Scoundrels, Bounders, Villains and Blackguards

 "They may smile a smile yet be a villain.'

Isn't it odd that all the palaver about Michael 'Take-a-bullet' Cohen is on whether he will 'flip', and NOT asserting that Drumpf and Cohen are innocent? One must suppose that even to a die-hard Drumpf cultist, the notion that either of these two dirt-bags is 'innocent' is simply too preposterous to consider.

As a follow-up to the article 'The Company He Keeps'... (please follow this blog by clicking the appropriate place in the left-hand column...) which zeroed in on the menagerie of miscreants that Drumpfen-dork associated with, (e.g. Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Roy Cohn, etc), let's look at the ne'ver-do-wells which currently populate (infest? beset?) 45's administration.

 
The current administration is rife with corruption on a level never seen in modern times; Zinke, Pruitt, Mnuchin, DeVos, Perdue, Ross, Carson, Chao, have all been cited for misconduct and/or misappropriations. Here's a handy compendium of articles from actual journalists which report the despicable activities of these scoundrels, bounders, villains and blackguards.

Alexander Acosta; Secretary of Labor 

...from Florida!
https://www.thenation.com/article/trumps-labor-nominee-alexander-acosta-is-more-dangerous-than-you-think/

Alex Azar - Secretary of Health and Human Services

 

...from Pennsylvania!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-health-202/2018/04/20/the-health-202-alex-azar-is-surrounding-himself-with-industry-insiders/5ad8b94c30fb0437119267c8/?utm_term=.11d9fccb1dc6

Jim Bridenstine - NASA Administrator,  Oklahoma

 

...from Oklahoma!
https://www.vox.com/2018/4/18/17253560/nasa-administrator-jim-bridenstine-confirmation

Ben Carson - Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

...from Michigan!

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/how-ben-carson-hobbled-hud

Elaine Chao - Secretary of Transportation

...from Taipei, Taiwan! (Kentucky)

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/donald-trumps-14-billion-cabinet/11/

Betsy DeVos - Secretary of Education

from Michigan!
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/betsy-devos-rescinds-guidelines-disabled-students

Gina Haspel - CIA Director (nominee)

...from Kentucky!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/23/gina-haspels-cia-appointment-will-delight-torturers-trump
http://time.com/5250440/gina-haspel-retired-military/

Steve Mnuchin - Secretary of the Treasury

...from New York!
http://www.newsweek.com/mnuchin-travel-costs-make-carson-and-others-look-pikers-847991
https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/11/steven-mnuchin-louise-linton-embarrassing/

Mick Mulvaney - Director of the Office of Management & Budget

...from South Carolina (by way of Virginia)!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/02/12/why-mick-mulvaney-is-the-perfect-scoundrel-for-trump/?utm_term=.2d4b0756f9b0
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/mick-mulvaney-explains-his-pay-to-play-rule-for-lobbyists-while-in-congress.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/us/mulvaney-consumer-financial-protection-bureau.html

George Ervin "Sonny" Perdue III - Secretary of Agriculture

...from Georgia!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/us/politics/sonny-perdue-georgia.html
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/donald-trump-sonny-perdue-agriculture-235982

Mike Pompeo - CIA Director/ Secretary of State

...from California! (no not the 'good' California... Orange County...)
https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/it-turns-out-mike-pompeo-never-served-in-the-gulf-war.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38029336

Scott Pruitt - Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

...from Oklahoma!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/us/politics/scott-pruitt-oklahoma-epa.html
http://time.com/5241932/scott-pruitt-privacy-booth-scandal/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/04/24/senate-republicans-call-for-greater-scrutiny-of-pruitts-management-spending-decisions/?utm_term=.40c1752688cc

Wilbur Ross - Secretary of Commerce

...from New Jersey!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/leaked-documents-show-commerce-secretary-concealed-ties-putin-cronies-n817711
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/11/07/the-case-of-wilbur-ross-phantom-2-billion/#121c85567515

Jeff Sessions - Attorney General

...from Al'bama!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/us/politics/jeff-sessions-special-counsel-russia.html
http://wsau.com/blogs/ben-armstrong-blog/20344/a-lot-of-questions-about-jeff-sessions/

 Ryan Zinke - Secretary of the Interior

...from Montana!
https://newrepublic.com/article/148017/scott-pruitts-scandal-clone-ryan-zinke
https://www.sierraclub.org/lay-of-the-land/2018/02/ryan-zinke-s-rocky-scandal-ridden-year-interior
https://www.salon.com/2018/03/09/interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-is-the-latest-trump-official-to-be-caught-making-pricey-purchases/

Match these incompetents with the corruption of the office of POTUS by Drumpf's open and brash violation of the emoluments clause and we have a recipe for disaster unparalleled in modern American history. 

We've entered a new, more corrosive 'Gilded Age' which is bankrupting the nation and undermining American credibility and honor on the global stage.

Impeach the president and end this assault on the Constitution and the respectability of the Republic.