Ethics: Trump vs. Clinton (re John Oliver)

Regarding John Oliver's take on Trump vs. Clinton


While I agree that both Trump and Clinton have their lies, it is hard to see how Trump spending $10k a picture of himself from his Foundation funds is worse that selling a massive amount of uranium reserves to Russia after getting $Millions in donations to their Foundation through several sham outfits. (Just because other gov't agencies approved it, doesn't mean it was ethical. Who wants to cross the Clintons?)


Oliver lays out every charge against Trump, but ignores some of Clinton's old ones, including making 1000% trading cattle futures within a year. He makes up a scandal instead, and talks about the most ridiculous of the internet accusations in order to distract from legitimate claims.


I agree with Oliver on Trump's taxes, but if Trump was doing something illegal, the IRS would prosecute him. Was that not the standard that Oliver set for Hillary? So he's not releasing his taxes because he either a) doesn't make as much as he purported ... or b) he doesn't give that much to charity. It's a lie, but not to the level of setting up your own server so you can hide emails about getting payment to the Clinton Foundation.

She lied about so much, well documented in this mashup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Certainly if Trump lied about landing in Bosnia under sniper fire, it would have been given a royal treatment by Oliver, but in this case, it is ignored. Let's not forget that Brian Williams got fired from his anchor position, because of a similar lie, but Clinton can be President. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...


Oliver gets indignant over Trump's blind trust remark, but it was no different than when Hillary said Chelsea would run her Foundation if she gets elected. The Clinton Foundation took in $140 M in donations in 2013 (last available year), making it a huge conflict of interest.
While Oliver details Trump's Foundation's misgivings, he leaves off many key facts on the Clinton Foundation. The Clinton foundation spent only 6% of it's income in 2013 on Charity work. Charity Navigator put the foundation on its “watch list,” which warns potential donors about investing in problematic charities. Almost all of Hillary's personal charitable donations were to her Foundation. She's donating to herself!

When Police Officer Get Killed

Police officers, in their training review, instances like these. That's why people need to listen, then complain after the fact. Police are 100% correct, but they do want to return to their families.




Here are a couple examples for the memory bank.






In January 2015, Officer Tyler Stewart was shot and killed by a suspect refusing to take his hands out of his pocket, when he was responding to a call for domestic abuse






Back 1998, Officer Kyle Dinkheller was killed at a traffic stop who returned to his car and retrieved a gun.


In 1991, Officer Darren Lunsford was killed at a traffic stop when marijuana smugglers all got out of a vehicle, tackled and killed him.