The Corruption Will Be Endless

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The Corruption Will Be Endless

A simple point: Apart from all the other things people are rightly worried about,

the Trump administration is going to be mind-bogglingly, often cartoonishly and comically corrupt.

All administration's have venal corruption. A US presidential administration is large enough and has sufficient power that it is simply a matter of human nature. Indeed, even administrations run by presidents who are not themselves corrupt are often filled with corruption.

Which brings us to President-Elect Trump.

Trump himself is instinctively corrupt.

I don't think requires much argument.

He took a substantial amount of the campaign money he raised and ran it through his own companies.

He practiced textbook self-dealing with his family foundation.

Many of his private businesses were no better than glitzy cons and he developed a reputation for cheating partners, even if in many cases doing so in ways that didn't explicitly violate the law.

He is placing his own children into prominent positions organizing his administration.

His version of a "blind trust" is one in which his children and heirs administer his companies on his behalf while he is President.

His companies are not 'public companies' in the corporate governance sense. But the vast majority of his companies' activities are carried out in public - hotels, golf resorts, licensing businesses, consumer businesses. None of this can really be blind even if there were any attempt to make it so.

Trump and his children are in the process of building a real life version of the cartoonishly caricatured fantasy of the Clinton Foundation he created for his followers on the campaign trail.
Trump is so thoroughly corrupt in his dealings that it is probably fair to say that he doesn't even recognize the concept of self-dealing as being a problem in itself.

They say hypocrisy is the tribute which vice pays to virtue. In Trump's case there isn't even much hypocrisy. In every case we've seen him discuss it,

he sees self-dealing and self-enrichment as a normal, meritorious way of doing things.

His followers almost all tend to be grifters, in many or most cases people who bet all on Trump when he seemed like a longshot because both professionally and metaphorically they had nothing to lose. Those people will want a bonanza and I suspect they'll get it.

I should add here that if ridiculous amounts of public corruption is the worst we get from the Trump administration I will, frankly, be profoundly grateful. Profoundly grateful. I fear and expect things that are far, far worse.

I say all this not really to try to prove anything because I'm not sure there's anything to prove. For the reasons I've noted above I think it all goes without saying.

I say it because we've just lived through eight years which are something of an historical anomaly.

And we're heading into an era of unparalleled public corruption.

Get ready.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-corruption-will-be-endless?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

[Axl Rose]

Lol will be

t. Time traveler

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Lol will be

t. Time traveler

Get ready.

Trash isn't in office yet, but his "blind trust" is his own spawn.

One lowest of ST rightwing nutjobs is trash-talking the future tense.

Join Teysha Blue (sounds like a female gangsta rapper) as he, or she, trashes internet protocols.

[DMC]

Panic from OP is a sure sign he's convinced Trump will win a 2nd term.

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Panic from OP is a sure sign he's convinced Trump will win a 2nd term.

No panic here. Just wishful thinking on your tiny little part.

Trash has been a crook, a grifter, a cheater, a self-dealer, a total fraud, his entire career, he ain't gonna change, corruption starts at the top. See Well Fargo, see all of p/e and hedge funds, all totally, thieving corrupt.

[DMC]

No panic here. Just wishful thinking on your tiny little part.

Trash has been a crook, a grifter, a cheater, a self-dealer, a total fraud, his entire career, he ain't gonna change, corruption starts at the top. See Well Fargo, see all of p/e and hedge funds, all totally, thieving corrupt.

:madrun

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Trump’s conflicts of interest are without precedent in American presidential history

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/09/trumps-conflicts-of-interest-are-without-precedent-in-american-presidential-history/?tid=pm_business_pop_b

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?Who. Owns. Donald. Trump? (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/6/1578492/-Who-Owns-Donald-Trump)

http://images.dailykos.com/images/290610/story_image/ume3ojb.jpg?1471886468


In the 1970s, he ran up a $38 million personal debt and was bailed out by his father (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/06/1578432/-Donald-Trump-isn-t-just-the-king-of-debt-he-s-the-emperor-of-failure).

