Thursday, November 22, 2018

Hypo-Trump (hypocracy in the dumpster admin.)


Emails and information security
Trump said: “Hillary Clinton’s attacks on you display the same sense of arrogance and entitlement that led her to violate federal law as secretary of state, hide and delete her emails ... ”
"We can’t hand over our government to someone whose deepest, darkest secrets may be in the hands of our enemies.”



What Trump has done: Before Ivanka Trump, it was Kushner who used private email in an apparent violation of federal records laws. Beyond that, President Trump is continuing to use his personal cellphone. He has done this even as he has been told that China and Russia are monitoring the phone — exactly what he worried about when it came to such countries potentially hacking Clinton’s server.



Foreign governments allegedly buying access
What Trump said: “Hillary Clinton ran the State Department like a personal hedge fund. It’s hard to tell where the Clinton Foundation ends and where the State Department begins.
What Trump has done: Another of Trump’s favorite knocks on Clinton was the idea that foreign governments were buying access to and favors from the Clintons. But since he has become president, foreign dignitaries and would-be influencers have frequented Trump’s hotel in Washington — apparently in hopes of currying favor. The foreign clientele is at the center of an emoluments lawsuit that has proceeded.



Intelligence briefings
What Trump said: “Fact — Obama does not read his intelligence briefings nor does he get briefed in person by the CIA or DOD. Too busy I guess!”
“Obama has missed 58% of his intelligence briefings. But our president does make 100% of his fundraisers.”


What Trump has done: Trump’s criticism was always overcooked. Obama didn’t always get an in-person briefing, but Obama often read his daily briefing instead. Trump does neither. He has taken the briefing once a week or less. He reportedly doesn’t read it. “I get it when I need it,” Trump said. “I’m, like, a smart person…”



Divulging classified information

What Trump said: “We can’t have someone in the Oval Office who doesn’t understand the meaning of the word ‘confidential’ or ‘classified.’"



“Like the Cold War, we also need to fight this battle by collecting intelligence and then protecting our classified secrets. Hillary Clinton has taught us all how much of a problem we have with cybersecurity.”



What Trump has done: In an Oval Office meeting last year with officials from our Cold War opponent, Russia, Trump divulged highly classified information about a valuable stream of intelligence in the Middle East. As president, Trump is able to declassify anything he wants, but the intelligence community fretted that the information would tip the Russians off to what the program entailed and who was involved, which was a closely guarded secret.

Executive orders to change the law
What Trump said: “Repubs must not allow Pres Obama to subvert the Constitution of the US for his own benefit & because he is unable to negotiate w/ Congress.”
“My contract calls for the appointment of judges who will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. Hillary wants to go even further than Obama on illegal executive action. I will terminate every single illegal Obama executive order and will restore the constitutional rule of law.”



What Trump has done: Trump has used executive orders to institute, among other things, a ban on travel from majority-Muslim countries and attempts to ban those arriving at the Southern border from receiving asylum. He has often had those orders halted by the courts. And this month, Trump even floated the idea of getting rid of birthright citizenship via executive action, which most experts regard as illegally trying to change the Constitution with the stroke of a pen.

Golf
What Trump said: I’ll let this tweet sum it up.
Here are his previous tweets about presidents and golf: pic.twitter.com/66361Bgk3b

What Trump has done: Trump has golfed far more and far more often than Obama ever did.









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