We're all feeling abandoned by the MAHA and MAGA machine. What once seemed like a powerful team devoted for change now sits in a windowless room full of gold, drones, AI servers, flock cameras, and glyphosate. I'm still going to vote, but man do I feel deflated!
Well, I guess I knew there would be constraints on what they could do and I feel like we've made some decent progress. And the alternative is not even a consideration. I feel deflated about the DSA and how naive the American people are--giving away their freedom for promises of security that will never happen.
Tending to libertarian ideology, I've always been in the political wilderness -- but I really feel like a political orphan these days. Corruption seems to be a primary card in this game.
Here is a subject I knew nothing about until now. What a quagmire of twisty-turny events in the world of publishing. Feels like a jigsaw puzzle that you have traced to the end, or almost. No matter where I look there is deceit cloaked in an almost invisible shield. The time it takes to unravel these nuances is worth noting. No wonder there are enough questionable ethics to write a book on Grifting and no wonder Skyhorse doesn't want anything more to do with you! Skyhorse could be renamed any number of less attractive names, like Slipperyhorse... you get the drift.
Notwithstanding the correctness or not of the premise of the article, which as usual, is finely written, I would vastly prefer to see an expose of the Communists and their sympathizers and supporters who are endangering even further, our Congress and local governments. We are all disappointed with MAHA, but we are almost at mid-terms. As usual, the Republicans deserve to lose. However, where will this leave our nation?
The difficulty of tracing the money is a feature, not an accident. If government employees are involved in any way, the default assumption for me is corruption. I certainly think bribery should be the default assumption until proven otherwise. I am using bribery in a non-legal sense to include any influence operations.
I have learned in my long saga of writing a book about the 1982 Tylenol murders (Seven Innocents) in Chicago and my involvement from a business and drug background and standpoint, that my investment which exceeds $10,000 will never be recovered. I have no status as a writer and therefore book agents have no interest. If RFK Jr. has a $2 million advance each on the future publication of two books, that is chicken feed, compared to the $65 million advance that Barack Obama and Michelle got for their memoirs. I will be interested what RFK Jr. has to say about the internal battles at NIH that he has had to endure. I wonder how many books the publisher has to sell to have a return on the $65 million investment.
Historically they did not care who one the election since they controlled both parties(Rinos) from the top. You will understand how deep it goes over time.
The Council Of Foreign Relations has gained a virtual lock-hold on the U.S. government, regardless of which party is in office. No other organization comes close to boasting the kind of clout that the CFR members have held: eight presidents of the U.S.; seven vice presidents; 17 secretaries of state; 20 secretaries of war/defense; 18 secretaries of the Treasury; 15 directors of the CIA. And it has gone throughout the Cabinets, in seriatim — through Democrat and Republican administrations — with hundreds of deputy secretaries, assistant secretaries, etc.
The CFR has only 3000 members yet they control over three-quarters of the nation's wealth. The CFR runs the State Department and the CIA. The CFR has placed 100 CFR members in every Presidential Administration and cabinet since Woodrow Wilson. They work together to misinform the President to act in the best interest of the CFR not the best interest of the American People. At least five Presidents (Eisenhower, Ford, Carter, Bush, and Clinton) have been members of the CFR. The CFR has packed every Supreme court with CFR insiders.
The CFR Group on the Biden Team
Kamala Harris, Vice President (CFR through family; Harvard; DLA Piper; Uber through family)
Antony Blinken, Secretary of State (CFR member; Harvard and Columbia; WestExec)
Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury (CFR member; Yale and Harvard; Brookings)
Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense (CFR member; WestExec; Raytheon)
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, UN Ambassador (CFR member; Albright Stonebridge)
Cecilia Rouse, Council of Economic Advisors (CFR director; Princeton; Rowe Price)
Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security (CFR member; Wilmer Hale)
Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor (CFR author; Yale and Oxford; Carnegie)
Ron Klain, Chief of Staff (CFR through family; Harvard; O’Melveny and Meyers)
John Kerry, Special Envoy for Climate (CFR member; Yale)
Susan Rice, Chief of Domestic Council (CFR member; Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford)
William J. Burns, Director of Central Intelligence (CFR member; Oxford; Carnegie)
Kurt M. Campbell, Indo-Pacific Tsar (CFR member; Harvard and Oxford; Asia Group)
Thomas Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture (CFR member; Dairy Export Council)
Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce (CFR member; Oxford; Point Judith Capital)
Eric S. Lander, Director of Office of Science and Technology (CFR member; Harvard)
Jeffery Zients, Counselor to the President (CFR member; Cranemere)
Below is a list of the Council on Foreign Relations members in the last three Presidential administrations, including Cabinet members, advisers and nominations.
