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JudyM

(29,262 posts)
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 12:36 AM Nov 2016

Bernie Sanders: Trump already breaking campaign promise to drain the swamp

Source: Washington Post


Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) on Tuesday took aim at Donald Trump’s inclusion of lobbyists and industry executives on his transition team, blasting the president-elect for going back on a campaign promise to keep special interests out of Washington before he has even stepped foot in the White House.

“Mr. Trump described himself as a populist taking on the establishment, someone who would ‘drain the swamp,'” Sanders said. “Unfortunately what we’re beginning to see is what I feared, which is a lot of what Mr. Trump said to get votes is not what he intends to do as president of the United States.”
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Sanders and Whitehouse said Trump should implement changes to lobbying laws that Trump proposed on the campaign trail: a five-year ban on members of Congress and executive branch officials who want to become lobbyists after leaving government, and a lifetime ban on senior executive branch officials from lobbying for foreign governments.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/11/15/bernie-sanders-trump-already-breaking-campaign-promise-to-drain-the-swamp/



Great that Bernie and Whitehouse are calling tRump out on the obvious because the MSM needs to hit harder on this central-to-his-campaign about-face.

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Bernie Sanders: Trump already breaking campaign promise to drain the swamp (Original Post) JudyM Nov 2016 OP
Doesn't look to me like he's draining the swamp... Raster Nov 2016 #1
Or, in Whitehouse's words, It doesnt look like theyre draining the swamp, it looks like theyre JudyM Nov 2016 #4
Oh, he reads the New York Times frazzled Nov 2016 #2
What makes Bernie irrelevant? Beartracks Nov 2016 #3
Cuz he's not a Clinton I guess. ErikJ Nov 2016 #7
He dared to challenge a Clinton. Feeling the Bern Nov 2016 #10
Post removed Post removed Nov 2016 #6
I learned to love Hillary and voted for her. C Moon Nov 2016 #9
I've learned from this election that the Dems need a scapegoat Feeling the Bern Nov 2016 #11
You realize Sheldon Whitehouse said the same thing too. Is he "not very relevant" either Feeling the Bern Nov 2016 #12
no, admins have indicated that the discussion can now be more broad than some Kali Nov 2016 #18
Well put, Kali... IMO. JudyM Nov 2016 #19
Bernie #shadowprez. At least to me. He seems very comfortable zonkers Nov 2016 #5
Woo hoo! C Moon Nov 2016 #8
The Grating Orange Hype should be called out at every turn. Solly Mack Nov 2016 #13
someone said he drained the swamp and the scum he found was bannon, giuliani , etc JI7 Nov 2016 #14
Ha, that sounds about right. Lots more where they came from, too, unfortunately... JudyM Nov 2016 #16
He did drain the swamp, he just WhiteTara Nov 2016 #15
Senator Whitehouse is my Senator from RI bdamomma Nov 2016 #17
Terrific letter! Hopefully he will absorb some of its importance. JudyM Nov 2016 #21
Yeah Bernie that's the worst thing Generator Nov 2016 #20

JudyM

(29,262 posts)
4. Or, in Whitehouse's words, It doesnt look like theyre draining the swamp, it looks like theyre
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 12:48 AM
Nov 2016

pouring the swamp into the transition,” Whitehouse said. “And if nothing changes, they’ll be pouring the swamp into the Oval Office as well.”

Swamp creatures!

frazzled

(18,402 posts)
2. Oh, he reads the New York Times
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 12:45 AM
Nov 2016

And other newspapers and blogs that have been writing about this story for days.

Can we stop having Bernie Sanders posts here? He's really not very relevant. The mainstream media, as you like to call it, had this already.

Response to frazzled (Reply #2)

C Moon

(12,219 posts)
9. I learned to love Hillary and voted for her.
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 02:32 AM
Nov 2016

Bernie pushed for Hillary.
There's no need to take things back to the primaries.
We're all in this scary mess together: we need to stop the GOP madness.

 

Feeling the Bern

(3,839 posts)
11. I've learned from this election that the Dems need a scapegoat
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 04:49 AM
Nov 2016

I believe they will point at Bernie.

 

Feeling the Bern

(3,839 posts)
12. You realize Sheldon Whitehouse said the same thing too. Is he "not very relevant" either
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 04:52 AM
Nov 2016

Or is it because Bernie has an "I" next to his name and Whitehouse has a "D." I guess Angus King and his "I" isn't relevant either.

You really need to tone back the venom towards fellow liberals.

Kali

(55,019 posts)
18. no, admins have indicated that the discussion can now be more broad than some
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 01:14 PM
Nov 2016

would obviously choose. Sanders is very relevant and not listening to his message(s) would be repeating some of the mistakes that led to the results we got in this election.

 

zonkers

(5,865 posts)
5. Bernie #shadowprez. At least to me. He seems very comfortable
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 12:52 AM
Nov 2016

doing what he's doing. Being Bernie.

Solly Mack

(90,779 posts)
13. The Grating Orange Hype should be called out at every turn.
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 04:57 AM
Nov 2016

He should be rebuked day in and day out.

But his supporters, and those determined to pretend all is normal, will turn each and every lie and hypocrisy into a virtue or dismiss it as simply a campaign promise (and campaign promises are all too often dismissed as a device to get elected and not something that will happen).

bdamomma

(63,917 posts)
17. Senator Whitehouse is my Senator from RI
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 11:47 AM
Nov 2016

and I have been sending him e mails everyday to tell him to not buckle to this white supremacy stuff.

read this open letter

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-sheldon-whitehouse/an-open-letter-to-preside_b_12902500.html

JudyM

(29,262 posts)
21. Terrific letter! Hopefully he will absorb some of its importance.
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 06:56 PM
Nov 2016

I'm a native Rhode Islander, too, proud of whitehouse stepping into the fray.

 

Generator

(7,770 posts)
20. Yeah Bernie that's the worst thing
Wed Nov 16, 2016, 06:53 PM
Nov 2016

Not. neo-Nazi's in the white house and Putin's role in our elections are the travesty of the decade so far for me.

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