How Democrats Can Use Trumps Corruption Against Him

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How Democrats Can Use Trump’s Corruption Against Him

BY JEET HEER - November 21, 2016

His conflicts of interest can help build the populist argument against him that Clinton's campaign failed to mount.

Donald Trump is a fast worker. It’s been less than two weeks since he won the election, and already he’s entangled himself in a series of conflicts of interest that could easily rise to the level of a constitutional crisis.

The crux of the problem, of course, is that the president-elect runs a large, global corporate empire that he has no intention of liquidating, but instead plans to hand over to three of his adult children—Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump—and son-in-law Jared Kushner. The conflicts inherent in that scheme started to become vividly clear last week, when Ivanka sat in on a meeting her father had with Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe, and, with Eric, joined her father in meeting with a group of businessmen from India who, by their own account, talked to the Trumps about expanding their dealings with the organization.

Meanwhile, the recently opened Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., took the initiative to invite local diplomats to a reception and espouse the comforts and convenience of staying there—something foreign nations seem eager to do in order to win the good graces of the next commander-in-chief. As one Asian diplomat told The Washington Post, “Why wouldn’t I stay at his hotel blocks from the White House, so I can tell the new president, ‘I love your new hotel!’ Isn’t it rude to come to his city and say, ‘I am staying at your competitor?’”

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There was plenty of evidence of Trump’s corruption that Democrats could have wielded effectively during the election—most notably, the fraudulence of Trump University (which last week resulted in Trump paying a $25 million settlement and a $1 million fine) and the myriad examples of self-dealing at the Trump Foundation—for instance, spending more $258,000 of the money donated to his charity to pay off lawsuits and legal fines....

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1. to trump voters and congressional republicans these are all desirable features and the care not nt

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2. Dems need to turn the American people against the Orange Menace

Make him unpopular by pointing out his empty promises to workers, etc., and that scapegoating minorities won't bring back jobs for them.
It's time to put the blame where it belongs--squarely on the shoulders of the offshorers and greedy rich bastards who think of nobody but themselves! That's what Dems need to drive home!