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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4675317" data-attributes="member: 54375"><p>Well since you mentioned corruption;</p><p></p><p> Dumb donald has given top administration jobs to blatant grifters — <a href="https://www.axios.com/go-deeper-the-most-bizarre-scott-pruitt-scandals-5e7778c7-3b61-4188-92e1-5d45dc32a1fd.html" target="_blank">Scott Pruitt</a>, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/15/zinke-interior-secretary-leave-trump-1066653" target="_blank">Ryan Zinke</a>, <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/09/29/554475788/price-resigns-from-trump-cabinet-amidst-private-jet-investigations" target="_blank">Tom Price</a>, <a href="https://www.republicreport.org/2020/house-committee-devos-aide-diane-jones-repeatedly-misled-congress/" target="_blank">Diane Auer Jones</a>, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/emails-show-how-pompeos-mixed-personal-official-business-n1245182" target="_blank">Mike Pompeo</a>, and many others. Big donors to Trump’s campaigns have repeatedly <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-sells-regulatory-favors-to-his-donors-2018-06-14" target="_blank">sought</a> and received <a href="https://publicintegrity.org/politics/donald-trump-rewarding-million-dollar-donors-with-plum-postings/" target="_blank">government jobs</a> and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-drain-the-swamp/2020/10/24/52c7682c-0a5a-11eb-9be6-cf25fb429f1a_story.html" target="_blank">government favors</a> from Trump and his underlings. </p><p> </p><p> donald has caused federal agencies to spend <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ballrooms-candles-and-luxury-cottages-during-trumps-term-millions-of-government-and-gop-dollars-have-flowed-to-his-propertiesmar-a-lago-charged-the-government-3-apiece-for-glasses-of-water-for-trump-and-the-japanese-leader/2020/10/27/186f20a2-1469-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html" target="_blank">at least $2.5 million</a> to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-company-secret-service-spending/2020/08/27/9331bd86-de36-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html" target="_blank">rent high-priced rooms at his company’s hotels</a>, improperly profiting off his presidency. Corporations, political committees, lobby groups, and <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/09/trump-emoluments-suits-355787" target="_blank">foreign governments</a> seeking to curry favor with Trump, plus his own presidential campaign, have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/10/us/trump-properties-swamp.html" target="_blank">spent</a> much more — well above $12 million — at his properties. </p><p></p><p> donald steered <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/18/16791174/republican-tax-bill-congress-conference-tax-policy-center" target="_blank">most of his tax cut to the wealthiest people and corporations</a> and then <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mar-a-lago-christmas-trip/" target="_blank">bragged</a> to rich friends at his country club, “You all just got a lot richer.” Meanwhile, he has concealed his own tax returns, which, when leaked, revealed that he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html" target="_blank">paid almost no taxes</a>, claiming huge losses to the IRS, while at the same time, to get new loans, telling banks that he was making big money. </p><p></p><p> Out of hatred for President Obama, and to appease corporate interests, don the dense has sought, even as the COVID-19 pandemic has raged, to eviscerate the Affordable Care Act, with its protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions, and then repeatedly has <a href="https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/aug/13/back-future-trumps-history-promising-health-plan-n/" target="_blank">told Americans the lie that he has a new, better health plan</a> ready to go, when <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/26/politics/donald-trump-60-minutes-book-lesley-stahl-health-care/index.html" target="_blank">he’s never had any plan at all</a>.</p><p></p><p> donald has made COVID-19 — 225,000 Americans dead and counting — much worse, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/02/politics/trump-woodward-interview-covid/index.html" target="_blank">covering up and lying about the disease’s contagiousness</a> and thus allowing the spread to intensify, in hopes of not tanking the stock market and his re-election momentum, and then <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/campaign-coronavirus-trump-biden/2020/10/26/572fe2be-17a1-11eb-82db-60b15c874105_story.html" target="_blank">continuing</a> to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/26/mike-pence-tests-negative-covid-surge" target="_blank">downplay the dangers</a>, hold <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/03/us/rose-garden-event-covid.html" target="_blank">super spreader events</a>, and <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-downplaying-virus-mocked-wearing-masks-months/story?id=73392694" target="_blank">undermine mask-wearing</a> and other measures that could save U.S. lives.