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struggle4progress

(118,034 posts)
Fri Sep 29, 2017, 09:12 PM Sep 2017

Never get bad headlines for the boss

By Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 6:53 PM ET, Fri September 29, 2017

... the President made .. clear why his Cabinet secretary was .. let go.

"I don't like the optics," Trump said, adding: "We're renegotiating NAFTA, we renegotiating so many things and making much better deals. You'll be seeing other things come up. So I don't like to see somebody that perhaps there's the perception that it wasn't right."

Just in case you missed the point, Trump also noted: "I was disappointed because I didn't like it, cosmetically or otherwise" ...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/29/politics/tom-price-donald-trump-fired/index.html

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Never get bad headlines for the boss (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2017 OP
It's all about him NastyRiffraff Sep 2017 #1

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
1. It's all about him
Fri Sep 29, 2017, 10:40 PM
Sep 2017

A member of the Cabinet stole (let's call it what it was) from taxpayers and Dump is concerned not about morality, ethics, or legality, but "optics" that would hurt him.

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