Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold on Trump Grifting His Donors
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GOP Group Targets Trump’s Children With ‘Grifters’ Attack Ads On Fox News
“It’s time someone held them accountable,” said The Lincoln Project after launching its new anti-Trump campaign.
The Lincoln Project, a group of anti-Trump Republicans whose principal objective is to defeat the president in the 2020 election, is targeting his adult children with its new campaign.
A voiceover pretending to be Ivanka Trump explains why “daddy being president is the best thing ever” in the first episode of the group’s “Grifters” series, released Friday.
Fake Ivanka explains how the Trump family has financially benefited from being in office while news stories appear in the theme. Continue reading.
Trump Costing Taxpayers And Putting Money In His Pocket With Stay At His Own Hotel
The president insisted on returning to Las Vegas each night of his western states swing, rather than overnighting where he was appearing.
LAS VEGAS ― President Donald Trump’s choice to stay at his own Las Vegas hotel each night during the western states swing that wraps up Friday likely cost taxpayers a million extra dollars as well as diverted thousands of them into his own cash registers.
Previous presidents on extended trips away from the White House typically stayed in the city of each day’s final event, or traveled to the city of the following day’s first event. Trump, instead, traveled back to Las Vegas each night from California, Arizona and Colorado to overnight at his Trump International Hotel ― requiring several extra hours’ flying time on Air Force One, a plane that costs taxpayers about a quarter-million dollars per hour in the air.
“At this point in his presidency, there’s no way to look at it other than Donald Trump is using his position and taxpayer dollars to make money for his businesses,” said Jordan Libowitz with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. “This is beyond a conflict of interest. This is corruption, plain and simple.” Continue reading.
Trump Retweets Son Eric’s Promo Of Their D.C. Hotel, Infuriating His Former Ethics Chief
“Definitely not trying to profit off the presidency at all,” Walter Shaub noted sarcastically.
President Donald Trump on Sunday retweeted a message from his son Eric touting the Trump International Hotel in Washington.
The double promotion with White House clout occurred at the same time that the Trump family is slamming Hunter Biden for allegedly profiting from father Joe Biden’s role as vice president by serving on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.
The retweet infuriated Walter Shaub, former head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics for former President Barack Obama and Trump. “Definitely not trying to profit off the presidency at all,” Shaub noted sarcastically.
View the complete November 17 article by Mary Papenfuss on the Huffington Post website here.