make an official richer, plus the hush money payments during the campaign, that s another avenue that democrats are increasingly going down. does that persuade public opinion in a way that the russia investigation does not? it does go to the heart of the one of the strongest points that donald trump made during the 2016 campaign, that was those chants of drain the swamp because i think when americans look at some of these some of these actions that have benefited the president and his family and his business, that looks pretty swampy to them. yeah, and it the swamp levels, mika, just keep rising. you can look at these specifics, and, ken, what we ve seen over the past few weeks, his resort in ireland or his resort in scotland, whether it s the trump hotel, whether it s doral, again, all of these things losing money or most of them losing money. and you can add it up.
he said no bedbugs at doral, radical left democrats hearing that the perfectly located doral miami spread that false and nasty rumor. he was sued over bedbugs. somebody went to court. they settled it with a confidentiality agreement. so the person was paid? i guess, but doral and bedbug, i mean, i ll never hear the word doral again without thinking of bedbugs. meanwhile in florida, local officials were surprised by the president s promotion. the washington post reports it does kind of make you itch when they say doral, doesn t it. i can t stop thinking about bedbugs, crawling all over your body when you re in bed apparently at doral. who would go to court, get a lawyer unless they were truly covered with bedbugs.
of course the organization apparently settled, but, you know. you settle, usually when you want it to go away. when there are bedbugs at doral, the post said if the summit came to doral. a lot of people would be itching. trying to turn the sprawling golf course surrounded by houses, busy streets. bedbugs. and a nearby airport into a walled off diplomatic bug-filled island, but nobody has told him he needs to make such plans. so mike, are you itching too? just don t go there. i got to leave and take a shower now. the bedbugs will find you, bedbugs in doral, let s talk about marco rubio first of all, any comments? i thought it was very fascinating yesterday that we ve talked about the republican
and a half, you know, not on deadline, at 3:00 in the afternoon, we needed a story by 5:30 or 6:00, you know, to make the first edition, it s not like that. in order to get the occupancy rate of doral and others in the area, in order to get the cost of a meal for a big party that bill barr is going to have at the trump hotel, it requires work. it requires digging. it requires sources. it requires accuracy and that s all encompassed in what the two people you just referenced, washington post david and his partner, each time we see this in the paper. let s bring in investigative reporter for the washington post and an msnbc contributor, david fahrenthold, david, the fact that you re an msnbc contributor is not why i was nice to you yesterday. just ask other msnbc contributors, i m not a company man. i don t have to say that. david, before we get to the barr story, let s talk about doral,
washington post and other newspapers in this country, it is so refreshing. well, you know, yesterday, i found an old article, around six months old, that david fahrenthold had written about doral losing money, 65% in revenue over the past couple of years, and maybe it s because of the bedbugs, maybe that got around, if you go to doral, you get bit by bedbugs i don t know, but fahrenthold had said after tweeting that article, i said this guy is quickly becoming the indispensable reporter of the trump era, and sure enough, he and his colleague jonathan o connell just an hour or two later broke a story that we re going to tell you about, but mike, it s extraordinary reporting on his part. and joe, people are not aware, nobody outside the business is aware, and we don t expect them to be aware, these things are not done in an hour