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Trump corruption fail: Eric Trumps pre-inauguration pay-for-play scheme collapses
By SIMON MALOY - THURSDAY, DEC 22, 2016 01:00 PM EST
After getting caught trying to sell access to his father, Eric Trump is sad to learn that corruption exists
Donald Trump isnt even president of the United States yet and already the people around him are scrambling to cash in on his electoral victory. This includes his two adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, who got caught by the Center for Public Integrity setting up a pay-to-play charity event for their fathers inauguration that would have provided donors access to the president in exchange for $1 million.
Once exposed, the scheme quickly fell apart as the transition team insisted that no final plans had been made and Trumps sons disassociated themselves from the shady, week-old charity organization that would have collected the donations.
Now The New York Times reports that Eric Trump will cease his fundraising efforts for his charity the Eric Trump Foundation because he now recognizes that his status as the president-elects son means that donors could try to use him to gain access to his father. Per the Times, Trumps son said I understand the quagmire. . . . You do a good thing and it backfires.
This is a positive development in that it mitigates one of the raging multitude of potential ethical breaches that the Trump presidency will usher in. But come on, lets be real: Eric Trump is not doing this because it has suddenly dawned on him that wealthy people will try to buy access to his presidential pop by way of supposed charities. Hes doing this because he and his brother were caught trying to do precisely what he now says he understands is wrong, and hes playing Pollyanna to protect his reputation.
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http://www.salon.com/2016/12/22/trump-corruption-fail-eric-trumps-pre-inauguration-pay-for-play-scheme-collapses/
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Trump corruption fail: Eric Trumps pre-inauguration pay-for-play scheme collapses (Original Post)
think
Dec 2016
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yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)1. Uday and Qusay will hatch another scheme,
guaranteed.
think
(11,641 posts)2. Yup..
malaise
(268,967 posts)3. I understand the quagmire. . . . You do a good thing and it backfires.
The Con family
Snarkoleptic
(5,997 posts)4. The whole thing is viewed as a profit center and brand-advancement scheme.
As I've read elsewhere, Trump is a poor persons vision of what a rich person is.
liberalla
(9,243 posts)5. i hope the center for public integrity and other groups are able to keep catching the scams...
these people disgust me.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)6. The Trumps, and most RWers will lie about anything and everything.
They absolutely have no problem with lying, cheating, or stealing. The just prefer not to get caught.