Paul Manafort is alleged to have sold his services to sketchy foreign powers, pocketed multiple millions, evaded American taxes, and, according to evidence presented in his trial, spent up to a million dollars on cashmere suits and ostrich jackets.
President Trump is defending his former campaign chairman: "Paul Manafort worked for Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and many other highly prominent and respected political leaders. He worked for me for a very short time. Why didn't government tell me that he was under investigation. These old charges have nothing to do with Collusion - a Hoax!" The president might answer a few questions too.
Another question for President Trump: Didn't it strike him as odd that a man of Manafort's tastes and lifestyle would agree to work for Trump for free? Didn't he pause and reflect, "Hmm, I wonder what he expects to get out of this, and from whom?".
Just in the first 18 months, the secretary of HHS, the secretary for Veterans Affairs, and the EPA chief, have all been forced out for misusing government funds for their own little luxuries.
The secretary of HUD, the Interior secretary, the Commerce secretary, and the Treasury secretary have all been accused of improper spending as well.
Because virtually everything is televised, politics itself has become less and less about actual governing.
As Levin notes, even controlling both chambers and with a Republican president poised to sign anything they send up, the Republican Congress has achieved very little.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/corruption-of-congress-legislative-branch-given-up-on-governing/
President Trump is defending his former campaign chairman: "Paul Manafort worked for Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and many other highly prominent and respected political leaders. He worked for me for a very short time. Why didn't government tell me that he was under investigation. These old charges have nothing to do with Collusion - a Hoax!" The president might answer a few questions too.
Another question for President Trump: Didn't it strike him as odd that a man of Manafort's tastes and lifestyle would agree to work for Trump for free? Didn't he pause and reflect, "Hmm, I wonder what he expects to get out of this, and from whom?".
Just in the first 18 months, the secretary of HHS, the secretary for Veterans Affairs, and the EPA chief, have all been forced out for misusing government funds for their own little luxuries.
The secretary of HUD, the Interior secretary, the Commerce secretary, and the Treasury secretary have all been accused of improper spending as well.
Because virtually everything is televised, politics itself has become less and less about actual governing.
As Levin notes, even controlling both chambers and with a Republican president poised to sign anything they send up, the Republican Congress has achieved very little.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/corruption-of-congress-legislative-branch-given-up-on-governing/
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