In the 1990s, he racked up $1 billion in debt twice (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/03/1577235/-Donald-Trump-lost-a-billion-twice-because-he-s-a-genius) and raided his own company (http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/6/13163220/trump-hotels-and-casino-resorts) to enrich himself, and even then, may have needed insolvency laws (http://fortune.com/2016/09/26/donald-trumps-tax-returns-debt/) to climb out of the hole he dug.

Wouldn’t it be remarkable if the tycoon, who was claiming even in his darkest days in the 1990s to be worth over $1 billion, was admitting to the IRS that he was really not just dead broke, but hugely under water?

And that a special escape provision called “insolvency”—a place Trump has never publicly confessed to being—saved him a bundle in taxes?

American banks long ago stopped dealing with Donald Trump, and for a very good reason. Those losses Trump reported in 1995? They were 2 percent of all the net operating losses (http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tax-returns-estate-taxes-hillary-clinton-2016-10) reported for the entire country. Donald Trump was a one-man economic wrecking crew.

So who does Trump owe? He has admitted to at least five loans of at least $50 million each (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/trump-german-loan-deutsche-bank), but any of those loans could be for any amount above $50 million.

Who really owns the Republican candidate for president?

We know he owes hundreds of millions to Deutsche Bank (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/trump-german-loan-deutsche-bank), which itself is an enormous conflict of interest.

… the presumptive GOP nominee also has a tremendous load of debt that includes five loans each over $50 million. (The disclosure form, which presidential candidates must submit, does not compel candidates to reveal the specific amount of any loans that exceed $50 million, and Trump has chosen not to provide details.) Two of those megaloans are held by Deutsche Bank, which is based in Germany but has US subsidiaries.


But Deutsche Bank has serious problems (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/trumps-conflict-interest-big-overseas-bank-getting-worse-minute).

Deutsche Bank is in deep trouble. Its stock price has plummeted in recent days after the Justice Department demanded the gigantic German bank pay $14 billion to settle claims regarding its sale of bad mortgage-backed securities in the the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. The bank's shares fell to a new low on Tuesday over reports it might be seeking a bailout from the German government—which Deutsche Bank has denied.


Which puts Donald Trump into the position of being in debt to a foreign institution by a minimum of $100 million when that institution has been caught hiding data, manipulating markets, and trying to evade laws aimed at preventing just the kind of mess Deutsche Bank has created.

And then there's Russia. (http://time.com/4433880/donald-trump-ties-to-russia/) Donald Trump can easily claim that he has “zero investments in Russia.” It may even be true. But it’s dead certain that Russia has investments in Trump.

The most obvious example is Trump Soho, a complicated web of financial intrigue that has played out in court. A lawsuit claimed that the business group, Bayrock, underpinning Trump Soho was supported by criminal Russian financial interests. While its initial claim absolved Trump of knowledge of those activities, Trump himself later took on the group’s principal partner as a senior adviser in the Trump organization.

“Tax evasion and money-laundering are the core of Bayrock’s business model,” the lawsuit said of the financiers behind Trump Soho.



And, according to Junior Trump, that’s far from the limit of Russian involvement (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-trumps-financial-ties-to-russia-and-his-unusual-flattery-of-vladimir-putin/2016/06/17/dbdcaac8-31a6-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html).

“Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets,” Trump’s son, Donald Jr., told a real estate conference in 2008, according to an account posted on the website of eTurboNews, a trade publication. “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”


German banksters. Russian Oligarchs. Who else owns Donald Trump (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/donald-trump-debt.html)?

On the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has sold himself as a businessman who has made billions of dollars and is beholden to no one. …
an office building on Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, of which Mr. Trump is part owner, carries a $950 million loan. Among the lenders: the Bank of China, one of the largest banks in a country that Mr. Trump has railed against as an economic foe of the United States, and Goldman Sachs, a financial institution he has said controls Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, after it paid her $675,000 in speaking fees.


