The Brazenness Of The Trumps' Hypocrisy And Corruption Is Astounding

I know we’ve all come to expect an unprecedented level of corruption and hypocrisy from Trump, his family, and his administration, but this is truly beyond the pale, even for this crooked crew. According to Axios, Ivanka Trump is basically going to set up a lookalike to the Clinton Foundation and run it out of the White House. The reported goal of the fund is to help empower female entrepreneurs across the globe.

According to the report, “Canadians, Germans and a few Middle Eastern countries have already made quiet commitments, as have several corporations…The fund will provide working and growth capital to small- and medium-sized enterprises…President Trump is a huge supporter of his daughter’s idea, and she has consulted with World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim about how to pull it off in a huge way.”

Look, I absolutely have no problem with Ivanka Trump trying to help empower women, but not while she is an adviser to the President who has enormous conflicts of interest, as does she, and while she is working in the White House and effecting US Government policy.

Of course, the hypocrisy of this action is beyond extreme considering Trump himself, with a large helping hand from the media, spent the entire campaign claiming that Hillary Clinton was doing favors for the Clinton Foundation while serving as Secretary of State, despite no evidence that could ever be produced to support that claim. I’m hoping the NY Times devotes even half the coverage they gave to the Clinton Foundation non-scandal to this issue.

But beyond the hypocrisy is the sheer brazenness of the corruption. Even if you believed the worst about Clinton, she was not openly fundraising for the Foundation out of the White House they way Ivanka Trump is apparently already doing.  While the details of what this fund is and how it will be administered are unclear, it is bound to run into ethical problems. But, as we have seen, that never seems to bother the Trumps.