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Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History

From Gronk <invalide@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics
Subject Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History
Date 2025-04-29 23:59 -0600
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Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> Bradley K. Sherman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>> | First -- and why aren't more people saying this? -- what
>> | the hell was the Treasury secretary doing giving a
>> | closed-door briefing on a significant policy change that
>> | hadn't yet been officially announced? Isn't that a setup
>> | for large-scale insider trading? Indeed, attendees at that
>> | conference surely made market bets before Bessent's remarks
>> | became public.
>> |
>> | And since when are major policy announcements by government
>> | officials made off the record to closed private-sector
>> | meetings? One even wonders whether Bessent was announcing
>> | policy or making it: Did Trump back him up only after the
>> | fact?
>> |
>> | The content of his remarks aside, what was Bessent even
>> | doing at this event? Senior government officials aren't
>> | supposed to be helping investment banks entertain their
>> | clients.
>> <https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/cronyism-capitulation-and-chaos>
> 
>      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal
> 
>      Before the Watergate scandal, Teapot Dome was regarded as the "greatest and
>      most sensational scandal in the history of American politics". It

Also a republican scandal.

>      permanently damaged the reputation of the Harding administration, already
>      hurt by its handling of the Great Railroad Strike of 1922 and Harding's
>      1922 veto of the Bonus Bill.
> 
>      Congress subsequently passed permanent legislation granting itself subpoena
>      power over tax records of any U.S. citizen, regardless of position.
>      These laws are also considered to have empowered Congress generally.
> 

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Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> - 2025-03-29 03:07 -0400
  Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Skeeter <none@none.com> - 2025-03-29 08:56 -0600
    Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-10 13:10 +0000
      Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-14 13:05 +0000
        Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-16 00:17 +0000
          Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-16 14:55 +0000
            Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-17 19:50 +0000
              Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-23 12:50 +0000
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-04-23 12:20 -0400
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Gronk <invalide@invalid.invalid> - 2025-04-29 23:59 -0600
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-30 12:55 +0000
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> - 2025-05-01 07:15 -0400
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-01 12:25 +0000
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Creon <creon@creon.earth> - 2025-05-01 15:15 +0000
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Rudy Canoza <rc.@hendrie.con> - 2025-05-01 08:56 -0700
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-01 12:26 +0000
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> - 2025-05-02 07:04 -0400
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-02 22:38 +0000
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> - 2025-05-03 09:14 -0400
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-05 22:19 +0000
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-08 13:36 +0000
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> - 2025-05-09 07:36 -0400
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-11 12:29 +0000
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-17 12:02 +0000
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-05-27 11:04 +0000
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History Rudy Canoza <rc.@hendrie.con> - 2025-04-23 09:33 -0700
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-23 19:51 +0000
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History J Carlson <j_carlson@gmx.com> - 2025-04-23 12:56 -0700
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-24 20:06 +0000
                Re: Trump Preps Most Corrupt Administration In U.S. History bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) - 2025-04-29 19:11 +0000

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