The Bank of China. Goldman Sachs. And who else? You can’t find out by just looking at the documents Trump filed with the FEC.

The Times found three other instances in which Mr. Trump had an ownership interest in a building but did not disclose the debt associated with it. In all three cases, Mr. Trump had passive investments in limited liability companies that had borrowed significant amounts of money.


Donald Trump’s business ties are a nest of people to whom he owes vast sums of money.

Those are the people Trump is responsible to. The people at the top of his list.

Far from being “beholden to no one,” Donald Trump is the most indebted candidate to ever run for president. By far.

No one has to worry about any money he might take as part of the campaign.

Because no one could possibly contribute enough to come close to the amount owed to the people who already own Donald Trump.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/06/1578492/-Who-Owns-Donald-Trump



DB owes US Treasury $14B. Will Trash forgive that debt?

[DMC]

But he won.

[TeyshaBlue]

Get ready.

Trash isn't in office yet, but his "blind trust" is his own spawn.

One lowest of ST rightwing nutjobs is trash-talking the future tense.

Join Teysha Blue (sounds like a female gangsta rapper) as he, or she, trashes internet protocols.

Rent free.

[ducks]

He is less corrupt then anyone in office now

[Thread]

& he's only gonna take a smacker a year to be POTUS!!!

[DMX7]

Nobody respects women more than Mr. Trump. Nobody...

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But he won.

Hitler, Mussolini, Chavez, Pootin all "won", too.

In your typical ignorance of history of "winners", you have no idea what kind of shit "winning" can bring.

Trash, with his Repug establishment policies, will bring TONS of shit on USA.

[DMC]

Nobody respects women more than Mr. Trump. Nobody...

Certainly not other women.

[DMC]

Hitler, Mussolini, Chavez, Pootin all "won", too.

In your typical ignorance of history of "winners", you have no idea what kind of shit "winning" can bring.

Trash, with his Repug establishment policies, will bring TONS of shit on USA.

But he won. There's not going to be another presidential election for 4 years, so you're only bitching.

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But he won. There's not going to be another presidential election for 4 years, so you're only bitching.

goddam, you're fucking stupid.

The end of "winning" justifies the all means, and justifies all the horrible stuff to follow

goddam, you're fucking stupid.

Bitching against Trash and Repug establishment? It's any reasonable, sane, smart person's duty.

Trash and his hate must not be normalized.

goddam, you're fucking stupid.

[DMC]

goddam, you're fucking stupid.

The end of "winning" justifies the all means, and justifies all the horrible stuff to follow

goddam, you're fucking stupid.

Bitching against Trash and Repug establishment? It's any reasonable, sane, smart person's duty.

Trash and his hate must not be normalized.

goddam, you're fucking stupid.

rent free

[skyhook]

I refer to the articles above and I think it is possible. Trump is a show man. He is shrewd. He can turn face and heel with ease. His track records is not very reliable, in my opinion. I thought he declared bankrupt before some years back. In many countries, a bankrupt status will have raised red flags on their potential political candidates, but in USA, I guess anything is possible. Bill clinton is a laughingstock for the rest of his life because he did morally wrong things in office. Hillary was described as being sophisticated at that time. The americans must have forgotten about it since it was some time ago. I propose that all leaders in this world must have high integrity. and are not weed smokers. and it is the responsibility of voters to discern the good guys from the bad guys. But it isn't easy, as they are often too skillful in their presentation, supported by some political machinery from behind. Anyway Americans have to be vigilant, and nip the bud if he turns rogue. He could be impreached at some stage into his term. I mean there is a possibility, if his past records is too spotty to cover up.

[DMC]

The whining will be endless.

[angrydude]

If only there was some way to package and sell all this salt....

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rent free

goddam, you're fucking stupid, have no idea what "rent free" means.

