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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 11:27 PM Jan 2017

Lieberman, Introducing DeVos, Fails To Disclose That His Law Firm Represents Trump

Source: Huffington Post

Former Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) tonight introduced Donald Trump’s controversial nominee for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, to the Senate HELP Committee. Lieberman lavishly praised DeVos, but failed to inform the American people that his law firm, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP, “have represented Trump in all manner of matters since at least 2001. Such matters have included, but are certainly not limited to, the restructuring of $1.3 billion in bondholder debt connected to his Atlantic City casinos; a defamation case filed against the author of TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald, for stating that the businessman was worth between $150 million and $250 million, not billions (a suit that Trump later lost); and the fight to keep filings from his 1990 divorce from ex-wife Ivana Trump sealed.”

Most recently, Lieberman’s law firm represented Trump by threatening the New York Times for publishing pieces of Trump’s tax return.
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Joe Lieberman’s invocation of his Democratic Party credentials to endorse DeVos, without mentioning out loud to the American people that his law firm has long worked for Trump, is yet another piece of the deep corruption Trump is bringing to Washington.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/davidhalperin/lieberman-introducing-dev_b_14232914.html?1484697277



The hypocrisy and lack of ethics surrounding Trump is breathtaking. The hypocrisy and lack of ethics surrounding today's GOP Congress is both depressing and, at the same time, terrifying.
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Lieberman, Introducing DeVos, Fails To Disclose That His Law Firm Represents Trump (Original Post) Stonepounder Jan 2017 OP
OH FFS! elleng Jan 2017 #1
Typical that Joementum rusty fender Jan 2017 #2
Really should be "I-CT". n/t PoliticAverse Jan 2017 #3
I wouldnt trust Lieberman if he was selling used cars so why should I trust him about this guy? cstanleytech Jan 2017 #4
Lieberman was NOT a Democrat during his last term. He lost the Dem primary and ran as a tblue37 Jan 2017 #5
Correction....he was/is a fucking Republican disquisted as a Democart/Independent INdemo Jan 2017 #29
+a brazillion. nt tblue37 Jan 2017 #32
I hate Joe Lieberman ghostsinthemachine Jan 2017 #6
He is no longer in the Senate. nt tblue37 Jan 2017 #33
Yeah that's right ghostsinthemachine Jan 2017 #34
So he's still alive. dalton99a Jan 2017 #7
just fuck this guy.... dhill926 Jan 2017 #8
That weaselly piece of monkey mung!! Rural_Progressive Jan 2017 #9
what a total sack of shit that guy was and still is certainot Jan 2017 #10
So even the GOP and Trump know she is not qualified Freethinker65 Jan 2017 #11
Also, LIEberman shouldn't be referred to as a Democrat, since he left the Democratic party to become still_one Jan 2017 #12
Why if it isn't Traitor Joe. tenorly Jan 2017 #13
F U Joe. I don't get tired of saying it... JDC Jan 2017 #14
Joe Lieberman is exhibit A madaboutharry Jan 2017 #15
How about calling him an Independent?? Lifelong Protester Jan 2017 #16
Vice President Debate hibbing Jan 2017 #17
The same JOE that screwed everyone out of having a single payer health care (public option) turbinetree Jan 2017 #18
Lieberman was a marginal Dem before he left the party. herding cats Jan 2017 #19
Obviously we have 12 Democrats in the Senate just like him. INdemo Jan 2017 #30
LIEberman.... LovingA2andMI Jan 2017 #20
He was an Independent when he left office, showing his true stripes. nt pnwmom Jan 2017 #21
Remember 2008? Sid Fishes Jan 2017 #22
And DUers blamed Obama for the lack of a Public Option due to LIEberman's vote hijack. nt BumRushDaShow Jan 2017 #23
I thought I had Bob Loblaw Jan 2017 #24
Worm, mahina Jan 2017 #25
Didn't he throw a fit and leave the party? RandiFan1290 Jan 2017 #26
Knock me over with a feather. Lieberman stands in line to kiss Trump's rear . . . er, ring. Vinca Jan 2017 #27
Disappear, Lieberman. Paladin Jan 2017 #28
Jumping Joe has no loyalties to the Dems IronLionZion Jan 2017 #31

tblue37

(64,982 posts)
5. Lieberman was NOT a Democrat during his last term. He lost the Dem primary and ran as a
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 11:45 PM
Jan 2017

nominee of his own personal party (Connecticut for Lieberman), established for the sole purpose of providing him with a party to be the nominee of. He caucused with the Dems in the 110th Congress, but he was an Independent by then, not a Democrat.

(I mention this because the article starts off identifying Lieberman as a Democrat, which makes his support of DeVos seem bipartisan.)

INdemo

(6,994 posts)
29. Correction....he was/is a fucking Republican disquisted as a Democart/Independent
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 10:44 AM
Jan 2017

The inside mole of the 2000 election

ghostsinthemachine

(3,569 posts)
6. I hate Joe Lieberman
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 11:46 PM
Jan 2017

Why don't the Dems push him out? Run someone against him in the same party? As long as there are assholes like Joe Lieberman claiming to be Deocrats, the party will not represent my ideals.

Rural_Progressive

(1,105 posts)
9. That weaselly piece of monkey mung!!
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 11:53 PM
Jan 2017

Aaaarrrgghhh, I guess we are actually experiencing the Apocalypse. Interesting about that word, most people have a vision of it as a horrible thing as in a post apocalyptic world; horrible, a landscape of craters, filled with AI machines and zombies.

The word comes from the Greek, (Ancient Greek: ἀ???ά????? apokálypsis, from ἀ?ό and ???ύ???, literally meaning "an uncovering&quot is a disclosure of knowledge or revelation.

Boy howdy is that happening. Have I mentioned how much I really don't care for Weasel Boy.

still_one

(91,963 posts)
12. Also, LIEberman shouldn't be referred to as a Democrat, since he left the Democratic party to become
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 12:07 AM
Jan 2017

an independent.

hibbing

(10,076 posts)
17. Vice President Debate
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 01:09 AM
Jan 2017

Milktoasty Joe tries to attack Cheney about the money he made at Haliburton

Cheney- Government had absolutely nothing to do with it, audience claps, what a zinger.

Lieberman- NO follow up challenging that blatant LIE.

I'll never forget that.

Peace

turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
18. The same JOE that screwed everyone out of having a single payer health care (public option)
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 01:10 AM
Jan 2017

and now this jerk is getting health care off the taxpayers, while he was living off the doles of the taxpayers.

So that's why he was sitting in the room today!

And just think he is just as dangerous has the fascists getting ready to violate the Constitution that second he says that he will uphold the Constitution





herding cats

(19,549 posts)
19. Lieberman was a marginal Dem before he left the party.
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 01:11 AM
Jan 2017

He was one of those, "I'm with you when you work for me" types. When we didn't, he burned us badly. He's not a Democrat. He's a turncoat, not a Democratic Party member.

mahina

(17,506 posts)
25. Worm,
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 08:14 AM
Jan 2017

Apology to worms.

It was because of him that the government option was removed from the ACA, according to tonight's Frontline

Go away, Joe.

IronLionZion

(45,261 posts)
31. Jumping Joe has no loyalties to the Dems
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 10:55 AM
Jan 2017

He's such pompous asshole that he named his independent party "Connecticut for Lieberman" instead of the other way around.

Dude joined a very conservative think tank.

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