{"id":562,"date":"2017-03-31T18:48:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T23:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=562"},"modified":"2017-03-31T18:48:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T23:48:23","slug":"trump-and-his-uber-wealthy-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/562","title":{"rendered":"Trump And His Uber-Wealthy Administration…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starting Friday evening, the White House\u00a0will begin to release\u00a0financial disclosure forms filed by about 180 members of the Trump administration who are either commissioned officers or paid more than $161,755.<\/a><\/p>\n

Already, the administration is bragging that its members are way wealthier than those who worked for former president Barack Obama \u2014 a point of pride that doesn’t quite match the president’s campaign pledge to \u201cdrain the swamp\u201d of wealthy GOP donors, lifelong political operatives and those who are simply out-of-touch with everyday Americans.<\/a><\/p>\n

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It’s no secret that Trump, who brags about his immense wealth, has filled his administration with fellow uber-wealthy people. The billionaires include Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, whose family started a marketing company; Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, a venture capitalist who has focused on buying businesses in distress; and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs executive, hedge fund executive and Hollywood financier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump and GOP hypocrisy in a nutshell.<\/p>\n

The rest complete with video HERE<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Starting Friday evening, the White House\u00a0will begin to release\u00a0financial disclosure forms filed by about 180 members of the Trump administration who are either commissioned officers or paid more than $161,755. Already, the administration is bragging that its members are way wealthier than those who worked for former president Barack Obama \u2014 a point of pride … Continue reading Trump And His Uber-Wealthy Administration…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-94","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":534,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/534","url_meta":{"origin":562,"position":0},"title":"Trey Gowdy All In For Nunes (and Trump)…","author":"Les","date":"March 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Rep. 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