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Capital Research Center
February 21, 2018
During the President George W. Bush administration, Romanian President Traian Băsescu placed Soros-funded activists in key positions of his ... a Bush political appointee, harshly criticized a law enforcement bill being debated in the Romanian Parliament, one legislator accused Taubman of nepotism.
BBC News
February 18, 2018
Daniel S Markey, who worked on South Asia policy for the State Department during the George W Bush administration, said he was surprised by the involvement of Mr Trump Jr in an Indian business deal. "The idea that the president's son would be going and shilling the president's brand at the same timeÃâà...
Mediaite
February 16, 2018
While most major newspapers and mainstream outlets promoted the warmongering Bush administration's plan, the Post took it up a notch ... to their hiring of nepotism-case and Koch brothers fangirl Megan McArdle, readers can now look forward to similarly atrocious takes from the Post on a regular basis.
Newsweek
December 12, 2017
The president's hiring of his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law are at odds with the federal anti-nepotism law, which states that “a public official may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement, in or to a civilian position in the agency in whichÃâà...
New Republic
December 1, 2017
Because nepotism pervades his administration, Trump may eventually face a similar dilemma. After all, Donald ... During the George W. Bush administration, Scooter Libby was willing to take the fall rather than incriminate Vice President Dick Cheney in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. In this senseÃâà...
The Boston Globe
October 27, 2017
The list of transgressions committed by Donald Trump over the past nine months is nothing if not voluminous. But last week there came word of one that is like a gut punch for those of us who lived through the first decade of the century — he's made people miss George W. Bush. According to a recentÃâà...
WyoFile
October 24, 2017
Most reputable and responsible economists and tax experts agree — tax cuts do not necessarily trigger economic growth. If they did, we would not have suffered through the recent recession which followed repeated tax cuts enacted almost annually during the President George W. Bush administration.
Sacramento Bee
September 12, 2017
So writes Scott Cleland, a former official in President George W. Bush's administration, president of Precursor LLC, and author of a book critical of Google, in a provocative new op-ed for Buzzfeed. He argues that prospects for “bipartisan antitrust reform are increasing because the current unfair playing fieldÃâà...
New York Times
April 16, 2017
WASHINGTON — One has an office down the hall from the president in the White House; the other just moved into an office a floor up. One recently visited war-torn Iraq as the president's emissary; the other will soon head to Berlin at the invitation of Germany's chancellor. Both have seats at the table at anyÃâà...
TIME
December 16, 2016
“I argued strenuously in favor of George W. Bush going into the White House [during the first Bush administration] under that arrangement because I didn't ... Wead says that not only was his advice unheeded, but that the first President Bush “laid down the law” that he would not allow nepotism (though heÃâà...
