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“We’re doing a lot of interviews tomorrow — generals, dictators, we have everything,” Trump says in the tape, obtained by Politico and published Saturday. “You may wanna come around. It’ll be fun. We’re really working tomorrow. We have meetings every 15, 20 minutes with different people that will form our government."
Dictators? WTH? Meaning, besides him?
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Trump now has his very own 47% country club tape leak, dating from November 18th after the election , where he was meeting with potential cabinet members
Romney got flayed for dissing others. Here trump aligns himself with the 1%, distancing himself from his base and dissing them in the process. You would think they would take offense
And what does one do at a private club? Ask the membership who they recommend for cabinet appointments of course
Revelations like this are so painful after the fact, as the “man of the people “ calls the club membership his special people, and the corruption is laid on so thick with no attempt to disguise it. But voters were so afraid of the Clinton Foundation’s potential for corruption in the White House
i really don't think any of those issues , from email to corruption were real. People were so willing to believe what trump was selling
The more time that goes by the less I understand this election and what to learn from it
I talk to a lot of trump supporters and when you throw this in their face, they just could not care less. I have no idea what they think they are shaking up.
Politico got their hands on some leaked audio of Trump celebrating his election win with members of the Trump National National Golf Club, in an impromptu speech he gave to the club members on November 18th last year. While doing a rich guy ramble about golfing and the same vague campaign bullshit he deployed on the trail about "working on ISIS," Trump calls the golf club members "my real group" and "the special people." He also pointed out a club member, possibly NASDAQ CEO Bob Greifeld, and relayed a conversation they had: "We were just talking about who we [are] going to pick for the FCC, who [are] we going to pick for this, who we gonna accept -- boy, can you give me some recommendations?” Trump also invited club members to "come around" for his interviews with potential nominees for Secretary of State, Treasury Secretary and other positions. Beyond that, the next most shocking thing from the tape is that he doesn't talk about his huge (not at all actually huge) Electoral College victory, a meme/tic he'd pick up later into his presidency.
It also comes on the heels of the Times taking look at all the rich club members trying to influence government decision-making. The Times points out a number of members of the club, like petroleum magnate and Keystone XL advocate William Koch, home builder and Toll Brothers co-founder Bruce Toll and Rockstar energy drink CFO Janet Weiner (who wants the government to lay off regulating energy drinks), all of whom could benefit from decisions Trump makes as president and have expanded access to him due to his frequent trips to the club.
Even as the club's managing director told the Times that Trump's presidency "enhances" the value of membership in the club, everyone interviewed took pains to make it appear that paying to belong to a private club that the president runs can't possibly factor into them getting exclusive access to talk government programs with the president. That claim is contrasted by, for example, Toll telling the Times that he and Trump talked about Trump's infrastructure plan ideas. Or another member, real estate developer Richard LeFrak, telling the paper that Trump once started to him talking about the potential cost of the border wall (that Mexico will pay us back for one day) and how he didn't believe it could possibly cost all that much: