Saturday, April 2, 2016

Former senator and lobbyist, defendant in 2013 securities fraud lawsuit, Bob Kasten named to Trump's foreign policy team



As quoted in Former GOP Sen. Bob Kasten joins Trump foreign policy team.  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4/2/2016)

"I hope that if I stay involved in this campaign....."?

Not exactly a yuuge vote of confidence.

Kasten goes on to say this about Trump. “He’s never run for public office, and I believe that every day he’s learning and getting better. I believe he’s going to able to become a uniter.”

Related reading:
Incumbent's Personal Life An Issue In Wisconsin's Close Senate Race.  (Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/14/1986)
Since that time, this graduate of Choate prep school and the University of Arizona has been arrested twice, once on a charge of drunken driving in Washington and once for driving on the wrong side of the road in Wisconsin. And he has admitted that in 1977, when he was a congressman representing Milwaukee's poshest suburbs, he did not file federal and state tax returns. 
In 1984, two of his former partners in a real estate syndication were convicted and jailed for masterminding a multimillion-dollar securities fraud, although Kasten was not implicated. 
What's more, during his tenure in the Senate the major components of Wisconsin's economy - agriculture and manufacturing - have worsened and its environment has deteriorated.

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