The Most Corrupt Candidate Ever Is Donald Trump

[Dakine10 5,452]

The Most Corrupt Candidate Ever Is Donald Trump By Jonathan Chait ShareTweetShareEmailCommentPrint

Donald Trump will make America an offer it can't refuse again. Photo: Marc Piscotty/2016 Getty Images

Before his message was overshadowed by a scandal about his use of a white-supremacist image — a mistake that could happen to any candidate, really, so long as that candidate had inspired a massive following among neo-Nazis — Donald Trump was trying to make a point about Hillary Clinton’s corruption. She is the “most corrupt candidate ever,” he claims. Corruption is indeed a plausible line of attack against Clinton — or, at least, it would be, if the opposing candidate was anybody other than Donald Trump, who may actually be the most corrupt presidential candidate ever.

It should be conceded that the evidence against Clinton is fairly damning. After Bill Clinton left the presidency, the former First Couple intermingled career and personal interests in ways that, at minimum, exposed them to a high risk of contamination. The Clinton Foundation was not only a charitable endeavor but a vehicle for Bill Clinton to enjoy the comforts and exercise the quasi-official power of an active figure on the world stage. Donors to the foundation included many of the same businesses and individuals who paid the Clintons for private speeches, and who had an interest in cultivating close ties with a secretary of State and potential future president. Some of those figures had business interests thataligned with Russian strategic goals rather than American ones. The Clintons failed to promptly disclose all of their foundation donors and, on at least one occasion, appointed an apparently unqualified donor to a State Department board.

The evidence of Clinton corruption is circumstantial rather than direct. If they wanted to stay above reproach, they could have rigorously disclosed every dollar that passed through their personal and professional accounts, and made it plain that neither donating to their foundation nor hiring them for speeches would purchase any special treatment whatsoever — indeed, they bent over backward to demonstrate that they could not be bought. Instead, they profited from the ambiguity.

This is all the more remarkable given that Trump’s complete lack of experience in public office ought to provide him with the opportunity, which most novice candidates have, for a clean-slate résumé. Instead, he is already waist-deep in stench. Trump has not merely intermingled campaigning with his business interests; the two are one and the same. His entire political career seems to be an outgrowth of his efforts to build his personal brand, which Trump has endlessly used the campaign as a platform to promote. He has devoted speeches to attacking the judge in the fraud suit against his “university,” instructed surrogates to do the same, and promised to relaunch the enterprise if elected. He celebrated the Brexit vote, which drove down the value of the pound, as helpful for driving visitors to his Scottish golf course. This sort of behavior is not anappearance of a conflict of interest but the definition of one.

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[Dakine10 5,452]

[cdneh 3,112]

No. It's Hillary.

[Dakine10 5,452]

[cdneh 3,112]

Nope. No matter how you spin it, she is a lying cheating thief with the morals of an alley cat. and in case it's been overlooking by main stream media, she is *still* under investigation. Still.

[Dakine10 5,452]

Nope. No matter how you spin it, she is a lying cheating thief with the morals of an alley cat. and in case it's been overlooking by main stream media, she is *still* under investigation. Still.

Well, it's certainly difficult to argue with that logic.

[Rob L 3,811]

I dont give Trump the credit of understanding the relationship betwen brexit passing and its affect on international currencies so I don't think he is guilty of that. I think after the fact he tried to take credit for having more influence than he does and made up some story on how it was all good for his suffering golf course. If he was that smart. he would figure out the currency imbalance wad depressing revenue at his US properties.

However, the campaign donations to the Florida AG who declined to prosecute Trump U is such a clear pay for play scam, even Baron Trump could see that.

Edited September 7, 2016 by Rob L

[Dakine10 5,452]

It's an embarrassment that he's made it this far.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/01/donald-trump-lawsuits-legal-battles/84995854/

[floridadave 195]

How has this bum eluded jail time? And bribing an attorney general too. A true genius at the art of the con.

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[Rob L 3,811]

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