Trump Likely To Eclipse Nixon as Most Corrupt President in History

Since this egomaniac became the president-elect, he has seemed completely bent on becoming the most corrupt person to ever become commander-in-chief. He has no idea what he is doing and will undoubtedly approach the presidency as if he were king believing he can do anything he wants because he always believes he can do anything he wants. How long will that last?

It's been a week, and Trump is well on his way to becoming most crooked president in history


By Hunter
Sunday Nov 20, 2016 · 3:16 PM CST




It took one week. Within one week of becoming the nation's president-elect, Trump's newest hotel was already advertising itself as a way for foreign diplomats to curry favor with the newest president.

The event for the diplomatic community, held one week after the election, was in the Lincoln Library, a junior ballroom with 16-foot ceilings and velvet drapes that is also available for rent.
Some attendees won raffle prizes — among them overnight stays at other Trump properties around the world — allowing them to become better acquainted with the business holdings of the new commander in chief. [...]

Guests at the Trump hotel have begun parking themselves in the lobby, ordering expensive cocktails, hoping to see one of the Trump family members or the latest Cabinet pick. One foreign official hoped Trump, famous for the personal interest he takes in his businesses, might check the guest logs himself.

He might, of course. Nobody sincerely believes Donald Trump to be so principled a man that he would be above checking which diplomats were or were not lining his pockets before deciding whether to meet with them—or what favors America might do for them. On the contrary, the interviewed diplomats seem to be quite clear on what advantages staying at Trump's self-named hotel might bring them. When you meet with the next president you can either mention to him that you are staying in one of his own hotels, or you can not. Guess which one he will find most pleasing.

There is a bit of a legal problem here, in that a president accepting gifts from foreign diplomats is explicitly barred in the Constitution itself, and it doesn't take a great deal of deduction to presume that diplomats staying in hotel that funnels cash to Trump's own pockets counts as a gift. It's still a gift if the company is run by the president's daughter. The press and Republican party usually works itself into an orgy of reprobation and over even the optics of such a thing. There would be hearings. There would be Fox News specials. Both Sean Hannity and the New York Times front page would both be shouting in all-caps about something like that—during other times, or if the news touched seemingly any other candidate but this one.

So Donald Trump will walk into the Oval Office having already committed an apparently impeachable offense. He also settled a case this week accusing his so-called "University" of being nothing but a massive scheme to defraud consumers, is meeting with foreign dignitaries alongside the very family members he supposedly will be handing “blind trust” business concerns over to, and is pausing his own preparations to become the next president to close still more foreign business deals as president-elect.

(Oh, and he wants to keep his current unsecured phone as president. Which also seems like it ought to be a scandal for recent news-related reasons we can't quite place our fingers on.)

Mind you, short of simply baking the president a cake with hundred dollar bills inside, foreign dignitaries putting cash money into Donald Trump's own corporate bank accounts for the explicit purpose of currying favor with him as president seems like just about the most transparent case of corruption in office one could plausibly imagine. It's so beyond the pale of whatever Trump accused other candidates of, with his Crooked Hillary or Lyin' Ted or take-your-pick that it seems the stuff of a cartoon.

Crooked Don is already setting up the very real, very public avenues through which he will be bribed. And he's essentially daring the government to do something about it; the only thing we know for sure is that Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and the rest of his now deeply crooked party will defend that crookery at every turn. What <i>principled Republican</i> exists that would dare complain?

So far, the political media that spent every election twist and turn obsessing about "emails" doesn't have much to say about Trump seemingly violating the Constitution itself. It was not mused-over on the Sunday shows; the headlines continue to be subdued. But they will act as check against Trump's misuse of power, they insist. Anytime now. They're just getting a drink of water first, then look out.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/...to-becoming-most-crooked-president-in-history

 

8 years!

Your forecasts have proven to be the most inaccurate of any and I am sure you record will continue. Aside from that, the ultimate corrupt president by far is still in the office!

 

Don't forget Joe . . . he's a private citizen until the inauguration.

 

Your excuses for Trump belie the fact that he hasn't changed but momentarily at any point and continues to be an arrogant clueless prick in spite of having to change his temperament significantly before he isn't a private citizen any longer. I doubt that will change. I believe that he is incapable of change.

 

I have faith he'll change in time . . . I haven't given up on you, have I?

 

You really can't mess with perfection.

 

Who are you calling perfect - Toughcoins, or me? It sure isn't you or Obama!

 

This is priceless. Absolute comedy.
So now the sniveling tool that predicted Hillary is making more predictions?
Stand back and enjoy this liberal meltdown, may be the last we see in a while.
Implosion.
Laughable!!!!!!
Hahahahaha

 

I'm enjoying it like you wouldn't believe, Jack. Liberals are literally in tears and I can't get enough of it.

 

I did see a 6 foot tall Liberal Portable Safe Space Zone meme, it was a college student in a giant condom.

 

Does it have an extra large reservoir for those who hyper-ventilate?

 

The reservoir is for the nonsense they spew.

 

I like that . . . it'll help them keep it to themselves.

 

Trump will be the president of the United States, and he needs to focus on that job, and that job alone. His personal business interests should have absolutely no influence on his decisions as president: The basis for those decisions needs to be solely the interests of the country, unaffected by any possible taint of personal gain.

Trump could do a lot toward allaying legitimate concerns regarding conflict of interest by setting up a true blind trust, rather than merely turning over the operations of his business operations to his offspring. Unless and until he does so, there is sound reason to question the ethics of his presidency.

 

Let's see. So the Clintons were going to put their foreign bribes under their daughter's control. What is good for the goose is good for the gander!

 

Ah, so now the Clintons are the standard by which we will judge? There seems to be some cognitive dissonance going on, given the Republican howling about their supposed corruption.

Also, let's not forget that the Clinton Foundation is a registered non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote health concerns worldwide and other charitable causes, while the Trump businesses are devoted to the enrichment of their stockholders, including Trump himself. Think what you will of the Clintons and their involvement in the Clinton Foundation, these are indisputable facts.

 

With only 5% actually going to charity, those are very disputable facts. And I wonder what will happen to the investigations when Trump replaces Lynch. That could get interesting.

 

I don't know where you got that figure but according to the independent and neutral Charity Watch organization, the Clinton Foundation is A rated, and 88% of its funds go to its charitable programs.

It seems to me that you're merely attempting to deflect from the actual topic of this thread. Your sole defense of Trump's clear conflict of interest is "well, Clintons"? That's rather feeble.

 

Just 5.7 Percent Of Clinton Foundation Budget Actually Went To Charitable Grants

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/16/j...udget-actually-went-to-charity/#ixzz4Qhl8laUH

Charity watchdog: Clinton Foundation a ‘slush fund’
http://nypost.com/2015/04/26/charity-watchdog-clinton-foundation-a-slush-fund/
Just 5.7% of Clinton Foundation budget went to charitable grants
Nearly 7-times as much spent on salaries, compensation and employee benefits

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/09/just-5-7...ent-to-charitable-grants/#ABQgECJ0w9UKeuJr.99

Clinton Foundation Admit 85% Of Donations Do Not Go To Charity
http://yournewswire.com/clinton-foundation-admit-85-of-donations-do-not-go-to-charity/

You need more?

 

So that is the extent of your defense of Trump's conflict of interest. You've had a chance, but it appears that you either don't care about the topic, or you're unable to do more than yelp about supposed problems with the Clinton Foundation.