McAuliffe upbeat about working with Trump, says Clinton is done with politics

[think]

McAuliffe upbeat about working with Trump, says Clinton is done with politics

By Laura Vozzella November 30

RICHMOND — Gov. Terry McAuliffe was upbeat Wednesday about Virginia’s prospects for landing the new FBI headquarters building under the incoming Trump administration — despite the governor’s ties to Hillary Clinton, a close friend of McAuliffe’s who he described as done with politics.

“I have known Donald Trump for 20 years, had dinner with him, golfed with him,” McAuliffe (D) said in an interview on WTOP’s “Ask the Governor” program. “When I ran [for governor] in ’09, he actually wrote me a $25,000 check. So I look forward to a productive relationship.”

Before becoming governor, McAuliffe spent decades in the orbit of Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, serving as a record-breaking fundraiser, confidant and political ally. He was chairman of Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign and worked to deliver Virginia for her this year. She carried the state by five points.

Despite his friendship with the Clintons, McAuliffe said he sent Trump a congratulatory letter the day after the election. He said that he has not spoken with the president-elect, but that he is optimistic that Trump’s promise to boost military and infrastructure spending will benefit Virginia, the nation’s biggest recipient of Defense Department funding....


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[Kittycow]

5. Maybe his little friend in the White House will turn on him!

[pangaia]

2. May I be the first to reply.. Thank you.

What a fucking suck up.

[Fast Walker 52]

3. he's always been considered to be a sleazy Dem, and this shows it

that being said, it's tough for governors who need Fed $ to run their state and he is in kind of a swing state...

[still_one]

4. I am glad he is "thrilled" about working with a racist, sexist asshole. Now McAuliffe

can go f**k himself

[metroins]

7. Things still need to get done

Fighting it only hurts your state, might as well go along.

[Calista241]

10. Yup. Trump as President is now a fact of life.

It's time to do what we can to help ourselves and live through it.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. I wonder if the politicans in Italy said the same thing in the thirties

[still_one]

11. I wonder if the politicans in Gernmany said the same thing in the thirties

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. I wonder if the politicans in Japan and Italy said the same thing in the thirties

[spooky3]

6. He's been a good governor. Much better than I expected.

[AngryAmish]

8. Road to Damascus is getting crowded.

Jeez. Pretty quick to bend the knee.

[kacekwl]

9. Soooooo, as long as the

incompetent , liar and noted pussy grabber brings big money to your state thu unnecessary military spending to support the Military Industrial overchargers then Ok.

[Ken Burch]

12. Terry McAuliffe may have cost Hillary the election.

with his reckless talk on trade(specifically, his implication that Hillary probably would sign the TPP if elected).

This meeting makes it look more and more as though he said that deliberately to help Trump get elected.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. These Democratic collaborators are deplorable.

[think]

17. I'd forgotten that he did that. Talk about someone destroying credibility.....

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. Any Democratic collaborator is finished with me.

F-- you and anybody who looks like you, Mr. McAuliffe.

[Raine]

18. I might have known, just about what I would figure from him..

[deaniac21]

19. Terry and Trump have one thing in common

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