[CosmicCowboy]

Note to Boo.....

Your kunt lost!


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Note to Boo.....

Your kunt lost!



That KUNT is living rent free in your head, shitkicker

[CosmicCowboy]

That KUNT is living rent free in your head, shitkicker

That disgraced kunt is living on the trash heap of history.

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That disgraced kunt is living on the trash heap of history.

you lover boy is TRASH, along with his whore wife

[CosmicCowboy]

Your boy Obama dissed the shit out of Hillary Kunton yesterday...basically said she lost because she was too lazy to do her ground work in Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, etc...

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Your boy Obama dissed the shit out of Hillary Kunton yesterday...basically said she lost because she was too lazy to do her ground work in Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, etc...

yep, I heard that. She and the Dem establishment presumed she would win. But 25 years of witch-hunting and non-stop "investigating" slandered her enough in many people's opinions.

But I guarantee you, your boy Trash is way more "crooked" than Hillary. "get ready"

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the Trash family and the Trash Administration will be fully merged, if not already.

Trash's idea of a blind trust is his own family, which makes both professional and common people FUCKING laugh.

Duplicitous, crooked Donny Trash.

[CosmicCowboy]

the Trash family and the Trash Administration will be fully merged, if not already.

Trash's idea of a blind trust is his own family, which makes both professional and common people FUCKING laugh.

Duplicitous, crooked Donny Trash.

Gee Boo...

You sound bitter...

:lmao

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Gee Boo...

You sound bitter...

:lmao

You Lie, and you can't hear well.

[CosmicCowboy]

You Lie, and you can't hear well.

:lol

I hear the fetal position whimpering

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Your kunt lost!



CosmicParasite whining about Hillary's kunt. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[DMC]

Corruption will be endless he says, as if there was ever only a limited amount.

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President-Elect Trump Has Been Using Government Contracts To Enrich His Children


Documents obtained through a Freedom Of Information Act request reveal that the conflicts on interest run deep as President-Elect Donald Trump has been using government contracts to enrich the very children that he now wants national security clearance for.

Don The Con Trash's re-development of the taxpayer-owned Old Post Office building in downtown D.C. into a luxury hotel, Trump “funneled money to his children through separate companies bearing each of the children’s names, and the document indicates that those companies did not invest money.



Nevertheless, their stakes could earn the children a big chunk of any profits generated from the taxpayer-owned site.”

Trump never disclosed to voters during the campaign that he funneled money to his kids through government contracts, and

it is fairly easy to connect the dots and see that as president, Trump would have total power to continue this arrangement.

This is sort of thing that happens in authoritarian regimes.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/11/19/president-elect-trump-government-contracts-enrich-children.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

The Corruption Will Be Endless and Pervasive

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Trump poised to violate Constitution his first day in office, George W. Bush’s ethics lawyer says

The Constitution doesn’t allow presidents to seek gifts from foreign agents.

Friday evening, the Washington Post reported that about 100 foreign diplomats gathered at President-elect Donald Trump’s hotel in Washington, DC to “to sip Trump-branded champagne, dine on sliders and hear a sales pitch about the U.S. president-elect’s newest hotel (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/2016/11/18/9da9c572-ad18-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html?tid=sm_tw).” The tour included a look at the hotel’s $20,000 a night “town house” suite. The Post also quoted some of the diplomats saying they intended to stay at the hotel in order to ingratiate themselves to the incoming president.


“Why wouldn’t I stay at his hotel blocks from the White House, so I can tell the new president, ‘I love your new hotel!’” said one diplomat from an Asian nation. “Isn’t it rude to come to his city and say, ‘I am staying at your competitor?’

The incoming president, in other words, is actively soliciting business from agents of foreign governments.

Many of these agents, in turn, said that they will accept the president-elect’s offer to do business because they want to win favor with the new leader of the United States.

