The first member of Congress to support Trumps Presidential bid and served as Congressional liason to the Trump transition team, is arrested and charged with insider trading, securities fraud, wire fraud, and lying to the FBI. But the miasma of lying republican swamp creatures doesn't seem to be registering in the minds of the republican constituency just yet. The fish rots from the head down people and Trump is the king of the swamp creatures.
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GOP rep. Chris Collins arrested for insider trading.
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Originally posted by JimL View PostThe first member of Congress to support Trumps Presidential bid and served as Congressional liason to the Trump transition team, is arrested and charged with insider trading, securities fraud, wire fraud, and lying to the FBI. But the miasma of lying republican swamp creatures doesn't seem to be registering in the minds of the republican constituency just yet. The fish rots from the head down people and Trump is the king of the swamp creatures.
If Mr. Collins is guilty, then he deserves to be prosecuted.Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom
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Originally posted by One Bad Pig View PostAh, guilt by association.
If Mr. Collins is guilty, then he deserves to be prosecuted.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by JimL View PostTrump said he would hire all the best people. Seems that by all the best people, he meant all the biggests crooks, like himself.Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom
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Originally posted by JimL View PostThe first member of Congress to support Trumps Presidential bid and served as Congressional liason to the Trump transition team, is arrested and charged with insider trading, securities fraud, wire fraud, and lying to the FBI. But the miasma of lying republican swamp creatures doesn't seem to be registering in the minds of the republican constituency just yet. The fish rots from the head down people and Trump is the king of the swamp creatures."The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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Originally posted by JimL View PostTrump said he would hire all the best people. Seems that by all the best people, he meant all the biggests crooks, like himself.
I’ll wait."The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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Originally posted by JimL View PostTrump said he would hire all the best people. Seems that by all the best people, he meant all the biggests crooks, like himself.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostHopefully jimmy can tell us exactly what position Trump hired Collins for. [ATTACH=CONFIG]29674[/ATTACH]
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Originally posted by JimL View PostThe fish rots from the head down people and Trump is the king of the swamp creatures."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
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Originally posted by JimL View PostThe first member of Congress to support Trumps Presidential bid and served as Congressional liason to the Trump transition team, is arrested and charged with insider trading, securities fraud, wire fraud, and lying to the FBI. But the miasma of lying republican swamp creatures doesn't seem to be registering in the minds of the republican constituency just yet. The fish rots from the head down people and Trump is the king of the swamp creatures.
Originally posted by JimL View PostTransition liason. Are you telling me that you still don't see the swamp creatures that Trump is surrounding himself with? What am I saying, of course you can't see it! So embarrassing!Last edited by Tassman; 08-10-2018, 12:18 AM.“He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.
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Originally posted by Terraceth View PostWhat about Grant's?
Obviously the main historical examples of corrupt administrations to compare Trump to would be Grant, Harding, Nixon, and Reagan. A historian on the unique corruption of Trump’s White House...
“Politicians lie, but this is different,” says a historian who studies presidential history and estimates the Trump administration easily ranks among the most corrupt in American history.
Robert Dallek is a presidential historian and the author of several books... Dallek estimates that historical examples of corruption, like that of the Warren G. Harding administration, don’t hold a candle to how Trump and his people have conducted themselves in the White House....
"This administration is a low point in our history. We’ve been through scandals before, going as far back as the Grant administration in the 19th century and the Harding administration in the early 20th century. Presidents have been accused of bribery and shady gift-giving. So it’s not entirely unique to see scandals subsume a White House.
But the shamelessness of this administration, the dishonesty, the total indifference to facts, is something I haven’t seen before — at least not this blatant."
...Q. "Is this the most dishonest administration you've ever seen or studied?"
A. The short answer is yes. Politicians lie, but this is different. I suppose if you wanted to be generous, you might say this is the least effective and trustworthy administration since Warren G. Harding, whose administration was overwhelmed by the Teapot Dome scandal in 1921, in which Harding’s secretary of the interior leased Navy petroleum reserves in Wyoming and California to private oil companies at incredibly low rates without a competitive bidding process. That was a massive scandal, one of the biggest we’ve seen at the level of politics.
There are other examples, of course. Most obviously, there’s Nixon and Watergate, which was a watershed moment in American political history. Ulysses S. Grant’s reputation as a Civil War general was shattered by the Whiskey Ring scandal in 1875, in which Treasury officials basically stole tax dollars from alcohol distillers. Other presidents, like Bill Clinton, have lied shamelessly as well.
Still, I think what we’re seeing right now will, eventually, rise above these examples, with the possible exception of Watergate"...
Q. "What, exactly, is so unique about this administration in terms of the corruption and the graft?"
A. "Obviously the examples of corruption are numerous: Trump refused to divest from his business interests; there are questions about whether he’s violating the emoluments clause by running Trump International Hotel in DC; there’s the indictment of his former campaign manager Paul Manafort; there’s the looming indictment of his former national security adviser Michael Flynn; Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, failed to disclose $1 billion in loans connected to his real estate company; and of course several of his Cabinet heads are being investigated for profligate travel expenses.
But here’s what I think is unique: Often you see a lot of corruption result from a lack of oversight, but I think this administration is quite different in that Trump really sets the tone for all this. He encourages it, really. The fish rots from the head, and the stench of this administration starts at the very top."
IMO that article is being overly kind to the Trump administration because it only references in passing a tiny few of the never-ending cascade of corruption scandals coming out of Trump's cabinet. "...several of his Cabinet heads are being investigated for profligate travel expenses" is the least important of the dozens and dozens of corruption issues with Trump's cabinet."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
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