Finally! A news outlet is calling Bondi-gate a SCANDAL!

[pepperbear]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/trump-pam-bondi-scandal-227823

Trump's pay for play scandal intensifies

The swirl of scandal around Donald Trump’s donation to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is intensifying, with the Republican nominee and his aides vigorously pushing back against the idea that he bought the decision by Bondi to not pursue an investigation into his Trump University.

The controversy whipped back up last week when news emerged that Trump paid a $2,500 fine because his foundation improperly donated $25,000 to Bondi’s political election committee in 2013 (tax-exempt charitable groups are not allowed to make political contributions).

*snip*

The Trump campaign is also facing a new crop of editorials, with the Miami Herald saying it’s “puzzling” why Trump’s controversy is not getting “equal billing” to that associated with the Clinton Foundation.

“Unlike the faux scandal over the Clinton institution, there were actual victims here — people who paid good money to Trump University and feel they were duped. Why is Pam Bondi not investigating that?” the Miami Herald editorial board wrote in an item titled, “Donald Trump’s gift to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi deserves a closer look.”

[Else You Are Mad]

1. Don't worry....

Trump will say or do something utterly absurd to take over the news cycle and this too will disappear. He does it every time scandals appear.

And the media will let him do it.

[napkinz]

2. LOCK HIM UP!

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[calimary]

8. Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, and Yes!

Love these, napkinz! These are terrific!

[napkinz]

10. thanks calimary

[lewebley3]

14. I think Trump ran for office: to avoid losing his court case: His first attack was on the judge

for being Spanish: he also started his attacks on Spanish heritage.
This was done to remove the judge that ruled against him.

[cilla4progress]

3. They are both (Trump and the media)

counting on our short attention spans!

[napkinz]

4. Joy Reid on the scandal ...

[patsimp]

5. appoint a special prosecutor

[napkinz]

6. Jamil Smith lays it all out ...

https://twitter.com/JamilSmith

[misterhighwasted]

7. Bondi stated she had No Complaints against Trump U in her office yet there are 8,000 pages of them

Matthew Chapman
1h
Matthew Chapman‏ @fawfulfan
Wow. @PamBondi flat-out lied that she wasn't aware of the Trump University complaints she dismissed.
David‏ @davidpsdem
@PamBondi Bondi stated she had no complaints against Trump U in her office yet there are 8,000 pages of them

With Twitter postings & every Major Newspaper covering the Trump/Bondi Bribe, they aren't stuffing this scandal back in the box:

Pay to Play, Mr. Trump?


http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/opinion/pay-to-play-donald-trump.html?smid=tw-share&referer=https://t.co/hcu1TnwRQg

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[maddiemom]

19. What is it with these state Republican women in Florida...

and their "professional" outfits? Guess they're all big Anne Coulter fans!

[Chakab]

24. It's not just the outfits. Have you heard that woman speak? The teenage girls who work as cashiers

at my local grocery store are much more professional.

[ffr]

9. LOCK THEM ALL UP!!!

GOTV people. This stinks to high heaven!

[PatSeg]

11. And lets not forgot Greg Abbott in Texas as well

WASHINGTON -- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott received a $35,000 donation to his successful gubernatorial campaign from Donald Trump. This after a Texas probe into Trump University was dropped in 2010, according to the Associated Press.

The AP reported that Abbott, a Republican, was serving as Texas Attorney General at the time, and opened a civil investigation of "possibly deceptive trade practices" into Trump University, but quietly dropped it when the organization agreed to end its operations in Texas.

Trump subsequently donated $35,000 to Abbott's successful gubernatorial campaign, according to records obtained by the AP.

http://www.twcnews.com/tx/austin/politics/2016/06/2/ap--greg-abbott-given--35k-gubernatorial-campaign-donation-after-trump-university-probe-in-texas-dropped.html

[They_Live]

13. Exactly.

+ 1000

[PatSeg]

17. Hopefully this is the beginning

of unraveling his many years of deceit and corruption.

[They_Live]

21. Not just for Trump, but for Abbott as well.

Like the $3 Million(?) received from BP after the Deepwater Horizon disaster which Rick Perry and Abbott (as AG) failed to disclose to the TX legislature until much after the fact.

[PatSeg]

23. Oh yes!

Icing on the cake. He may bring a lot of people down with him, in which case we may have to be somewhat grateful to him. He could actually be serving a useful purpose.

[Stuart G]

12. I believe Bondi will be gone soon..to protect Trump and Rubio..

but that is just my opinion..

[RockaFowler]

15. I don't know

I think the powers that be here in Florida want her to run for Governor. Yuck and Ewww

[Stuart G]

16. I don't know either...but this one stinks and it will stink for a long time..in my opinion

we will see...you could be correct..the powers may protect her to run her for Governor..

[RockaFowler]

22. I agree

But this woman has been horrible from the get-go. I can't believe she won re-election. Oh yeah we have a lousy Democratic Party here in Florida. We have no-one except Bill Nelson on a Statewide level. That's pathetic. How the heck did pRick Scott win 2x?? My head hurts. I'm going back to sleep!

