And yet, Jimmy Carter bemoaned the fact that they made him sell his peanut farm. Times have certainly changed.
There isn’t even ONE Republican with enough morals to fill a thimble. For Jesus, of course.
Not in the least. Carter is a Democrat. Trump is a Republican. See the difference?
And if our next President is a Democrat, he will be prosecuted if he sells a baseball cap for a $10 profit.
Or if she’s connected with an A-rated charity from which she never received a dime. Obviously a slush fund. Or pay to play. Or something.
The main early export would have been tobacco and Washington, at least, got out of the tobacco business in 1766, long before he became president. Also, most agricultural exporting was done through middlemen, who also made their sales to what would be considered wholesalers and retailers. Governments were not usually involved.
You know why this never came up in any administration to the degree you are seeing it now? BECAUSE all prior presidents were decent men with an aquaintaince with responsible behavior and basic morals. Americans serving in Congress took their responsibility to citizens seriously…fulfilled their role and advanced the collective interest of America.Contrast that with behavior of the pigs at the trough that are betraying us every day.
I wonder if the DOJ would modify its position if it came to light that foreign dignitaries were paying, say, $25,000 a night for an ordinary room at Trump’s hotel.
We have established what you are, Mr. President. We are now merely haggling over the price.
Edited to correct the notion that a court has ruled on this already. Still just a filing.
this is tRUmp’s DOJ view of the clause, so naturally sides with him, I don’t believe that the court has ruled yet, and there are always appeals
but fully agreed with the take in your earlier post
All this article says is that the DOJ asked for the suit to be thrown out. For all we know, the court will laugh out loud, mock them, and tell them to take a hike.
Pubbies don’t seem to realize that Trump setting all these precedents means that if a Democrat gets elected President and has lots of business dealings, the Democrat can point to what Trump got away with and say “Well, it was OK for Trump, wasn’t it?”
This motion is a loser. I do not envy the lawyer who has to argue it. Sucker.
Actually if a Dem does stuff like this, fellow Dems will be the first to complain about it.
Because unlike the Republicans, Dems actually give a shit about the Constitutuon and the country and the people in it.
Does it include payments made in rubles or oil stock?
If you put all the morals of all the Republicans in federal office in one thimble, you’d still have room for a thumb.
“If we outlaw bribery, then only outlaws will have bribes!”
(Or something.)
Sally Yates would have had the smarts and integrity to not make this excremental motion.
But under Sessions, we have a DoJ that’s apparently taken a loyalty oath to Trump.
Seems like art would be a good business for a Republican Predisent. Scribble a bit on a piece of paper, sell it for a million bucks to the Emir of wherever. As long as it is being bought from ‘normal’ business, not due to the office of ‘Presdniet,’ of course.