Donald Trump gave sizable holiday gifts to four White House aides, according to new financial disclosures released by the administration.
The gifts of $45,000 each to executive assistant Natalie Harp, communications adviser Margo Martin, and deputy director of Oval Office operations Chamberlain Harris as well as a $20,000 gift for director of Oval Office operations Walt Nauta were noted in the staffers’ annual financial disclosure forms that were published by the administration last week. Harp, Martin and Harris make $150,000 annually and Nauta is paid $175,000 a year, according to the White House’s salary disclosure report to Congress.
A White House official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Trump “has a longstanding practice of giving Christmas gifts to people in his orbit, including at times employees and aides, both in government and in his time in the private sector.”
This is some Trump 1 libshit scandal. Where are the fucking epstein files?
She’s pretty likely to be a russian spy, this is the money they caught changing hands. She also is the gatekeeper of who gets to see him, and wants to be (so probably is), in on every conversation he has.
I really want to see a new federal oversight agency for this shit.
Every since Bill lied about sexually abusing his interns, there’s been this push to never hold any president accountable for anything, in office or after.
Obviously the Republicans are going to have terrible shit, but so will Obama and Biden.
We need to hold all of them accountable regardless of letter by name, normalize auditing what prior administrations were up to, and charging people when they find shit like this.
Like “we should hold presidential admins accountable” should be something we all agree on at this point.
You think the lack of presidential accountability started with… Bill Clinton?
Iran-Contra and Watergate would like a word.
Watergate made Richard Nixon resign…
From that (there’s literally a memo about it in Nixons library) came Faux News.
Bill Clinton was the rise of neoliberalism. And a 35 year detour it took the democratic party down the same road Republicans took.
Before Slick Willy, Dems tried to hold politicians responsible.
So:
Every since Bill lied about sexually abusing his interns, there’s been this push to never hold any president accountable for anything, in office or after.
I stand by it, even the autocorrect typos.
I don’t think it’s a unique view that neoliberals act like Republicans and had a death grip on the party from 91-25.
We can’t waste this opportunity now that they don’t
I really want to see a new federal oversight agency for this shit.
You mean like …gestures wildly at congress and scotus…?
If you put your coins, keys, and phone in the same pocket, your the keys are gonna scratch the phone and the coins aren’t gonna do shit to stop it.
Same things happening here. They’re all in the same pocket. That’s your problem, right there.
I don’t disagree, but the problem is that once you set up a particular oversight mechanism to monitor an official office like the Presidency, it is ripe for abuse. Just imagine what Republicans did to the Supreme Court, but laid as a boobytrap to cut any Democratic President off at the kneees. I think the Founders had it correct there, giving the Presidency broad powers but giving the Legislature equally broad oversight authority, because the Legislature answers to the People every two years.
It’s not the founders’ fault that the Republicans in Congress choose to abandon that oversight when the President breaks laws to push their collective agenda.
The founders didn’t really give the Presidency that many powers, things just kinda devolved that way over the years because Congress didn’t want to make tough votes, e.g. the Vietnam war wasn’t ever technically a war because Congress didn’t want to own it by declaring one, so they just told Eisenhower/Kennedy/LBJ/Nixon to figure it out for them with a bunch of vaguely worded resolutions and lots of military funding in budgets.
Also, it is the founders’ fault that they gave us a system with an undemocratic Senate where Wyoming gets as many votes as California that distorts everything in our politics because they wanted to protect the little state government fiefdoms they’d made for themselves.
Republicans have wanted revenge for impeaching Nixon. Theyve never been able to get it, so they figure the next best thing is to keep abusing power
Is that coincidentally the cost of a secretive abortion?
The cost of a blow job is high for the Orange Pedo.
When you take the smell into account, it doesn’t seem like such a good deal
Shmegma and diaper rash
😨🤢🤮. 🖕 For that thought
The trickling down has begun!
Paid for by who I wonder
not his fucking pocket. guaranteed
Awfully early for a Christmas gift. More like a fluffer fee.
Why would they even call this a christmas gift? It doesn’t make any sense. Hopefully it means he doesn’t think he’ll be around for christmas
They very carefully didn’t say this was a Christmas gift. They say they were “holiday gifts” and then say trump gives Christmas gifts.
As if it’s normal to give “Labor Day gifts” or whatever. Just the usual normalization of corruption and insanity.
The annual financial disclosure forms were released recently, which tells us nothing about which part of the year the gifts were given in. Certainly plausible that they could have been made at Christmas.
They have trillions and trillions coming in from his trade wars
45 k?
come on
Christmas presents? more like hush money
