Discussion: Reports: Oversight Chair Says Plugging Trump Brand 'Wrong, Wrong, Wrong'

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He most certainly will initiate an investigation of Warren for her admitted ties to Coretta Scott King.

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I’m betting the Whitehouse gave him permission to chastise Conway, because people were starting to regard Chaffetz as another Trump sycophant.

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so WTF you gonna do about it you fucking hack?

She needs to lose her job, she already knew this was illegal when she did it and didn’t give a fuck, she is saying you aren’t worth the shit you took this morning and are useless at your job.

but the nation already knew that too, huh Jason?

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Kellyanne doesn’t have a penis, therefore she’s an acceptable target for legitimate criticism.

@inlabsitrust Frederick Douglass tried to warn Trump about that dastardly Coretta, but coverage of Bowling Green pre-empted his spot on Fox News.

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The principal federal conflict of interest law provides that an
official who administers federal law should not take any official action on, or make
recommendations concerning any particular governmental matter in which that official,
or one closely associated with the official, has a personal “financial interest.”4 That is,
federal officials in the executive branch of Government, other than the President or Vice
President,5 must generally “recuse” or disqualify themselves from participating in any
particular governmental matter in which they have a financial interest, or in which their
spouse, dependant children, partner, or business with which they are associated, has a
financial interest. Executive branch officials may also be required, under regulations
promulgated by the Office of Government Ethics [OGE], to recuse themselves from
certain governmental matters affecting an even broader category of persons or entities
with whom they have a “covered relationship.”6

5 18 U.S.C. § 202(c) now expressly exempts the President and Vice President from § 208.

http://congressionalresearch.com/RS21656/document.php

(c) Except as otherwise provided in such sections, the terms “officer” and “employee” in sections 203, 205, 207 through 209, and 218 of this title shall not include the President, the Vice President, a Member of Congress, or a Federal judge.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/202
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It’s not like Donnie’s base shops at Nordstrom.

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marshalls and TJ maxx dropped her too

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I’m betting the Whitehouse gave him permission to chastise Conway, because people were starting to regard Chaffetz as another Trump sycophant.
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Isn’t he?

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When you manage to get Chaffetz and Cummings to join forces, you know you’ve stepped on your dick bigly.

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Yeah, yeah. I’m not talking about the law, thanks. Just about every office-holder in the USA, from school boards on up, has to abide by rules against conflict of interest. It’s a norm. So the more it becomes clear that the President can legally do, flagrantly and unapologetically, what every all the rest of us cannot, the more it will become apparent that the norm is being violated.
This suggests the obvious question to be posed to every R officeholder in the country: do you think the President ought to be allowed legally to do these things? Follow up if they say “yes”: then you would do them too, if you legally could? You’re basically a crook, doing what you think you can get away with?

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Who knows what motivates the NonGreen Grinch boy, but I get the feeling he didn’t like it yesterday when he went to see the Prez an the Prez immediately told him what he could and couldn’t talk about.

Trump thinks the billionaires he has fucked around with have egos, and they do, but he has no idea how big the egos really are in DC. These guys don’t hand their power over to anyone gladly. No matter what party.

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Ok. I’ll bite.

Why is Conway’s endorsement of Ivanka’s products unacceptable, but it’s ok for Trump himself to lambaste Nordstrom for ridding themselves of her apparently unpopular goods?

They both amount to the same thing. Helping Ivanka fail forward.

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IdjIts for Little DiJiTs

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Was this prick a library science or elementary school teacher before he failed to get a job at ATF? He certainly has that personality, or one of those cranky women haters at the home decorating stores. He probaly snapped his fingers in a triangle shape in the air when he said wrong wrong wrong.

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I hereby pledge my support in your candidacy for public office ! –

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…and NiemanMarcus.

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Well you KNOW Trump personally put her up to it!. No doubt personally rebuking the staff bitterly about how they had cruelly abandoned poor Ivanka, this was unpatriotic, leaving her and her proud business to be overrun by smelly Mexicans, blah blah!

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So, Mr. Chaffetz, those are some strong words. Can we now expect to now launch an investigation into what appears to be Mr. Trump’s ongoing efforts to use his office to gain personal profits?

Mr. Chaffetz: “WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!”

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Your theory does not fly with me, because I’m not sure Donald Trump has a penis either. I think it’s more of an attachment like Michael Jackson’s nose.

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Yes.

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