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JoeOtterbein

(7,698 posts)
Tue Nov 26, 2019, 01:41 AM Nov 2019

Federal Contractor That Locks Up Immigrant Kids Scraps Holiday Bash At Trump Golf Club

[link:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/caliburn-holiday-bash-trump-national-virginia_n_5ddc8b56e4b0d50f329586e3|

Caliburn opts not to pay the president for a party after CBS reveals the invitations from a company making hundreds of millions of dollars on detained children.

By Mary Papenfuss

After one of the invitations was obtained and revealed by CBS, Caliburn issued a mass email to workers changing the venue.

“Our team leaders have made the decision to change the venue so that our employee holiday event is focused on the spirit of compassion and thankfulness to our employees who work every day supporting missions of humanitarian service, national security, and medical care around the world,” the company said in a later email to CBS.

A federal contractor paying for a party at a property owned by a current U.S. president appears to be unprecedented. American presidents typically divest from their businesses before taking office to avoid conflicts of interest.

“It’s hard to overstate how problematic it is for a company with billions in government contracts to be paying the president directly,” tweeted Noah Bookbinder, executive director of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

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Federal Contractor That Locks Up Immigrant Kids Scraps Holiday Bash At Trump Golf Club (Original Post) JoeOtterbein Nov 2019 OP
corrupt Demovictory9 Nov 2019 #1
Stinks of a quid pro quo for the company to book their party at dump's club diva77 Nov 2019 #2
Follow the money. Initech Nov 2019 #3
What other Trump dump got the business? RainCaster Nov 2019 #4
They can just do the same thing but after he's gone. Trump WILL have his reward. NCLefty Nov 2019 #5
Got caught bribing shitler, eh, nazis? Mc Mike Nov 2019 #6

diva77

(7,606 posts)
2. Stinks of a quid pro quo for the company to book their party at dump's club
Tue Nov 26, 2019, 01:46 AM
Nov 2019

initially. I hope there will be an investigation.

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