Painter responded that “the only good answer,” for the president-elect “is to sell the hotel or give it to his kids (and pay the gift tax) by January 20.”

There are few court cases dealing with the Emoluments Clause. Typically, the country has relied on internal safeguards within the executive branch and fear of political embarrassment to prevent violations by the president.

Moreover, while it is conceivable that a rival hotel may have standing to sue Trump for taking away its business with foreign diplomats in violation of the Constitution, it’s far from clear that any hotel business will want to risk a feud with the notoriously vindictive president-elect.

There is, however, at least one remedy under the Constitution for such a violation of the public trust by the president: impeachment.

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-poised-to-violate-constitution-his-first-day-in-office-george-w-bushs-ethics-lawyer-says-73e14789a935#.use1jxgk7

[CosmicCowboy]

It's not like he is renting the Lincoln bedroom.

[Silver&Black]

How long will OP's meltdown continue? The entire 4 years? 8 years? Will he get tired after 6 months and move on?

[boutons_deux]

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/johnpauljones.htm

[mavsfan1000]

Most genuine President we've ever had. Maybe he needs to lie more.

[CosmicCowboy]

How long will OP's meltdown continue? The entire 4 years? 8 years? Will he get tired after 6 months and move on?

Boos meltdown is freaking hilarious.

[mavsfan1000]

People are just so paranoid.

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Boos meltdown is freaking hilarious.

no meltdown, just throwing the FACTS of Trash and his accomplices in y'all's faces. Suck it, bitch.

btw, that slut Melania won't be living in the WH. Maybe her milligram of decency prevents her shit-staining The People's House.

[CosmicCowboy]

no meltdown, just throwing the FACTS of Trash and his accomplices in y'all's faces. Suck it, bitch.

btw, that slut Melania won't be living in the WH. Maybe her milligram of decency prevents her shit-staining The People's House.

:lmao

whine, whine, whine

pout, pout, pout

[Clipper Nation]

:lol OP literally gets their news from a site called "Talking Points Memo." The jokes write themselves :lmao

[William Hung]

How long will OP's meltdown continue? The entire 4 years? 8 years? Will he get tired after 6 months and move on?

At this point you have to consider insanity. This man needs help.

[boutons_deux]

insanity? you motherfuckering dickless little bitches elected Trash, not me.

[mavsfan1000]

The meltdown will be endless.

[CosmicCowboy]

Hilarious!

[TeyshaBlue]

The moonbat outrage will be mindless/endless.

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Drain the swamp? Trump registered 8 companies in Saudi Arabia during presidential campaign

Donald Trump regularly got on his high horse during the presidential campaign about the Clinton Foundation receiving donations from Saudi Arabia — but it looks like he was eager to do business with the Saudis the entire time.The Washington Post has found (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/a-scramble-to-assess-the-dangers-of-president-elects-global-business-empire/2016/11/20/1bbdc2a2-ad18-11e6-a31b-4b6397e625d0_story.html) that Trump registered eight new companies during this year’s presidential campaign that “appear tied to a potential hotel project in Saudi Arabia.”

Elsewhere, the Post has found that Trump has started companies that “range from sprawling, ultraluxury real estate complexes to one-man holding companies and branding deals in Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Panama and other countries, including some where the United States maintains sensitive diplomatic ties.”

As Trump prepares to take over the Oval Office, many reports have swirled around the massive conflicts of interest the new president-elect faces. Among other things, critics have raised alarms at the fact that Trump is letting his children run his businesses instead of putting them into a genuine blind trust, as well as his decision to continue meeting with foreign business partners (https://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/trump-already-violating-blind-trust-agreement-by-meeting-with-indian-business-partners/) even though he will soon become the United States’ commander-in-chief.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/drain-the-swamp-trump-registered-8-companies-in-saudi-arabia-during-presidential-campaign/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Don The Con Corruption, past, present, and obviously in the future

Trump Foundation admits to violating ban on ‘self-dealing,’ new filing to IRS shows

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-foundation-apparently-admits-to-violating-ban-on-self-dealing-new-filing-to-irs-shows/2016/11/22/893f6508-b0a9-11e6-8616-52b15787add0_story.html?wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1

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Echoing corrupt, Tricky Dick Nixon, another Repug bag of shit

Trump And Kellyanne Conway: If The President Does It, That Means It’s *Not* Illegal!

http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/trump-nixon_bad-e1463155346803.png

Cashing in BIGLY in Argentina!