</p><p></p><p> With the aim of improving his chances to win, donald has <a href="https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-joe-biden-election-2020-donald-trump-elections-3e8170c3348ce3719d4bc7182146b582" target="_blank">falsely claimed widespread voting fraud</a> by Democrats. He has publicly <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/512424-trump-the-only-way-we-are-going-to-lose-this-election-is-if-the" target="_blank">declared</a> that the only way he can lose the election is if the Democrats cheat, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/politics/trump-power-transfer-2020-election.html" target="_blank">refused</a> to say he will peacefully transfer power, and <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/1361311/trump-nominated-reelection-republicans-convention-twelve-more-years/" target="_blank">told</a> his supporters he should get “twelve more years,” instead of four. He’s also <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/8/22/21397092/trump-law-enforcement-police-polls-voting-2020" target="_blank">urged and endorsed</a> efforts by his underlings and supporters to act in <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-asked-supporters-watch-polls-how-states-are-countering-fears-n1244569" target="_blank">intimidating</a>, <a href="https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/president-trump-tweets-i-love-texas-along-with-video-of-trucks-surrounding-biden-bus" target="_blank">threatening</a>, and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/politics/trump-campaign-voter-surveillance.html" target="_blank">illegal</a> ways toward Democratic voters. </p><p></p><p> donald <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/07/why-trump-is-so-vindictive/" target="_blank">fired whistleblowers</a> who have testified to Congress and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_dismissal_of_inspectors_general" target="_blank">dismissed five inspectors general</a> who were looking into administration misconduct. </p><p></p><p> donald has pushed the Justice Dept to go easy on close political underlings like <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/politics/michael-flynn-case-dropped.html" target="_blank">Michael Flynn</a> and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/us/politics/roger-stone-sentencing.html" target="_blank">Roger Stone</a> (whose sentence he eventually <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/politics/trump-roger-stone-clemency.html" target="_blank">commuted</a>) and, with less success, to <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/lobbying-barr-trump-demands-prosecutions-his-political-foes-n1242613" target="_blank">prosecute his political enemies</a> like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Joe Biden.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4675317, member: 54375"] Well since you mentioned corruption; Dumb donald has given top administration jobs to blatant grifters — [URL='https://www.axios.com/go-deeper-the-most-bizarre-scott-pruitt-scandals-5e7778c7-3b61-4188-92e1-5d45dc32a1fd.html']Scott Pruitt[/URL], [URL='https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/15/zinke-interior-secretary-leave-trump-1066653']Ryan Zinke[/URL], [URL='https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/09/29/554475788/price-resigns-from-trump-cabinet-amidst-private-jet-investigations']Tom Price[/URL], [URL='https://www.republicreport.org/2020/house-committee-devos-aide-diane-jones-repeatedly-misled-congress/']Diane Auer Jones[/URL], [URL='https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/emails-show-how-pompeos-mixed-personal-official-business-n1245182']Mike Pompeo[/URL], and many others. Big donors to Trump’s campaigns have repeatedly [URL='https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-sells-regulatory-favors-to-his-donors-2018-06-14']sought[/URL] and received [URL='https://publicintegrity.org/politics/donald-trump-rewarding-million-dollar-donors-with-plum-postings/']government jobs[/URL] and [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-drain-the-swamp/2020/10/24/52c7682c-0a5a-11eb-9be6-cf25fb429f1a_story.html']government favors[/URL] from Trump and his underlings. donald has caused federal agencies to spend [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ballrooms-candles-and-luxury-cottages-during-trumps-term-millions-of-government-and-gop-dollars-have-flowed-to-his-propertiesmar-a-lago-charged-the-government-3-apiece-for-glasses-of-water-for-trump-and-the-japanese-leader/2020/10/27/186f20a2-1469-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html']at least $2.5 million[/URL] to [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-company-secret-service-spending/2020/08/27/9331bd86-de36-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html']rent high-priced rooms at his company’s hotels[/URL], improperly profiting off his presidency. Corporations, political committees, lobby groups, and [URL='https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/09/trump-emoluments-suits-355787']foreign governments[/URL] seeking