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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey've stopped even pretending. The US Embassy in the UK is promoting Mar-a-Lago on its website.
Last edited Mon Apr 24, 2017, 07:12 PM - Edit history (1)
https://uk.usembassy.gov/mar-lago-winter-white-house/
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
State Department removes Mar-a-Lago blog post
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/24/politics/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-state-department-blog/index.html
Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)dhill926
(16,373 posts)French style. Fuck these assholes...
BigOleDummy
(2,272 posts)JHan
(10,173 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Freethinker65
(10,070 posts)cornball 24
(1,481 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Amaryllis
(9,526 posts)gademocrat7
(10,676 posts)Unbelievable.
duncang
(1,907 posts)Or was it Rex who approved it?
Needs to be all over the news.
More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)Can't wait to go stay there for free.
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)and a way to choose your payment method are all that silly site is missing.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)mulsh
(2,959 posts)I encourage everyone to notify their federal legislators.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)Did some high-level political appointee turn the screws?
This kind of corruption needs to be got to the bottom of and exposed and rooted out.
turbinetree
(24,726 posts)benld74
(9,911 posts)STOP placing party before country!!! Demand Watergate Style Investigation NOW!!!
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)And it's only going to get worse.
snort
(2,334 posts)not pardoned.
not fooled
(5,803 posts)If there is a cloud being, they would smite dump on the spot for the unbelievable hypocrisy of criticizing Senator Clinton during the campaign for supposed foreign entanglements and corruption, while now engaging in UNFREAKINBELIVABLE levels of ACTUAL corruption and graft on a previously unimaginable scale.
Seriously, all of the pukes who think this is OK--words CANNOT express the level of hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance involved in pretending that it's all OK because a puke is doing it!!!
sinkingfeeling
(51,482 posts)Sculpin Beauregard
(1,046 posts)JI7
(89,279 posts)flying-skeleton
(698 posts)TRUMP TRASH !!
VOX
(22,976 posts)Crude, crass, cheesy, and absurd. "Winter White House" my ass, it's 45's year-round safe space and golf headquarters, with chandeliers over the toilets.
How quintessentially ugly-American.
emmadoggy
(2,142 posts)It's just one fucking outrage after another.
DangerousRhythm
(2,916 posts)I feel like they're wildly spinning this here. I did a search for the terms "Mar-a-Lago" and "white house" from the dates 1/1/1996 to 1/1/2014 and found the following article from 4/30/2006:
http://www.floridadesign.com/issues/15_4/pr/mar_a_lago/
After Posts death in 1973, the estate was turned over to the U.S. government for possible use as a diplomatic retreat or Winter White House. But any such plans were abandoned due to prohibitive maintenance costs.
Also, found a Newsmax (ugh) article from 1/2011 in which they promote Trump for president and mention Mar-a-Lago. I'll quote it briefly because I'm not going to link and give them any more ad money from clicks.
When Trump bought Mar-a-Lago for a mere $5 million in 1985, no one wanted it. Marjorie Merriweather Post, who built the magnificent, 140-room estate, saw it as a summer White House and willed it to the government. But Jimmy Carter, who famously turned down the heat at the White House to 68 degrees, thought the acquisition frivolous.
Forever with the smearing of Jimmy Carter, of course, but notice that Carter's term occurs at least 3 1/2 years past her death, so it's doubtful that decision was down to him unless I find proof otherwise.
At any rate, this whole thing is ridiculous and it's obvious to me they're inflating the estate's importance in their description. Info about its intended purpose seems nearly like a game of Telephone, but it's clear enough to me that they're making more of it than it was.
All of this doesn't change the fact that they're shamelessly (and illegally) advertising Mar-a-Lago. This entire administration disgusts me on levels I didn't even know existed before.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)The fucktards who voted for him and are suddenly shocked at his blatant, open grifting...or the fucktards who voted for him and are still screaming "Hell, yeah!!!" Or do I mean, "Heil, yeah!!!"
spanone
(135,900 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,117 posts)of the Executive Branch than I ever wanted to know, as I troll for who to send the ethics complaint to . . .
The bad news is that the office of government ethics is pointing away from itself to people who apparently only accept snail mail.
The U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) does not handle complaints of misconduct, nor does OGE have investigative or prosecutorial authority. OGE's mission is one of prevention. However, there are several agencies and entities across federal, state, and local governments that are responsible for investigating and prosecuting misconduct. Below you will find links to agencies that handle complaints against specific categories of government employees.
I know they didn't have that finger pointing in the other direction which I filed my first complaint about this administration - and I know they had a handy-dandy little form I could fill out. Guess they got too many complaints.
If I've followed the breadcrumbs correctly, this is the guy who gets complaints about ethics violations within the State Department:
Department of State
The Honorable Steve Linick, Inspector General
Main Phone Number: (202) 663-0340
Mailing Address: Office of the Inspector General Hotline, PO Box 9778, Arlington, VA 22219
Hotline Number: (800) 409-9926; (202) 647-3320
Social: Twitter
URL: http://oig.state.gov/