Trump Criticized Biden Travel Costs then exceeds Biden +Obama Travel Costs

Irwin sent me a yahoo news article on this.

Back in 2012, Donald Trump criticized the cost of the travel of then Vice President Joe Biden.

Trump also criticized then President Obama for taking off too much time for vacation (although apparently Trump never criticized Obama's cost of travel - at least I can't find any).

Now that he is President, President Trump's travel costs are quickly adding up.

Is this hypocrisy?

First off, as noted above, Trump never seems to have criticized Obama's travel costs.

Secondly, it was 5 years ago.

Third, I'm not sure the travel cost accounting is the same now as it was back in 2012.

Fourth, I think this is just about a guy who in 2012 didn't understand the issue he was discussing. Similarly, back in 2008, then candidate Obama was against Presidential signing statements attached to laws. Within a short time (not the 5 years that Trump had between the criticism of travel costs and his own costs) after he took office he was issuing them prodigiously. 









Yahoo report on Trump's travel cost is here
Earlier post on Obama's signing statement policy is here.
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Eric Trump - is there hypocrisy in the long rant

Eric Trump, born in 1984, is the 3rd child of Ivana and Donald Trump.

Two seeming statements were made (I think) by Eric in an interview that Irwin found to be potentially a case of hypocrisy.

One statement, referring to critics of Donald Trump (or possibly of all the Trump family or possibly just Eric Trump) was

‘...To me, they’re not even people’

another (which is in the news report on the interview but I couldn't find it in the transcript) was,  referring, I think, to Democratic Legislators,

 

“I’ve never seen hatred like this..."

Both statements were, I think, part of a relatively long interview. Some background on this is needed to understand the context.

Eric Trump is involved in a number of activities. One of them is philanthropy.  Eric is the CEO of the Eric Trump Foundation which is the mechanism by which the philanthropy is carried out. The ET foundation is under investigation by the State of NY.  The reason seems to be that money from the ET foundation went to pay for the use of golf clubs belonging to the Trump Organization (the second image is from 2008 and shows Rudy Guliani, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Joe Torre on one of the Trump Golf Courses - this was I think part of a fundraising event for the Donald Trump Foundation) and this was either not declared properly or that it is something foundations shouldn't do (I don't understand much about the subject of charitable foundations).

This is just too confusing to call it hypocrisy. First of all the transcript doesn't follow the news report very well. Secondly, Eric Trump seems to be discussing two or more issues. Thus the two statements do not seem to be aimed at the same people. If it were the same people, it would be a case of a contradiction not hypocrisy since Eric Trump has never said, "Don't call people inhuman" and then called them 'not even human'.  

The video and a news report of the Eric Trump interview is here.

The transcript of the Eric Trump interview (it has others first so the interview begins about 80% down in the file) is here.

As a bonus an article on why 'strategic charity' frequently fails (Eric Trump must never have read this) is  here.