AP: The Princes, The President and the Fortune Seekers

[spurraider21]

Lobbying in pursuit of personal gain is nothing new in Washington — Trump himself, in fact, turned the incestuous culture into a rallying cry when he promised to “drain the swamp.”

“I will Make Our Government Honest Again -- believe me,” Trump tweeted before the election. “But first, I’m going to have to #DrainTheSwamp in DC.”

Broidy’s campaign to alter U.S. policy in the Middle East and reap a fortune for himself shows that one of the president’s top money men found the swamp as navigable as ever with Trump in office.

Trump: We're going to drain the swamp, and get rid of influence of special interests.

- Headline speaker at NRA annual convention

[AaronY]

What about CLinton tho?!?!

I mean what about other people?!?! What about them?!?!!

[Chris]

just going by the reports... they were pretty accurate about the McCabe findings, too. articles were written over a week before that report was out indicating that McCabe would be blamed for the leaks to the WSJ, and that's what happened.

maybe they're wrong this time, but i doubt it

You're cool with leaks saying it's a nothingburger. Got it.

[Chris]

Trump: We're going to drain the swamp, and get rid of influence of special interests.

- Headline speaker at NRA annual convention

That conflation thingy again.

[SnakeBoy]

[spurraider21]

That conflation thingy again.

is the NRA a special interest group?

[spurraider21]

You're cool with leaks saying it's a nothingburger. Got it.

You're cool with "leaks" aka Paul Sperry tweet saying criminal referrals are coming

[Chris]

is the NRA a special interest group?

Is the NRA part of the swamp? Yes or No.

[spurraider21]

Is the NRA part of the swamp? Yes or No.

of course

it's been one of the more influential special interest lobbies for decades... dictating how legislators act and vote. epitome of swampiness

[Chucho]

of course

LOL, that question backfired on him.

[hater]

CNN ignoring all of this

They still talking about russian collusion

They could easily barbeque Trump on this but nah, the Sauds and Israeli overlords would not like tgat at all so lets continue with the Russia shenanigans

[Chris]

of course

[spurraider21]

excellent counterpoint

[Spurminator]

excellent counterpoint

Imagine being Chris, tbh.

Unreal.

[Winehole23]

CNN ignoring all of this

CNN started covering this two months ago.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/26/polit...uit/index.html

[Winehole23]

from one month ago:

SIDNER: Broidy has a bit of a checkered past. In 2009, he pleaded guilty in a New York pension fund bribery case. But that wasn't enough to prevent Trump and Cohen from working with Broidy.

VOGEL: He could raise a lot of money quickly, and he did that for the Trump campaign. Trump was happy to have that.

SIDNER: After Trump's electoral victory, Broidy was quick to tout his connections to the president-elect to propel his business.

VOGEL: Broidy was quite overt in advertising his connections to Donald Trump and that got them into meetings that they wouldn't necessarily have had.

SIDNER: Broidy thrived in Trump's Washington.

VOGEL: What's so significant here is the blurring of the line between Elliott Broidy's fund-raising and Elliott Broidy's business.

SIDNER: Multiple sources tell CNN one of Broidy's business associates, George Nader, has been pulled into the web of Robert Mueller's special counsel.

VOGEL: Mueller is interested in Nader because of his visibility into the potential flow of money from the Middle East into efforts around Trump, potentially including political efforts.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...7/cnnt.02.html

[Winehole23]

so much for media blackouts. posters claiming so have an unblemished record. 100% wrong.

[hater]

How many minutes has Donna Lemon or Manderson Pooper covered this on primetime??

Just because they release an obscure article does not mean they are not ignoring it

[Winehole23]

I wouldn't know, I don't watch CNN.

so much for your blackout.

[hater]

Oh and no mention of Israeli and Saudi meddling in any of thise articles

cnn ignoring all this

[Winehole23]

face it, you're talking through your hat:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/03/polit...uae/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/19/opini...gen/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/20/middl...ntl/index.html

[RandomGuy]

Until it was discovered that Broidy was (somebody's) cutout for Michael Cohen's payment to a pregnant model, he was deputy finance chair for the RNC.

George Nader, whom y'all will soon start hearing more about, is a convicted child molester.

https://www.apnews.com/a3521859cf8d4...ortune-seekers

One has to wonder if it was Broidy that was the one with the playboy playmate affair.

[RandomGuy]

Is the NRA part of the swamp? Yes or No.

Yes.

Tens of millions of dollars in lobbying and mountains of cash from manufacturers.

They are about as slimy as it gets.

[hater]

face it, you're talking through your hat:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/03/polit...uae/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/19/opini...gen/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/20/middl...ntl/index.html

Yes we know Kishner n MBS are friends and Bibi and Donnie

Thats it? Where is the investigative reporting regarding Saudi and Israeli money influencing the Trump campaign and Donalds forign Policy???

These waterd down articles are supposed to mean anything??

cnn ignoring all that

[hater]

And cnn afollowing the NYT charade that MBS is some kind of secular reformist

The same guy that imprisoned and tortured his own family members and just arrested the female leaders of the Saudi womens rights movement

What a PR bull campaign money being showered on these media s