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Trump corruption is straight up on another level.....
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/coronavirus-live-news.html#link-73b6797d
An ousted federal scientist said that he was pressured to steer contracts to clients of a well-connected lobbyist.
A federal scientist who says he was ousted from his job amid a dispute over an unproven malaria drug promoted by President Trump said on Tuesday that a top official at the Department of Health and Human Services repeatedly pressured him to steer millions of dollars in contracts to the clients of a well-connected lobbyist, Sheryl Gay Stolberg reports.
Dr. Rick Bright, who was the director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority until his removal in April, said in a formal whistle-blower complaint that since 2017 he has been protesting cronyism and award of contracts to companies with political connections to the administration, including a drug company executive who is close to Jared Kushner, Mr. Trumps son-in-law and senior adviser.
Nikki28
(557 posts)we the public blow up the phone lines of every elected official and the news,social media and called for this thug to resign today.Nixon did not go this far. Time for him to go.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Calls should be starting for his resignation at once.
BComplex
(8,073 posts)Maybe this time the republicans will see the writing on the wall and vote to get rid of his ass!
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)doc03
(35,389 posts)a movie about Satan or a vampire he would play the leading role.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)doc03
(35,389 posts)him to get out of Dodge on first sight.
dixiechiken1
(2,113 posts)MontanaMama
(23,355 posts)Equally evil.
librechik
(30,677 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Begat of Satan, surely.
procon
(15,805 posts)those "well connected companies" shell out to Trump and his cronies in exchange for juicy govt contracts for their faux cures?
Is this another quid pro quo with Trump, the creepy Snake Oil conman? Has always more interested in filling his own pockets than saving the people who are dying from corona virus.
Lonestarblue
(10,106 posts)Most of them are secret and own nothing and have no employees, but theyre quite helpful for hiding money and making it difficult to trace transactions. We need a law forbidding the establishment of secret businesses like this. So far as I know, they serve only one purpose, and that's to evade the law or evade taxes.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)will soon outnumber the cases of Covid. And, Like the virus, they keep climbing upward.
diva77
(7,664 posts)crickets
(25,987 posts)They keep getting him in trouble. Oh please, let this blow wide open. The money grifting is bad enough, but thousands of people have died, many who shouldn't have, because of their criminal behavior. NO MORE.
iluvtennis
(19,882 posts)brings Dr Bright in to testify.
PufPuf23
(8,843 posts)Trump and pals are a danger to the Nation and are essentially murderers still trying to grift off every penny possible.
There is something extremely rotten in Congress and the media.
Act now to rid us of the Trump Plague.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Declarations of federal emergency - does that allow him to bypass fed bid process? Know he handpicked vendors based on politics/personal gain.
PufPuf23
(8,843 posts)months before Trump was actually impeached.
No shortages of reasons Trump should be removed from POTUS.
If Trump had a shred of humanity, he would have resigned already.
Sad and frustrating.
BadGimp
(4,020 posts)iluvtennis
(19,882 posts)NBachers
(17,149 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)We've cringed each time someone is called to testify and we can't put our guard down. Things are getting serious and the closer the election is, the more danger surrounds us.
Bright is being very brave to file this complaint and we need to stand with him.
rurallib
(62,465 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,481 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,640 posts)Which committee?
Peregrine Took
(7,417 posts)Celerity
(43,589 posts)Billy Big Bollocks-level rich.
They vicariously look at every dollar Kushner, Trump and their vulture squads steal as validation of their own greed and a continuance of their hopes to do the same someday.
Plus, they LOVE to see any out-group they hate get fucked and/or killed, and believe that their own hard times (done unto them by the Trumps of the world that they SO aspire to be) are worth it as long as a PoC or a lib is crushed or at least pwned harder than they are.
RVN VET71
(2,698 posts)"Ain't nuthin' gonna happen."
No charges will be placed. Or charges will be placed and mysteriously dropped. Or charges will be placed, pursued in Federal court and a Trump-McConnell judge will dismiss them.
Besides, didn't you know that Dr. Bright cheated on his MCATs and lied about his experience when he was hired by the Federal government, and had numerous sexual encounters with sedated female patients, and hadn't paid income taxes since 1997, and no one knows what happened to the body of his neighbor's wife but he had a suspicious oversized cooler in his garage that disappeared about the same time she did, and his Haitian son was arrested for dealing drugs, etc., etc. (Did I skip anything?)
Volaris
(10,275 posts)But other than that, your bases seem covered.
malaise
(269,219 posts)Follow the money
Walleye
(31,081 posts)You could see the dollar signs in his eyes.
Said no one ever.
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)If they make a LOT of money, then it's a HUGE success!
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ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)Wasn't he supposed to have learned his lesson or something?
Hav
(5,969 posts)but what are the chances Trump only tried this for this specific department? And this person had to fight this since 2017 and still we only hear about this now? If it becomes an avalanche, who knows, maybe this time two Repubs will vote with the Dems...
plimsoll
(1,671 posts)Let's just take it as given that Trump is a hood.
Let's just take it as given that Trump is surrounded by hoods.
Naturally they tried to steer graft to their cronies.
The question is no longer "Is Trump a criminal?" The question is "Which of the GOP leadership are not involved?"
Boomerproud
(7,970 posts)I don't want to wait until May 14th.
yellowcanine
(35,702 posts)Trump.
AllaN01Bear
(18,534 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,364 posts)marmar
(77,097 posts)... Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200.
Kablooie
(18,641 posts)apparently.
All he has to do is say no one can testify and the investigation fizzles out.
I don't know why he has this power but he seems to and uses it over and over again and no one can do anything about it.
tblue37
(65,499 posts)Harry Walpurgisnacht
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wiggs
(7,819 posts)as they have been the last three years? Or will the list of Trump corruption and incompetence finally be so long that they finally have to act like they care? Will they say 'Well I personally wouldn't have awarded contracts in quite the same way, but he has the right to award contracts in any manner he wishes and it doesn't matter if it's corrupt.' ?
If the GOP pulls the same act as they did with impeachment, Kavanaugh, Ukraine, Russia, emoluments, embezzlement for the wall, children in cages etc etc then we know they believe they have a lock on the election, one way or the other, and that they think there's a pathway through this.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Cue the defense "team":
(I love Ann Telnaes and thank JHB for posting the Toons throughout the reign of The Liar).
trixie2
(905 posts)Everything he does is to line his and his family's pockets.
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,678 posts)Jared would be it. The evil drone strikes again
Ford_Prefect
(7,925 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,773 posts)They sure as fuck knew all along what was going on. I'm just home from work, but my God, how many damn headlines can one deal with? Everywhere I look, there is one Major headline after another. omg, I think I'm going to throw up.
mountain grammy
(26,658 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,867 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,601 posts)machoneman
(4,014 posts)lark
(23,166 posts)Hope drumpf doesn't enlist PUtin for his special way of handling inconvenient people and truths.