The cabinet of corruption ... Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump’s basket

[Yarddog]

The swamp has become bigger and more toxic since the emergence of Donald Trump as POTUS.

How many more of Trump's associates would have been investigated and charged if Bill Barr had not corrupted the DOJ?

The extortion of Ukraine by withholding money was illegal according to the Inspector General and all of Trump's associates implicated in the act and the coverup should have been prosecuted.

It does appear that the acquittal of Trump in the impeachment has emboldened him and may cause him to wrap himself and trap himself in criminality.

"Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office."

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump's basket

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump’s basket

Roger Stone’s pending sentencing offers a timely reminder that the scope of scandalous behavior among the president’s advisors and appointees is astounding.(Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)
By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD
FEB. 16, 2020 3 AM

Fresh from his acquittal by the U.S. Senate, President Trump is on an I-am-exonerated victory tour, touting his integrity along with that of his cronies, advisors and appointees, and castigating the supposed witch-hunters of the Democratic Party.

But the sentencing later this month of Trump’s longtime friend and political advisor — the self-proclaimed “dirty tricks” operative Roger Stone — offers a timely reminder of the scope of scandalous, and in some cases criminal, behavior by the president’s associates and underlings.

No fewer than six people in the president’s near orbit — including Stone — have been convicted or pleaded guilty to criminal charges including fraud, lying to federal investigators and lying to Congress. Four Cabinet-level appointees left amid allegations of misusing tax dollars or other misdeeds. More investigations continue into Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and Trump’s inaugural committee. There’s nothing “fake” about those controversies.
...
Trump promised in 2016 to drain “the swamp” in Washington. If anything, though, he has expanded it through his own petty graft — every one of his scores of golf outings and stays at his own properties uses tax dollars to support his businesses — and by putting industry lobbyists in charge of crafting policy and enforcing regulations on the industries they formerly worked for. ...

... ProPublica reported that in his first two years, Trump appointed at least 281 lobbyists to government positions, four times the number President Obama had appointed.

That has led to a former coal industry lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, running the Environmental Protection Agency; an activist who urged that federal lands be turned over to the states, William Perry Pendley, running the Bureau of Land Management, which controls those lands; and a former oil and agribusiness lobbyist, David Bernhardt, running the Department of Interior, which has significant influence over those industries. And on it goes.

Trump and his supporters say that the Mueller investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and the refusal of the Republican-controlled Senate to remove Trump from office exonerated the president. They did nothing of the sort. The Mueller report offered numerous examples of the president actively seeking to obstruct justice, the kind of behavior that led President Nixon to resign as he faced impeachment. And the impeachment record amassed by the House establishes persuasively that the president sought to use the power of his office to compel a foreign power to interfere with the 2020 election, and then obstructed Congress’ efforts to investigate.

No, Trump was not exonerated; rather, his protectors in the U.S. Senate allowed him to escape consequences for his actions, leaving us with a president more emboldened than chastened.

We concluded in early 2016, as Trump’s campaign was gaining traction, that he was unfit to be president, and he has proved it time and again. Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office. ...

How many more of Trump's associates would have been investigated and charged if Bill Barr had not corrupted the DOJ?

You mean exposed their corruption dont you?... Tump's associates were arrested for technicalities , and with police in riot gear kicking in their front doors with CNN news crews standing by... Then you have Strok and Paige.... you have FBI lawyers changing emails that came from the CIA.... all because it was a coordinated attempt to bring down a President some elitists in the DNC dont like. It's been a rolling impeachment for these people since day one,... makes you want to throw up in your mouth, the gall of their corruption is so thick.

 

[Denizen]

The swamp has become bigger and more toxic since the emergence of Donald Trump as POTUS.

How many more of Trump's associates would have been investigated and charged if Bill Barr had not corrupted the DOJ?

The extortion of Ukraine by withholding money was illegal according to the Inspector General and all of Trump's associates implicated in the act and the coverup should have been prosecuted.

It does appear that the acquittal of Trump in the impeachment has emboldened him and may cause him to wrap himself and trap himself in criminality.

"Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office."

