WaPo - Trump’s history of corruption is mind-boggling. So why is Clinton supposedly the corrupt one?

[ScienceRocks]

WaPo - Trump’s history of corruption is mind-boggling. So why is Clinton supposedly the corrupt one?

The reason Trump stories never gain any traction while Hillary is covered ad nauseum is because news organizations assign tons of reporters to cover Hillary and only one or two to cover Trump....

Waldman begins his piece by bringing up the whole Bondi bribe scandal and asking why we're not hearing more about this. He then goes on to tell us why...

Turns out there's a shitload of reporters that get assigned to write stuff about Hillary, and those stories then get stretched out for months "with the insistence that questions are being raised and the implication that shady things are going on, even if there isn’t any evidence at a particular moment to support that idea."

But Trump doesn't get assigned a "squad of reporters" to cover him. If a story does emerge about some corrupt shit he's been part of, it is generally because of "the dogged efforts of one or a few journalists," and after a couple of days it simply disappears and, for lack of reporters, "no new facts are brought to light and no new stories get written."

The end result of this process is that because of all that repeated examination of Clinton’s affairs, people become convinced that she must be corrupt to the core. It’s not that there isn’t plenty of negative coverage of Trump, because of course there is, but it’s focused mostly on the crazy things he says on any given day.

But the truth is that you’d have to work incredibly hard to find a politician who has the kind of history of corruption, double-dealing, and fraud that Donald Trump has. The number of stories which could potentially deserve hundreds and hundreds of articles is absolutely staggering. Here’s a partial list:

• Trump’s casino bankruptcies, which left investors holding the bag while he skedaddled with their money
• Trump’s habit of refusing to pay contractors who had done work for him, many of whom are struggling small businesses
• Trump University, which includes not only the people who got scammed and the Florida investigation, but also a similar story from Texas where the investigation into Trump U was quashed.
• The Trump Institute, another get-rich-quick scheme in which Trump allowed a couple of grifters to use his name to bilk people out of their money
• The Trump Network, a multi-level marketing venture (a.k.a. pyramid scheme) that involved customers mailing in a urine sample which would be analyzed to produce for them a specially formulated package of multivitamins
• Trump Model Management, which reportedly had foreign models lie to customs officials and work in the U.S. illegally, and kept them in squalid conditions while they earned almost nothing for the work they did
• Trump’s employment of foreign guest workers at his resorts, which involves a claim that he can’t find Americans to do the work
• Trump’s use of hundreds of undocumented workers from Poland in the 1980s, who were paid a pittance for their illegal work
• Trump’s history of being charged with housing discrimination
• Trump’s connections to mafia figures involved in New York construction
• The time Trump paid the Federal Trade Commission $750,000 over charges that he violated anti-trust laws when trying to take over a rival casino company
• The fact that Trump is now being advised by Roger Ailes, who was forced out as Fox News chief when dozens of women came forward to charge him with sexual harassment. According to the allegations, Ailes’s behavior was positively monstrous; as just one indicator, his abusive and predatory actions toward women were so well-known and so loathsome that in 1968 the morally upstanding folks in the Nixon administration refused to allow him to work there despite his key role in getting Nixon elected.

Bottom line - if stuff like this were happening with Clinton - you can bet that news organizations would be falling over one another to get more coverage - more reporters would be assigned, more questions would be asked, and more would be learned.

That’s important, because we may have reached a point where the frames around the candidates are locked in: Trump is supposedly the crazy/bigoted one, and Clinton is supposedly the corrupt one. Once we decide that those are the appropriate lenses through which the two candidates are to be viewed, it shapes the decisions the media make every day about which stories are important to pursue.

And it means that to a great extent, for all the controversy he has caused and all the unflattering stories in the press about him, Trump is still being let off the hook.


Trump’s history of corruption is mind-boggling. So why is Clinton supposedly the corrupt one?

Trump is a real criminal and should go to prison for what he has done.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Crooked Hillary, unindicted felon

 

[MarathonMike]

Hillary is 3 Nixons rolled into one with the added bonus of a faltering body and brain.