[GulfCoast66]

33. Because a rich lawyer

Paved the way for a shitty recent ex-republican to run as the Democratic candidate. And he only changed his registration because the republicans rejected him. Had he had a Paul to Demascus change I could accept him.

Crist was the worst possible choice.

[DAMANgoldberg]

36. Not from Florida...

only spent some time in the Panhandle [Okaloosa Co] but the last real Democrat to exist in Florida was Lawton Childs, and he is from the Old School Boil Weevil type of Dem, like Sen. Sam Nunn GA, Howell Heflin AL, Ernest Hollings SC for example.

A recent example of Florida not being ready was Alan Grayson's defeat to Patrick Murphy and Tim Canova's defeat to Debbie Wassermann Schultz. We have our own checkered present here, with Deborah Ross may have a shot at Sen. Richard Burr, and AG Roy Cooper should be Gov. Pat McCrory in a normal cycle, but the Rs have something up their sleeve. BTW, Roy Cooper isn't exactly liberal, more of the Sen. Joe Manchin WV type.

[GulfCoast66]

38. We loved

Ole Walkin' Lawton.

[DFB]

42. Bob Graham

Bob Graham was a pretty formidable Democrat from this great state...

[PatSeg]

18. Oh my god

What a horrible thought!

[LanternWaste]

32. It would then follow that TX Gov. Greg Abbott would be gone soon as well

It would then follow that TX Gov. Greg Abbott would be gone soon as well. Not going to happen.

[faye]

20. Attorney General ?

Pam Bondi holds the position of attorney General and still stepped into this foul smelling mess? Is she stupid or does she just assume that the rest of us are ?

[lpbk2713]

30. It's important to note she is Florida's Atty Gen.

Florida rethugs think they can do anything they want. Even after they
have been caught. Look into the background of Governor Rick Scott.
He is known as the Fifth Amendment Governor.

[UCmeNdc]

25. K&R

[napkinz]

26. :)

[Native]

27. Trump Foundation vs. Clinton Foundation: Victims vs. Beneficiaries. No comparison.

[skylucy]

29. Excellent point!

[Eleanors38]

28. Some say the history of the U.S. lies in the archives of the Miami Herald.

[jmowreader]

31. Oh my

From the article:

Trump laid out a similar rationale for deciding to run for president during his nomination acceptance speech in July, declaring, “I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people who cannot defend themselves.”

"The powerful beating up on people who cannot defend themselves" is exactly how he runs his business, as anyone who Trump's told, "I've paid you enough," can attest. Is he planning to ban the Trump Organization? (And isn't "the organization" one of the names the Mafia calls itself?)

[Vogon_Glory]

34. Lame-Stream Corporate Media Dragged Kicking And Screaming

Liberal bias? Who the #### are the right-wing nuts kidding? The lame-stream corporate media, so quick to jump on any phony Clinton pseudo-scandal, is being dragged kicking and screaming into paying attention to the Donald's dealings with Florida Attorney General Bondi!

What a sorry set of ###-clowns we have reporting the news!

[47of74]

39. I call them the shitstream media

[Vogon_Glory]

40. You may be right, but

You may be right, but since I post elsewhere, I have to be selective with my four-letter words.

[lastlib]

35. two questions:

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1)When is Little Donny going to be arrested for bribing a public official?? .

and
2) When Is Pamela Bondi going to be impeached and jailed for accepting a bribe?? .

[SleeplessinSoCal]

37. He's like the eye of a hurricane. Truly.

He calmly stays at the center of the chaos he creates. But unlike a hurricane, he keeps moving and wreaking havoc.

[Coyotl]

41. #OrangeIsTheNewOrange seems to me the best option for a great hashtag to cover this scandal.

Anyone have a better option?

[napkinz]

43. BUSTED: Ivanka Also Bribed Florida Attorney General To Cover Up Trump U Scandal

By Grant Stern
September 6, 2016

New information has surfaced tying Ivanka Trump to the mushrooming political bribery scandal surrounding Trump and the Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s unusual decision to cease investigating Trump University.

Donald Trump operated the unlicensed University out of 40 Wall Street in New York City, and now faces a major federal trial this November, for both racketeering and consumer fraud.

Public record searches indicate that on September 10th, 2013 Ivanka Trump personally donated $500 to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s general election fund, and also Donald Trump made a personal donation himself on July 15th, 2013 of $500 too, before Bondi’s prior claims that the two spoke about donations a month later.

The new information reveals an earlier, direct contribution from Donald J. Trump to Florida Attorney General Bondi and suggests a general pattern of paying significant campaign contributions to both she and former-Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott in 2013 during a 60-day window when the Republican Presidential candidate went on what could be characterized as a pay-for-play shopping spree.

read more: http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/09/06/busted-ivanka-also-bribed-florida-attorney-general-cover-trump-u-scandal/