Trump and Corruption: The corruption never stops in the Trump administration -- not for #COVID19, police killings or demonstrations to protest them. @JoshNBCNews sums up testimony given by purged State Department Inspector General IG Steve Linick....
....yesterday before House Foreign Affairs Committee, directly contradicting claims by Sec. Pompeo to have been unaware of investigations involving him and his wife making personal use of State Department resources. Committee statement (via @rgoodlaw): foreignaffairs.house.gov/2020/6/engel-m…
Trump and Corruption: The Pompeo investigation referenced above could be said to involve petty corruption. This report by @lydiadepillis @JustinElliott & @RobertFaturechi is about anything but that. Deputy Treasury Secretary's Justin Muzinich's.... propublica.org/article/this-t…
....family owns the asset management firm Muzinich & Co., a major beneficiary of Treasury's questionably necessary program to buy up corporate debt, a program managed by....Deputy Treasury Secretary Justin Muzinich, whose divestiture from the company appears no more than partial
Trump and Corruption: The price demanded by the Trump administration and Senate Republicans for support of last March’s CARES Act was a package of tax breaks benefiting mainly wealthy taxpayers. Allen Sloan sums them up for @propublica. propublica.org/article/the-ca…
Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation estimates these 5 tax breaks will cost the Treasury $257.95 billion total during calendar 2020, a staggering sum. The $1200 stimulus checks, spread around to a vastly larger number of people, are estimated to cost about $292.37, says Sloan.
Beneficiaries of these gigantic tax cuts, passed under cover of a nationwide #COVID19 health emergency, include the Trump and Kushner families as well as the class of taxpayers that include the Republican Party’s largest donors. This continues a pattern dating back....
....to the Bush administration-sponsored tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 — Republican politicians making sure the people who give them money get a tangible, substantial, financial return on their investment. Trump is no outlier in today’s GOP.
Trump and Corruption: Who got Paycheck Protection Program funds? @SBAgov committed to release this information last April. Mnuchin & SBA have now gone back on that commitment. What are they hiding? Report on Wednesday’s Senate hearing by @Post_AG washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
Just to be clear, among the reasons Congress and @USGAO need to know who got PPP money are: to find out if any was stolen, wasted, or directed to ineligible businesses. Also, to assess whether this gigantic program did what it was supposed to.
Trump and Corruption: The story belongs on this thread, as it is all corruption — even before Roger Stone tries to monetize his experience as Trump’s conduit to Wikileaks and the Russians. Which he will do. By @davidfrum via @john_sipher https://t.co/aI2rYSa9Y9
Trump and Corruption: What was so corrupt about Trump’s intervention to protect his conduit to Wikileaks and the Russians, Roger Stone? @weareoversight has a detailed summary in this thread. https://t.co/HzTTIsJCLd
Trump and Corruption: Roger Stone's commutation, write @benjaminwittes & @qjurecic, represents "...the capstone of an all-but-open attempt on the president’s part to obstruct justice in a self-protective fashion over a protracted period of time." lawfareblog.com/roger-stone-co…
Trump and Corruption: "Almost all of the beneficiaries of Trump’s pardons and commutations have had a personal or political connection to the president." 31 out of 36, say @jacklgoldsmith & @matthew_gluck. They've prepared a chart! lawfareblog.com/trumps-aberran…
Google Spreadsheet on Trump's pardons and commutations, from @jacklgoldsmith & @matthew_gluck. There is a long-established process to vet Presidential pardons; no one has bypassed it as Trump has. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Trump and Corruption: using the Secret Service, Trump pours taxpayer money into his hotels, nearly $400 a night. Documentation this morning by @Fahrenthold https://t.co/IeXg2NrShR
Trump and Corruption: I actually feel a little guilty adding this @yayitsrob thread to this list, as Trump is no more than a bit player in an evidently massive Ohio corruption scheme involving the state's Republican leadership. However...
....Trump has been consistent about wanting to keep major pollution sources like coal-fired power plants running & profitable. What's needed to do this, apparently, is $60 million worth of bribes. Credit to @drvox & @leahstokes
for reporting on this before indictments came down
for reporting on this before indictments came down
Trump and Corruption: Using the US ambassador to Britain to try steering the British Open to his own, money-losing golf club is what we would expect of Trump by now. If he'd left the subject alone the Open would have come back to Turnberry eventually.
Trump and Corruption: Making all allowances for #Covid_19- related disruption, the Democratic House majority is able to push back against Trump’s corruption. As this thread has shown, there is much to push back against. Yet as @brianbeutler says here.... https://t.co/UAmsmHjMWh
....it sometimes seems @SpeakerPelosi & her colleagues prefer to fight corruption mostly through press releases. This probably won’t lose the 2020 election, but that’s not entirely the point — and even if it were, corruption is not an issue you want to just complain about.
Trump and Corruption: One of several corruption stories in this @CREWcrew thread, this one about a New York judge slapping down the Trump DOJ's retaliation against former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. .
Trump and Corruption: Pandemic or no, Trump’s children still clean up on his hotel near the White House. This might explain why Trump badgered Senate Republicans to fund renovating the nearby FBI HQ so it could never become a rival hotel. From @CREWcrew https://t.co/tknZ3hHjYZ
Trump and Corruption: Use of public office for private gain is as close as the textbook definition of corruption as it gets. Using an official government function as entertainment for paying guests is what this is. Via @KellyO https://t.co/uXr754XMMz
Trump and Corruption: Per this thread by @brendan_fischer, as Trump’s stupid wall is being funded with money Congress intended for military construction, money intended to build the wall was allegedly stolen by Trump associates. https://t.co/CFWhyNFn7i
Trump and Corruption: “Drain the Swamp” was always a slogan for the chumps, Limbaugh/Hannity listeners who believe everything they’re told. In real life, access and policy can be bought throughout Trump’s administration. @RobertMaguire_ has examples. https://t.co/ZCxcGyrwF3
Trump and Corruption: @Fahrenthold has been bird-dogging Trump’s sponging off government agencies for his own businesses from the start. One of the main victims has been the Secret Service, which has to go where the President goes. washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Trump and Corruption: Everything about the use of public property, public servants, & public funds for a party campaign event screams corruption. This isn’t incidental to the Trump administration; it is the point of the Trump administration. Via @jonkarl https://t.co/HYtQdXl5Kg
Trump and Corruption: Is @hhs putting out a $250 million contract to inform the public about #COVID19, or to promote the President’s re-election campaign? The winning bidder will coordinate an ad program w/a former Trump campaign staffer. By @dlippman politico.com/news/2020/08/3…
Trump and Corruption: The very first item on this thread was back in February 2018. It referenced a @maggieNYT & @kenvogel story about Inaugural Committee funds being diverted to a company headed by a friend of Mrs. Trump -- who has a new book out!
The Trump and Corruption thread now contains roughly 296 tweets. It is not, regrettably, an inclusive catalog of all Trump-related corruption. But it's a lot longer than any similar thread covering any earlier Presidency would have been -- a dizzying cavalcade of corruption.
.@threadreaderapp Please unroll.