 

[Corky]

Hillary is 3 Nixons rolled into one with the added bonus of a faltering body and brain.

Only in GOP La La Land.

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

Donald John Trump and Hillary Rodham Clinton are both corrupt and neither deserve to be President...

Too bad those like you only see the corruption of one side and not the corruption of those you are willing to whore your vote for!

Birds of a Feather flock together...

 

[ScienceRocks]

Donald John Trump and Hillary Rodham Clinton are both corrupt and neither deserve to be President...

Too bad those like you only see the corruption of one side and not the corruption of those you are willing to whore your vote for!

Birds of a Feather flock together...

Well, corruption is something we have to live with but in this environment one votes for Policies. Cutting the shit out of infrastructure, science, r&d, education and the safetynet is just wrong and clinton is right on this issue. ANd believe me, Clinton isn't 10% as bad as Trump...Corrupt, certainly, but trump has done some really bad shit.

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

Donald John Trump and Hillary Rodham Clinton are both corrupt and neither deserve to be President...

Too bad those like you only see the corruption of one side and not the corruption of those you are willing to whore your vote for!

Birds of a Feather flock together...

Well, corruption is something we have to live with but in this environment one votes for Policies. Cutting the shit out of infrastructure, science, r&d, education and the safetynet is just wrong and clinton is right on this issue. ANd believe me, Clinton isn't 10% as bad as Trump...Corrupt, certainly, but trump has done some really bad shit.

Keep on lying to yourself and justify your vote!

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

WaPo - Trump’s history of corruption is mind-boggling. So why is Clinton supposedly the corrupt one?

The reason Trump stories never gain any traction while Hillary is covered ad nauseum is because news organizations assign tons of reporters to cover Hillary and only one or two to cover Trump....

Waldman begins his piece by bringing up the whole Bondi bribe scandal and asking why we're not hearing more about this. He then goes on to tell us why...

Turns out there's a shitload of reporters that get assigned to write stuff about Hillary, and those stories then get stretched out for months "with the insistence that questions are being raised and the implication that shady things are going on, even if there isn’t any evidence at a particular moment to support that idea."

But Trump doesn't get assigned a "squad of reporters" to cover him. If a story does emerge about some corrupt shit he's been part of, it is generally because of "the dogged efforts of one or a few journalists," and after a couple of days it simply disappears and, for lack of reporters, "no new facts are brought to light and no new stories get written."

The end result of this process is that because of all that repeated examination of Clinton’s affairs, people become convinced that she must be corrupt to the core. It’s not that there isn’t plenty of negative coverage of Trump, because of course there is, but it’s focused mostly on the crazy things he says on any given day.

But the truth is that you’d have to work incredibly hard to find a politician who has the kind of history of corruption, double-dealing, and fraud that Donald Trump has. The number of stories which could potentially deserve hundreds and hundreds of articles is absolutely staggering. Here’s a partial list:

• Trump’s casino bankruptcies, which left investors holding the bag while he skedaddled with their money
• Trump’s habit of refusing to pay contractors who had done work for him, many of whom are struggling small businesses
• Trump University, which includes not only the people who got scammed and the Florida investigation, but also a similar story from Texas where the investigation into Trump U was quashed.
• The Trump Institute, another get-rich-quick scheme in which Trump allowed a couple of grifters to use his name to bilk people out of their money
• The Trump Network, a multi-level marketing venture (a.k.a. pyramid scheme) that involved customers mailing in a urine sample which would be analyzed to produce for them a specially formulated package of multivitamins
• Trump Model Management, which reportedly had foreign models lie to customs officials and work in the U.S. illegally, and kept them in squalid conditions while they earned almost nothing for the work they did
• Trump’s employment of foreign guest workers at his resorts, which involves a claim that he can’t find Americans to do the work
• Trump’s use of hundreds of undocumented workers from Poland in the 1980s, who were paid a pittance for their illegal work
• Trump’s history of being charged with housing discrimination
• Trump’s connections to mafia figures involved in New York construction
• The time Trump paid the Federal Trade Commission $750,000 over charges that he violated anti-trust laws when trying to take over a rival casino company
• The fact that Trump is now being advised by Roger Ailes, who was forced out as Fox News chief when dozens of women came forward to charge him with sexual harassment. According to the allegations, Ailes’s behavior was positively monstrous; as just one indicator, his abusive and predatory actions toward women were so well-known and so loathsome that in 1968 the morally upstanding folks in the Nixon administration refused to allow him to work there despite his key role in getting Nixon elected.

