Donald Trump’s Past Lobbying Exploits Contradict Stated Policies
Presidential Candidate’s Special Interest Appears to Be His Own Pocketbook, Public Records Show
This article appeared originally in The Narco News Bulletin, published on June 12, 2016.
Republican presidential contender Donald Trump paints himself as a people’s candidate who is a Washington outsider and a successful businessman beyond the reach of lobbyists and special interests. But he now has lobbyists advising his presidential campaign.
Trump also boasts that he will force Mexico to pay for building a wall along the U.S. southern border to keep “illegal immigrants” out of the United States, yet Trump himself has allegedly hired undocumented workers in the past to help build out his real estate empire.
Further bolstering the copious contradictions that already mark Trump’s presidential campaign, Narco News recently discovered congressional lobbying records that illuminate further the Jekyll-and-Hyde nature of the Republican candidate’s personality and politics. Those records show, for example, that Trump’s company retained a U.S. lobbying firm that was charged with advancing the business interests of a foreign company — seemingly undercutting Trump’s America-first campaign messaging.
