Smart response from the Clinton campaign - but will anyone pay any attention to this? (members of the media, I’m looking at you . . . .)
No fair! That donation got Donald a lifetime’s supply of Florida’s finest, classiest bath salts! That deal was yuuuge!
This is what HRC needs to hammer home, the breathtaking hypocrisy and criminality of the Drumpfster Fire.
Ha Ha! Pam Bondi will fume over this one, too – it implicates her in the scam. Pam Bondi received money from Trump and Pam Bondi put the kibosh on the FL investigation into Trump U. Pam Bondi is a HO suck-up. Pam Bondi is a HO suck-up. We know (what) you suck, Pam Bondi.
Trump: Yes; Successful businessMen like me call this Deal Making. I paid her and she saved money by not investigating me. I always win.
Scalia: He is right; money is free speech.
The media response (Think Chuck Todd or Andrea Mitchell).
"On one hand— an actual scandal involving a foundation paying bribes to an attorney general to ignore prosecuting Trump University. On the other, a foundation that according to independent experts does a great deal of good in the world with no, none, zero, nada, evidence of ANY pay for play scandal.
Yep that’s a tough call. A tough call.
Wait–Drudge is reporting that Hilary has used the wrong salad fork!!! Quick! TO the internets!!!"
Florida oranges actually.
Why Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell are working on it as we speak.
Their report will be something along the lines that while Trump did it what Hillary did was worse and anyway it’s Hillary’s fault Trump donated to Bondi in the first place by getting everyone riled up about Trump University because her ads used it as a subject.
Amirite?
Hear. hear!
(But no one will. The media tries to be “fair and balanced” between the candidates, so too many of Trump’s actual illegal transgressions get pushed aside to focus on one or two totally-legal-but looks-bad-somehow Hillary scandals.)
This is the story that should have been on page 1 of every major newspaper in the country when it originally broke (the donation followed by the sudden termination of the investigation of Trump “University”). Plain, simple bribery. No other way to interpret it.
Go Team Blue!
The finest stenographer concern trolls money can buy.
No. It’s just another in a long list of Drumpf scandals that, because of his inherent (and universally accepted, it seems) criminality and general odiousness, will simply be added to his résumé, without repercussion.
Yeahhh, i’d almost forgotten about that series of payoffs (incl. TX, et al)
Thanks for the reminder!
The answer is no. It is a media rule that only Clinton is involved in scandals.
How is Bondi not under a Justice Department investigation for accepting a bribe? It really doesn’t get more quid pro quo…
- Trump is under investigation for Trump U.
- Trump donates (illegally) $25,000 to Bondi.
- Bondi Drops the investigation.
We’re talking actual cause and effect here people!
I highly suspect she likely is under investigation but that it’s been under wraps. For sure, she should be under investigation. She’s not the only one – TX is just as guilty.
You have described quid pro quo. That is a real scandal. Somebody, Bondi for example, might go to jail. It should be all over the front page of the New York Times. It isn’t because they are focused on non-scandals involving Clinton and puff pieces pushing Trump.
Oh, silly Hillary. Actual proof of fraud is so yesterday. We, the modern media, are so titillated by rumors of scandal from Drudgery, Not-so-bright-Bart, Rust Limpbag, and Shawn Insanity that we have no time for actual scandal.