I mean, now much more f*cking blatant can you be here with the monetization of the presidency? Isn’t stuff like this supposed to be illegal?
Anyone else remember the days when Bill Clinton having a donor sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom was a nearly impeachable offense to the GOP?
Branford Marsalis actually said that in the film “Bring on the Night” (which remains my favorite musical film)…
He neglected to mention the Bagpipe, though.
Related …
Uncle Wally, you got the thread with these…
I didn’t have to dig very deep to find this (though apparently there are multiple Trump golf courses in Scotland):
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2018-07-15/trump-golf-course-in-scotland-has-made-him-some-enemies
I had thought thst daddy trump had handed control of his companies off to his sons.
I guess the emoluments clause means zip anymore.
You knew better than that. We all did.
Since when has Scotland been a dictatorship?
Good. Let him promote it. It’ll be worth that much more when Mueller or SDNY seizes it.
Impeach the motherf*cker!
I spent my morning today voluntering with a local charity called Lend-a-Hand. I took bags of veggies and fruit to folk who are in poverty or house bound, or just can’t afford a decent meal. I do this with a bunch of folk (10 teams in total). We took these groceries to around 130 people. I don’t get paid for this.
Now I come home to read about how an obscenely wealthy man breaks the law in public, then openly brags about how snobbishly exclusive his golf resort is.
I doubt there is any human alive today who is as boorishly awful as trump
Why hasn’t he been indicted? It’s not like there’s a shortage of laws he’s broken.
Well he wants you to think he’s obscenely wealthy but personally I think he’s worth probably less than zero because he’s in debt.
But yes he’s awful.
Wait for the pliant Republican Congress and it’s media arm to defend this. They’d quote William Wallace “You can take my golf course but you can’t take my freedom!”
“Furthers UK relationship.” Right. They hate you. Remember the blimp?
That was just a one-oaft —
Ostensibly, the legal basis for the guidance is the constitution.
“The indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting President would unconstitutionally undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions.”
It’s a ridiculous argument though because nothing could be more dangerous to the constitution than a president who is a serial criminal. We should trust federal prosecutors to make that judgement.
I need help from the folk here because describing trump as “awful” doesn’t really reach the level I need but it is the word I can come up with.
Why is it taking soooo fucking long for folks in government to come to the realization that it is either we get trump out of office or we lose our republic??
You’d have to ask them. All I can imagine that they think getting rid of him would be worse for them than what is happening to the republic.
And I know awful isn’t a good enough word - he’s irredeemable.
I’ve said it quite a few times here, but we need to internalize that to us, the last two or three generations have been a time of great and beneficial transformational change - The Civil Rights Act, Women’s Liberation Movement, Gay Marriage Legalized across the country, etc.
To Conservatives, these have all been disasters of literally biblical proportions. No, they don’t think Donald Trump is a Christian, but they do believe that God sent him as an instrument to “save” us all from ourselves. Sure, they would like to have a President they could be “proud” of, but the role of Trump is to allow them to set the foundations for a reversal of the past 50 years of social change. It drives their anger, it drives their support for Trump and it drives their willingness to look the other way at everything else the republicans are doing.
But, as you have pointed out many times as well, we outnumber them, and can get past this spasm of rage. I just hope we learn from this episode and don’t let our guard down quite so easily next time…