Discussion: READ: IG Says GSA Ignored Constitution In Trump Post Office Hotel Lease

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READ: IG Says GSA Ignored Constitution In Trump Post Office Hotel Lease READ: IG Says GSA Ignored Constitution In Trump Post Office Hotel Lease Back to article
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Too late, no backsies.

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Another report. Another confirmation of grift.

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In a word: Duh.

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“This is shocking. Shocking!”

said no one.

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Just throw it on the pile.

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If GSA terminates the lease, maybe Scott Pruitt can get one those fine mattresses.

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This will be an important input for plaintiffs to persuade judges considering the emoluments cases that it does apply and a constitutional analysis is required by the courts.

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I’m devastated. How can I go on?

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That would be the emoluments clause that William Barr doesn’t understand, I take it.

That was so dumb -he could have guessed based on the word: emoluments.

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He’s never seen the Constitution.

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He knows what the Emoluments Clause is. He was just virtue-signaling to his Wingnut Overlords and ‘har har take that Libturd’ contingent of the GOP base.

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Trump couldn’t do anything about all this if he wanted to. Since the IG has the OPO under audit, you know…

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I know that - but it was still dumb since it’s rather self-explanatory. hahahahaha

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This is why oversight by the D’s is going to be so deadly for Trump. They can’t do anything competently. See e.g. Wilbur Ross’s ham handed efforts to rig the census (taken down by a Federal Judge in a 277 page opinion) or the environmental regulations or efforts to undermine Obamacare (stopped in Court).

Trump did not hire the “best and the brightest” he hired as FatBoy himself confirmed a "revolving door of deeply flawed individuals — amateurs, grifters, weaklings, convicted and unconvicted felons — who were hustled into jobs they were never suited for, sometimes seemingly without so much as a background check via Google or Wikipedia.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/16/chris-christies-new-book-infantilization-trump/?utm_term=.cd868009e17a

none of this ends well when oversight arrives…

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We all knew it at the time. The person in the GSA making the ‘final’ decision was being called out for being a Trump patsy. That they hadn’t taken the emoluments issue into account at all.

I remember reading articles about it. And yet, they “rammed it through” just like McConnell did with Kavanaugh…

Oh, I would love it if Trump loses the old post office, and every penny he invested into it. No “sale” either, because it’s a leased property…

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Where’s the analysis about the decision regarding the language in the lease contract that is clear and doesn’t require deep constitutional interpretation? That specific section I refer to was an elected official benefiting from the lease. This failure to enforce makes no sense to me at all…

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Well Dems need to start calling people in to testify as to why they went around the legal way to allow this stupid thing.

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The report goes on to call the decision to ignore the emoluments issues “improper because GSA, ***like all government agencies, has an obligation to uphold and enforce the Constitution.***”

As if they’re the only agency subverting the constitution. Tell the IG to keep looking…

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So how’s 2019 going for you so far, Individual 1?

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