Here’s something I think that we can all come together on. Isn’t the ability of politicians being able to enrich themselves and their families what makes this country great!
Come on everybody, lets chant together - USA, USA, USA…
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Now do Kushner
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Here’s more:
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EVRYONE here is more than welcome to post things they find on anyone. There’s no restrictions in the OP about party.
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Okay… let us see many Democrats it takes to get to $2 Billion.
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I’m fully behind the Drain the Swamp agenda. But that’s never happening when the swamp decides if it should drain itself.
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First, I can’t open it. Second, what position in the government does he currently hold?
Oh… those are the terms… then don’t be upset about Hunter Biden.
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“bUt TrUmP!1!” cried the generic libs! 
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Let’s not make it one sided. This applies to all…equally. Can you unite behind that?
If I had my way I would fire all of these people into the sun… but I do find ti funny that threads like this complain about only one side doing it and ignore their “team”
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Okay here’s a source I was able to open:
After actually being able to read the allegation I would be 100% behind Congress opening an investigation into this!!!
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Here’s another good article on this, which give some historical contest to this corruption:
From the link:
The “commercialized former presidency,” as the writer Thomas DeFrank called it, began in the late 1970s, at the dawn of the neoliberal age, when Gerald Ford took positions on corporate boards and hit the paid speaker circuit following his brief stint as an unelected President of the United States.
“[E]very former president should go visit his grave in Grand Rapids and thank him for ensuring that they will be instant zillionaires,” said DeFrank, who wrote a biography of Ford.
And most former presidents followed suit. Before his diagnosis with Alzheimer’s disease, Ronald Reagan accepted multimillion-dollar speaking engagements from Japanese corporations. Corporations paid top dollar to George H.W. Bush for speeches and he took a paid honorary position at a Canadian mining company.
Bill Clinton took the commercialized post-presidency even further by making more than $100 million from paid speeches since 2001. And while George W. Bush, hampered by his deep unpopularity, did not pull in the same kind of money as Clinton, he took in $15 million in speaking fees in his first three years out of office.
After leaving office in 2017, Barack Obama hit the speaking circuit and charged $400,000 per speech. He and his wife, Michelle Obama, also created a media production company and signed a multi-year deal with Netflix to produce scripted and unscripted programming for an undisclosed amount.
“Let’s not make it one-sided” he says…to the poster who stopped this thread from being one-sided.
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Career politicians suck. All of them.
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Excellent display of conservative hypocrisy. This is an issue with both sides of the aisle
I started a thread on this a while back. This is one of those issues where both-siderism bears out:
My thesis is this: the public overwhelmingly supports legislation to stop this, both R and D; but because there’s such broad agreement, it won’t happen. There’s no percentage in it; everything has to be zero-sum to create effective theater, raise money, and placate the base.
It’s funny: it’s one of the things (along with a real infrastructure bill) that Trump could have pushed for that was bipartisan, pragmatic, and supportable. He could have jammed up the Democrats. But bipartisan agreement now is almost entirely toxic. So in a roundabout way, we’re getting the government we deserve.
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I agree. Please start a thread and show everyone how it should be done.
That seems contradictory.
I agree this is a problem that transcends the political divide.
Drain the swamp should apply to all politicians but alas it came to mean to get rid of everyone who did not toe the party line.
But lets not pretend its a new issue. Its a human issue and all governments around the world suffers from it but that does not mean wr should not stop it.
