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highplainsdem

(49,015 posts)
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 09:29 PM Feb 2019

White House aide allegedly knew undocumented immigrants worked at Trump golf club, drawing attention

Source: NY Daily News

White House aide allegedly knew undocumented immigrants worked at Trump golf club, drawing attention from New York AG




The White House Twitter czar oversaw workers he knew were undocumented immigrants while managing President Trump’s tony Westchester County golf club, ex-employees say — and the New York attorney general is looking into the allegations, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Dan Scavino, the White House social media director who helps the President craft his tweets, used to be the general manager of the Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor and supervised the upscale estate’s day-to-day operations — including the hiring of immigrants with fake employment papers, three former undocumented workers told the Daily News this week.

Gabriel Sedano, a Mexican national who worked at the club from 2005 until he was fired last month along with dozens of other undocumented employees at Trump properties in New York and New Jersey, said he knew of at least 30 immigrant workers at the Westchester club who were there without proper papers.

Sedano said Scavino — like other managers — knew of their illegal status but looked the other way.

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Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-undocumented-trump-white-house-illegal-20190213-story.html

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White House aide allegedly knew undocumented immigrants worked at Trump golf club, drawing attention (Original Post) highplainsdem Feb 2019 OP
K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Feb 2019 #1
Put him behind bars and then start looking up the chain of command for who OKed it. mpcamb Feb 2019 #2
Before it's all over Scavino and Brad Parscale will be in deep doo doo... SayItLoud Feb 2019 #3
Parscale will be just fine in prison. Ilsa Feb 2019 #6
So presumably if he's out of commission, the tweets will be even less intelligently "crafted"... JudyM Feb 2019 #4
I didn't think of that aspect of it. BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #5
Could he become even more unhinged? Likely as Mueller keeps aiming at the dominoes... JudyM Feb 2019 #12
Feel really sorry zentrum Feb 2019 #7
I'm sure Trump knew. moondust Feb 2019 #8
He knew Andy823 Feb 2019 #11
Sounding like a broken record here, but come on. Did our Press not know about this before? Midnight Writer Feb 2019 #9
Past time for something to stick to trump!! riversedge Feb 2019 #10
Individual-1 has a Twitter advisor? EarthFirst Feb 2019 #13

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
6. Parscale will be just fine in prison.
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 11:38 PM
Feb 2019

I have no doubt he'll get along with the other criminals just fine.

JudyM

(29,251 posts)
4. So presumably if he's out of commission, the tweets will be even less intelligently "crafted"...
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 10:44 PM
Feb 2019

Could be fun ... or scary!

JudyM

(29,251 posts)
12. Could he become even more unhinged? Likely as Mueller keeps aiming at the dominoes...
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 11:30 AM
Feb 2019

Could really become crazy. We are in for a fireworks display. Seatbelts fastened?

moondust

(20,000 posts)
8. I'm sure Trump knew.
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 12:28 AM
Feb 2019

Best case: He spent time in those clubs and undoubtedly heard some of the staff speaking Spanish and/or broken, heavily accented English. Knowing what a racist he is, he would have made a point of finding out who those people were and why they weren't speaking English.

More likely: It was his own business plan because he knew the undocumented didn't have rights and he could therefore get away with screwing them out of pay and benefits.

Andy823

(11,495 posts)
11. He knew
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 10:28 AM
Feb 2019

He is a narcissist, and in control of "everything" around him. Nothing gets done with out him knowing about it.

Midnight Writer

(21,771 posts)
9. Sounding like a broken record here, but come on. Did our Press not know about this before?
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 12:52 AM
Feb 2019

Why was this not front page news BEFORE the Election[s]? Does it take a super sleuth to deduce that the billionaire with golf courses, restaurants, hotels and resorts would have undocumented workers?

EarthFirst

(2,901 posts)
13. Individual-1 has a Twitter advisor?
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 11:45 AM
Feb 2019

I imagine that there is a lot of: “Go fu*k yourself...” involved...

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