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump's basket

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump’s basket

Roger Stone’s pending sentencing offers a timely reminder that the scope of scandalous behavior among the president’s advisors and appointees is astounding.(Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)
By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD
FEB. 16, 2020 3 AM

Fresh from his acquittal by the U.S. Senate, President Trump is on an I-am-exonerated victory tour, touting his integrity along with that of his cronies, advisors and appointees, and castigating the supposed witch-hunters of the Democratic Party.

But the sentencing later this month of Trump’s longtime friend and political advisor — the self-proclaimed “dirty tricks” operative Roger Stone — offers a timely reminder of the scope of scandalous, and in some cases criminal, behavior by the president’s associates and underlings.

No fewer than six people in the president’s near orbit — including Stone — have been convicted or pleaded guilty to criminal charges including fraud, lying to federal investigators and lying to Congress. Four Cabinet-level appointees left amid allegations of misusing tax dollars or other misdeeds. More investigations continue into Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and Trump’s inaugural committee. There’s nothing “fake” about those controversies.
...
Trump promised in 2016 to drain “the swamp” in Washington. If anything, though, he has expanded it through his own petty graft — every one of his scores of golf outings and stays at his own properties uses tax dollars to support his businesses — and by putting industry lobbyists in charge of crafting policy and enforcing regulations on the industries they formerly worked for. ...

... ProPublica reported that in his first two years, Trump appointed at least 281 lobbyists to government positions, four times the number President Obama had appointed.

That has led to a former coal industry lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, running the Environmental Protection Agency; an activist who urged that federal lands be turned over to the states, William Perry Pendley, running the Bureau of Land Management, which controls those lands; and a former oil and agribusiness lobbyist, David Bernhardt, running the Department of Interior, which has significant influence over those industries. And on it goes.

Trump and his supporters say that the Mueller investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and the refusal of the Republican-controlled Senate to remove Trump from office exonerated the president. They did nothing of the sort. The Mueller report offered numerous examples of the president actively seeking to obstruct justice, the kind of behavior that led President Nixon to resign as he faced impeachment. And the impeachment record amassed by the House establishes persuasively that the president sought to use the power of his office to compel a foreign power to interfere with the 2020 election, and then obstructed Congress’ efforts to investigate.

No, Trump was not exonerated; rather, his protectors in the U.S. Senate allowed him to escape consequences for his actions, leaving us with a president more emboldened than chastened.

We concluded in early 2016, as Trump’s campaign was gaining traction, that he was unfit to be president, and he has proved it time and again. Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office. ...

How many more of Trump's associates would have been investigated and charged if Bill Barr had not corrupted the DOJ?

You mean exposed their corruption dont you?... Tump's associates were arrested for technicalities , and with police in riot gear kicking in their front doors with CNN news crews standing by... Then you have Strok and Paige.... you have FBI lawyers changing emails that came from the CIA.... all because it was a coordinated attempt to bring down a President some elitists in the DNC dont like. It's been a rolling impeachment for these people since day one,... makes you want to throw up in your mouth, the gall of their corruption is so thick.

They are corrupt, the lot of them. Trump is a mob boss surrounded by petty criminals.

 

[San Souci]

The swamp has become bigger and more toxic since the emergence of Donald Trump as POTUS.

How many more of Trump's associates would have been investigated and charged if Bill Barr had not corrupted the DOJ?

The extortion of Ukraine by withholding money was illegal according to the Inspector General and all of Trump's associates implicated in the act and the coverup should have been prosecuted.

It does appear that the acquittal of Trump in the impeachment has emboldened him and may cause him to wrap himself and trap himself in criminality.

"Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office."

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump's basket

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump’s basket

Roger Stone’s pending sentencing offers a timely reminder that the scope of scandalous behavior among the president’s advisors and appointees is astounding.(Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)
By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD
FEB. 16, 2020 3 AM

Fresh from his acquittal by the U.S. Senate, President Trump is on an I-am-exonerated victory tour, touting his integrity along with that of his cronies, advisors and appointees, and castigating the supposed witch-hunters of the Democratic Party.

But the sentencing later this month of Trump’s longtime friend and political advisor — the self-proclaimed “dirty tricks” operative Roger Stone — offers a timely reminder of the scope of scandalous, and in some cases criminal, behavior by the president’s associates and underlings.

