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Hes paying fraud fines and collecting bribes and distracting you with Hamilton tweets
Here are a few news stories that broke between the time I left work a little early on Friday afternoon and the time my toddler went down for his midday nap on Saturday:
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Donald Trump paid $21 million to former students of his fake university who he allegedly defrauded.
Donald Trump got into a Twitter war with the cast of Hamilton.
The Hamilton blow-up because its easy to understand, bizarre, and connects with a pop culture phenomenon has naturally ended up getting the bulk of the news pickup. One potential reason is that Trumps tweets are public, whereas it took diligent reporting by the Washington Post to get the hotel story. The idea is that other prestigious outlets may be disinclined to pay attention to a story the Post owns and to give due credit to its significance.
Meanwhile, a second-order controversy even broke out among the people I follow on Twitter as to whether the Hamilton audience booing Mike Pence in some sense played into Trumps hands.
But the truth is that nothing about the Hamilton story not Pences decision to attend, not the crowd booing him, not the cast of the musical directing some respectful criticism in the direction of I his boss, not Trumps tweets about what happened, and not the subsequent second-order controversy is in any way important to how he runs the country.
By contrast, foreign governments directly putting money into Donald Trumps pocket is very important. The fact that these attempted bribes are being paid to a man who is also paying out millions of dollars to avoid standing trial for his corrupt business practices is very important. The fact that citizens are calling members of congress to ask them to do something about this is also very important.
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/19/13685762/donald-trump-hamilton-distraction
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)while he amuses the masses.
radical noodle
(8,003 posts)is the blatant use of his position to line his own pockets. The conflict of interest so far eclipses anything I've ever seen. Those who complained that the Clinton Foundation was somehow figuring out a way to use it to gain speaking fees will find it is nothing compared to the actual fleecing of the American taxpayer that's already beginning.