I still remember “Billy Beer”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Beer

And he was the President’s brother, not the sister of President’s son-in-law.

As long as cash can be made, people will try to make some.

Mitchell was magnificent, showing a better mastery of Price’s material than he did, and by having a set of graphics and quotes ready to demolish his points one after another. It was clear she was not only aware of his bullshit, but how he justified it, and had the time to prepare material to dispute it. His responses were all platitudes and rhetoric. It was embarrassing, but the man never showed it. He is a soapy SOB, obviously not worried about practically being exposed as a liar and a fool on national television. These guys don’t care if they’re caught on video looting the liquor store. They know the sheriff will not arrest them and the judge won’t convict.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNI7SmBpkhE

President Trump is populating the White House and federal agencies with former lobbyists, lawyers and consultants who in many cases are helping to craft new policies for the same industries in which they recently earned a paycheck.

The potential conflicts are arising across the executive branch, according to an analysis of recently released financial disclosures, lobbying records and interviews with current and former ethics officials by The New York Times in collaboration with ProPublica.

In at least two cases, the appointments may have already led to violations of the administration’s own ethics rules. But evaluating if and when such violations have occurred has become almost impossible because the Trump administration is secretly issuing waivers to the rules.

Donald Trump’s nominee to be the country’s next health care czar invested last year as much as $90,000 in six pharmaceutical companies shortly before leading a legislative and public relations effort that benefited those specific companies, records show.
Within weeks of making investments worth between $1,000 and $15,000 in Eli Lilly, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Amgen, McKesson, Biogen and Pfizer according to Congressional disclosure forms, Rep. Tom Price co-sponsored legislation and took part in a public effort that ultimately killed proposed regulatory changes that would have likely hurt those companies’ bottom lines.

Before calling the White House home, Donald Trump used to wonder why any president would ever leave.

“If you’re in the White House, who wants to take a vacation?” he once asked a campaign crowd in Spencer, Iowa. Noting the limited time a president has there, he criticized President Obama for vacationing “when there’s so much work to be done.”

“You’re in the White House,” he said. “What’s better than the White House? Why these vacations?”

But since his January inauguration, President Trump has spent seven of 13 weekends at his Palm Beach, Florida estate. According to NBC News’ estimates by Sunday Trump will have spent 28 percent of his term traveling to or staying at Mar-a-Lago. Trump hosted his second world leader at the “winter White House” last weekend, with Chinese President Xi Jinping joining Trump for meetings Thursday and Friday. Trump stayed the rest of the weekend, frequenting his nearby golf club on both days.

It’s not just a question of travel time, but of ethics and cost efficiency, according to watchdog groups and ethics experts.

While presidents have always traveled on the taxpayer’s dollar — the Obamas were partial to Hawaii and Martha’s Vineyard while President George W. Bush frequented his Crawford, Texas ranch — Trump’s travel is “unprecedented,” one expert says, because he’s repeatedly visiting his own privately owned commercial property at Mar-a-Lago.

“It’s just another example of his consistent efforts to exploit public office for private gain,” ethics expert Steve Schooner told NBC News. “He’s using his official office and the fact that people have to travel with him, meet him, and follow him to promote his commercial enterprise, in this case his privately owned club.”

“I can’t think of anything like this that we’ve seen at anytime in the modern era,” the George Washington Law School professor told NBC News. The Mar-a-Lago property is still owned by Trump, who placed his holdings in a trust overseen by his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., and Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg before assuming office, prompting Schooner to lament that the president “should have divested from his properties to begin with.”

Since Trump became president the cost of membership at Mar-a-Lago has doubled, with guests now paying $200,000 just to join.