As a decades-long public servant, this is my opinion, too.
I worked with high profile elected individuals (judges) and was privy to some of their most private information. I would never have used it for personal gain. But then, I wasn’t ever put in the horrible position SWW was, either.
I can tell you that if any judge had ever presented me with an NDA to sign, I’d have flung it back and quit my job on the spot. I was a public servant and my oath was to the public. Government is not like the private sector and it shouldn’t be. We all have an obligation to disclose information that is potentially damaging to the public.
SWW may well have been protecting the public good if it can be shown that she revealed potential campaign funds fraud. And if so, that NDA isn’t going to be worth a damn in front of a non-partisan judge. As was pointed out by @Maus_Magill, we have security clearances to protect disclosures of national security information.
If you don’t want your dirty laundry aired in public, don’t run for public office.
Some good news, probably paywalled but no other major sites have the story up yet that I see. Maybe this will give Trump his heart attack when he rages on Twitter
It’s not that long ago that Trump was raging at Barr over Barr’s announcement that the other “gotcha, Dems” investigation, the Russian-probe one, separate from the unmasking operation (i.e. the one headed by John Durham) wouldn’t result in any juicy releases before November 3.*
So it’s pretty likely that ol’ Billy Boy is not in Donald’s good graces, tonight.
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It is good news, but the outcome wasn’t much in dispute. That wasn’t the point for opening the investigation, was it? And its purpose has been served. Few will even remember this was a thing.
I am so looking forward to Bill Barr’s indictments.
If SWW’s description is correct, the White House canceled all the “Gratuitous Service” agreements at the same time because there was a problem with the agreement. Granted, it was just SWW and one of her friends that had that type of agreement, but SWW was snitty because it looked like she had been fired. I suspect the problem with the agreement was the lack of consideration.
Frankly, it sounded like something that someone made up because they didn’t know what to do with this unpaid friend of Melania that kept acting like she was in charge of everything. It was mostly just bizarre.
But there was something that SWW said that could be a problem for the Trumps. Most of the 26 million that passed through her shell company ultimately went to things like space rental, food and music for the inaugural events and she only cleared about 500K personally. Which is a lot for less than two months work, even if you worked really hard. But she justifies this, in part, “because then she worked free for Melania for a year.”
Which would mean that she didn’t work free for a year, but the Inaugural Committee paid her salary. Which is illegal. Add it to the list.
Glad to see more “telling it lke it is” reporting with a Lisa Desjardins segment yesterday on PBS, referring to a Mark Meadows interview dodge as more “dirty politics”.
So the moron, who first did not know Puerto Rico is part of the United States of America, and then moved on to wanting to sell the place, now wants the island’s residents to, get this, vote for him in the general elecrion next month!
This steady diet of nothingberders with two nothingpatties and bland nothingsauce with a side order of nothing might eventually slim him down to 239 pounds!
Surprisingly, the issue there is not that he’s being horrifyingly sexist but that he’s being horrifyingly racist. He’s claiming he’s “saved their neighborhoods” by weakening regulations designed to reduce housing discrimination and saying that Obama brought “crime” (nudge nudge wink wink) to their neighborhoods.