No fewer than six people in the president’s near orbit — including Stone — have been convicted or pleaded guilty to criminal charges including fraud, lying to federal investigators and lying to Congress. Four Cabinet-level appointees left amid allegations of misusing tax dollars or other misdeeds. More investigations continue into Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and Trump’s inaugural committee. There’s nothing “fake” about those controversies.
...
Trump promised in 2016 to drain “the swamp” in Washington. If anything, though, he has expanded it through his own petty graft — every one of his scores of golf outings and stays at his own properties uses tax dollars to support his businesses — and by putting industry lobbyists in charge of crafting policy and enforcing regulations on the industries they formerly worked for. ...

... ProPublica reported that in his first two years, Trump appointed at least 281 lobbyists to government positions, four times the number President Obama had appointed.

That has led to a former coal industry lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, running the Environmental Protection Agency; an activist who urged that federal lands be turned over to the states, William Perry Pendley, running the Bureau of Land Management, which controls those lands; and a former oil and agribusiness lobbyist, David Bernhardt, running the Department of Interior, which has significant influence over those industries. And on it goes.

Trump and his supporters say that the Mueller investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and the refusal of the Republican-controlled Senate to remove Trump from office exonerated the president. They did nothing of the sort. The Mueller report offered numerous examples of the president actively seeking to obstruct justice, the kind of behavior that led President Nixon to resign as he faced impeachment. And the impeachment record amassed by the House establishes persuasively that the president sought to use the power of his office to compel a foreign power to interfere with the 2020 election, and then obstructed Congress’ efforts to investigate.

No, Trump was not exonerated; rather, his protectors in the U.S. Senate allowed him to escape consequences for his actions, leaving us with a president more emboldened than chastened.

We concluded in early 2016, as Trump’s campaign was gaining traction, that he was unfit to be president, and he has proved it time and again. Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office. ...

How many more of Trump's associates would have been investigated and charged if Bill Barr had not corrupted the DOJ?

You mean exposed their corruption dont you?... Tump's associates were arrested for technicalities , and with police in riot gear kicking in their front doors with CNN news crews standing by... Then you have Strok and Paige.... you have FBI lawyers changing emails that came from the CIA.... all because it was a coordinated attempt to bring down a President some elitists in the DNC dont like. It's been a rolling impeachment for these people since day one,... makes you want to throw up in your mouth, the gall of their corruption is so thick.

They are corrupt, the lot of them. Trump is a mob boss surrounded by petty criminals.

And the SWAMP is a pack of big time criminals appointed by B. HUSSEIN Obama.

 

[Denizen]

The swamp has become bigger and more toxic since the emergence of Donald Trump as POTUS.

How many more of Trump's associates would have been investigated and charged if Bill Barr had not corrupted the DOJ?

The extortion of Ukraine by withholding money was illegal according to the Inspector General and all of Trump's associates implicated in the act and the coverup should have been prosecuted.

It does appear that the acquittal of Trump in the impeachment has emboldened him and may cause him to wrap himself and trap himself in criminality.

"Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office."

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump's basket

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump’s basket

Roger Stone’s pending sentencing offers a timely reminder that the scope of scandalous behavior among the president’s advisors and appointees is astounding.(Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)
By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD
FEB. 16, 2020 3 AM

Fresh from his acquittal by the U.S. Senate, President Trump is on an I-am-exonerated victory tour, touting his integrity along with that of his cronies, advisors and appointees, and castigating the supposed witch-hunters of the Democratic Party.

But the sentencing later this month of Trump’s longtime friend and political advisor — the self-proclaimed “dirty tricks” operative Roger Stone — offers a timely reminder of the scope of scandalous, and in some cases criminal, behavior by the president’s associates and underlings.

No fewer than six people in the president’s near orbit — including Stone — have been convicted or pleaded guilty to criminal charges including fraud, lying to federal investigators and lying to Congress. Four Cabinet-level appointees left amid allegations of misusing tax dollars or other misdeeds. More investigations continue into Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and Trump’s inaugural committee. There’s nothing “fake” about those controversies.
...
Trump promised in 2016 to drain “the swamp” in Washington. If anything, though, he has expanded it through his own petty graft — every one of his scores of golf outings and stays at his own properties uses tax dollars to support his businesses — and by putting industry lobbyists in charge of crafting policy and enforcing regulations on the industries they formerly worked for. ...

... ProPublica reported that in his first two years, Trump appointed at least 281 lobbyists to government positions, four times the number President Obama had appointed.

