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Topic Title: Want to be an ambassador?
Topic Summary: Pay up jack
Created On: 11/18/2019 07:09 AM
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 11/18/2019 07:09 AM
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RustyTruck

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A CBS News investigation has uncovered a possible pay-for-play scheme involving the Republican National Committee and President Donald Trump's nominee for ambassador to the Bahamas. Emails obtained by CBS News show the nominee, San Diego billionaire Doug Manchester, was asked by the RNC to donate half a million dollars as his confirmation in the Senate hung in the balance, chief investigative correspondent Jim Axelrod reports.

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 11/18/2019 07:53 AM
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So much winning. All the best people. Draining the swamp. Hillary's emails.

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 11/18/2019 07:56 AM
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https://www.opensecrets.org/obama/ambassadors.php .. Here is a list of Obamas ambassadors and how much each paid for their offices.. Or you can whistleblow your assertions to the Shitt show and see if you can get him to impeach Trump...

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 11/18/2019 08:22 AM
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The normal corruption is that political donors give the money up front, then get the reward later. The trump regime put the guy up, then shook him down over his confirmation. Both systems are reprehensible and should be outright illegal. It's all political corruption. Trump's version is more outright mafia, but patronage is bullshit.

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 11/18/2019 08:30 AM
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The trump regime put the guy up, then shook him down over his confirmation.... SO, Trump put the guy in for an ambassadorship without asking for money... THEN AFTER Trump forwarded him to be confirmed, members of the Senate confirmation panel asked him for money??? Thanks for confirming that Trump played this straight and did not 'sell an ambassadorship' the way his predecessors have.

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 11/18/2019 10:20 AM
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RustyTruck

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The guy gave $ 1,000,000 to the trump "inauguration" fund (remember the slush fund where the money disappeared). Then trump put him up as ambassador to Bahamas. When even R's balked at confining him and other unqualified glad handers in the Senate, the GOP shook him down for another half million. He said he'd give $100K now, and the rest when he was confirmed:

"Former Senator Bob Corker, who was the chair of the Senate's foreign relations committee before he retired in January, held up Manchester's nomination.

"We had concerns about judgment, about demeanor, about just the whole reason for taking the job," Corker said."

He found McDaniel's fundraising pitch problematic. "The timing of that request obviously was not appropriate," he said.

Even worse, he said, was Manchester's response. His big mistake was copying staffers of two senators who controlled his nomination, Kentucky's Rand Paul and Idaho's Jim Risch, alerting them to his willingness to donate more after confirmation.

"I can only tell you that if I received an email like that, there would have been a five-bell alarm that went off," Corker said.


And that's exactly what happened. Risch alerted the White House, which then asked Manchester to withdraw. "



Trump isn't playing anything straight. There's a price tag on the whole country, and he's willing to sell.

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Edited: 11/18/2019 at 10:21 AM by RustyTruck
 11/18/2019 10:52 AM
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Pretty much how this has been done since the founding of our republic. Best move on to the next pious outrage, progs. This one's a flop too

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 11/18/2019 11:46 AM
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RustyTruck

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This takes it to a new level, unless you can find me an instance of the DNC doing something similar. I wouldn't put it past them, since they all represent the elites.

But don't forget it was R's who said this was too much for them to stomach.


Bernie is the only one who doesn't play this shit.

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Edited: 11/18/2019 at 11:48 AM by RustyTruck
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President tweets all day and night - tspank "it's always been done that way"

President says "grab 'em by the pussy" - tspank "it's always been done that way"

tspank pours a double at 11:00 am - tspank "it's always been done that way"

Edited: 11/18/2019 at 12:23 PM by Greensleeves
 11/18/2019 12:08 PM
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Originally posted by: somebodyelse

https://www.opensecrets.org/obama/ambassadors.php .. Here is a list of Obamas ambassadors and how much each paid for their offices.. Or you can whistleblow your assertions to the Shitt show and see if you can get him to impeach Trump...


Tell that to somebodyelse that gives a schitt. If there was ANYTHING Obama did wrong he'da been brought up on charges immediately. What if he'd used a unsecure email, and had Putin on speed dial in an unauthorized cell phone Look at the false schitt they accused him of. Imagine if his wife was a whore like this first lady. Do you think YOUR TYPE would have allowed her in the white house.
 11/18/2019 01:03 PM
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Originally posted by: SlimyBritches

If there was ANYTHING Obama did wrong he'da been brought up on charges immediately.


Bwahahahahahahahaha!

You're a special kind of stupid!

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 11/18/2019 01:21 PM
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Krill for brains may have you there slimy, the GOP dumb a$$es have proven to be too inept to do anything but endanger Americans in the form of an unnecessary tax break.
 11/18/2019 02:10 PM
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Originally posted by: Greensleeves

Krill for brains may have you there slimy, the GOP dumb a$$es have proven to be too inept to do anything but endanger Americans in the form of an unnecessary tax break.


I guess Fishy musta posted a reBUTTHOLE. I got him on ignore.
 11/18/2019 02:18 PM
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too inept to do anything but endanger Americans in the form of an unnecessary tax break.... ...I never felt endangered. were you fearful? scared maybe? Americans endangered by a tax cut. that's a new one... trot it by the Shitt show and see if it will become the Impeachment Du Jour..

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