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Trump Offering Jobs for Officials’ Silence?
Are we witnessing an in-house quid pro quo?
We are being treated to perhaps the most brazen and blatant display of political corruption that this nation-state has ever experienced. Neither Nixon’s Watergate Scandal, Reagan’s Iran Contra Affair, Warren G. Harding’s Teapot Dome Scandal, nor even the thoroughly corrupt administration of Ulysses S. Grant — none of these past political and personal dances with the devil even come close to the exquisite professional and personal depravity, or the bottomless moral turpitude which define this current Trump regime, the Republican Party, and all of their sycophantic followers and enablers.
It is being widely reported that Donald Trump has promoted a top aide to acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to a top level position just weeks following his defiance of a House of Representatives’ subpoena to appear and testify before its intelligence committee.
Specifically, Trump has appointed Robert Blair as the “Special Representative for International Telecommunications Policy,” a job which tasks him to “promote a secure and reliable global telecommunications system,” according to Politico.
The White House has described Blair’s new position thusly:
He will support the Administration’s 5G efforts…