That has led to a former coal industry lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, running the Environmental Protection Agency; an activist who urged that federal lands be turned over to the states, William Perry Pendley, running the Bureau of Land Management, which controls those lands; and a former oil and agribusiness lobbyist, David Bernhardt, running the Department of Interior, which has significant influence over those industries. And on it goes.

Trump and his supporters say that the Mueller investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and the refusal of the Republican-controlled Senate to remove Trump from office exonerated the president. They did nothing of the sort. The Mueller report offered numerous examples of the president actively seeking to obstruct justice, the kind of behavior that led President Nixon to resign as he faced impeachment. And the impeachment record amassed by the House establishes persuasively that the president sought to use the power of his office to compel a foreign power to interfere with the 2020 election, and then obstructed Congress’ efforts to investigate.

No, Trump was not exonerated; rather, his protectors in the U.S. Senate allowed him to escape consequences for his actions, leaving us with a president more emboldened than chastened.

We concluded in early 2016, as Trump’s campaign was gaining traction, that he was unfit to be president, and he has proved it time and again. Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office. ...

Wow, great commie propaganda from the LAslimes. I guess they won't be endorsing Trump for president this time round. LMAO

.

Satan has the Trump endorsement franchise.

 

[Denizen]

The swamp has become bigger and more toxic since the emergence of Donald Trump as POTUS.

How many more of Trump's associates would have been investigated and charged if Bill Barr had not corrupted the DOJ?

The extortion of Ukraine by withholding money was illegal according to the Inspector General and all of Trump's associates implicated in the act and the coverup should have been prosecuted.

It does appear that the acquittal of Trump in the impeachment has emboldened him and may cause him to wrap himself and trap himself in criminality.

"Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office."

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump's basket

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump’s basket

Roger Stone’s pending sentencing offers a timely reminder that the scope of scandalous behavior among the president’s advisors and appointees is astounding.(Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)
By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD
FEB. 16, 2020 3 AM

Fresh from his acquittal by the U.S. Senate, President Trump is on an I-am-exonerated victory tour, touting his integrity along with that of his cronies, advisors and appointees, and castigating the supposed witch-hunters of the Democratic Party.

But the sentencing later this month of Trump’s longtime friend and political advisor — the self-proclaimed “dirty tricks” operative Roger Stone — offers a timely reminder of the scope of scandalous, and in some cases criminal, behavior by the president’s associates and underlings.

No fewer than six people in the president’s near orbit — including Stone — have been convicted or pleaded guilty to criminal charges including fraud, lying to federal investigators and lying to Congress. Four Cabinet-level appointees left amid allegations of misusing tax dollars or other misdeeds. More investigations continue into Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and Trump’s inaugural committee. There’s nothing “fake” about those controversies.
...
Trump promised in 2016 to drain “the swamp” in Washington. If anything, though, he has expanded it through his own petty graft — every one of his scores of golf outings and stays at his own properties uses tax dollars to support his businesses — and by putting industry lobbyists in charge of crafting policy and enforcing regulations on the industries they formerly worked for. ...

... ProPublica reported that in his first two years, Trump appointed at least 281 lobbyists to government positions, four times the number President Obama had appointed.

That has led to a former coal industry lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, running the Environmental Protection Agency; an activist who urged that federal lands be turned over to the states, William Perry Pendley, running the Bureau of Land Management, which controls those lands; and a former oil and agribusiness lobbyist, David Bernhardt, running the Department of Interior, which has significant influence over those industries. And on it goes.

Trump and his supporters say that the Mueller investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and the refusal of the Republican-controlled Senate to remove Trump from office exonerated the president. They did nothing of the sort. The Mueller report offered numerous examples of the president actively seeking to obstruct justice, the kind of behavior that led President Nixon to resign as he faced impeachment. And the impeachment record amassed by the House establishes persuasively that the president sought to use the power of his office to compel a foreign power to interfere with the 2020 election, and then obstructed Congress’ efforts to investigate.

No, Trump was not exonerated; rather, his protectors in the U.S. Senate allowed him to escape consequences for his actions, leaving us with a president more emboldened than chastened.

We concluded in early 2016, as Trump’s campaign was gaining traction, that he was unfit to be president, and he has proved it time and again. Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office. ...

