5 different members of Trump's cabinet were caught in scandals this week

[Arkansas Granny]

Five different members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet were ensnared in scandals this week, most notably Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, who previously declined to prosecute Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire accused of molesting dozens of underage girls over the last two decades.
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The White House has reacted carefully to the news, with Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders stating Friday that officials were “looking into” the matter and calling it a “very complicated case.”

Acosta is hardly alone, however: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, and Heather Nauert, Trump’s former pick for U.N. ambassador, have also been consumed by scandal in recent days — and the sheer volume and pace of those revelations have been nearly overwhelming, experts say.

“The pace and seriousness of these scandals is anything but normal,” Tribe said in an email to ThinkProgress Friday. “It’s truly unprecedented. No presidential administration in U.S. history has been so ensnared in scandal.”

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-cabinet-scandals-one-week-a682044660e7/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

And his poll numbers are rising. Are his supporters really that stupid or do they just not give a damn?

[RockCreek]

1. And these are just the newly revealed scandals

Not the hundreds of ongoing.
Not the ones from cabinet members who have resigned.
Not the ones yet to be revealed.

[olegramps]

15. What can be expected when a immoral crime boss leads their party. He attacts only the worst.

[enough]

2. Doesn't seem to be much in the way of outrage. NT

[CousinIT]

3. There's more outrage about DiFi and Klobuchar. n/t

[c-rational]

9. Bingo, where is the non stop media coverage, oh I forgot, M$M is in on it also.

[Vinca]

4. I don't know a thing about a couple of those, but I know everything about Jussie.

The news media gave more coverage to Klobuchar eating a salad with her comb than Don's mob contacts, bankruptcies and fake university combined.

[malaise]

5. Only five?

This is a kakistocracy

[calimary]

6. That's just in the past week or so.

They’re almost literally bombarding America with their scandals and many-varied kinds of chicanery!

Pardon the loud, blunt observation but WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON??????!?!?!?

Question for trump supporters: “and you’re okay with this? You’ll let this one slide? So how many ‘this ones’ have there been by now?”

Would they shrug it off if a Democrat had done even a tenth of this?

They’re seriously okay with this. Confounding to say the least.

[DemocracyMouse]

13. They literally don't know it's happening. It's too complicated.

They'll say "tell me what's a cabinet member again?"

I know this because I was asked the question by a perfectly nice American.

[malaise]

14. Not just the Con's supporters

M$Greedia give them all a pass - it would be 24/7 breaking news if these were Dems.

[wishstar]

8. Ryan Zinke investigation made the news last week too

and there was some reporting about Rick Perry involvement in the schemes to let Saudi Arabia get nuclear technology

[True Blue American]

17. What about the huge Kushner loan?

Who loaned the money? He was broke last year.



https://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushners-family-business-got-30-million-israeli-firm-ahead-trump-visit-773703

[George II]

10. That's what he called "extreme vetting"! I think his numbers are up because they're...

...manipulating the way they conduct them so he remains somewhat viable to generate interest.

[NCjack]

11. Senate Majority Leader McConnell is the lynch pin that prevents opening

the gate valve to drain the swamp.

[lark]

12. The answer is - both.

Some of his supporters are just dead serious stupid, more are haters and the ones that cover up everything for drumpf are just greedy, venal rich people who want to cash in on America for their own profit and fuck everyone else.

[yardwork]

16. But so-called Justice Democrats went after Diane Feinstein instead.

[crazytown]

18. "Complicated" translation "Toast"

Deny Deny Deny. If this WH says it’s complicated, he’s guilty as hell.

[IronLionZion]

19. Both

His supporters are really that stupid and heartless

[Blue Owl]

20. Inside that cabinet is a lazy susan of criminals

n/t