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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Sep 29, 2017, 08:43 AM Sep 2017

Morning Joe Slams Trump's 'Crony Cabinet': 'Stupidity on Top of Moral Corruption'

by Aidan McLaughlin | 8:21 am, September 29th, 2017

A Morning Joe panel laid into Tom Price Friday morning for his private and military jet use, which Politico reported cost taxpayers more than $1 million.

After playing a number of old clips in which Price lambasted various lawmakers for traveling private, the panel began discussing the fate of President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary.

MSNBC’s Willie Geist then brought up a report that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has also been flying private — to which Nicolle Wallace guffawed and cried out: “What is wrong with these people!?”

Wallace recalled that when she was in the White House working under President George W. Bush, the ethics adviser would never have allowed such extravagant travel expenditures.

“When Donald Trump says that ‘I can shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and my base would forgive me,’ he’s largely correct,” Wallace said. “But that does not extend to his crony cabinet.”

“It’s the bad mindset of the people at the top,” Geist added. “They shouldn’t be even thinking of getting on these planes. How could the process exist within these departments that people in the legal affairs department, the ethics office, how could they possibly sign off on it?”

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Video: https://vid.me/mp9iy

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/morning-joe-slams-jet-use-of-trumps-crony-cabinet-stupidity-on-top-of-moral-corruption/

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Morning Joe Slams Trump's 'Crony Cabinet': 'Stupidity on Top of Moral Corruption' (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2017 OP
"How could they do it?" indeed! MyOwnPeace Sep 2017 #1
With power, comes corruption. ProudMNDemocrat Sep 2017 #2

MyOwnPeace

(16,926 posts)
1. "How could they do it?" indeed!
Fri Sep 29, 2017, 09:29 AM
Sep 2017

What a morally corrupt, crooked, inept bunch of thieves we've got running our country!

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,784 posts)
2. With power, comes corruption.
Fri Sep 29, 2017, 09:36 AM
Sep 2017


The Trump Administration is showing itself to be one of the most scandal ridden and corrupt in history. Had this been happening during the Obama years, Republicans would be screaming from the rafters IMPEACHMENT.
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