President Barack Obama (Democrat) - CFR cabinet members:
John Kerry – Secretary of State (Teresa Heinz Kerry wife of John Kerry is also CFR member)
Timothy Geithner – Secretary of Treasury - CFR
Jacob J (Jack) Lew – Secretary of Treasury - CFR
Robert Gates – Secretary of Defense - CFR
Chuck Hagel – Secretary of Defense (resigned) - CFR
Ashton Carter – Secretary of Defense - CFR
Tom Vilsack – Secretary of Agriculture - CFR
John Bryson – Secretary of Commerce - CFR
Penny Pritzker – Secretary of Commerce - CFR
Sylvia Burwell – Secretary of Health and Human Services - CFR
Ernest Moniz – Secretary of Energy - CFR
Janet Napolitano – CFR Staff bio – Secretary of Homeland Security - CFR
Jeh Charles Johnson – Secretary of Homeland Security - CFR
William Daley – Chief of Staff - CFR
Peter Orszag – Director of Office of Management and Budget - CFR
Susan Rice – Ambassador to the UN (prior member Trilateral Commission) - CFR
Michael Froman – US Trade Representative - CFR
Michael Chertoff – US Secretary of Homeland Security (Trilateral Commission member) - CFR
Thomas E. Donilon – National Security Adviser (Bilderberg Group) - CFR
Cecilia Rouse – Council of Economic Advisers - CFR
David Howell Petraeus – 4 star Army General, Director of the CIA 2011 – 2012 (resigned), Commander of United States Central Command 2008 – 2010, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force - CFR
Janet Louise Yellen – Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System nominated by Barack Obama - CFR
Paul A. Volcker – Chair of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, prior Chair of Federal Reserve – (member Trilateral Commission) - CFR
Henry Kissinger – Secretary of State for President Richard Nixon, adviser to every President since, and a close friend and adviser to Hillary Clinton. - CFR
Steve Preston – Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Henry Paulson – Secretary of the Treasury (and worked at Goldman Sachs Founders corporate member)
Robert Gates – Secretary of Defense
Mary Ann Peters – Secretary of Transportation
Condoleeza Rice – Secretary of State
Tommy G. Thompson – Secretary of Health and Human Services
Elaine L Chao – Secretary of Labor
Colin Powell – Secretary of State
Susan C. Schwab – US Trade Representative
Robert Zoellick – US Trade Representative (also Trilateral Commission) – been President of The World Bank, also a managing director of Goldman Sachs, steering committee Bilderberg Group (was a Deputy Secretary of State)
Michael Chertoff – US Secretary of Homeland Security (Trilateral Commission member)
Richard Holbrook – United States Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan (Bilderberg Group)
John Wolfowitz – United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (Bilderberg Group) – President The World Bank
Karen Parfitt Hughes – Councilor to the President
John Bolton – US Ambassador to the United Nations
Brent Scowcroft – United States National Security Advisor
Note: not listed as a member, speaks at meetings and called New York City branch “The Mothership”. Hillary Clinton – First Lady to President Clinton, Senator, ran for President twice
Lawrence Summers – Secretary of Treasury (also member Trilateral Commission)
Togo D. West – Secretary of Veteran Affairs
William B. Richardson – Secretary of Energy
William M. Daley – Secretary of Commerce
Madeleine Albright – Director Emerita CFR – Secretary of State (also member Trilateral Commission)
William Cohen – Secretary of Defense
Federico F. Peña – Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Transportation
Mickey Kantor – Secretary of Commerce, US Trade Representative
Daniel Glickman – Secretary of Agriculture
Robert Rubin – CFR staff bio – Secretary of the Treasury
William J. Perry – Secretary of Defense
Donna Shalala – Secretary of Health and Human Services
Charlene Barshefsky – US Trade Representative
Lloyd Bentsen (deceased past member – no longer listed)
Richard Holbrook – United States Ambassador to the United Nations (Bilderberg Group)
George Stephanopoulos – White House Director of Communications, Senior Adviser to the President (now major media pundit)
Sidney Blumenthal – Senior Adviser to the President
Rahm Emanuel – Senior Adviser to the President (not listed as CFR member, but his brother, Ezekiel Jonathan “Zeke”, is a member) (later Mayor of Chicago where Barack Obama was from)
Cecilia Rouse – National Economic Council 1998 to 1999
Zoë Baird – CFR Staff bio – nominated by President Bill Clinton as the first woman to be Attorney General of the United States, but she withdrew her nomination over “nannygate”
Bobby Inman – nominated by President Bill Clinton for Secretary of Defense, but he withdrew from consideration
Stephen Gerald Breyer – US Supreme Court Justice nominated
Donald Trump’s administrations have intentionally distanced themselves from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), mirroring his "America First" platform that frequently criticizes globalist institutions and traditional foreign policy establishments.
