The Trumpiest of them all

[kallend 2,174]

NYT 1/25

Let Them Eat Loans At this point, Wilbur Ross almost seems to be campaigning for the title of Worst Trump Cabinet member. Ross, the commerce secretary, made news yesterday by suggesting that federal workers working without pay don’t have it so bad: They should just take out a loan, he suggested, and all will be fine. It was quite a sentiment, coming from a multimillionaire whose boss and friend — President Trump — is the reason that the workers aren’t being paid. But it really shouldn’t have been too surprising. Consider a few highlights of the Ross era at the Commerce Department: After Trump picked him for the job, Ross “promised to divest from almost all his holdings upon entering government,” Dan Alexander wrote in Forbes. But Ross evidently did not keep his promise. Instead, according to Alexander, he held onto his stakes “in companies co-owned by the Chinese government, a shipping firm tied to Vladimir Putin’s inner circle” and other similarly “radioactive” companies. When government ethics officials later asked Ross about his holdings, he appeared to lie about them. In 2017, shortly after a New York Times reporter submitted questions to Ross about a Russian-tied shipping firm, Ross shorted the stock — that is, he made a financial bet that the stock would lose value. That certainly appears to be a no-no. He was potentially profiting from information that was not available to the public, namely that the company was about to be the subject of a negative story in the press. In 2017, Ross met with the chief executives of Chevron, even though his wife owned a substantial investment in the company. The meeting, according to Forbes, put Ross “at risk of violating a criminal conflict-of-interest law.” Ross also met with the C.E.O. of Boeing, another company in which his wife owns a stake. Last week, a federal judge ruled that Ross broke the law by misleading the public about his department’s attempt to add a question about people’s citizenship status to the 2020 census. Ross claimed data from the question would help the government protect African-American voting rights. In fact, it was intended to scare Latinos from answering the census, leading to an undercount that would ultimately damage immigrant-heavy communities both economically and politically. As commerce secretary, Ross has managed to combine corruption, lies, white nationalism and disdain for working people. I’ll let my colleague Gail Collins decide who is Trump’s Worst Cabinet Member; she invented the competition, after all. But I hereby deem Ross to be the Trumpiest member of Trump’s team.

[TriGirl 349]

Yeah.... I saw that guy on CNN this morning.  Just that bit proved him totally out of touch with 99.8% of the country.

The enrichment off of his position should get him charged.  I need to write to my senators....

[billvon 3,131]

7 hours ago, kallend said:

 

Let Them Eat Loans [long editorial deleted] .

It is generally considered good form to post an opinion for discussion, not just copy editorials and post them verbatim.

[Phil1111 1,192]

Here is woman, almost as racist as trump. A woman almost as crooked as trump. One who uses distraction to conceal their own thieving, narcissistic, political activities. Like a vision for the future for trump's life. She lost her job in humiliation and now faces 30 years in prison.

Ex-W.Va. official who made racist Michelle Obama remark defrauded $18,000 from FEMA:

She was a nonprofit-director

“Taylor’s fraud scheme diverted disaster benefits from our most desperate and vulnerable, those most in need of help. We take the solemn responsibility of ensuring FEMA dollars are used responsibly and legally,”

So like trump who steals from charities. She stole from "our most desperate and vulnerable, those most in need of help".

Edited February 16, 2019 by Phil1111

[ryoder 1,590]

7 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

Here is woman, almost as racist as trump. A woman almost as crooked as trump. One who uses distraction to conceal their own thieving, narcissistic, political activities. Like a vision for the future for trump's life. She lost her job in humiliation and now faces 30 years in prison.

Ex-W.Va. official who made racist Michelle Obama remark defrauded $18,000 from FEMA:

Someone alert Mango Mussolini!

We have a candidate for a pardon, and a possible cabinet position!