Corker better hope that nothing comes up in regular discovery…
Darker version for darker times.
Hey, if it’s good enough for the POSPEOTUS, it’s good enough for everybody else. Wouldn’t want to uncover something disqualifying or even uncomfortable.
Putin: Good Call.
Trump: I am so happy Putin likes my leadership.
Trump era Republicans won’t even go through the motions of good governance practices. Why bother?
The GOP isn’t even pretending to care about Tillerson’s YUUUGE holdings of Mobil Exxon stock and his financial ties to Putin. The upcoming Trump regime is truly going to be a kleptocracy, and the GOP is fine with it.
The GOP is officially the party of lootiing and favoritism. Remember when the GOP pretended to care about crony capitalism?
The “discovery” process will be rigged by the Republican Senate so that nothing damaging to Tillerson/Putin gets disclosed. That’s how nascent authoritarian regimes operate: the appearance of transparency and freedom but the reality of a corrupt oligarchy.
Talk about “useful idiots”. It has been so long since Republicans have done anything but obstruct and destroy it is not surprising that they would become Quislings in the face of “that man”. They are cowards at heart and as such they are incapable of taking risks.
This is the kind of “blind trust” the GOP likes.
@demosthenes59 It’s already emerged that HHS nominee Rep. Price traded medical stocks affected by legislation he sponsored/voted on while in the House. The greed of the Trump administration will only be foiled by its incompetence.
Nah
Something undisclosed will likely be found in discovery. The initial shock will be due to folks like Condi and Gates not catching these errors in the first place.
This deserves many more likes
Then its on the voter.
Fucking ridiculous.
You are an optimist.
I think that his tax returns are something of a non-issue. The real issue is what investments he has in entities that pose potential conflicts of interest (which certainly includes Exxon stock) and whether he will be required to divest those stocks and put his investments in a blind trust. The disclosure filings that he is making to the Committee probably do require him to identify his investments–if they don’t they are remarkably weak.
Samantha Stevens-“wellll”
In relation to the tax returns not being asked for, Corker n that lot are asking for it, because all that will do is force a bunch of reporters to dig harder in Tillerson’s financials.
That’s when stuff other than Exxon stock, climate change and Russia gets revealed, far more dangerous stuff.
Look folks…this is just the start of it.
Look at Trump’s MO…he continually refuses to produce required documents, tells the NJ casino commission he won’t use junk bonds and does, signs a document to lease his DC hotel saying no elected officials may be a part of it and then shows no signs of leaving, same with divesting his businesses.
My guess is that the GOP pretty much gives the entire Trump team a bye and if anybody tries to stop them, Trump will just say…start working and defy lawsuits because he loves lawsuits. They drag on forever…and in this case, he has his own legal team on the public dime fending off his opponents while the wreckage is wrecked and the havoc is wreaked…He might lose a point or two, but probably not until he has quit, been impeached or leaves office. There is the fact that he is old, overweight and eats a lousy diet. Maybe fate will intervene and he chokes on a taco bowl.
Background check by the fbi? Reassuring? Not!