Consequently, very few members of his Cabinets have held CFR membership compared to prior administrations.
However, a select few high-profile officials with ties to the council have served in his Cabinets or in cabinet-level roles across his terms:
First-Term Cabinet & Cabinet-Level Members (2017–2021)
Elaine Chao (Secretary of Transportation): A long-standing member of the traditional political establishment, Chao is an active member of the CFR.
________________________________
Robert Lighthizer (U.S. Trade Representative): Though a staunch advocate for Trump's protectionist trade policies, Lighthizer has maintained a membership with the council.
________________________________
H.R. McMaster (National Security Advisor): While the National Security Advisor is not always a formal Cabinet head, it is a key cabinet-level official. McMaster, a retired Army Lieutenant General who served from 2017 to 2018, is a CFR member.
________________________________
Mike Pompeo (Secretary of State / CIA Director): Pompeo is a member of the CFR. Trump later labeled advisors like Pompeo "globalists and warmongers", explicitly stating he would not invite him back for a second term.
Scott Bessent (Secretary of the Treasury): Appointed to lead the Treasury department in Trump's second term, the hedge fund billionaire and founder of Key Square Group is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Other Notable Administration Figures
Beyond the formal Cabinet, a few sub-cabinet officials and envoys held membership, such as Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow at the CFR who served as Trump's Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela.
I'm detecting sour grapes.... are you looking to divide?
"....the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) had not yet completed its separate review. As of October 15, we could find no public confirmation that OGE had issued its final certification."
Happy to hear your take on the situation. Sorry I spent the time needed to read it all. The OGE will report and then, conclusions can be drawn.
This is disgusting. Many years ago I and a few friends, who all wrote poetry, tried to publish. We had to pay a large sum for a private book, and one friend paid a smaller sum for her poems to be published in a book with a group of other poets. I know of a couple people who paid for their own publishing. And these stinkers get paid millions! and out of our pockets.
I decided I won't vote this time, because the candidates left over to vote for are no good. I cannot chose between bad apples and bad pears.
P.S. The Clintons and the Obamas have nothing of interest to say that would compel me to buy any of their books, now or in the future. Plus, I doubt much, if any of it, is factual. They all spent too much time in lies and cover-ups during their time in office to warrant the truth now. Ha!
When you think of the amount of time that has passed in our country’s history, and how the graft and palm greasing has become entrenched over the years, I am ecstatic l to hear every time some dark dealings in ANY Party is exposed. It represents more “house cleaning.” That is something we must never stop doing to keep honesty at the forefront of our nation. Lying, among those in politics, has become synonymous with the word “politician.” These clearly are NOT people of quality or worthy of our votes to sit in Congress. We MUST be more surgical in our choices of candidates! The world is full of “trash,” but they don’t deserve to sit in our government!
We're all feeling abandoned by the MAHA and MAGA machine. What once seemed like a powerful team devoted for change now sits in a windowless room full of gold, drones, AI servers, flock cameras, and glyphosate. I'm still going to vote, but man do I feel deflated!
Yeh, that's where I am- the alternative is worse, much worse. But things are looking pretty grim.
Well, I guess I knew there would be constraints on what they could do and I feel like we've made some decent progress. And the alternative is not even a consideration. I feel deflated about the DSA and how naive the American people are--giving away their freedom for promises of security that will never happen.
