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struggle4progress

(118,299 posts)
Fri Oct 4, 2019, 05:07 PM Oct 2019

Any Trumps Or Trump Retainers Wanna Whine About People 'Profiting' Off The Presidency?

Five Dollar Feminist
October 04, 2019 03:45 PM

... Please tell me Eric Trump did not write an op-ed bitching about double standards because the media is mean to him and super gentle with Hunter Biden. That boy cannot possibly have been so dense.

This whinyass, Nazi-haired, little punk wants to complain that his family gets beat up by the media after they spent years bedding down with a bunch of racists who think Hillary Clinton was a pedophile who abused children in the basement of a DC pizza parlor? The guy who flogged the Uranium One lie about Hillary Clinton? The guy who said Bob Woodward would say anything to "make three extra shekels"? The guy who parked his ass in a handicapped seat in the front row at the UN General Assembly last week with his entire family just hours before announcing that he'd gotten approval from the local Scottish government to build 500 homes next to his father's Turnberry golf course? That guy wants to lecture the media on how to cover politicians' families? Really?

Liddle' Eric is still smarting from a 2017 Forbes article where Dan Alexander revealed that Young Trump had lied about donating the entire $1.8 million raised at a charity golf tournament to St. Jude Children's Hospital. Because when Eric said, "We just raised an inordinate amount of money, and it all obviously goes to the children of St. Jude," he forgot to add, "less the $240,000 for expenses and $200,000 of donated money we're going to siphon off to give to other charities we like."

As a defense, Eric Trump wraps himself in the heroic mission of St. Jude and points to all the money he's raised. Which is true, unlike his representations to donors about what he did with their cash. He further points to the timing of the story in 2017 when "the Clinton Foundation controversy was in full swing, and the media knew that it could use me as their punching bag to distract from one of their own." Which is bullshit, since no one gave a rat's ass about the Clinton Foundation after the election. But they did care about the Trump Foundation, which was recently shut down because it was improperly used to pay off Trump Organization debts and buy hideous portraits of Trump at charitable auctions, and was as a repository for other people's donations which could then be used for giant prop checks to veterans' charities and displayed at campaign rallies to make it seem like Trump was the real donor. Eric Trump, as a trustee, had a legal obligation to ensure that none of that happened. But he seems to have forgotten to mention any of that in his Hill editorial. Whoopsie! ...

https://www.wonkette.com/any-trumps-or-trump-retainers-wanna-whine-about-people-profiting-off-the-presidency

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