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tenderfoot

(8,424 posts)
Sat Nov 19, 2016, 02:27 PM Nov 2016

Dont let Donald Trumps antics distract you from whats really important

He’s paying fraud fines and collecting bribes — and distracting you with Hamilton tweets

Here are a few news stories that broke between the time I left work a little early on Friday afternoon and the time my toddler went down for his midday nap on Saturday:

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Donald Trump paid $21 million to former students of his fake university who he allegedly defrauded.

Donald Trump got into a Twitter war with the cast of Hamilton.

The Hamilton blow-up — because it’s easy to understand, bizarre, and connects with a pop culture phenomenon — has naturally ended up getting the bulk of the news pickup. One potential reason is that Trump’s tweets are public, whereas it took diligent reporting by the Washington Post to get the hotel story. The idea is that other prestigious outlets may be disinclined to pay attention to a story the Post “owns” and to give due credit to its significance.

Meanwhile, a second-order controversy even broke out among the people I follow on Twitter as to whether the Hamilton audience booing Mike Pence in some sense played into Trump’s hands.

But the truth is that nothing about the Hamilton story — not Pence’s decision to attend, not the crowd booing him, not the cast of the musical directing some respectful criticism in the direction of I his boss, not Trump’s tweets about what happened, and not the subsequent second-order controversy — is in any way important to how he runs the country.

By contrast, foreign governments directly putting money into Donald Trump’s pocket is very important. The fact that these attempted bribes are being paid to a man who is also paying out millions of dollars to avoid standing trial for his corrupt business practices is very important. The fact that citizens are calling members of congress to ask them to do something about this is also very important.

http://www.vox.com/2016/11/19/13685762/donald-trump-hamilton-distraction

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Dont let Donald Trumps antics distract you from whats really important (Original Post) tenderfoot Nov 2016 OP
and from what they are really doing WhiteTara Nov 2016 #1
One of the biggest things we might be able to use against him radical noodle Nov 2016 #2
K&R!! 2naSalit Nov 2016 #3

radical noodle

(7,990 posts)
2. One of the biggest things we might be able to use against him
Sat Nov 19, 2016, 02:40 PM
Nov 2016

is the blatant use of his position to line his own pockets. The conflict of interest so far eclipses anything I've ever seen. Those who complained that the Clinton Foundation was somehow figuring out a way to use it to gain speaking fees will find it is nothing compared to the actual fleecing of the American taxpayer that's already beginning.

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