And also, Trump doesn’t have the legs for it.
Over at ABC news:
" Two Justice Department investigations of the German bank that has loaned Donald Trump more than $300 million must be turned over to an independent prosecutor, a senior U.S. Senator said this week, because there will be “a clear conflict of interest” between Trump’s personal business interests and his public duties.
“The credibility of this investigation will be completely undermined, and our criminal justice system will be diminished by this obvious conflict of interest,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat and former federal prosecutor, told ABC News in an exclusive interview this week. “What’s needed here is clearly an independent prosecutor, without any connection to an Attorney General who likely will be someone who is a perso
Oh holy hell…how stupid IS America??? This is not NORMAL. It was never INTENDED to be normal. LONG before Trump there were rich landowners that were Presidents and yes, there could be a ‘conflict of interest’. He cannot do ‘all things perfectly’ because he wouldn’t have 3500 lawsuits out there if it was all ‘perfect’. STAND UP AMERICA. STAND UP MEDIA. This is BS. This is MUCH more worrying than the fact that he won.
But he’s Donald’s fav decorator! May be Don’s incorporates other attitudes that the ostentatious
Trump thinks and believes he can say or do whatever he wants and get away with it. He said as much on the billy bush tape. Trump doesn’t know what his limits are. Most other people even the shady ones know their limits.
The difference is, Louis employed skilled artisans. That person bought everything at Chateaux de Knock Off in Paramus.
The SupCt’s holding in McDonnel v. US casts some serious doubt on that proposition. They significantly expended the scope of the ordinary course of business for public officials and significantly weakened the effect of the appearance of quid pro quo.
I believe the Clash has an answer to this burning question.
Breakin’ rocks in the hot sun
I fought the law and the law won [x2]
I needed money 'cause I had none
I fought the law and the law won [x2]
I keep seeing this phrase, but in actuality, things are positively abnormal.
ab·nor·mal
abˈnôrməl/
adjective
adjective: abnormal
deviating from what is normal or usual, typically in a way that is undesirable or worrying.
“the illness is recognizable from the patient’s abnormal behavior”
synonyms:
unusual, uncommon, atypical, untypical, nontypical, unrepresentative, rare, isolated, irregular, anomalous, deviant, divergent, aberrant, freak, freakish; More
strange, odd, peculiar, curious, bizarre, weird, queer;
eccentric, idiosyncratic, quirky;
unexpected, unfamiliar, unconventional, surprising, unorthodox, singular, exceptional, extraordinary, out of the ordinary, out of the way;
unnatural, perverse, perverted, twisted, warped, unhealthy, distorted;
informal, freaky
Well, like I said, I’m not a lawyer and I don’t know much about the specifics of what a President may and may not do. But I do guess we’re all going to learn a lot more in the near future.
Donald will win this one. The media and his supporters will normalize this as “of course he’s a businessman” and we’ll all be another step closer to the end of the republic.
Assuming that the press and the judicial branch are doing their job, I am sure that is a true statement. However, I am not certain that either the press or the judiciary are going to do squat. The oversight role of the legislative branch isn’t likely to amount to much either. Democrats may make noise, but the Repukes control all of the levers of power and I think that they will like things just as they are. Chaffetz’s House committee is going to keep hounding HRC about her emails, however.
“If it were up to some people,” he said, as quoted by the Times, “I would never, ever see my daughter Ivanka again.”
Yo dude you’ve got a choice here, either sell your assets and see your “Precious,” or turn the whole thing over to “Prescious” and have no contact with her while in office, and lest we forget if you choose the later you still can’t talk to her for five years after leaving office per your no lobbying dictate.
It’s called public service for a reason dude.
Why will it take so long?
Call me agnostic on that. : )
the stick is coming in March
Trump told the New York Times that his business empire was “so unimportant” compared to the presidency, but acknowledged that his Washington, D.C. hotel was most likely “a more valuable asset” than it had been prior to his unexpected election victory.
Well… that’s true if we take the word of that person.
According to the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, however, “no person holding any office of profit or trust” may “accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever” from a foreign leader or government unless Congress gives its consent.
something to watch for, right Paul?
“In theory I could run my business perfectly and then run the country perfectly. There’s never been a case like this,” he told the Times.
There’s always a first time