Wow, great commie propaganda from the LAslimes. I guess they won't be endorsing Trump for president this time round. LMAO

.

Satan has the Trump endorsement franchise.

Please refer to post #18.

You have neutered yourself.

 

[Denizen]

The swamp has become bigger and more toxic since the emergence of Donald Trump as POTUS.

How many more of Trump's associates would have been investigated and charged if Bill Barr had not corrupted the DOJ?

The extortion of Ukraine by withholding money was illegal according to the Inspector General and all of Trump's associates implicated in the act and the coverup should have been prosecuted.

It does appear that the acquittal of Trump in the impeachment has emboldened him and may cause him to wrap himself and trap himself in criminality.

"Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office."

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump's basket

Wow, great commie propaganda from the LAslimes. I guess they won't be endorsing Trump for president this time round. LMAO

.

Satan has the Trump endorsement franchise.

Please refer to post #18.

You have neutered yourself.

Once again, please refer to post #18.

Thank you for playing.

Have you started a 'testicles for Trump' movement? Could that be construed as a political donation?

 

[OKTexas]

The swamp has become bigger and more toxic since the emergence of Donald Trump as POTUS.

How many more of Trump's associates would have been investigated and charged if Bill Barr had not corrupted the DOJ?

The extortion of Ukraine by withholding money was illegal according to the Inspector General and all of Trump's associates implicated in the act and the coverup should have been prosecuted.

It does appear that the acquittal of Trump in the impeachment has emboldened him and may cause him to wrap himself and trap himself in criminality.

"Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office."

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump's basket

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump’s basket

Roger Stone’s pending sentencing offers a timely reminder that the scope of scandalous behavior among the president’s advisors and appointees is astounding.(Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)
By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD
FEB. 16, 2020 3 AM

Fresh from his acquittal by the U.S. Senate, President Trump is on an I-am-exonerated victory tour, touting his integrity along with that of his cronies, advisors and appointees, and castigating the supposed witch-hunters of the Democratic Party.

But the sentencing later this month of Trump’s longtime friend and political advisor — the self-proclaimed “dirty tricks” operative Roger Stone — offers a timely reminder of the scope of scandalous, and in some cases criminal, behavior by the president’s associates and underlings.

No fewer than six people in the president’s near orbit — including Stone — have been convicted or pleaded guilty to criminal charges including fraud, lying to federal investigators and lying to Congress. Four Cabinet-level appointees left amid allegations of misusing tax dollars or other misdeeds. More investigations continue into Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and Trump’s inaugural committee. There’s nothing “fake” about those controversies.
...
Trump promised in 2016 to drain “the swamp” in Washington. If anything, though, he has expanded it through his own petty graft — every one of his scores of golf outings and stays at his own properties uses tax dollars to support his businesses — and by putting industry lobbyists in charge of crafting policy and enforcing regulations on the industries they formerly worked for. ...

... ProPublica reported that in his first two years, Trump appointed at least 281 lobbyists to government positions, four times the number President Obama had appointed.

That has led to a former coal industry lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, running the Environmental Protection Agency; an activist who urged that federal lands be turned over to the states, William Perry Pendley, running the Bureau of Land Management, which controls those lands; and a former oil and agribusiness lobbyist, David Bernhardt, running the Department of Interior, which has significant influence over those industries. And on it goes.

Trump and his supporters say that the Mueller investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and the refusal of the Republican-controlled Senate to remove Trump from office exonerated the president. They did nothing of the sort. The Mueller report offered numerous examples of the president actively seeking to obstruct justice, the kind of behavior that led President Nixon to resign as he faced impeachment. And the impeachment record amassed by the House establishes persuasively that the president sought to use the power of his office to compel a foreign power to interfere with the 2020 election, and then obstructed Congress’ efforts to investigate.

No, Trump was not exonerated; rather, his protectors in the U.S. Senate allowed him to escape consequences for his actions, leaving us with a president more emboldened than chastened.

We concluded in early 2016, as Trump’s campaign was gaining traction, that he was unfit to be president, and he has proved it time and again. Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office. ...

Wow, great commie propaganda from the LAslimes. I guess they won't be endorsing Trump for president this time round. LMAO

.

Satan has the Trump endorsement franchise.

What are you commie, 3 yoa?

.

