President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a promised to “drain the swamp” in Washington of corruption, but now that he’s preparing to move into the White House, Newt Gingrich said the Manhattan billionaire is looking to distance himself from that message.
“I’m told he now just disclaims that. He now says it was cute, but he doesn’t want to use it anymore,” the former House Speaker and close Trump adviser said of the “drain the swamp” message in an NPR interview published Wednesday morning. “I’ve noticed on a couple of fronts, like people chanting ‘lock her up,’ that he’s in a different role now and maybe he feels that as president, as the next president of the United States, that he should be marginally more dignified than talking about alligators in swamps.”
While Trump made his “drain the swamp” pledge a major part of his campaign message in the presidential race’s final weeks, his transition team was, in its early days after the election, packed with lobbyists for the pharmaceutical, chemical, fossil fuel and tobacco industries. Under pressure, Trump’s team instituted a rigid lobbying ban that prompted some to leave, but the group orchestrating the president-elect’s transition still relies heavily on GOP insiders.
Trump’s cabinet and other high-level appointments seem to have deviated somewhat from his “drain the swamp” message. After attacking Democrat Hillary Clinton regularly throughout the campaign for being too close to Wall Street banks, Trump has put three former Goldman Sachs executives in prominent White House positions, including Steven Mnuchin as treasury secretary, Steve Bannon as chief White House strategist and Gary Cohn as the director of the National Economic Council.
Gingrich also suggested that Trump should quickly find a transparent solution to concerns about conflicts of interest between his presidency and the massive business empire he has pledged to hand over to his kids once he takes office. The former House speaker said putting such complex assets into a blind trust, the arrangement generally promised by presidents, would be “an absurdity” for Trump but that some other “common sense” arrangement will be necessary.
“This is not a country that wanders around trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability,” Gingrich said. “He has to understand and his family has to understand that there is a public interest which transcends them.”
As a solution, Gingrich suggested that Trump appoint a panel of experts that would have “total access” to oversee his assets and advise him as to what is appropriate and what is not. That panel could be populated by individuals like former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Gingrich said.
“A large part of his holdings are Trump golf clubs, Trump hotels,” the former speaker said. “I mean, we have never quite had anyone of this scale to occupy the White House and it’s going to require us to think about, how do you deal with this in a way that’s effective and that serves the interest of the country, but also meets some kind of practical common sense test?”
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/newt-gingirch-trump-drain-the-swamp-232878
In common folk speak, he bull shtd the morons that think voting changes anything.
I wouldn’t believe a word out of the mouths of Gingrich or Trump.
I think the point being made here (unintentionally, of course), is that Washington’s a cesspool, and there’s nothing any politician can do to change that, regardless of what good intentions he may have.
There’s too much money and power involved for any hint of decency to live there for very long. If you decide to swim in the waste water, you’re going to be covered with shit regardless of which direction you swim.
“Draining the Swamp”.isnt going to get done by the establishment , folks
Never will, never intended to
That job my fellow Patriots of the Republic, is our job, and we dam sure best get to it
Trump IS the world’s best used car salesman …. whadda ya expect?
My Fellow Americans:
“… drain the swamp” ????????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
OMG!!!!,…. NOW THAT IS FUNNY!!!! (… and I know funny!)
Trump will (and always intended to) FILL the swamp with every form and manner of predaceous animal and zionist sewer-slime that comes into contact with his “administration”.
Trump will create a new definition for treason and selling ones country to the Zionist-jew-communists that will make even FDR, Harry Hopkins, MacArthur, LBJ, Clintons, Bushes, even the Obama’s (the Sotoros) blush with envy!!!!
Prepare to see your country sold out on a scale that even the Clintons only had wet-dreams about!!!
“Draining the swamp”!!!!,… thptt!!!,… Trump has “the swamp” so crowded with sharks, piranha’s and zionists,…. they are already squished together!!!
NOW,…. JUST WAIT UNTIL HE’s IN OFFICE!!!!
JD – US Marines – Just like the Nazi’s had put all the great escape artists in one concentration camp (The Great Escape),… Trump has assembled the greatest team of professional liars, thieves, psychopaths, sociopaths, and zionist-scum the world has ever seen!… stand-by,.. your about to be financially, morally, and legally raped on an unprecedented scale!
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GINGRICH IS NEOCON JEW FILTH
Now, now, now Koyote,
That all depends on the meaning of what “is”… is! (The Bill “Squirted On Monica’s Dress” Clinton Defense)
JD – US Marines – “is”,… use to be such a nice word……
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This is what we needed for President. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUSBzVKoJzU
Pray to the God of the Universe that Trump is like the character Michael Garabaldi. Because that is exactly what we need.
“Because that is exactly what we need.”
Which is exactly why it’s not gonna happen.
It’s exactly what the stinking jews DON’T NEED.
Put down the Kool-Aid and figure this sh#t out, once & for all.
CHUMP AIN’T GONNA SAVE US!!!!!
He drained that swamp, alright.
Replaced it with a sewer.