Still under investgation by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, still misusing family 'charities', still tweeting his venom and spite and still on a semi-permanent golfing holiday while his administration falls into chaos.
HuffPost, 18 December 2018:
WASHINGTON ―
President Donald Trump, clad in a golf shirt and golf hat under a warm
South Florida sun, hitting a drive off the tee while Secret Service agents
protecting him are forced to work without paychecks, possibly for weeks,
because Congress wouldn’t pay for Trump’s “Great Wall.”
Such is the nightmare
public relations scenario facing the White House less than a week before the
Department of Homeland Security and other key government agencies run out of
money at midnight Friday while Trump is scheduled to fly that day to his
Mar-a-Lago resort for a 16-day vacation.
The U.S. Secret Service
is among the half-dozen agencies in the quarter-million-employee DHS, which also
includes the U.S. Coast Guard and the Transportation Security Administration.
Other major agencies facing a shutdown include the departments of state,
treasury and interior. Many of the affected employees would be deemed essential
and be forced to work anyway. None would be paid during the shutdown and would
have to get by on savings or short-term loans.
Rick Tyler, a former
aide to the man who engineered the last extended government shutdown in 2013,
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, said that Trump will cave in the days to
come.
“The only leverage in
shutting down the government is who gets the blame for it. And he’s already
taken the blame for it,” Tyler said, predicting that Trump will approve
whatever Congress gives him.......
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