 

[Denizen]

The swamp has become bigger and more toxic since the emergence of Donald Trump as POTUS.

How many more of Trump's associates would have been investigated and charged if Bill Barr had not corrupted the DOJ?

The extortion of Ukraine by withholding money was illegal according to the Inspector General and all of Trump's associates implicated in the act and the coverup should have been prosecuted.

It does appear that the acquittal of Trump in the impeachment has emboldened him and may cause him to wrap himself and trap himself in criminality.

"Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office."

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump's basket

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump’s basket

Roger Stone’s pending sentencing offers a timely reminder that the scope of scandalous behavior among the president’s advisors and appointees is astounding.(Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)
By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD
FEB. 16, 2020 3 AM

Fresh from his acquittal by the U.S. Senate, President Trump is on an I-am-exonerated victory tour, touting his integrity along with that of his cronies, advisors and appointees, and castigating the supposed witch-hunters of the Democratic Party.

But the sentencing later this month of Trump’s longtime friend and political advisor — the self-proclaimed “dirty tricks” operative Roger Stone — offers a timely reminder of the scope of scandalous, and in some cases criminal, behavior by the president’s associates and underlings.

No fewer than six people in the president’s near orbit — including Stone — have been convicted or pleaded guilty to criminal charges including fraud, lying to federal investigators and lying to Congress. Four Cabinet-level appointees left amid allegations of misusing tax dollars or other misdeeds. More investigations continue into Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and Trump’s inaugural committee. There’s nothing “fake” about those controversies.
...
Trump promised in 2016 to drain “the swamp” in Washington. If anything, though, he has expanded it through his own petty graft — every one of his scores of golf outings and stays at his own properties uses tax dollars to support his businesses — and by putting industry lobbyists in charge of crafting policy and enforcing regulations on the industries they formerly worked for. ...

... ProPublica reported that in his first two years, Trump appointed at least 281 lobbyists to government positions, four times the number President Obama had appointed.

That has led to a former coal industry lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, running the Environmental Protection Agency; an activist who urged that federal lands be turned over to the states, William Perry Pendley, running the Bureau of Land Management, which controls those lands; and a former oil and agribusiness lobbyist, David Bernhardt, running the Department of Interior, which has significant influence over those industries. And on it goes.

Trump and his supporters say that the Mueller investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and the refusal of the Republican-controlled Senate to remove Trump from office exonerated the president. They did nothing of the sort. The Mueller report offered numerous examples of the president actively seeking to obstruct justice, the kind of behavior that led President Nixon to resign as he faced impeachment. And the impeachment record amassed by the House establishes persuasively that the president sought to use the power of his office to compel a foreign power to interfere with the 2020 election, and then obstructed Congress’ efforts to investigate.

No, Trump was not exonerated; rather, his protectors in the U.S. Senate allowed him to escape consequences for his actions, leaving us with a president more emboldened than chastened.

We concluded in early 2016, as Trump’s campaign was gaining traction, that he was unfit to be president, and he has proved it time and again. Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office. ...

Wow, great commie propaganda from the LAslimes. I guess they won't be endorsing Trump for president this time round. LMAO

.

Satan has the Trump endorsement franchise.

What are you commie, 3 yoa?

.

Are you buying or selling?

 

[tyroneweaver]

The swamp has become bigger and more toxic since the emergence of Donald Trump as POTUS.

How many more of Trump's associates would have been investigated and charged if Bill Barr had not corrupted the DOJ?

The extortion of Ukraine by withholding money was illegal according to the Inspector General and all of Trump's associates implicated in the act and the coverup should have been prosecuted.

It does appear that the acquittal of Trump in the impeachment has emboldened him and may cause him to wrap himself and trap himself in criminality.

"Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office."

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump's basket

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump’s basket

Roger Stone’s pending sentencing offers a timely reminder that the scope of scandalous behavior among the president’s advisors and appointees is astounding.(Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)
By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD
FEB. 16, 2020 3 AM

Fresh from his acquittal by the U.S. Senate, President Trump is on an I-am-exonerated victory tour, touting his integrity along with that of his cronies, advisors and appointees, and castigating the supposed witch-hunters of the Democratic Party.

But the sentencing later this month of Trump’s longtime friend and political advisor — the self-proclaimed “dirty tricks” operative Roger Stone — offers a timely reminder of the scope of scandalous, and in some cases criminal, behavior by the president’s associates and underlings.

