CNN Panel Laughs at Kayleigh McEnany Saying Trump Money to Bondi Exposes the System

In a just world, when Lying Bill Clinton made an accusation about Trump in this matter, a bum would have jumped on the stage and beat the lying teeth out of PedoBill's face.

And his SS detail would have just stood there, because they knew what a piece of lying dogMitt he is.

"It all depends on what the meaning of 'is beating', is..."

Two measures I want to see signed into law in early 2017:
1) Annual expense of any sort for ex-Presidents capped at $100,000 each.
2) Ex federal office-holders are not allowed to earn fees from book royalties, speeches, merchandise, or lobbying for 5 years after leaving office, and cannot receive proceeds in advance for any deals set for after the 5 years is up.

Must apply to all, including Obama.

That’s interesting, why do you want to enact those rules? It seems anti-capitalist to me at first blush: I don’t like the idea of restricting a person’s ability to earn a living. I do like the anti-lobbying provision, but what is your problem with speaking fees or book royalties?

I could also see this as being something which would be good to apply to high Executive-branch officials, like Cabinet Secretaries, Presidents, Vice-Presidents and their wives; but is it really a problem if a two-term Congressman from Missouri writes a book right after leaving the House? Or a long-time retiring Senator starts taking money for speaking at corporate events?

I guess I just don’t understand why you want these rules.

I seek to end the practice of publishers, universities, corporations, etc., using sweetheart deals in a system of corruption that funnels millions to favored politicians, for partisan political purposes. Politicians are too often selling their recent “public service” for private gain, and/or self-promotion. In many cases these deals are little more than bribes for past services rendered, or expected in the future, or a way of making large political contributions. Publishers often lose money on these blockbuster book deals — making money for the company isn’t necessarily their motive. The speeches these pols give are obviously not worth hundreds of thousands of dollars; it’s not the speech that is being paid for. The Clintons have set a major precedent by exploiting their “service” into a massive corruption scheme, to the extent that it subverts democracy. Without the Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton would not be the Dem’s nominee.

I am anti “crony-capitalist”. Selling insider knowledge and residual influence in government is not a “free market” endeavor. If politicians have wisdom or historic gems to share as statesmen, they can donate the proceeds to a real charity (unconnected to themselves). Decent ex-pols donate back their speaking fees all the time. Work that does not trade upon their government service should be exempted (though deciding what does and what doesn’t would be a mess), and I would be fine with the time limit being no more than the person’s time in office. Biggest concern is high office (P, VP, Cabinet) — I don’t care about the 2-term Congressmen, or $1500 speaking fees at the level of genuine honoraria. It’s the large-scale bribe laundering I want to stop.

This is probably more explanation than you desired.

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