Bottom line - if stuff like this were happening with Clinton - you can bet that news organizations would be falling over one another to get more coverage - more reporters would be assigned, more questions would be asked, and more would be learned.

That’s important, because we may have reached a point where the frames around the candidates are locked in: Trump is supposedly the crazy/bigoted one, and Clinton is supposedly the corrupt one. Once we decide that those are the appropriate lenses through which the two candidates are to be viewed, it shapes the decisions the media make every day about which stories are important to pursue.

And it means that to a great extent, for all the controversy he has caused and all the unflattering stories in the press about him, Trump is still being let off the hook.


Trump’s history of corruption is mind-boggling. So why is Clinton supposedly the corrupt one?

Trump is a real criminal and should go to prison for what he has done.

The spam is real!

 

[easyt65]

Trump is nothing compared to the Clinton Crime Syndicate.

 

[leftwinger]

Corruption using TAX dollars affects me. I try no not to read pablum. No more pablum.

Trump has to follow civilian law, he's not in jail so shaddup about it, your complaint is with corrupt govt.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Trump is by far the most corrupt candidate to ever run for office

But the truth is that you’d have to work incredibly hard to find a politician who has the kind of history of corruption, double-dealing, and fraud that Donald Trump has. The number of stories which could potentially deserve hundreds and hundreds of articles is absolutely staggering. Here’s a partial list:

Trump’s casino bankruptcies, which left investors holding the bag while he skedaddled with their money
Trump’s habit of refusing to pay contractors who had done work for him, many of whom are struggling small businesses
Trump University, which includes not only the people who got scammed and the Florida investigation, but also a similar story from Texas where the investigation into Trump U was quashed.
The Trump Institute, another get-rich-quick scheme in which Trump allowed a couple of grifters to use his name to bilk people out of their money
The Trump Network, a multi-level marketing venture (a.k.a. pyramid scheme) that involved customers mailing in a urine sample which would be analyzed to produce for them a specially formulated package of multivitamins
Trump Model Management, which reportedly had foreign models lie to customs officials and work in the U.S. illegally, and kept them in squalid conditions while they earned almost nothing for the work they did
Trump’s employment of foreign guest workers at his resorts, which involves a claim that he can’t find Americans to do the work
Trump’s use of hundreds of undocumented workers from Poland in the 1980s, who were paid a pittance for their illegal work
Trump’s history of being charged with housing discrimination
Trump’s connections to mafia figures involved in New York construction
The time Trump paid the Federal Trade Commission $750,000 over charges that he violated anti-trust laws when trying to take over a rival casino company
The fact that Trump is now being advised by Roger Ailes, who was forced out as Fox News chief when dozens of women came forward to charge him with sexual harassment. According to the allegations, Ailes’s behavior was positively monstrous; as just one indicator, his abusive and predatory actions toward women were so well-known and so loathsome that in 1968 the morally upstanding folks in the Nixon administration refused to allow him to work there despite his key role in getting Nixon elected.

 

[ScienceRocks]

 

[ScienceRocks]

This guy has lived his entire fucking live to be a fucking scam artist, crook and back stabber but yet the loserterians want to elect him president!

wow!!!!!

 

[ScienceRocks]

And yet Trump has the nerve to call clinton crooked? lol

 

[ScienceRocks]

Scammed thousands of students at his university
Didn't pay hundreds of workers what was owed.
Bribed Att generals to hide his scam!
Possibly raped a 13 year old girl and is going to see a judge on that!
Hired Illegal labor!
Accepted money from foreign governments!

Crooked Trump1