Trump's 7 point Drain the Swamp Plan & 100 Day Agenda

[Moiraine]

4 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

Yes, this draining of the swamp isn't a promise kept by Trump - he's just made it swampier.  He's proven the old adage

Power corrupts and ultimate power corrupts ultimately.   

 

 

What you are saying might be a truth but it hasn't been proven by Trump. He was already corrupt.

[RedDenver]

 

[knapplc]

I like the "between $172 and $640 million." Because they can't be more specific than that.  

 

Audit them. There's more than enough questions about their shenanigans in their nepotism positions. 

 

 

[Archy1221]

36 minutes ago, RedDenver said:

 

https://fortune.com/2021/02/03/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-income-hit-white-house/
 

Overall, the disclosures suggest Trump and Kushner, though still extremely wealthy, lost ground or tread water economically during their controversial stints in her father’s administration. In 2017, shortly after joining the White House staff, they reported income of as much as $195 million, but that initial disclosure covered a longer period of time than the ones that followed.

[knapplc]

4 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

https://fortune.com/2021/02/03/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-income-hit-white-house/
 

Overall, the disclosures suggest Trump and Kushner, though still extremely wealthy, lost ground or tread water economically during their controversial stints in her father’s administration. In 2017, shortly after joining the White House staff, they reported income of as much as $195 million, but that initial disclosure covered a longer period of time than the ones that followed.

 

I wouldn't trust any disclosure either of those two grifters provide. 

 

Give them the Hunter Biden investigation treatment. 

[RedDenver]

3 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

https://fortune.com/2021/02/03/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-income-hit-white-house/
 

Overall, the disclosures suggest Trump and Kushner, though still extremely wealthy, lost ground or tread water economically during their controversial stints in her father’s administration. In 2017, shortly after joining the White House staff, they reported income of as much as $195 million, but that initial disclosure covered a longer period of time than the ones that followed.

From your article (emphasis mine):

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Kushner’s disclosure shows he still holds a stake valued at between $25 million and $50 million in Cadre, the real estate technology company he co-founded. He had originally said he would divest from Cadre to eliminate a potential conflict of interest but never did.

 

And from the article I linked:

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Both Kushner and Trump announced they would not take a salary while working for the government in an attempt to shut down nepotism concerns. While their supporters marked this as a public sacrifice, the massive amount of money they made on the side undercuts that argument, as government salaries would have been less than 1% of their income.

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One major factor in their outside profits came from Ivanka Trump’s ownership stake in the Trump Hotel in DC, just blocks from the White House and the locus of influence peddling in the Trump administration. Before business slowed down due to the pandemic, the couple paid a combined 23 visits to the hotel. All told, Ivanka made more than $13 million from the hotel since 2017, dropping from about $4 million a year between 2017 and 2019 to about $1.5 million last year, at least in part due to the pandemic. On top of the drop in revenue, there’s an unexplained drop in the value of her ownership. Having previously claimed it to be worth between $5 million and $25 million, in her final disclosure she listed it as only worth $100,000 to $250,000. She did not report selling any of her ownership share in the hotel.

 

The hotel was far from Ivanka Trump’s only controversial source of income while working in the White House. In 2018, Ivanka announced she was shutting down her namesake brand, and she later filed a disclosure with the government that “[a]ll operations of the business ceased on July 31, 2018.” But we discovered that she still made up to $1 million from it in 2019 despite the fact that she claimed it no longer existed.

 

 

[Archy1221]

1 minute ago, RedDenver said:

From your article (emphasis mine):

 

And from the article I linked:

 

And what’s your point?  Does your article dispute anything in the Fortune article?  

[RedDenver]

2 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

And what’s your point?  Does your article dispute anything in the Fortune article?  

Yes, the CREW article shows that the there were other sources of income that were not disclosed that the Fortune article did not consider. And more generally, the Fortune article does not disprove the CREW article.

 

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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump should never have been allowed to work in the White House. The Department of Justice reversed decades of precedent to grant President Trump’s wish to have his children work in the White House. While taking on enormous responsibilities that they were unqualified to carry out, and debasing their positions with constant ethics scandals, they likely made hundreds of millions of dollars from questionable sources. All that was waived off by the same nepotism that got them their jobs. Some “sacrifice.”

 

[Archy1221]

2 minutes ago, RedDenver said:

Yes, the CREW article shows that the there were other sources of income that were not disclosed that the Fortune article did not consider. And more generally, the Fortune article does not disprove the CREW article.

 

 

I’m not disputing CREW either.  I’m saying what’s the point?  They would have made that much or more if not working in the Administration.  The income shows no massive income generated from government work so, are they supposed to just make zero income when previous years show up to hundred million plus per year income?  

[RedDenver]

4 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

I’m not disputing CREW either.  I’m saying what’s the point?  They would have made that much or more if not working in the Administration.  The income shows no massive income generated from government work so, are they supposed to just make zero income when previous years show up to hundred million plus per year income?  

Per law they were supposed to divest themselves. Do you acknowledge that they failed to do this?

[Archy1221]

1 minute ago, RedDenver said:

Per law they were supposed to divest themselves. Do you acknowledge that they failed to do this?

If that’s the law then I assume Biden DOJ will start the prosecutions? 

[BigRedBuster]

10 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

If that’s the law then I assume Biden DOJ will start the prosecutions? 

And you would come on here constantly acting like the Trumps are pure as the fallen snow.  

[RedDenver]

20 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

If that’s the law then I assume Biden DOJ will start the prosecutions? 

You avoided answering the question. Did the Trumps divest from their holdings or not?

[Archy1221]

1 hour ago, RedDenver said:

You avoided answering the question. Did the Trumps divest from their holdings or not?

Most holdings are in a blind trust if I’m not mistaken.  Now if that’s illegal like you said, I’m sure charges will be forthcoming correct? 

[BigRedBuster]

7 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

Most holdings are in a blind trust if I’m not mistaken.  Now if that’s illegal like you said, I’m sure charges will be forthcoming correct? 

And, would you support those?