Donald Trump Isn't Draining The Swamp - He Is The Swamp

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This week alone we have now seen three examples of Donald Trump very much being part of the swamp he has sworn to drain.

First we start with the Carrier deal. Touted as saving American jobs, which turned into a big tax break for Carrier, we start seeing what may have been Trump's real motivator:

President-elect Donald Trump in recent years has had an investment of as much as $250,000 in the parent of the company he pushed to shelve plans to move its Indianapolis factory to Mexico.

Mr. Trump in 2014 owned an investment between $100,001 and $250,000 in United Technologies Corp., according to financial disclosure forms filed during the presidential campaign. It couldn’t be learned whether he still had a financial investment in the company because disclosure forms are filed only annually. Mr. Trump’s 2015 disclosure is the most recent one available and was filed in May 2016.

So there is a good chance that instead of saving jobs, Trump decided to pad his portfolio a little more.

Then we head a bit more east, where protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline are heating up. This week saw Donald Trump embracing his support for the project:

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday said for the first time that he supports the completion of a pipeline project near a North Dakota Indian reservation, which has been the subject of months of protests by tribes and environmentalists.

Could there be a motivator here, say the same kind of cronyism we have seen throughout Washington for years? Well of course there is:

President-elect Donald Trump holds stock in the company building the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline,

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/12/donald-trump-isnt-draining-swamp-he-swamp

[SeattleVet]

1. It's not a swamp anymore...

it's a cabinet.