I’m surprised you havent expressed any concerns at all about all these former government people who imply they have direct knowledge of what is certainly classified information.
It should be made clear that they kept the activities secret, despite proclaiming to his followers it was for campaign funding. You keep stuff secret when you want to hide it.
More baseless propaganda. It’s not even that, it’s flat out lies. Did you even read this “article”? It’s sole source is that Business Insider report, and it flat out makes up the part about “secretly funneled millions of dollars in campaign cash to Trump family members” because that BI article says nothing remotely close to that.
At least you seem to agree that you keep stuff secret when you want to hide it. Some of us have been saying this for months. Too bad you only believe that’s true in one direction and it’s only fair to call out the supposedly secret stuff that advances your narrative, while insisting the other secret stuff absolutely must remain hidden in the shadows.
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The Clinton Foundation has a perfect score on accountability and transparency, as well as excellent marks on the financial side (cost to raise $, % that goes to programs instead of charity overhead), and an overall score of 89.28.
https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=6903
For comparison, the Red Cross scores 89.76.
On the other hand I suggest donating to charities other than the Donald Trump Foundation…
https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=16764
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For someone who thinks they don’t post Russian disinformation, you seem to feel awfully called out by my statement that lots of Russian disinfo gets linked to here…
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Doesnt that lean towards what Xerty said? When you are leveraging influence in exchange for contributions, your actual fundraising costs are going to be pretty low.
And to continue your comparisons with the Red Cross - 3.7% and 19.7% for admin expenses, and 89.8% and 75.7% for program expenses. One of those is below average, not “excellent”.
But I digress…
xerty calls it out with truth. Unlike your crazy unsubstantiated comments. (pictures & posts)
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Pompeo about to get fired a week early for calling out Donny’s Papa?
Edit: and Donny defends his daddy, contradicts Pompeo:
Speaking of making baseless accusations about election integrity, guess who won’t be counting votes in the GA run off? The workers who reported suspicious things in the last election.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/fulton-georgia-poll-workers-retribution/2020/12/18/id/1002296/
I look forward to the media telling me how much confidence I should have in the surprise Democratic sweep in GA in another couple weeks.
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Fulton County is a cesspool.
At an "…Oval Office meeting with her on Friday night, President Trump floated the idea of appointing her [Sidney Powell] as a special counsel investigating voter fraud.
I had to check if this article was satire from a comedy site. It’s not.
CNN reporter Keilar, has the nerve to cast hypocrisy on Republicans. The rest of the listeners to the lies from CNN etc. on their daily schedule is intolerable. (if we go to those stations)
CNN must now train their Biden worker’s about un acceptable language for TV. Such a disgrace!
That’s just a ploy for the GA election soundbites. Even after Obama got the STOCK act passed under pressure for insider trading by Congress, they promptly amended it once people stopped paying attention to no longer require any public disclosure of their trades (no accountability) and also removed the coverage of the politicians’ families (easy to circumvent). In short, the swamp knows how to get rich off the market in their position and there’s no way they’re going to give that up.
“Lots of people who aren’t millionaires get elected to Congress, but every one leaves a millionaire”
How about a rich person – has a rich person ever offered you a job? What’s the proportion of people working directly for a rich person to the entire working population? My guess is maybe 1%.
Most people don’t work directly for someone who is rich. I’ve never been hired by a rich person into their business, I was hired by managers who had open positions for someone with my skills.
This is just a line to make people think that the rich are the only “job creators”, but it’s not true.
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Is the salary, all expenses paid, and the passage of time is not enough to do that?
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In the investing world, beating the market after transaction costs by more than 1% or so per year makes you a genius. Your average Congressman certainly doesn’t qualify on the brains front, and yet a study of required financial disclosures show that Senators in the 1990s on average beat the market by 1% per month !
(Links are dead but you may be able to track them down)
link to discussion the “abnormal” stock returns
academic article “Abnormal Returns from the Common Stock Investments of the U.S. Senate” Ziobrowski etal 2004 [fixed]
Ziobrowski article said:
Cumulative abnormal returns for the portfolio of stocks bought by Senators are near zero for the calendar year prior to the date of purchase. After acquisition, the cumulative abnonnal return rises over 25% within one calendar year after the purchase date. The cumulative abnormal returns for the portfolio of stocks sold by the Senators are near zero for the calendar year after the date of sale. However, these same stocks saw a cumulative abnormal positive return of 25% during the year immediately preceding the event date. These results suggest that Senators knew appropriate times to both buy and sell their common stocks.
…Combining the buy transactions with the sell transactions in a hedged portfolio we find that Senators outperform the market by 97 basis points (nearly 1%) per month on a trade-weighted basis. Abnormal returns from the hedged portfolio are statistically significant when we use either the CAPM or the Fama-French three-factor model. Regression coefficients of the Fama-French three-factor model suggest that Senators favor the common stocks of smaller growth firms with average market risk.
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