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Hamlette

(15,412 posts)
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 03:30 PM Dec 2016

We need to stop calling it conflict of interest and call it what it is: corruption and bribes

conflict of interest doesn't sound all that bad. What they are doing is using the office of the presidency to make more money. Remember the howls about the Clinton Foundation taking "bribes" from foreign countries and Bill Clinton selling the Lincoln bedroom to his donors? They went nuts yet they don't care that we risk a war with China as long as Ivanka can sell her $10K bracelets.

Every person who stays in a Trump hotel is paying a bribe to the president. If you want to be in his favor, stay at his hotels. Buy his daughter's dresses and jewelry and his wife's caviar lotion.

Corrupt Trump taking bribes.

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We need to stop calling it conflict of interest and call it what it is: corruption and bribes (Original Post) Hamlette Dec 2016 OP
Good point. Plain language will get the message across far better. JudyM Dec 2016 #1
Dems are the only ones to hear the message Angry Dragon Dec 2016 #2
Exactly right Angry Dragon - in Bizzaro Repub world even if it was reported it would NoMoreRepugs Dec 2016 #4
Why not call it watoos Dec 2016 #3
Technically, there's no evidence of that yet, where there is evidence of conflict of interest. But JudyM Dec 2016 #5

NoMoreRepugs

(9,418 posts)
4. Exactly right Angry Dragon - in Bizzaro Repub world even if it was reported it would
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 05:50 PM
Dec 2016

be okay because Rump's not a Democrat - he's a Republican - they can do no wrong

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
3. Why not call it
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 05:50 PM
Dec 2016

Pay to Play? Throw it right back in his face like he accused Hillary's foundation.

JudyM

(29,236 posts)
5. Technically, there's no evidence of that yet, where there is evidence of conflict of interest. But
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 07:28 PM
Dec 2016

we definitely need something snappy and catchy like that and keep repeating it over and over.

Fox in the henhouse is too goofy.

We need a marketing team to get on it! "Setting the stage for corruptions and bribes" is sadly too wordy to be high impact.

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