Tending to libertarian ideology, I've always been in the political wilderness -- but I really feel like a political orphan these days. Corruption seems to be a primary card in this game.
Here is a subject I knew nothing about until now. What a quagmire of twisty-turny events in the world of publishing. Feels like a jigsaw puzzle that you have traced to the end, or almost. No matter where I look there is deceit cloaked in an almost invisible shield. The time it takes to unravel these nuances is worth noting. No wonder there are enough questionable ethics to write a book on Grifting and no wonder Skyhorse doesn't want anything more to do with you! Skyhorse could be renamed any number of less attractive names, like Slipperyhorse... you get the drift.
Notwithstanding the correctness or not of the premise of the article, which as usual, is finely written, I would vastly prefer to see an expose of the Communists and their sympathizers and supporters who are endangering even further, our Congress and local governments. We are all disappointed with MAHA, but we are almost at mid-terms. As usual, the Republicans deserve to lose. However, where will this leave our nation?
The difficulty of tracing the money is a feature, not an accident. If government employees are involved in any way, the default assumption for me is corruption. I certainly think bribery should be the default assumption until proven otherwise. I am using bribery in a non-legal sense to include any influence operations.
I have learned in my long saga of writing a book about the 1982 Tylenol murders (Seven Innocents) in Chicago and my involvement from a business and drug background and standpoint, that my investment which exceeds $10,000 will never be recovered. I have no status as a writer and therefore book agents have no interest. If RFK Jr. has a $2 million advance each on the future publication of two books, that is chicken feed, compared to the $65 million advance that Barack Obama and Michelle got for their memoirs. I will be interested what RFK Jr. has to say about the internal battles at NIH that he has had to endure. I wonder how many books the publisher has to sell to have a return on the $65 million investment.
I agree with your point. I also find it difficult to believe that RFK, Jr. could be bought so cheaply, if at all. I, at least, hope not.
The smoke continues to clear. Thanks for this post and the related comments.
Historically they did not care who one the election since they controlled both parties(Rinos) from the top. You will understand how deep it goes over time.
The Council Of Foreign Relations has gained a virtual lock-hold on the U.S. government, regardless of which party is in office. No other organization comes close to boasting the kind of clout that the CFR members have held: eight presidents of the U.S.; seven vice presidents; 17 secretaries of state; 20 secretaries of war/defense; 18 secretaries of the Treasury; 15 directors of the CIA. And it has gone throughout the Cabinets, in seriatim — through Democrat and Republican administrations — with hundreds of deputy secretaries, assistant secretaries, etc.
The CFR has only 3000 members yet they control over three-quarters of the nation's wealth. The CFR runs the State Department and the CIA. The CFR has placed 100 CFR members in every Presidential Administration and cabinet since Woodrow Wilson. They work together to misinform the President to act in the best interest of the CFR not the best interest of the American People. At least five Presidents (Eisenhower, Ford, Carter, Bush, and Clinton) have been members of the CFR. The CFR has packed every Supreme court with CFR insiders.
The CFR Group on the Biden Team
Kamala Harris, Vice President (CFR through family; Harvard; DLA Piper; Uber through family)
Antony Blinken, Secretary of State (CFR member; Harvard and Columbia; WestExec)
Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury (CFR member; Yale and Harvard; Brookings)
Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Defense (CFR member; WestExec; Raytheon)
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, UN Ambassador (CFR member; Albright Stonebridge)
Cecilia Rouse, Council of Economic Advisors (CFR director; Princeton; Rowe Price)
Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security (CFR member; Wilmer Hale)
Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor (CFR author; Yale and Oxford; Carnegie)
Ron Klain, Chief of Staff (CFR through family; Harvard; O’Melveny and Meyers)
John Kerry, Special Envoy for Climate (CFR member; Yale)
Susan Rice, Chief of Domestic Council (CFR member; Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford)
William J. Burns, Director of Central Intelligence (CFR member; Oxford; Carnegie)
Kurt M. Campbell, Indo-Pacific Tsar (CFR member; Harvard and Oxford; Asia Group)
Thomas Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture (CFR member; Dairy Export Council)
Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce (CFR member; Oxford; Point Judith Capital)
Eric S. Lander, Director of Office of Science and Technology (CFR member; Harvard)
Jeffery Zients, Counselor to the President (CFR member; Cranemere)
https://monthlyreview.org/2021/05/01/the-council-on-foreign-relations-the-biden-team-and-key-policy-outcomes/
Below is a list of the Council on Foreign Relations members in the last three Presidential administrations, including Cabinet members, advisers and nominations.
