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AlexanderFan said:
Kind of like all of you on here with the incessant insults about his supporters. The insults have really cranked up here lately, almost annoying.
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The problem is that the level of stupidity/spite/ignorance/whatever required to remain a supporter in the light of everything happening has continued to really crank up as well.
 
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there is only one Trump Scandal

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/there-is-only-one-trump-scandal/560825/

The sheer volume of Trump scandals can seem difficult to keep track of.

There’s the ongoing special-counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump’s candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there’s the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national-security adviser; there are the president’s hush-money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president’s properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there’s the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump’s foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president’s Cabinet officials’ misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

The preceding wall of text may appear to some as an abridged list of the Trump administration’s scandals, but this is an illusion created by the perception that these are all separate affairs. Viewed as such, the various Trump scandals can seem multifarious and overpowering, and difficult to fathom.

There are not many Trump scandals. There is one Trump scandal. Singular: the corruption of the American government by the president and his associates, who are using their official power for personal and financial gain rather than for the welfare of the American people, and their attempts to shield that corruption from political consequences, public scrutiny, or legal accountability.
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How two men leveraged access to Trump and Persian Gulf crown princes into millions of dollars

After a year spent carefully cultivating two princes from the Arabian Peninsula, Elliott Broidy, a top fundraiser for President Donald Trump, [former Deputy Finance Chair for the RNC, and one of three clients represented by Trump lawyer Michael Cohen] thought he was finally close to nailing more than $1 billion in business.

He had ingratiated himself with crown princes from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, who were seeking to alter U.S. foreign policy and punish Qatar, an archrival in the Gulf that he dubbed “the snake.”

To do that, the California businessman had helped spearhead a secret campaign to influence the White House and Congress, flooding Washington with political donations. Broidy and his business partner, Lebanese-American George Nader, pitched themselves to the crown princes as a backchannel to the White House, passing the princes’ praise — and messaging — straight to the president’s ears.

Now, in December 2017, Broidy was ready to be rewarded for all his hard work. It was time to cash in.

In return for pushing anti-Qatar policies at the highest levels of America’s government, Broidy and Nader expected huge consulting contracts from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, according to an Associated Press investigation based on interviews with more than two dozen people and hundreds of pages of leaked emails between the two men. The emails reviewed by the AP included work summaries and contracting documents and proposals.
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Interesting.

 
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CharminTide said:
Hard to respect anyone who proclaimed Trump's "drain the swamp" mantra, reads this story, and still walks away a Trump supporter.
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I think the problem is that there are quite a few that are single issue voters and will even support someone as bad as Trump as long as he checks the right boxes. Those include, but are not limited to:
a. being against abortion
b. support of NRA (opposition to gun control)
c. the wall

 
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Bamaro said:
I think the problem is that there are quite a few that are single issue voters and will even support someone as bad as Trump as long as he checks the right boxes. Those include, but are not limited to:
a. being against abortion
b. support of NRA (opposition to gun control)
c. the wall

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You'll also still hear people say it was worth it to vote for him because of Gorsuch
 
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Michael Cohen’s Business Partner Agrees to Cooperate as Part of Plea Deal


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/...l=breaking-news&nlid=57903598ing-news&ref=cta

Mr. Freidman has been Mr. Cohen’s partner in the taxi business for years, managing cabs for him even after New York City regulators barred Mr. Freidman last year from continuing to manage medallions.


Mr. Freidman, who was disbarred earlier this month, had been accused of failing to pay more than $5 million in taxes and faced four counts of criminal tax fraud and one of grand larceny — all B felonies. Each carries a maximum prison sentence of up to 25 years in prison.
Instead, he appeared in court in Albany on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to a single count of evading only $50,000 worth of taxes; he faces five years of probation if he fulfills the terms of his agreement, the judge, Patrick Lynch of Albany County court, said during the roughly 20-minute proceeding.

Is slimeball too harsh?


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