The Drain the Swamp president is anything but... nyti.ms/3nC8P3e
This single paragraph -- showing the president selling access and influence to wealthy donors who are also personally enriching him -- would be the defining scandal of any other presidential administration
Then: "Elliot Broidy, a California businessman with a checkered past who had raised millions for the Trump campaign, joined Mar-a-Lago after the election. He told an associate that he viewed it as a way to increase access to the president."
What's more swampy than an Australian billionaire with major U.S. business interests bragging about the personal access he gets with the president of the United States as a perk of being a paying customer at his Palm Beach resort?
Nothing swampy about the founder of a private prison company referencing the "transactional" nature of the administration and saying it helped to be seen patronizing the luxury DC hotel the president profited from
....or the fact that it appears to have paid off
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Trump has tweeted three dozen times in the last two and a half hours -- dishing deep state conspiracy theories about the Russia investigation, mocking a Joe Biden ad about the death of his wife and children, and saying the FDA's intentionally slowing down the COVID vaccine
He's tweeted four more times since I wrote this tweet
Just a normal day in America, where the president of the United States is demanding that his attorney general arrest his political enemies
I read the first sentence of this tweet, and my stupid brain thought "Maybe he's going to encourage people to get flu shots to dull the impact of the winter COVID resurgence."
You sweet, stupid brain. You know better than that.
The last time the U.S. saw 100,000 from the flu, Donald Trump was getting Vietnam deferments for bone spurs from a tenant in one of his dad's buildings cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-r…
The worst flu season in 40 years was Trump's first flu season in office.
Here's Trump -- who just announced he and Melania are under quarantine for possible COVID infection -- mocking Joe Biden at Tuesday's debate for wearing a mask
I hope thay the president and the first lady are okay and that this teaches the president, in particular, a valuable lesson about the importance of following the guidelines put forth by his own administration's health officials.
Trump is scheduled to hold a rally in Wisconsin on Saturday.
I know it's going to blow your mind, but literally everything Trump just said about his admissions rollback is wrong.
The move will make cars more expensive, less safe, and dirtier.
Consumer Reports pegs the additional costs per vehicle at $3,300, explaining that the administration's move essentially amounts to a "gas tax" advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_release/…
Research by an outside adviser picked by former EPA chief Scott Pruitt—and funded by grants from the auto industry—showed a massive net *loss* in jobs from the Trump administration's policy heraldnet.com/business/epa-a…
I paid several times more in income taxes last year than Donald Trump, even though he had a personal income of more than $450 million nyti.ms/3jmgeBf
It turns out Trump has been fighting an IRS audit for a decade. Losing it could cost him $100 million.
It's refreshing to learn, for once that he wasn't lying about something (though the existence of the audit was never a valid excuse not to release his tax returns)
THIS IS EXACTLY WHY HE SHOULD HAVE LONG AGO RELEASED HIS TAX RETURNS!
THREAD: This report is the culmination of nearly 4yrs of work, and it paints a damning picture of a corrupt president fixated on the personal financial benefits he might derive from his time in office
2/ Since day one of the Trump administration, @CREWcrew has been tracking the constant stream of conflicts of interest stemming from President Trump's decision not to divest his businesses.
3/ From the earliest days of his presidency, Trump has used his office to promote his businesses, signaling to special interest groups, political allies and foreign governments, that the way to curry favor with his administration is through his businesses.