auto supplies to mining, and all of them are governed by the types of regulations about which he would now potentially be advising Trump.


Janet McCabe, who left the E.P.A. in January, and now works at the Environmental Law and Policy Center, told me, “I’m not naïve. People in business try to influence the government. But the job of the government is to serve the American people, not the specific business interests of the President’s friends. To think that you have somebody with that kind of agenda bending the President’s ear is troubling.”


Conflicts of interest have been a defining trait of the Trump Administration. The President has not only refused to release his tax returns; he has declined to divest from his companies, instead putting them in a trust managed by his children. Questions have emerged about the ongoing business ties of his daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, who, since Trump took office, have reaped nearly two hundred million dollars from the Trump hotel in Washington, D.C., and from other investments. Although Trump promised to “drain the swamp,” he has assembled a Cabinet of ultra-rich Americans, including two billionaires: Betsy DeVos, the Secretary of Education, and Wilbur Ross, the Secretary of Commerce.


But Icahn is worth more than the Trump family and all the members of the Cabinet combined—and, with no constraint on his license to counsel the President on regulations that might help his businesses, he was poised to become much richer. Robert Weissman, who runs the watchdog group Public Citizen, told me, “This kind of self-enrichment and influence over decision-making by an individual mogul who is simultaneously inside and outside the Administration is unprecedented. In terms of corruption, there’s nothing like it. Maybe ever.” In conversations with me, financiers who have worked with Icahn described his appointment as a kind of corporate raid on Washington. One said, “It’s the cheapest takeover Carl’s ever done.”


Carl Icahn’s Failed Raid on Washington

Hopefully the oversight committee will be on it.

And Trump's base, could care less.

 

[BWK]

blob:https://www.msnbc.com/55908e9c-ed08-452d-bced-blob:https://www.msnbc.com/9423ba2f-e0b1-4766-840a-110bb23a4e98 Now that John Kelly is gone, there is an acting chief of staff who essentially has no role, and was sent to the Eisenhower building to hide with his new cushy job, and could get a nice retirement after six months. Mick Mulvaney said, "we will have to find him something to do". Lol! This administration is a total joke, and Republicans could care less.

The total cost of Trumps corruption will probably never truly be measured accurately by the time he is gone, but I think we can safely say it will be a heist against the American taxpayer, the likes this country has never seen before.

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Google MSNBC and Rachel Maddow. So easy a cave man could do it.

 

[Marion Morrison]

https://www.msnbc.com/55908e9c-ed08-452d-bced-5f8e2c3c8757

^Fake link. Go fuck yourself.

 

[Meister]

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[Auld Phart]

blob:https://www.msnbc.com/55908e9c-ed08-452d-bced-blob:https://www.msnbc.com/9423ba2f-e0b1-4766-840a-110bb23a4e98 Now that John Kelly is gone, there is an acting chief of staff who essentially has no role, and was sent to the Eisenhower building to hide with his new cushy job, and could get a nice retirement after six months. Mick Mulvaney said, "we will have to find him something to do". Lol! This administration is a total joke, and Republicans could care less.

The total cost of Trumps corruption will probably never truly be measured accurately by the time he is gone, but I think we can safely say it will be a heist against the American taxpayer, the likes this country has never seen before.

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