Mayor Dave posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191360002352652288?s=19

Mayor Dave posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191360002352652288?s=19

quote:

Since President Trump took office, the lobbyist Michael Esposito has been wildly successful, turning a family business that once focused on municipal transportation issues into one of the fastest-growing lobbying firms in Washington.

Esposito has broken into the international market, landing top-dollar Ukrainian clients last year and collecting $1.65 million from Chinese tech giant Huawei in a three-month period this year, according to lobbying records. In all, Esposito’s firm, Federal Advocates, pulled in five times as much money in 2018 as it did in the year before Trump took office, records show.

Fueling that rise, at least in part, are Esposito’s claims that he is uniquely positioned: a former Capitol Hill staffer who is close to centers of power in the Trump administration.

Esposito has “an open line of communication to the President of the United States” and is in “regular” contact with the president, Federal Advocates wrote in three contract bids reviewed by The Washington Post. The same proposals say Esposito worked with the president’s son Eric Trump and son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner on real estate deals. And the firm’s website calls Esposito “an integral part of the senior-most leadership” of the Republican National Committee.

Esposito — whose firm says it employs a half-dozen other lobbyists, some of whom have White House and congressional experience — told The Post his clients had scrutinized his record and would have detected any falsehoods. “It is preposterous to suggest that the clients we represent, including some of the largest in the world, have not done their due diligence in vetting the relationships and expertise of the entire Firm,” Esposito wrote.

Every presidency brings a fresh crop of lobbyists to the top of the Washington influence game — associates, friends and others who have the newly minted executive’s ear. The wave of ascents after Trump’s inauguration was particularly notable because the president lacked long-standing ties to the Republican political establishment. In that vacuum, people who were close to the real estate developer and reality TV star, or who claimed to be, quickly asserted themselves as power brokers.

Even so, Esposito’s rise stands out — not only because of the questions surrounding the connections he claims but because of his background: He had previously described himself as a Democratic lobbyist.

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emfive posted:

When it's good it's great, but usually it's mediocre and disappointing.

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https://twitter.com/dcherring/status/1191116092871102464

Apraxin posted:

I’m sorry, does this look like someone who’d lie about being friends with the president?

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https://twitter.com/dcherring/status/1191116092871102464

Dolphin posted:

read the article. it says turkey intercepted the call and used it to force Trump into removing all troops from Syria

a few DRUNK BONERS posted:

so is mr esposito about to be arrested

Flavius Aetass posted:

are you eating it sober or something

The Alpha Centauri posted:

gently caress it

its true

kushner helped kill a journalist

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emfive posted:

well generally, yes, but ... well I could go on but there is such a thing as really good cfs.

I went on a campaign to try cfs at every place I could find it in Austin, and I gave up after 7 or 8 places because they were all not good.

Of course that's Austin, which is a dumb baby city.

Gripweed posted:

That dude went to jail for raping a guy

emfive posted:

well generally, yes, but ... well I could go on but there is such a thing as really good cfs.

I went on a campaign to try cfs at every place I could find it in Austin, and I gave up after 7 or 8 places because they were all not good.

Of course that's Austin, which is a dumb baby city.

Filthy Hans posted:

he was convicted of handcuffing a dude and then beating him with a chain, not rape, which is why he only spent 4 months in prison

Apraxin posted:

I’m sorry, does this look like someone who’d lie about being friends with the president?

Filthy Hans posted:

he was convicted of handcuffing a dude and then beating him with a chain, not rape, which is why he only spent 4 months in prison

Mayor Dave posted:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191360002352652288?s=19

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I knew a couple who lived in the 'burbs here and moved to *drumroll* Weirton, WV so they could build a bigger house.

So you leave work and drive home and you're in *drumroll* Weirton WV, the gently caress do you do at night?

punchymcpunch posted:

pathetic little tramp posted:

Hahahahahaha holy poo poo. People are making the choice to move to Weirton in 2019?

So I guess they're up in Marland Heights. There's... a weird convenience store that I think still rents VHS and some old boomer started an ice cream shop but that was 6 years ago and he has probably died by now. The few people I knew still living in Weirton had to move away for their mental health.

mormonpartyboat posted:

if you want the best you gotta go to some insanely racist oklahoma town with 40 people in it named something like Shelma

Flavius Aetass posted:

polls in 2019 showing donald j trump leading anyone in battleground states lol

CRACK!

PING!

cumshitter posted:

lol kushner green lighted a murder and everyone still thinks he's a feminine little fancy boy