While the media is obsessed with nothingburgers like Hillary Clinton’s emails, it lets stories about Trump go by that would be fodder for multiple articles were the candidate not Trump. He is such a dishonest crook that mere fraud or manifest dishonesty is not considered worthy of mention. He literally had to admit to sexual assault in order to get the media to obsess for a while. Even that’s died down, and a
recent claim about out and out rape has attracted almost no attention.
So I guess it’s not surprising that this story won’t go beyond the Mother Jones website. This may not be illegal, but it exemplifies the fraud that is his defining characteristic:
Donald Trump frequently boasts of his hotels and golf resorts, and it’s true that they have won awards. The American Academy of Hospitality Sciences has given Trump at least 19 Diamond awards, which it calls “the most prestigious emblem of achievement and true quality in the world today,” for his various properties, according to journalist David Cay Johnston in his book The Making of Donald Trump. It also gave his golf course in Aberdeen, Scotland, a prize as “the best golf course worldwide.”
All of which sounds impressive. Except that the board of the Academy consisted mostly of Trump’s employees, friends, and family members.
But let’s hear from the Donald:
In May, Trump denied having any connection to the organization in an interview with Yahoo News, saying, “I mean, I receive awards from different places sometimes, but I’m not involved in it. How am I involved in it?”
He lies without compunction. In fact, he’s so pathological that it is probably the case that he believes everything he says to be true while he speaks. But hey, what’s more important, the threat he poses to democracy or some emails that may or may not (put most probably do not) prove that Hillary Clinton exercised poor judgment?
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