Over the weekend, there were a flurry of stories (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-cash-in-begins) about how Donald Trump and his family are already using the presidency to leverage his overseas businesses as well as his new DC hotel. Well, now there's more. This time in Argentina.

Here's the background.

For a number of years, Trump and his Argentine partners have been trying to build a major office building in Buenos Aires. The project has been held up by a series of complications tied to financing, importation of building materials and various permitting requirements.

According to a report out of Argentina (http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1958082-revelan-que-trump-le-pidio-permiso-a-macri-para-hacer-una-torre), when Argentine President Mauricio Macri called President-Elect Trump to congratulate him on his election, Trump asked Macri to deal with the permitting issues that are currently holding up the project.

This comes from one of Argentina's most prominent journalists, Jorge Lanata, in a recent TV appearance. Lanata is quoted here in La Nacion, one of Argentina's most prestigious dailies. Said Lanata: “Macri called him. This still hasn’t emerged but Trump asked for them to authorize a building he’s constructing in Buenos Aires, it wasn’t just a geopolitical chat."

Separately, Trump's business partner on the project, Felipe Yaryura, was there on election night at the Trump celebration (http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1955208-la-emocion-del-socio-argentino-de-trump) in New York City.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cashing-in-bigly-in-argentina

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With a Meeting, Trump Renewed a British Wind Farm Fight

When President-elect Donald J. Trump (http://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/donald-trump?inline=nyt-per) met with the British politician Nigel Farage (https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/797584449047265281/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) in recent days, he encouraged Mr. Farage and his entourage to oppose the kind of offshore wind farms (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/w/wind_power/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) that Mr. Trump believes will mar the pristine view from one of his two Scottish golf courses, according to one person present.

The meeting, held shortly after the presidential election, raises new questions about Mr. Trump’s willingness to use the power of the presidency to advance his business interests. Mr. Trump has long opposed a wind farm planned near his course in Aberdeenshire, and he previously fought unsuccessfully all the way to Britain’s highest court to block it.

“He did not say he hated wind farms as a concept; he just did not like them spoiling the views,” said Andy Wigmore, the media consultant who was present at the meeting and was photographed with Mr. Trump.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/business/with-a-meeting-trump-renewed-a-british-wind-farm-fight.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

[boutons_deux]

Violating the law, regulations, evading military service goes way back in the Trash family

Historian finds German decree banishing Trump's grandfather

Royal decree ordered Friedrich Trump to leave Bavaria and never come back after he failed to do military service

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/21/trump-grandfather-friedrich-banished-germany-historian-royal-decree

[CosmicCowboy]

Violating the law, regulations, evading military service goes way back in the Trash family

Historian finds German decree banishing Trump's grandfather

Royal decree ordered Friedrich Trump to leave Bavaria and never come back after he failed to do military service

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/21/trump-grandfather-friedrich-banished-germany-historian-royal-decree

Well that makes all the difference. Impeach him!

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump’s Business Dealings Test a Constitutional Limit

Emoluments Clause (http://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/1/essays/68/emoluments-clause), an obscure provision of the Constitution that now poses risks for President-elect Donald J. Trump should he continue to reap benefits from transactions with companies controlled by foreign governments.

“Emolument” means compensation for labor or services. And the clause says that “no person holding any office of profit or trust” shall “accept of any present, emolument, office or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign state” unless Congress consents.

