“… allows the president to become a dictator."
Isn’t that the goal?
He’ll be impeached or resign in disgrace. I’m convinced of it more and more each day.
He’s a lawbreaking machine, and that catches up with ya. Only a matter of time folks…
Allen… reported that lawyers had “worked out a way” for Kushner…to serve in the West
Wing as “senior adviser.”
In the Trump administration, “worked out a way” means “ignored the law and simply pressed on.”
Odd; it wasn’t all that long ago that Republicans were calling President Obama a dictator, and they didn’t mean it as flattery.
There are many worse people Trump is planning on for government. I would be happy to trade Kushner for Bannon, Michael Flynn, Sessions, Price, Tillerson, Perry, and David Freedman.
In response, Richard Painter, President George W. Bush’s chief ethics lawyer from 2005-2007, said: “If the pardon power allows that, the pardon power allows the president to become a dictator."
Feature not a bug.
You make the mistake of thinking that anyone will enforce the law.
So will Ivanka and Husband dissolve their marrige?
Spirit?
Does anyone here honestly believe the Trumps give a flying fuck about the spirit of anything or anyone, except as something to be broken?
As for the law, the law is for the little people, not people like presidents and billionaires who can’t be prosecuted.
So when it comes to the spirit of the law, all the Trumps see is something to dismiss, condemn, and mock - like a disabled reporter, or the wishes of the American people.
it is still unclear how Kushner and Ivanka Trump, both close advisers to the President-elect and vice chairs of his transition team, would serve in his administration without violating the spirit of anti-nepotism laws.
Anything having "the spirit" of a law dictating what Trump should be able to do constitutes a toothless limitation. Spirit is the first thing getting thrown out the window. Hell, it can be flat out illegal and Congress will bless it.You’re just saying that because you don’t know Kushner yet.
I don’t either, but I can’t think of any reason to believe that anyone Trump would trust would be any better than anyone else in the rogues gallery he’s already nominated to run the executive branch.
The senior adviser will be 36 years-old tomorrow. For what it’s worth that probably means he has more emotional maturity than the president-elect.
Well, gee whiz, I never saw this coming.
Didn’t his daddy get sent up for fraud / corruption / evil deeds? Guess that qualifies Sonny in the Orange Menace’s book.
At a minimum 30+ years more emotional maturity.
If Trump fails, there will be a god-awful collaborator problem. Anybody who cooperated in the effort to destroy America’s core institutions could find themselves in exile in Argentina or the Philippines, not just to escape criminal liability, but to avoid the stigma of making America great again. At least this nepotism approach assures a safe enclave of like-minded relatives. Of course, while it would be interesting to see e.g. Rex Tillerson forced to live in Patagonia, the more likely outcome is that Cheney offers to take in refugees from the Trump administration on his ranch.
They are a God damned crime family with their sycophant minions!
Such a position would not require Senate confirmation, though it is still unclear how Kushner and Ivanka Trump, both close advisers to the President-elect and vice chairs of his transition team, would serve in his administration without violating the spirit of anti-nepotism laws.
I have an idea, but its success requires a pissed off electorate.
Please don’t kill me, but that type of thinking needs to die in '17.
Oh, you mean like when Reagan ran an illegal shadow government to end run Congress? Yes, all those people ended up in shame and had to leave the country to get away from the oppression.
Either that or they were pardoned by Bush, Sr. and took senior roles in the Bush, Jr. administration and were hailed as heroes for trying to get around the pansy liberal congress. I forget.
Sure. In fact, that’s the ONLY thing that matters-- what’s in his heart, not the mere words he says. Which are meaningless.