As I was saying for months before November ‘16, no matter what anyone may think of Trump he is not going to DC with the machine in place for corruption that Hillary had.
Even if he wanted to be corrupt he’ll need time to learn the specifics of Washington DC corruption and build the infrastructure for it. All the while he will have to contend with an adversarial media that will be out for revenge, eager to skewer him over the slightest misdeed and likewise the Democratic Party is ever out for blood.
Compare that to Clinton, who has already engaged in pay for play, has the lay of the land down and the infrastructure in place, who the press will go to great lengths to cover up for her and the Republicans will as usual turn a blind eye in their evergreen madness to seek the approval of Democrats. She could hit the ground running in more or less total security from ever paying the piper.
The Leftist I presented such reasonings with scoffed, of course. The moderates were bored, naturally. Just more right wing muckraking.
But wisdom will find verification, won’t it?
I think Trump came in from the position of having been a donor and now he is finding out what the people who had solicited his help in past years REALLY think of him.
The ideology of course is the primary reason Washington hates Trump (national-socialism, welfare voters, open borders, homosexual haters, racists are all obvious tinderboxes.) But never forget the simple factor of their entire financial future was lost Nov 8.
From Wikipedia on the power plant: Yes, a well-connected lawyer could have made multiple millions off of even a 150 million dollar “restart” effort through the DC bureaucracies.
In August 2009, the Tennessee Valley Authority, faced with “falling electric sales and rising costs from cleaning up a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee”, trimmed plans for the potential four-unit Bellefonte nuclear plant to one reactor.[7]
Later developments
On August 20, 2010 the TVA Board of Directors authorized $248 million to continue development of the Bellefonte Unit 1.[8] On August 18, 2011, the TVA board of directors voted to move forward with the construction of the unit one reactor at Bellefonte.[9]
In 2011, TVA approved a plan to restart construction of the Bellefonte Unit 1 reactor,[9] dependent on work at another reactor TVA completing - Watts Bar 2 in Tennessee.[10] In December 2012, TVA said the Watts Bar 2 project is on schedule to finish in December 2015.[11]
TVA again announced staffing cuts at the plant in June 2013, reducing staffing at the plant from 540 to approximately 140.[12][13]
In October 2013, it was announced that former TVA Chairman Dennis Bottorff and financier Franklin L. Haney have drafted a proposal to finish the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant using private funds and federal tax credits.[14]
Sale of site
In 2015 TVA determined that it would be unlikely to need a large plant like Bellefonte for the next 20 years,[15] and in May 2016 elected to declare the plant surplus, and sell the 1,600 acre site at auction for a minimum price of $36.4 million.[16][17]
On October 14, 2016, TVA directors declared the unfinished nuclear plant to be surplus property and set a November 14, 2016 auction date to sell the unfinished plant and property.[18] Nuclear Development LLC, led by Chattanooga-based developer Franklin L. Haney, purchased the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant at auction with a winning bid of $111 million, three times the minimum bid of $36.4 million; Nuclear Development intends to complete the two units at a projected additional investment of over $13 billion.[19] Haney's bid beat the only other bidder, Jackson Holdings of Alabama LLC, which was hoping to use components from the unfinished plant for a reactor under construction in India.[20] Another prospective bidder, Phoenix Energy of Nevada, was unable to complete their financing arrangements in time to place a bid.[20] Construction is expected to start by the end of 2018 and take approximately five years to complete. It will require a construction crew of between 5000 and 7000.[21]