Mr. Trump’s companies do business with entities controlled by foreign governments and people with ties to them.

The ventures include multimillion-dollar real estate arrangements — with Mr. Trump’s companies either as a full owner or a “branding” partner — in Ireland and Uruguay.

The Bank of China is a tenant in Trump Tower (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/us/politics/donald-trump-holdings-conflict-of-interest.html) and a lender for another building (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/donald-trump-debt.html) in Midtown Manhattan where Mr. Trump has a significant partnership interest.

“The founders very clearly intended that officers of the United States, including the president, not accept presents from foreign sovereigns,” said Norman Eisen (https://www.brookings.edu/experts/norman-eisen/), who was the chief White House ethics lawyer for Mr. Obama from 2009 to 2011.

“Whenever Mr. Trump receives anything from a foreign sovereign, to the extent that it’s not an arm’s-length transaction,” Mr. Eisen said, “every dollar in excess that they pay over the fair market price will be a dollar paid in violation of the Emoluments Clause and will be a present to Mr. Trump.”

“The reason we don’t really have a lot of precedent here is that presidents in the past have gone out of their way to avoid getting even close to the Emoluments Clause,”

if Mr. Trump takes a different approach, it is not clear that anyone would have standing to challenge him in court.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/politics/donald-trump-conflict-of-interest.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

[boutons_deux]

The President of Argentina called to congratulate Trump—so Trump extorted a favor for his business (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/21/1602567/-The-President-of-Argentina-called-to-congratulate-Trump-Trump-extorted-a-favor-for-his-business)

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/21/1602567/-The-President-of-Argentina-called-to-congratulate-Trump-Trump-extorted-a-favor-for-his-business?detail=email&link_id=7&can_id=4217e8eb109c68bd0c2e4143dd2d8c15&source=email-msnbc-host-joe-scarborough-has-been-advising-trump-behind-the-scenes&email_referrer=msnbc-host-joe-scarborough-has-been-advising-trump-behind-the-scenes&email_subject=msnbc-host-joe-scarborough-has-been-advising-trump-behind-the-scenes

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Trump Just Laid The Groundwork For Corruption By Declaring Himself Above The Law

During his interview with The New York Times, President-elect Donald Trump inaccurately declared that he would have no conflicts of interest because"The President can't have a conflict of interest."

Trump has taken the exemption of the president and vice president to Title 18 Section 208 of the U.S. code (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/208) and turned into a moral superiority of the president.

Of course, the president can have a conflict of interest. It doesn’t matter what the statute states, ethically, presidents are human beings who are capable of conflicts of interest.The president-elect is also constitutionally bound not to accept gifts or compensation from foreign governments under the Emoluments Clause (http://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/1/essays/68/emoluments-clause).

What is troubling about Trump’s answer is that he justified conflicts of interest, and the president-elect is demonstrating a view of executive power that is above the law.President-elect Trump appears to be laying the groundwork for corruption on a massive scale.

The Electoral College will choose Donald Trump, and it looks like the president-elect is preparing to pillage America.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/11/22/trump-laid-groundwork-corruption-declaring-law.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

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The Trump Administration Has One Principle


There are no principles.

Now he’s the president-elect, and some people think the office will moderate him. But on matters of principle, there’s no sign that it has. Two weeks after his election, the men who will run his administration continue to reject moral and legal constraints. Like their boss, they never specify how far they’ll go—or where they’ll stop.

