The State Department said in a report that it has an incomplete accounting of gifts presented to former President Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence and other former Trump administration officials during Trump’s final year in office.
Can there be any doubt that we had a crime boss holding the office of president of our country for 4 years? (and who criminally tried to hold onto the office after being defeated)
Then there’s this:
However, another footnote in the report acknowledges a “lack of accurate recordkeeping pertaining to diplomatic gifts maintained by the Office of the Chief of Protocol’s Gift Unit” between January 20, 2017 — when Trump began his presidency — and through the end of his term in January 2021.
Is anyone surprised by this? Anyone? Bueller??
For Trump, the word corrupt is a verb as well as an adjective. Every social and cultural artifact we have which came into his contact he corrupted.
…and I am not trying to be a wordsmith here: A small time functionary can pilfer some printing paper. Trump trashes whole systems of human activity so that they no longer resemble what he found:
Exhibit A: Our entire system and culture and mechanics of voting in a free society
Did anyone expect anything different?
What a surprise [not]; I’m just flabbergasted [not].
Surely there will be consequences, possibly a tongue lashing even [snicker]
ETA: more seriously this is just further evidence, if such were needed, that when you follow the Steve Bannon business model of ‘flooding the zone with shit,’ you overwhelm it’s ability to defend and clean itself. I’ve heard it termed the social form of Gresham’s Law and that seems about right.
And it appears a significant percentage of our media has decided that shit sells.
Hah! Another attempt by the pettifogging, piss ant Deep State to tarnish the shining reputation of our most presidential President. What a leader! What a man! What a two-bit, penny-ante gonif.
Lyin’, cheatin’, thievin’ and stealin’ is what they do. And tfg execlled in those areas like no other.
Makes you wonder what he gifted them back - top secret classified documents perhaps? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
It would also be irresponsible not to investigate … and maybe even impose consequences.
The only surprise is that Trump didn’t hold a yard sale at the WH or turn to eBay so that he could get some cash out of the various gifts he never reported. And this, of course is of a piece with Trump’s trying to cash in on the work of the WH photographer.
Grifters gotta grift.
Does this legally constitute theft?
Yeah let’s not politicize this, because certainly the Republicans wouldn’t.
Incomplete Account Of Foreign Gifts Given To Trump And Officials In 2020
Does it include Greenland?
I don’t know what or who to believe any more.
I love the photo, Don. I’ll remember you this way forever. Don’t ever change.
Yeah you do.
“Go ahead and investigate me.”
“But I’d like you to do a favor for me, though …”
Ed: Inserted but.
How long before we get the comments that it was Merrick Garland who rejected the criminal referral?
Political decision. Best to hold the referral until after the J6 committee public hearings wave the dirty diapers on prime time TV. Be sure everyone in the country can’t avoid getting a good whiff.