Posted on 11/18/2019 7:02:25 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
CBS News investigation has uncovered a possible pay-for-play scheme involving the Republican National Committee and President Donald Trump's nominee for ambassador to the Bahamas. Emails obtained by CBS News show the nominee, San Diego billionaire Doug Manchester, was asked by the RNC to donate half a million dollars as his confirmation in the Senate hung in the balance, chief investigative correspondent Jim Axelrod reports.
When Hurricane Dorian ravaged the Bahamas in September, Manchester wanted to help. So the San Diego real estate developer, who prefers the nickname "Papa Doug," loaded up his private jet with supplies and headed for the hard-hit Caribbean country where he owned a home – and hoped to soon be serving as U.S. ambassador.
A Trump supporter, Manchester donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund. He was offered the Bahamas post the day after Mr. Trump was sworn in. Manchester said Trump told him, "I should probably be the ambassador to the Bahamas and you should be president."
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Making major party/campaign doners ambassadors has been going on for centuries. Obama did. Bush did it. Ditto Clinton, Bush 1, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Truman, FDR, and on and on.
I'll be damned if the media gets away with making this a Trump only crime.
They can just eat $%#@ and die!
Their incessant, selective reporting, lies, and innuendos brings the national frog jump closer and closer.
I gotcher pay-to-play scheme right here: clinton family foundation, bidens’ chicanery. Report THAT!
Whenever you Democrats find something Trump did that you don’t do every day as a matter of course, let me know, otherwise FOAD.
He was offered the post right after Trump’s victory.
The money was solicited only as his nomination was stuck in the Senate.
Big donors are solicited all the time.
Yeah, I couldn’t come up with enough $$$ to get posted to Winabago. Isn’t that in the south pacific or something? I may have had enough for the post on the Island of Moronica but didn’t really want to go there. As far as Dumbassistan——fuhgetaboutit.
As Steven Crowder so concisely put: The Democrats and the media must do everything they can “to not talk about Pedophile Island!”
I am getting so tired of MSN coming up on my computers with bogus, anti-Trump, biased main stories. This is what regular people see screaming in their faces when they open a browser.
It is so nasty and political.
Everyday propaganda, non-stop.
I deploy a lot of Azure VMs and when the browsers first come up, it’s set to MSN. I change it, immediately, of course, but they really ought to be ashamed of their Lefty editors.
No doubt, and the article acknowledges that historically one third of appointments have gone to big contributors.
This is different. When this guy was up for Senate conformation the RNC asked him for $500k - probably not unusual.
The problem is he replied that he couldn't do it then but if the confirmation went through he would pony up - and he copied Senate staffers working on the confirmation!
Even the Republican staffers thought this was over the line, reported it to the WH, and he was forced to withdraw his nomination.
Dan Rooney turned his entire friggin’ football team into a bolt-on appendage of the Obama campaign just so he could become ambassador to Ireland.
Now THAT was pay to play.
In NC, during Bill Clinton’s campaign, his two co-chairs were well rewarded. One received an ambassadorship, the other a federal judgeship.
Do you set the default home page to FreeRepublic? That would explode a lot of heads, but maybe some donations would roll in.
One name: Madeleine Albright.
I’m sure Joseph Kennedy really was the most highly qualified ambassador to England. /s
Possible pay-to-play scheme for Trump ambassador post uncovered
What does it IMPLY?
Nowhere in a glance does it point to the nominmation being withdrawn, or Trump doing the right thing, but rather, another anti-Trump big media slam headline.
File under:
Headlines that help Schiff's Impeachment Inquiry.
Hmm, I wonder how much that Ambassador to the Ukraine who wants to help take down Trump donated to the DNC?
Sometimes it's hard to get nuance in the headline.
I know it's a lost art but reading an article can be informative.
I think he accurately reflected the realities of the situation. While his nomination was pending, he was not allowed to do anything related to giving money. Once approved, he would be under no such restriction.
That seems like a statement of fact rather than any type of solicitation.
Ambassadorships have been the traditional reward to campaign financers going back to Jefferson the proclaimed founder of the DemonRat party.
Maybe, but if a baby fell overboard in New York harbor, and Trump walked out on the water, picked him up and walked back to the momma to give him to her, the MSN headline would be:
TRUMP CAN’T SWIM!
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