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My former family values super Catholic Senator Rick Santorum is cashing in on his connections. $65 million dollars could be on it`s way to a plasma company that operates out of a luxury condo. Ricky Swamptorum lobbied for these scammers. https://www.post-gazette.com/news/na...s/202011010163
I wouldnt necessarily put the blame on Trump for 'increasing the swamp'...have to remember when he talked about 'draining the swamp', he was not yet elected president and therefore, was not privy to the secret inner workings of our Govt.
I think he truly did want to do what he said, but I think what happened was, once he won the election and was suddenly privy to all the secrets and details, he probably came to the glaring realization that draining the swamp would be literally impossible, without burning the whole thing to the ground and starting over from scratch! I dont think he knew how extensive and deep the corruption and collusion go, or how its so intertwined with legitimate govt processes, its just not possible to 'drain the swamp'.
There is only so much a president can do, to really do what he talked about post election, would involve drastic changes to our Govt, it could not be accomplished in 4 or 8 yrs.
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I wouldnt necessarily put the blame on Trump for 'increasing the swamp'...have to remember when he talked about 'draining the swamp', he was not yet elected president and therefore, was not privy to the secret inner workings of our Govt.
I think he truly did want to do what he said, but I think what happened was, once he won the election and was suddenly privy to all the secrets and details, he probably came to the glaring realization that draining the swamp would be literally impossible, without burning the whole thing to the ground and starting over from scratch! I dont think he knew how extensive and deep the corruption and collusion go, or how its so intertwined with legitimate govt processes, its just not possible to 'drain the swamp'.
It would be safe to say that Trump has taken a back hoe and deepened the level of the "swamp", he knew how things operated he wasn't some innocent babe in the woods....
He has set new standards for corruption and collusion including my favorite the $360+million that has been paid so far to Trump owned properties since he took office and are there any White Collar donor's, I mean criminal left serving their sentence or has he paroled the lot of them?
I wouldnt necessarily put the blame on Trump for 'increasing the swamp'...have to remember when he talked about 'draining the swamp', he was not yet elected president and therefore, was not privy to the secret inner workings of our Govt.
I think he truly did want to do what he said, but I think what happened was, once he won the election and was suddenly privy to all the secrets and details, he probably came to the glaring realization that draining the swamp would be literally impossible, without burning the whole thing to the ground and starting over from scratch! I dont think he knew how extensive and deep the corruption and collusion go, or how its so intertwined with legitimate govt processes, its just not possible to 'drain the swamp'.
There is only so much a president can do, to really do what he talked about post election, would involve drastic changes to our Govt, it could not be accomplished in 4 or 8 yrs.
You are telling me that a person who licenses his name to anybody who has the cash to pay him, didn't know about corruption? This same person who paid fines for lying to students about Trump college? This person who cheated a charity out of money?
Read about Sam Rayburn. Then compare his ethics with those of today's congress persons.
Politics these days is all about patronage. Taxes, welfare payments and the military all are about whose money is it and who will get the government contracts. Those who play golf with POTUS Trump are doing OK.
I wouldnt necessarily put the blame on Trump for 'increasing the swamp'...have to remember when he talked about 'draining the swamp', he was not yet elected president and therefore, was not privy to the secret inner workings of our Govt.
I think he truly did want to do what he said, but I think what happened was, once he won the election and was suddenly privy to all the secrets and details, he probably came to the glaring realization that draining the swamp would be literally impossible, without burning the whole thing to the ground and starting over from scratch! I dont think he knew how extensive and deep the corruption and collusion go, or how its so intertwined with legitimate govt processes, its just not possible to 'drain the swamp'.
There is only so much a president can do, to really do what he talked about post election, would involve drastic changes to our Govt, it could not be accomplished in 4 or 8 yrs.
You`re joking I hope. Trump has been a scammer all his life from bankrupt casinos and a bogus university to being fined for robbing his own charity. Why would anyone think he would change his thieving ways? Conflicts of interest? 2,300 of them up until Sept. 2019 and he didn`t stop there.
Plasma Technologies LLC, has received seed money to test a possible COVID-19-fighting blood plasma technology.
They could get up to $51 million more to build manufacturing facilities in NC & GA if the technology proves itself. A solution to Covid and American jobs.
Dems are screaming at the top of their lungs that the Trump admin is not doing anything with this pandemic and post these misleading threads -- when in fact the administration is doing exactly what they want. Pathetic.
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