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 Trumps 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 were 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.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...in fact, looks like he's restocking it!
JudyM
(29,262 posts)pouring the swamp into the transition, Whitehouse said. And if nothing changes, theyll be pouring the swamp into the Oval Office as well.
Swamp creatures!
frazzled
(18,402 posts)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.
Beartracks
(12,820 posts)==================
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)or a woman.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Response to frazzled (Reply #2)
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C Moon
(12,219 posts)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)I believe they will point at Bernie.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)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)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.
JudyM
(29,262 posts)zonkers
(5,865 posts)doing what he's doing. Being Bernie.
C Moon
(12,219 posts)Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)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).
JI7
(89,260 posts)JudyM
(29,262 posts)WhiteTara
(29,721 posts)pulled all the scum on the bottom and brought it into his cabinet.
bdamomma
(63,917 posts)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)I'm a native Rhode Islander, too, proud of whitehouse stepping into the fray.
Generator
(7,770 posts)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.