President Barack Obama (Democrat) - CFR cabinet members:
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John Kerry – Secretary of State (Teresa Heinz Kerry wife of John Kerry is also CFR member)
Timothy Geithner – Secretary of Treasury - CFR
Jacob J (Jack) Lew – Secretary of Treasury - CFR
Robert Gates – Secretary of Defense - CFR
Chuck Hagel – Secretary of Defense (resigned) - CFR
Ashton Carter – Secretary of Defense - CFR
Tom Vilsack – Secretary of Agriculture - CFR
John Bryson – Secretary of Commerce - CFR
Penny Pritzker – Secretary of Commerce - CFR
Sylvia Burwell – Secretary of Health and Human Services - CFR
Ernest Moniz – Secretary of Energy - CFR
Janet Napolitano – CFR Staff bio – Secretary of Homeland Security - CFR
Jeh Charles Johnson – Secretary of Homeland Security - CFR
William Daley – Chief of Staff - CFR
Peter Orszag – Director of Office of Management and Budget - CFR
Susan Rice – Ambassador to the UN (prior member Trilateral Commission) - CFR
Michael Froman – US Trade Representative - CFR
Michael Chertoff – US Secretary of Homeland Security (Trilateral Commission member) - CFR
Thomas E. Donilon – National Security Adviser (Bilderberg Group) - CFR
Cecilia Rouse – Council of Economic Advisers - CFR
David Howell Petraeus – 4 star Army General, Director of the CIA 2011 – 2012 (resigned), Commander of United States Central Command 2008 – 2010, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force - CFR
Janet Louise Yellen – Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System nominated by Barack Obama - CFR
Paul A. Volcker – Chair of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, prior Chair of Federal Reserve – (member Trilateral Commission) - CFR
Henry Kissinger – Secretary of State for President Richard Nixon, adviser to every President since, and a close friend and adviser to Hillary Clinton. - CFR
President George W Bush (Republican) - All CFR members
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Richard (Dick) Cheney – Vice President
Steve Preston – Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Henry Paulson – Secretary of the Treasury (and worked at Goldman Sachs Founders corporate member)
Robert Gates – Secretary of Defense
Mary Ann Peters – Secretary of Transportation
Condoleeza Rice – Secretary of State
Tommy G. Thompson – Secretary of Health and Human Services
Elaine L Chao – Secretary of Labor
Colin Powell – Secretary of State
Susan C. Schwab – US Trade Representative
Robert Zoellick – US Trade Representative (also Trilateral Commission) – been President of The World Bank, also a managing director of Goldman Sachs, steering committee Bilderberg Group (was a Deputy Secretary of State)
Michael Chertoff – US Secretary of Homeland Security (Trilateral Commission member)
Richard Holbrook – United States Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan (Bilderberg Group)
John Wolfowitz – United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (Bilderberg Group) – President The World Bank
Karen Parfitt Hughes – Councilor to the President
John Bolton – US Ambassador to the United Nations
Brent Scowcroft – United States National Security Advisor
Marc Alexander Thiessen – Speech writer for GWB
President Bill Clinton (Democrat) - All CFR members
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Bill Clinton – President (current member 2016)
Chelsea Clinton – daughter (current member 2016)
Note: not listed as a member, speaks at meetings and called New York City branch “The Mothership”. Hillary Clinton – First Lady to President Clinton, Senator, ran for President twice
Lawrence Summers – Secretary of Treasury (also member Trilateral Commission)
Togo D. West – Secretary of Veteran Affairs
William B. Richardson – Secretary of Energy
William M. Daley – Secretary of Commerce
Madeleine Albright – Director Emerita CFR – Secretary of State (also member Trilateral Commission)
William Cohen – Secretary of Defense
Federico F. Peña – Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Transportation
Mickey Kantor – Secretary of Commerce, US Trade Representative
Daniel Glickman – Secretary of Agriculture
Robert Rubin – CFR staff bio – Secretary of the Treasury
William J. Perry – Secretary of Defense
Donna Shalala – Secretary of Health and Human Services
Charlene Barshefsky – US Trade Representative
Lloyd Bentsen (deceased past member – no longer listed)
Richard Holbrook – United States Ambassador to the United Nations (Bilderberg Group)
George Stephanopoulos – White House Director of Communications, Senior Adviser to the President (now major media pundit)
Sidney Blumenthal – Senior Adviser to the President
Rahm Emanuel – Senior Adviser to the President (not listed as CFR member, but his brother, Ezekiel Jonathan “Zeke”, is a member) (later Mayor of Chicago where Barack Obama was from)
Cecilia Rouse – National Economic Council 1998 to 1999
Zoë Baird – CFR Staff bio – nominated by President Bill Clinton as the first woman to be Attorney General of the United States, but she withdrew her nomination over “nannygate”
Bobby Inman – nominated by President Bill Clinton for Secretary of Defense, but he withdrew from consideration
Stephen Gerald Breyer – US Supreme Court Justice nominated
Vernon Jordan – Presidential adviser..
