The Rutledge Report, Part II: Her record, including her ties to Donald Trump
January 24, 20219:58 am
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge continues to add chapters to the book of her public record, generally lamentable particularly in her devotion to
Donald Trump.
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The latest chapter, as I mentioned earlier, is an outlay of what likely will exceed a quarter of a million dollars in public money on partisan assistance in redistricting that could have been done at no additional cost by her existing staff.
The event prompts me to share something I’d been holding in reserve.
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For your Sunday reading, a summary of the span of Rutledge’s Arkansas political career. It includes the unconstitutional public spending, for which repayments are now being sought court, to prevent the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
NBC newsman Tom Brokaw is hanging up his microphone.
Brokaw, 80, is retiring after a 55-year career with NBC, the network s news division announced Friday. He holds the distinction of being the only person to helm all of NBC News three signature shows: Today, NBC Nightly News and Meet the Press.
The South Dakota native plans to spend time with his wife, Meredith, three daughters and grandchildren, and he says he ll remain active as a journalist and author. His first book, The Greatest Generation, was a huge success, coining a name for the generation of Americans who lived through the Great Depression and fought in World War II.
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Donald Trump did not think he was going to win the election against Hillary Clinton back in 2016.
Many around him acknowledged his candidacy was a brand-building marketing ploy, further moving up the stock value of his celebrity status, helping him to build another level on to his debt-laced real estate house of cards.
Trump had gone bankrupt a number of times but had always worked out deals that largely kept him whole, giving him lavish spending allowances, as long as he continued to be the flamboyant, attention-drawing, playboy mogul that is Donald Trump.
He had become the human punctuation point of “too big to fail”. To his financiers, the real estate became peripheral – they were backstopping a brand, and that brand – his family name – is what Trump thought he was elevating even if he lost to what he characterised as the corrupt and cheating Clinton political machine.