Afternoon Clickbait: Taxes, Phony Billionaires and Mickey D’s
Turns out phony billionaire president Donald Trump has more in common with his Treasury Secretary Wilbur Ross than just ownership of shell companies that hide dealings with Russia. Forbes magazine looked into what it called discrepancies in his financial disclosure documents and concluded that he has been crediting himself with $2 billion that never existed. Remember, these are the people Republicans admire because they “earned” their riches.
The danger of being full of beans is that sometimes you spill them. That happened to GOP Rep. Chris Collins today when he told a reporter for The Hill the real reason Republicans are so focused on cutting taxes: “My donors are basically saying, ‘Get it done or don’t ever call me again.'”
Politico ran a profile on Trump “bodyguard” (more like what politics calls a “body man,”) Keith Schiller, but the tidbit — or should I say McNugget? — grabbing attention concerns the presidential diet. Schiller confirmed longstanding rumors that the Stuffed Pumpkin does not avail himself of the professional catering operation known as the White House kitchen. He gave them a fair shot, apparently. But when the White House chef, hampered by professional training and a lack of chemical food additives, failed to replicate the chain’s signature quarter-pounder with cheese (no pickles, extra ketchup) and fried apple pie, he sent Schiller out for Mickey D’s.
If Ray Kroc were still alive, Trump would probably appoint him to lead the Food & Drug Administration. It’s a wonder he didn’t name Col. Sanders to run the national school lunch program.
More on the Texas gunman’s background: He escaped from a mental facility in New Mexico in 2012.
Conservatives are right: Gun laws are worthless if you don’t enforce them.
Man.. talk about white privilege.
Trump in Asia trying to win back TPP shit he threw away because Obama did it.
What is the difference between this and “quid quo pro” bribery? “My donors are basically saying, ‘Get it done or don’t ever call me again.’”
@Paul: the difference is ROI.
The Congressman gets the money he needs to keep working semi-hard in Washington.
The businessman will most likely get 100 percent ROI (or more) in the first year, and more of the same in perpetuity. (You can’t make that kind of investment on Wall Street.)
So it’s not even a quid pro quo … but the Congressman is playing with OPM, so it’s real easy for him to go along.
I’m disappointed, a bodyguard is repeatedly sent out for McDonalds and all you guys can talk about is the food?
What an uncouth pig. But I guess it plays well to the rubes who would be offended by sashimi wrapped in endives