Trump Sees Honor Systems As Something To Exploit: Fahrenthold | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

David Fahrenthold, reporter for the Washington Post, talks with Rachel Maddow about the nature of the corruption in Donald Trump's fraudulent charity and university and what investigators and likely pursuing as they look into the possibility of other fraudulent dealings in Trump's business. Aired on 12/24/19.
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Trump Sees Honor Systems As Something To Exploit: Fahrenthold | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

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  1. so…what is the FBI or IRS fckn supposed to be doin’? fraud seems to be profitable for those committing fraud and everyone’s doin’ it …apparently ..some stupid fckrs even voted for it

    1. Kersen Sour Not from his point of view…of course, his view is from the point of a room-temp IQ that reached a mediocre 73 at its peak and has headed downwards for quite a long time now. He hasn’t spent a night in jail yet, and that’s winning for him…

    1. It doesn’t seem to be a concern of his. So he may, on occasion, so something legal as long as it benefits him.

    2. Because he lies so much and yet He believes he is telling the truth it’s the same way with the things that he does that are illegal, he thinks they are legal or simply nothing wrong about doing them. He has no moral compass one way or another.

  2. Life is short , Trump go to do your business! Live people Alone! Give for people big gift in this Cristmas shut up and go! Russian Bots & Trolls cannot help you!

  3. And still Evangelists don’t mind.. Hope that some of them will see a light or have a vision or read the Bible or the documents. Start thinking themselves.

    1. @lima leaf frog All great points!
      They also totally ignore their own bible that in fact, tells them to NOT be part of the world; not to lie; to be kind to one another; to teach someone to fish so they won’t starve, etc etc.
      Their little bible tells THEM that THEY are hypocrites and will die for that.

      Perhaps they should read, at least,
      *Matthew **7:23*
      Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew
      you.
      Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

      Or this one that really sums up what those hypocrites really are:

      *1 John **4:20*
      Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister *is a liar*.
      For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, *whom they have not seen.*

      *1 Peter **2:16*
      Live as free people, but *do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil*;
      live as God’s slaves.

      There’s a ton more, of course. But that’s just a tiny sample of the IN-YOUR-FACE hypocrisy of trump, the entire GOP, their followers and yes, the internet TROLLS! 🙂

  4. There are very few, as starkly evocative, examples in history of what selling your soul to the devil, means as what Evangelicals have done here with Trump. Nobody in their right mind will ever take them seriously again. Or it would be mentioning them when describing a dark sect. That, they are absolutely the best example of.

  5. That is a very good point. Anything that relies on people playing by a set of a tacit, unwritten rules that rely on people valuing their reputation, morals and sense of self-worth more than whatever they could gain by ignoring those rules, is vulnerable to someone who values none of those things. Those people need actual consequences to keep them in line

    1. Steve   Having been in construction in NY, that was his business plan. Business contracts as well as the moral, ethical contract we all abide by, mean absolutely nothing to him

    2. When’s Rach going to apologize for lying to us for 3 years and then doubling down after the FISA report was released instead of coming clean? She had a lot of us fooled for a while but she is nothing but a propagandist, plain and simple.

    3. @thiskidkatits And you think, 3-4 years of more than 12,000 lies from TRUMP (?) and we don’t deserve 12,000 apologies? I would be surprised if we ever got “ONE.” Most of Trumps 12,000 lies are actually on TAPE! Provable and still he keeps on with the lies, and idiots keep on believing them. Why (?) because they are so F’ing GULLIABLE.

    1. @Chris B Yup. With trump’s low IQ and he’s clear misunderstanding of business, he would have never made it big without daddy’s money.
      It’s one reason why everything he touches fails and why he goes into bankrupts.

    2. When’s Rach going to apologize for lying to us for 3 years and then doubling down after the FISA report was released instead of coming clean? She had a lot of us fooled for a while but she is nothing but a propagandist, plain and simple.

    3. @Blondie SL tRUMP is the living exemplar of the saying….”how to get into a small business…..first start out in a large business. ” I believe that he blew all of Fred’s dough years ago, and that dirty Russian oligarchs’ money has been supporting him since…..that is why he bows and scrapes to Putin like a beaten dog, has private one-on-one meetings without any record keeping and is desperate to cover up all of his ”business/financial” and tax records. Putin owns the oligarchs, and therefore tRUMP as well.

    4. @TrumpTrain2020 Really? Don’t you know any other words in English? How’s the weather in St. Petersburg? That seems to be your only sentence, are you a BOT? Or just Russian?

  6. Wait a minute… we’ve been told Trump is all about anti-corruption. Maybe it’s just other peoples corruption. In an election, just his main rival.

    1. Suomy Nona BAHAHAHAHAHAHA—suuuuure he’s anti-corruption, which to him means he’s against anyone else’s corruption if it has no benefit to him, and he will call corruption or other charges against anyone else he doesn’t like or wants to harm. He’s a miserable s.o.b. who projects his own corruption onto others and his lies give cover to his enablers who are infected with his filth.

    1. @Scott Gordon I do remember that!
      He told some of his people that he didn’t think he’d win and didn’t really want to. Then once in the job, bitched about how “hard” it was.
      This is why he spends all day just watching TV and playing on the internet.

      We all have to get rid of trump and the entire GOP!!!
      Seriously, ALL of them need to be gone. We need to get the country back into civility again.

    2. @Ariaflame Oh that’s pretty clear.
      Remember he just “moved” to Florida so he’d be out of the jurisdiction of Southern District, of New York.
      I don’t know enough about enter-state laws, so I don’t know how SDNY will get him
      I sure hope that they do.
      He needs to be brought down a peg or 500!

    3. When’s Rach going to apologize for lying to us for 3 years and then doubling down after the FISA report was released instead of coming clean? She had a lot of us fooled for a while but she is nothing but a propagandist, plain and simple.

    4. @Blondie SL Not too sure but crimes committed in NYC should be prosecuted there still, I do believe. Don’t think moving will change that, I don’t think there is an extradition issue! 🤔

  7. in his business practices, he ignores the honor system, too…just ask all the contractors he’s stiffed over the years lol

    1. @Laura Stevenson Those are the same people who will watch the same movie several times and expect different endings! 🙂

    1. When’s Rach going to apologize for lying to us for 3 years and then doubling down after the FISA report was released instead of coming clean? She had a lot of us fooled for a while but she is nothing but a propagandist, plain and simple.

  8. Why do we, in the most advanced country in the world, allow a person with as low morals, ethics, low academic achievement (not counting the low intellect, and with so many bad qualities to be our “leader”…..? Does that sound appropriate? or beneficial to our Country?

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