wow. Slate "Eric Trump: "Sickening" How "Every Family in Politics Enriches Themselves"

[NRaleighLiberal]

(breathtaking ignorance and hypocrisy alert)

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/eric-trump-sickening-how-family-politics-enriches-themselves.html

President Donald Trump’s son Eric criticized families involved in politics who use their positions to enrich themselves. In an interview with Jeanine Pirro on Fox News, Eric Trump went through his father’s potential rivals in 2020 and had lots to say about former Vice President Joe Biden. “You have a guy whose son is embezzling money from everybody and enriching himself off his father’s position,” Trump said in reference to Biden and his son Hunter Biden.

Pirro then asked Eric Trump: “So where does Joe Biden get off being so pompous and above it all?” Eric Trump agreed with that assessment, and argued he’d be “in jail” if he did the same things as Biden’s son. “Why is it that every family goes into politics and enriches themselves?” Trump asked. “It is sickening.”


In the middle of it all, Trump proceeded to repeat a lie he has told numerous times before, claiming the Trump family “stopped doing deals” when their father became commander in chief. As many have noted, this isn’t true.

Eric Trump’s interview criticizing those who enrich themselves from politics aired on the same night as his father reversed a decision to host the G7 summit at one of his Florida resorts. That had led to a string of bipartisan criticism as many said it would violate the emoluments clause of the Constitution, which mostly forbids the president from accepting gifts and money from foreign governments.

[katusha]

1. Shouldn't Hunter Biden sue?

eric trump accused him of committing embezzlement, which is untrue, so isn't this slander or libel or something?

[secondwind]

2. I thought the same way!

[babylonsister]

3. They're all delusional. Can they be this dumb? nt

[Caliman73]

5. Yes they can be.

They also learned from dad to aggressively accuse other people of EXACTLY what you are doing. That is an old Roy Cohn trick. Make your opponent play defense and wade through all of the crap you spew.

So, yes they are that stupid and likely delusional enough to believe what they are saying.

[CatMor]

7. YES ... definitely

Daddy was dumb enough to think everyone would just accept holding the G-7 at Doral. He seemed surprised at the opposition and the amazing part is he sees nothing wrong with it.

[Lock him up.]

12. They keep lying to their shrinking base inventing all kinds of...

... dramas around already debunked CTBS over and over again.

He has the gall of claiming they stopped doing business???

[smirkymonkey]

4. WTF?

Can he really be that obtuse and hypocritical?

[Initech]

6. Uh... take a look in the mirror, Eric?

[jimlup]

8. The tRump monster is amazing

it would be an interesting history if we were not living it.

[Blue Owl]

9. I didn't know Gums was pursuing a side career in comedy

n/t

[Midnight Writer]

10. Brazen works. On some. Look at these mega-church TV preachers.

Flamboyant hair and mannerisms. acts as authority figure to his followers, forceful personality, acts antithetically to the teaching of Jesus.

It's called charisma, (I know, I don't see it either) Same techniques salesmen and sociopaths and Business School graduates use.

And millions, probably billions around the world, respond to this charisma trap, and the hucksters make fortunes from it.

[Celerity]

11. [phone]

[eShirl]

13. Trumps not only think they're above the law, but above reality too.

[no_hypocrisy]

14. His sister Ivanka and her husband made $80 million last year IN THE WHITE HOUSE!

[Fritz67]

15. You really can't make this stuff up anymore.

Isn't there something in that holy book all the Trump-loving Evangelicals say they follow about "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye"? Oh yeah, there it is, Matthew 7:5.

But I guess because it isn't in Two Corinthians it doesn't count...and Evangelicals are practiced at ignoring things in that book anyway.