You bought it
by Robert Reich.
1. He called Hillary Clinton a crook.
You bought it.
Then he paid $25 million to settle a fraud lawsuit.
2. He said he’d release his tax returns,
eventually.
You bought it.
He hasn’t, and says he never will.
3. He said he’d divest himself from his financial
empire, to avoid any conflicts of interest.
You bought it.
He is still heavily involved in his businesses,
manipulates the stock market on a daily basis, and has more conflicts of
interest than can even be counted.
4. He said Clinton was in the pockets of Goldman
Sachs, and would do whatever they said.
You bought it.
He then proceeded to put half a dozen Goldman Sachs
executives in positions of power in his administration.
5. He said he’d surround himself with all the best and
smartest people.
You bought it.
He nominated theocratic loon Mike Pence for Vice
President. A white supremacist named Steve Bannon is his most trusted
confidant. Dr. Ben Carson, the world’s greatest idiot savant brain surgeon, is
in charge of HUD. Russian quisling Rex Tillerson is Secretary of State.
6. He said he’d be his own man, beholden to no one.
You bought it.
He then appointed Betsy DeVos as Secretary of
Education, whose only “qualifications” were the massive amounts of cash she
donated to his campaign.
7. He said he would “drain the swamp” of Washington
insiders.
You bought it.
He then admitted that was just a corny slogan he
said to fire up the rubes during the rallies, and that he didn’t mean it.
8. He said he knew more about strategy and terrorism
than the Generals did.
You bought it.
He promptly gave the green light to a disastrous
raid in Yemen- even though all his Generals said it would be a terrible idea.
This raid resulted in the deaths of a Navy SEAL, an 8-year old American girl,
and numerous civilians. The actual target of the raid escaped, and no useful
intel was gained.
9. He said Hillary Clinton couldn’t be counted on
in times of crisis.
You bought it.
He didn’t even bother overseeing that raid in
Yemen; and instead spent the time hate-tweeting the New York Times, and
sleeping.
10. He called CNN, the Washington Post and the New
York Times “fake news” and said they were his enemy.
You bought it.
He now gets all his information from Breitbart,
Gateway Pundit, and InfoWars.
11. He called Barack Obama “the
vacationer-in-Chief” and accused him of playing more rounds of golf than Tiger
Woods. He promised to never be the kind of president who took cushy vacations
on the taxpayer’s dime, not when there was so much important work to be done.
You bought it.
He took his first vacation after 11 days in office.
On the taxpayer’s dime.
And went golfing.
And that’s just the first month.