No fewer than six people in the president’s near orbit — including Stone — have been convicted or pleaded guilty to criminal charges including fraud, lying to federal investigators and lying to Congress. Four Cabinet-level appointees left amid allegations of misusing tax dollars or other misdeeds. More investigations continue into Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and Trump’s inaugural committee. There’s nothing “fake” about those controversies.
...
Trump promised in 2016 to drain “the swamp” in Washington. If anything, though, he has expanded it through his own petty graft — every one of his scores of golf outings and stays at his own properties uses tax dollars to support his businesses — and by putting industry lobbyists in charge of crafting policy and enforcing regulations on the industries they formerly worked for. ...

... ProPublica reported that in his first two years, Trump appointed at least 281 lobbyists to government positions, four times the number President Obama had appointed.

That has led to a former coal industry lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, running the Environmental Protection Agency; an activist who urged that federal lands be turned over to the states, William Perry Pendley, running the Bureau of Land Management, which controls those lands; and a former oil and agribusiness lobbyist, David Bernhardt, running the Department of Interior, which has significant influence over those industries. And on it goes.

Trump and his supporters say that the Mueller investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and the refusal of the Republican-controlled Senate to remove Trump from office exonerated the president. They did nothing of the sort. The Mueller report offered numerous examples of the president actively seeking to obstruct justice, the kind of behavior that led President Nixon to resign as he faced impeachment. And the impeachment record amassed by the House establishes persuasively that the president sought to use the power of his office to compel a foreign power to interfere with the 2020 election, and then obstructed Congress’ efforts to investigate.

No, Trump was not exonerated; rather, his protectors in the U.S. Senate allowed him to escape consequences for his actions, leaving us with a president more emboldened than chastened.

We concluded in early 2016, as Trump’s campaign was gaining traction, that he was unfit to be president, and he has proved it time and again. Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office. ...

Wow, great commie propaganda from the LAslimes. I guess they won't be endorsing Trump for president this time round. LMAO

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Satan has the Trump endorsement franchise.

What are you commie, 3 yoa?

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Are you buying or selling?

Well you’re a douche bag, but you’re our douche bag

 

[theHawk]

The swamp has become bigger and more toxic since the emergence of Donald Trump as POTUS.

How many more of Trump's associates would have been investigated and charged if Bill Barr had not corrupted the DOJ?

The extortion of Ukraine by withholding money was illegal according to the Inspector General and all of Trump's associates implicated in the act and the coverup should have been prosecuted.

It does appear that the acquittal of Trump in the impeachment has emboldened him and may cause him to wrap himself and trap himself in criminality.

"Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office."

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump's basket

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump’s basket

Roger Stone’s pending sentencing offers a timely reminder that the scope of scandalous behavior among the president’s advisors and appointees is astounding.(Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)
By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD
FEB. 16, 2020 3 AM

Fresh from his acquittal by the U.S. Senate, President Trump is on an I-am-exonerated victory tour, touting his integrity along with that of his cronies, advisors and appointees, and castigating the supposed witch-hunters of the Democratic Party.

But the sentencing later this month of Trump’s longtime friend and political advisor — the self-proclaimed “dirty tricks” operative Roger Stone — offers a timely reminder of the scope of scandalous, and in some cases criminal, behavior by the president’s associates and underlings.

No fewer than six people in the president’s near orbit — including Stone — have been convicted or pleaded guilty to criminal charges including fraud, lying to federal investigators and lying to Congress. Four Cabinet-level appointees left amid allegations of misusing tax dollars or other misdeeds. More investigations continue into Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and Trump’s inaugural committee. There’s nothing “fake” about those controversies.
...
Trump promised in 2016 to drain “the swamp” in Washington. If anything, though, he has expanded it through his own petty graft — every one of his scores of golf outings and stays at his own properties uses tax dollars to support his businesses — and by putting industry lobbyists in charge of crafting policy and enforcing regulations on the industries they formerly worked for. ...

... ProPublica reported that in his first two years, Trump appointed at least 281 lobbyists to government positions, four times the number President Obama had appointed.