Links:..for each person found here.
http://www.rummagingglobalism.com/2017/01/19/cfr-members-in-past-presidential-administrations/
Donald Trump’s administrations have intentionally distanced themselves from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), mirroring his "America First" platform that frequently criticizes globalist institutions and traditional foreign policy establishments.
Consequently, very few members of his Cabinets have held CFR membership compared to prior administrations.
However, a select few high-profile officials with ties to the council have served in his Cabinets or in cabinet-level roles across his terms:
First-Term Cabinet & Cabinet-Level Members (2017–2021)
Elaine Chao (Secretary of Transportation): A long-standing member of the traditional political establishment, Chao is an active member of the CFR.
________________________________
Robert Lighthizer (U.S. Trade Representative): Though a staunch advocate for Trump's protectionist trade policies, Lighthizer has maintained a membership with the council.
________________________________
H.R. McMaster (National Security Advisor): While the National Security Advisor is not always a formal Cabinet head, it is a key cabinet-level official. McMaster, a retired Army Lieutenant General who served from 2017 to 2018, is a CFR member.
________________________________
Mike Pompeo (Secretary of State / CIA Director): Pompeo is a member of the CFR. Trump later labeled advisors like Pompeo "globalists and warmongers", explicitly stating he would not invite him back for a second term.
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Second-Term Cabinet Members (2025–Present)
Scott Bessent (Secretary of the Treasury): Appointed to lead the Treasury department in Trump's second term, the hedge fund billionaire and founder of Key Square Group is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Other Notable Administration Figures
Beyond the formal Cabinet, a few sub-cabinet officials and envoys held membership, such as Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow at the CFR who served as Trump's Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela.
I'm detecting sour grapes.... are you looking to divide?
"....the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) had not yet completed its separate review. As of October 15, we could find no public confirmation that OGE had issued its final certification."
Happy to hear your take on the situation. Sorry I spent the time needed to read it all. The OGE will report and then, conclusions can be drawn.
Like Hunter Biden’s “artwork”.
You know, I always wondered about these book deals. Seemed weird publishers would pay that much money or anyone would really want to read this stuff.
Follow the NGOs and Dems for drugs and human trafficking too.
This is disgusting. Many years ago I and a few friends, who all wrote poetry, tried to publish. We had to pay a large sum for a private book, and one friend paid a smaller sum for her poems to be published in a book with a group of other poets. I know of a couple people who paid for their own publishing. And these stinkers get paid millions! and out of our pockets.
I decided I won't vote this time, because the candidates left over to vote for are no good. I cannot chose between bad apples and bad pears.
P.S. The Clintons and the Obamas have nothing of interest to say that would compel me to buy any of their books, now or in the future. Plus, I doubt much, if any of it, is factual. They all spent too much time in lies and cover-ups during their time in office to warrant the truth now. Ha!
When you think of the amount of time that has passed in our country’s history, and how the graft and palm greasing has become entrenched over the years, I am ecstatic l to hear every time some dark dealings in ANY Party is exposed. It represents more “house cleaning.” That is something we must never stop doing to keep honesty at the forefront of our nation. Lying, among those in politics, has become synonymous with the word “politician.” These clearly are NOT people of quality or worthy of our votes to sit in Congress. We MUST be more surgical in our choices of candidates! The world is full of “trash,” but they don’t deserve to sit in our government!