to curry favor with Trump, plus his own presidential campaign, have [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/10/us/trump-properties-swamp.html']spent[/URL] much more — well above $12 million — at his properties. donald steered [URL='https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/18/16791174/republican-tax-bill-congress-conference-tax-policy-center']most of his tax cut to the wealthiest people and corporations[/URL] and then [URL='https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mar-a-lago-christmas-trip/']bragged[/URL] to rich friends at his country club, “You all just got a lot richer.” Meanwhile, he has concealed his own tax returns, which, when leaked, revealed that he [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html']paid almost no taxes[/URL], claiming huge losses to the IRS, while at the same time, to get new loans, telling banks that he was making big money. Out of hatred for President Obama, and to appease corporate interests, don the dense has sought, even as the COVID-19 pandemic has raged, to eviscerate the Affordable Care Act, with its protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions, and then repeatedly has [URL='https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/aug/13/back-future-trumps-history-promising-health-plan-n/']told Americans the lie that he has a new, better health plan[/URL] ready to go, when [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/26/politics/donald-trump-60-minutes-book-lesley-stahl-health-care/index.html']he’s never had any plan at all[/URL]. donald has made COVID-19 — 225,000 Americans dead and counting — much worse, [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/02/politics/trump-woodward-interview-covid/index.html']covering up and lying about the disease’s contagiousness[/URL] and thus allowing the spread to intensify, in hopes of not tanking the stock market and his re-election momentum, and then [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/campaign-coronavirus-trump-biden/2020/10/26/572fe2be-17a1-11eb-82db-60b15c874105_story.html']continuing[/URL] to [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/26/mike-pence-tests-negative-covid-surge']downplay the dangers[/URL], hold [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/03/us/rose-garden-event-covid.html']super spreader events[/URL], and [URL='https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-downplaying-virus-mocked-wearing-masks-months/story?id=73392694']undermine mask-wearing[/URL] and other measures that could save U.S. lives. With the aim of improving his chances to win, donald has [URL='https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-joe-biden-election-2020-donald-trump-elections-3e8170c3348ce3719d4bc7182146b582']falsely claimed widespread voting fraud[/URL] by Democrats. He has publicly [URL='https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/512424-trump-the-only-way-we-are-going-to-lose-this-election-is-if-the']declared[/URL] that the only way he can lose the election is if the Democrats cheat, [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/politics/trump-power-transfer-2020-election.html']refused[/URL] to say he will peacefully transfer power, and [URL='https://www.the-sun.com/news/1361311/trump-nominated-reelection-republicans-convention-twelve-more-years/']told[/URL] his supporters he should get “twelve more years,” instead of four. He’s also [URL='https://www.vox.com/2020/8/22/21397092/trump-law-enforcement-police-polls-voting-2020']urged and endorsed[/URL] efforts by his underlings and supporters to act in [URL='https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-asked-supporters-watch-polls-how-states-are-countering-fears-n1244569']intimidating[/URL], [URL='https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/president-trump-tweets-i-love-texas-along-with-video-of-trucks-surrounding-biden-bus']threatening[/URL], and [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/politics/trump-campaign-voter-surveillance.html']illegal[/URL] ways toward Democratic voters. donald [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/07/why-trump-is-so-vindictive/']fired whistleblowers[/URL] who have testified to Congress and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_dismissal_of_inspectors_general']dismissed five inspectors general[/URL] who were looking into administration misconduct. donald has pushed the Justice Dept to go easy on close political underlings like [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/politics/michael-flynn-case-dropped.html']Michael Flynn[/URL] and [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/us/politics/roger-stone-sentencing.html']Roger Stone[/URL] (whose sentence he eventually [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/politics/trump-roger-stone-clemency.html']commuted[/URL]) and, with less success, to [URL='https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/lobbying-barr-trump-demands-prosecutions-his-political-foes-n1242613']prosecute his political enemies[/URL] like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Joe Biden. 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