That has led to a former coal industry lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, running the Environmental Protection Agency; an activist who urged that federal lands be turned over to the states, William Perry Pendley, running the Bureau of Land Management, which controls those lands; and a former oil and agribusiness lobbyist, David Bernhardt, running the Department of Interior, which has significant influence over those industries. And on it goes.

Trump and his supporters say that the Mueller investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and the refusal of the Republican-controlled Senate to remove Trump from office exonerated the president. They did nothing of the sort. The Mueller report offered numerous examples of the president actively seeking to obstruct justice, the kind of behavior that led President Nixon to resign as he faced impeachment. And the impeachment record amassed by the House establishes persuasively that the president sought to use the power of his office to compel a foreign power to interfere with the 2020 election, and then obstructed Congress’ efforts to investigate.

No, Trump was not exonerated; rather, his protectors in the U.S. Senate allowed him to escape consequences for his actions, leaving us with a president more emboldened than chastened.

We concluded in early 2016, as Trump’s campaign was gaining traction, that he was unfit to be president, and he has proved it time and again. Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office. ...

Roger Stone was never in the cabinet.

 

[Denizen]

The swamp has become bigger and more toxic since the emergence of Donald Trump as POTUS.

How many more of Trump's associates would have been investigated and charged if Bill Barr had not corrupted the DOJ?

The extortion of Ukraine by withholding money was illegal according to the Inspector General and all of Trump's associates implicated in the act and the coverup should have been prosecuted.

It does appear that the acquittal of Trump in the impeachment has emboldened him and may cause him to wrap himself and trap himself in criminality.

"Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office."

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump's basket

Editorial: Remember, Roger Stone is only one of the bad apples in Trump’s basket

Roger Stone’s pending sentencing offers a timely reminder that the scope of scandalous behavior among the president’s advisors and appointees is astounding.(Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)
By THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD
FEB. 16, 2020 3 AM

Fresh from his acquittal by the U.S. Senate, President Trump is on an I-am-exonerated victory tour, touting his integrity along with that of his cronies, advisors and appointees, and castigating the supposed witch-hunters of the Democratic Party.

But the sentencing later this month of Trump’s longtime friend and political advisor — the self-proclaimed “dirty tricks” operative Roger Stone — offers a timely reminder of the scope of scandalous, and in some cases criminal, behavior by the president’s associates and underlings.

No fewer than six people in the president’s near orbit — including Stone — have been convicted or pleaded guilty to criminal charges including fraud, lying to federal investigators and lying to Congress. Four Cabinet-level appointees left amid allegations of misusing tax dollars or other misdeeds. More investigations continue into Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and Trump’s inaugural committee. There’s nothing “fake” about those controversies.
...
Trump promised in 2016 to drain “the swamp” in Washington. If anything, though, he has expanded it through his own petty graft — every one of his scores of golf outings and stays at his own properties uses tax dollars to support his businesses — and by putting industry lobbyists in charge of crafting policy and enforcing regulations on the industries they formerly worked for. ...

... ProPublica reported that in his first two years, Trump appointed at least 281 lobbyists to government positions, four times the number President Obama had appointed.

That has led to a former coal industry lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, running the Environmental Protection Agency; an activist who urged that federal lands be turned over to the states, William Perry Pendley, running the Bureau of Land Management, which controls those lands; and a former oil and agribusiness lobbyist, David Bernhardt, running the Department of Interior, which has significant influence over those industries. And on it goes.

Trump and his supporters say that the Mueller investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and the refusal of the Republican-controlled Senate to remove Trump from office exonerated the president. They did nothing of the sort. The Mueller report offered numerous examples of the president actively seeking to obstruct justice, the kind of behavior that led President Nixon to resign as he faced impeachment. And the impeachment record amassed by the House establishes persuasively that the president sought to use the power of his office to compel a foreign power to interfere with the 2020 election, and then obstructed Congress’ efforts to investigate.

No, Trump was not exonerated; rather, his protectors in the U.S. Senate allowed him to escape consequences for his actions, leaving us with a president more emboldened than chastened.

We concluded in early 2016, as Trump’s campaign was gaining traction, that he was unfit to be president, and he has proved it time and again. Corruption is only one of the clouds hanging over this administration, but it is a dark and thick one that won’t go away until voters remove Trump from office. ...

Roger Stone was never in the cabinet.

Fashion conflict. His orange jump suit would have clashed with Trump's orange aura.