Hey guys,
Okay, full disclosure... I didn't mean this as a dick move, but more of a "getting an honest reaction" move.
The entire first post isn't about Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation; it is entirely about Donald Trump and the Trump Foundation.
Literally entirely about him and his foundation. Every bit of it (with the exception, obviously, of the whole address change thing.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/nyregion/trump-foundation-lawsuit-attorney-general.html
And that's what kills me... it is how we often get "Well, I wish he would tweet less" but thats the often the only criticism we get of the President in these seriously partisan times.
But the President seems to have SO many issues about which he can be criticized that people don't go after him for...
Obviously there are policy issues, but those can always be criticized by one side or the other... Democrats can cite a deficit anticipated to reach $33 trillion by 2028, no Wall, a looming trade war, no real quantifiable progress with North Korea, no health care reform, the whole recent mess with children at our border, and so on... Republicans can point to the lowest unemployment rate in nearly 20 years, a historic meeting with North Korea, a growing DOW, lowered illegal immigration, and so on... a lot of this depends on whether you are a conservative or liberal.
But I am always so surprised that it seems that other, more personal, more Trump-focused shortcomings are just ignored.
Think about the original post; that's all Donald. That's the Trump Foundation using donations for veterans to pay off Trump's lawsuits, thats Trump University settling for $25 million, that's the Trump Foundation being sued for violating both state and federal law, and Trump Foundation employees and Donald Trump himself writing about it all in emails... and behind it all is a man who has been sued more than any peer, and who made a career out of literally using lawsuits against American workers and American small businesses... he would let them do work for him, then not pay them, let them sue, and then just out wait them, knowing that they couldn't afford to keep up with him in terms of the law. Eventually he would settle for pennies on the dollar.
And he did it to THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of Americans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...donald-trump-lawsuits-legal-battles/84995854/
And while some people might say "Well, as a business man, he SHOULD do that!"
That's ridiculous.
And some people might say "Well, that's when he was in business, not when he was President."
And even with THAT... he is the first President to not put his finances in a blind trust, he still remains active with all of his businesses, and there seems to be no slowing down there... hundreds of trademarks granted for his own business in countries that he is interacting with as President, $500 million loans from China to a company involved with his golf courses and hotels, millions of our taxpayer dollars going to his golf resorts as he goes golfing every weekend... on and on and on
So why do we think that this person who took advantage of thousands and thousands of Americans and American businesses is suddenly changing who he is, especially when all signs point to "he isn't" in ways we've never seen before?
And this doesn't include things like the whole sexual harassment scandals, the multiple affairs, the mocking of a handicapped reporter, the "many good people" in a white nationalist march, and so on and so forth, things that ALL of us, I think, would privately shake our heads at, and which MANY of us would take as a real sign of a weak person.
And why don't more people on the right call this out? Why don't more people on the right say "WTF?"
I'm sorry for this thread, in a way.
I think Bill Clinton generally did a good job as President. Benefits of hindsight, of course. But he still had huge things I'd call him out on... failure when it comes to regulation of housing and banking, failure to get Bin Laden, failure to reform health care... and that doesn't even get into the fact that he is an absolute scumball of epic proportions.
I just really wish that more people on the right would consistently call out our current President, who is FAR more important than a president from 20 years ago or his wife, a failed Presidential candidate who likely won't ever run for anything meaningful again, for policy issues but also for other stuff.
We've seen plenty of Republican leaders do that... McCain, Corker, Romney, Bush, Graham, Collins, Ryan, etc etc... I wish we saw more of it from regular folks, ESPECIALLY how up-in-arms people have gotten over the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation.
Anyway... sorry for the "deception"... not trying to be a dick about it, but just trying to point it out. Wish we heard more from the righties. I'll avoid any more political stuff for the rest of the week as punishment for me/reward for everyone else
