Zimbabwe, shunned by the international community during the years it was ruled by dictator Robert Mugabe, hadn’t retained a Washington lobbying firm in more than a decade.
Ballard and the others aren’t the first presidential campaign veterans to lobby for foreign governments. Tim Glassco, for instance, joined the Podesta Group after working on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and went on to lobby for the governments of Albania, Cyprus, Egypt and Georgia while Obama was in office, according to disclosure filings.
James Rubin, the lead Ballard lobbyist working for Zimbabwe and a former State Department official in the Clinton administration, said the firm’s lobbyists thought carefully before agreeing to represent the country. While the country’s new leadership has made mistakes, including a crackdown on demonstrators in January that reportedly killed at least 17 people, “it is far, far better than Zimbabwe’s government was under Mugabe,” Rubin said.
HIPOCRITE N CHIEF talks of others who lobby for money during 2016, himself does the SAME. Trump will be lookibg for money from CARTELS if needed badly.
ladyinlksd They are looking to learn from the best and brightest traitors .Good luck with that. ETTD
Such is Lassez Faire Govt..
'Money – absolutely - can be speech.' - Texas Senator Ted Cruz
The influence on our laws and government is on sale to the highest bidder. Whether that bidder is American or in America is of no importance. MoneyFirst
This is starting to look more and more like treason since he’s bypassing diplomatic protocols that are in place to protect him & this country from foreign agents. Where does it say a free-market economy means selling-out the country you sworn to protect to the highest bidder?
Not really
The amount if corruption with Trump is simply astounding and yet the GOP stays silent.
The bad guys are winning!
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