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!”
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.
One name: Madeleine Albright.
I’m sure Joseph Kennedy really was the most highly qualified ambassador to England. /s
Hmm, I wonder how much that Ambassador to the Ukraine who wants to help take down Trump donated to the DNC?
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.
Madeleine Albright was a big Democrat donor who became secretary of state.
Pivot away from the impeachment trial.
They know that Ciaramella and Vindman are going to be shot down. Gotta find a new angle!
Anyone remember that rich Obama era ambassador/mega donor who knew nothing about the country he was being posted to? George Tsunis was his name IIRC.
1. John F. Kennedy’s father BOUGHT the position of U.S. Ambassador to Britain.
2. The entire U.S. history is filled with U.S. ambassador positions filled with persons who were large donors to the election campaigns of the president that appointed them - by both Dim and GOP presidents.
3. You might say without being entirely incorrect, that ambassadorships as a quid pro quo have a time honored bi-partisan history in American politics.
4, So why the complaint now? The “Trump impeachment” deal is really about the arrogant deep state - particularly in intelligence and foreign affairs - complaining that the current president knows all to well that they are not in charge, he is. And they resent it. The Dims are all to happy to grant the arrogance of the Deep State that it should be left to run things and elections don’t matter. Why? The Dims more than the GOP have filled the Deep State with their own - they and the Deep State are a mutual admiration society.
CBS wants Trump to stop looking at Ukraine.
Every Ambassador for 50 years has bought their seat with donations.
This is why the State Dept holds them in such low regards.
They do all they work, the Ambassador gets all the glory.
So, they literally have an e-mail from Hillary leaked called “Pay-to-play” which has the donations to the Clinton Foundation listed in a spreadsheet and there’s silence, but Trump accepts an inauguration donation from someone after he’d already put them in for the position (you don’t get a position like that with 1 day’s notice) and somehow that’s criminal.
Wow.
We have legions of data about Clinton’s illegal acts and not a word from these monsters.