Trump’s history of corruption is mind-boggling. So why is Clinton supposedly the corrupt one?

[FSogol]

In the heat of a presidential campaign, you’d think that a story about one party’s nominee giving a large contribution to a state attorney general who promptly shut down an inquiry into that nominee’s scam “university” would be enormous news. But we continue to hear almost nothing about what happened between Donald Trump and Florida attorney general Pam Bondi.

I raised this issue last week, but it’s worth an update as well as some contextualization. The story re-emerged last week when The Post’s David A. Fahrenthold reported that Trump paid a penalty to the IRS after his foundation made an illegal contribution to Bondi’s PAC. While the Trump organization characterizes that as a bureaucratic oversight, the basic facts are that Bondi’s office had received multiple complaints from Floridians who said they were cheated by Trump University; while they were looking into it and considering whether to join a lawsuit over Trump University filed by the attorney general of New York State, Bondi called Trump and asked him for a $25,000 donation; shortly after getting the check, Bondi’s office dropped the inquiry.

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That’s important, because we may have reached a point where the frames around the candidates are locked in: Trump is supposedly the crazy/bigoted one, and Clinton is supposedly the corrupt one. Once we decide that those are the appropriate lenses through which the two candidates are to be viewed, it shapes the decisions the media make every day about which stories are important to pursue.

And it means that to a great extent, for all the controversy he has caused and all the unflattering stories in the press about him, Trump is still being let off the hook.

I recommend checking out the entire opinion piece. Paul Waldman has a huge list of Trump's corruption and it is pretty mind boggling.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/09/05/trumps-history-of-corruption-is-mind-boggling-so-why-is-clinton-supposedly-the-corrupt-one/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_3_na&utm_term=.cff74f515835

[apcalc]

1. She represents a direct threat to the good old boys way of life.

And Trump is a good ol boy.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Because, white guy(s)

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Bookmarked for Later

I want to dive into it. Thanks FSogol!

[eShirl]

4. Trump's corruption is one of his main assets

along with bullying, compuslive lying and being a deadbeat

[Dem2]

5. Because we're suckers

Democrats always have to play under a more pure standard.

[Botany]

6. Because "they" own the media

John Kerry had 3 purple hearts, a bronze star, a silver star, and he did not
lose one man in some of the most hazardous duty in the war and w went AWOL,
did coke, and drank himself silly during that time but somehow that story
never got out.

[Cha]

7. 'Cause the gd m$m like jake tapper says she is.

[smirkymonkey]

8. This is the thing that frustrates me and infuriates me beyond belief.

Nothing EVER sticks to them and all they have to do is spout blatant lies about the Democratic candidate and it catches on like wildfire.

[smirkymonkey]

9. One interesting thing to note, in the comment section

one comment wrote that it doesn't stick to him because he "is one of them. THEM being the 1/10 of 1% who own 65% of the world. He may not be particularly popular within the group, but "membership has it's priveleges", and the main one is that they don't feed off of their own kind... besides, if the absurd DID happen and he got elected, he would do many good things for them as well as himself. Besides, the ultimate goal of this group is total control and at some point they envision having to "take the helm" themselves. So this little experiment is useful to them."

I thought this was an interesting take on things.

[Hortensis]

10. But this is about the 40+% whom some of the 0.01% harness

to win for them at the polls. That 40+% is both the reactionary right wingers and the ordinary conservatives who come together in disapproval of how dishonest and untrustworthy Hillary is, ignoring that that has been proven wrong many times, and at the same time support a person who is the very personification of dishonesty and untrustworthiness.

In this case, Trump very notably was not the choice of ultraconservatives among the 0.01%--he was a populist rebellion against them. Unfortunately, the GOP leadership may well survive so that the populist rebellion will have failed, no matter what else happens.

Not that that is the most important thing for conservatives anyway. Research says they're all just voting their jerseys at this point, subjugating principles and ideology--and rebellion--to a win for the Republican team. But I suspect psychiatrists might have some other interesting insights also.

[apnu]

11. I can answer the question in one word: Projection.

Republicans are deep into projection. And Trump is the king of projection.