Last week, Carl Higbie, a Trump surrogate who represented a pro-Trump PAC during the campaign, argued on Fox News that a registry of Muslim noncitizens in the United States would be legal. As precedent, Higbie cited the treatment of Japanese noncitizens (http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/11/16/fox-trump-supporter-carl-higbie-cites-japanese-internment-camps-precedent-muslim-registry/214509) in the United States during World War II.

he was backed up by Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, who helped steer Trump’s campaign and will now serve as Trump’s chief of staff. Priebus, like Higbie, stipulated that screening of visitors or immigrants to the United States should be based on region or nationality, not religion. But he, too, resisted the call to draw boundaries .... said Priebus, “I’m not going to rule out anything (http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-november-20-2016-n686451).”

about statements by incoming National Security Adviser Mike Flynn—that “fear of Muslims is rational (https://twitter.com/GenFlynn/status/703387702998278144)” and that “Islam is a political ideology” that “hides behind being a religion (http://www.dallasnews.com/news/2016-presidential-election/2016/08/10/dallas-trumps-favorite-general-voices-doubts-whether-gop-nominee-isa-republican)”—Priebus defended these statements. Raddatz asked Priebus whether Flynn’s remarks were “in line with how President-elect Trump views Islam.” Priebus replied (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-reince-priebus-sen-chuck-schumer/story?id=43658868): “Well, I think so. I mean, look, phrasing can always be done differently. But clearly there are some aspects of that faith that are problematic.”

“Trump has said, ‘Look, it’s a regional-based thing right now (http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/11/16/fox-trump-supporter-carl-higbie-cites-japanese-internment-camps-precedent-muslim-registry/214509).’ ” In the future, who knows?

“Candidate Trump said he wanted to bring back waterboarding and worse,” Raddatz told Priebus. “His pick for CIA director, [Rep. Mike] Pompeo, has been a proponent of that as well. So will he ask his Republican-controlled Congress to pass a new law to get rid of the current law which bans waterboarding?” .... We’re keeping our options open.

Pence, the self-styled moralist (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/07/mike_pence_worships_a_new_god_donald_trump.html), stiff-armed the senator’s scruples. “We’re going to have a president again who will never say what we will never do (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-transcript-november-20-2016-pence-paul-ellison/),” said Pence. “In President-elect Donald Trump, you have someone who believes that we shouldn’t be telling the enemy what our tactics or our strategies are.”

This is the cardinal rule of the Trump administration: There are no rules.

Guidelines may be asserted for propaganda value, but they’re always expendable.

It’s a regional-based thing right now.

I’m not going to rule out anything.

We’re going to have a president who will never say what we will never do.

Don’t cry later that these people didn’t warn you. They did.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/the_cardinal_rule_of_the_trump_administration_ther e_are_no_rules.html

Don The Con Trash's administration will be a bigger shitstain on America than the Repug Reign of Error 2001-2008 was and still is.

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Donald Trump’s Argentinian tower suddenly gets the green light to proceed

Three days after it was reported that Trump talked to Argentina's president about a tower he's building, no less!

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/23/donald-trumps-argentinian-tower-suddenly-gets-the-green-light-to-proceed/

[pgardn]

Boots.

There will be a tremendous amount of scrutiny involving this new group. The press will have lots of work. Things will not get by easily. They got Hillary for skirting the truth.

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Boots.

There will be a tremendous amount of scrutiny involving this new group. The press will have lots of work. Things will not get by easily. They got Hillary for skirting the truth.

The Dems have not gone and will not go after Trash and his accomplices like the Repugs/VRWC go after the Dems.

Trash and the Repugs will pull America down, while the Dems stand by passively.

Where is the VLWC? it's LIE, propaganda spewing stink tanks going back 40 years? where is the left's James O'Keefe?, CMP, etc, etc.

[William Hung]

the Dems stand by passively

One of the reasons our country is in the shitter.

[DMC]

Well that makes all the difference. Impeach him!

lol

The Dali Lama was exiled, was he not?

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p
One of the reasons our country is in the shitter.

agreed. In response to the VRWC hosing $Bs into the Repug races, the Dems sold out to BigDonors, too, esp the Clinton machine, and esp after VRWC C-U decision.

Even with Clintons gone, Dems will be dependent on BigDonors because of C-U and all the fraudulent "social welfare" PACs, dark money.

Politics is totally corrupted, citizens are disenfranchised. America is fucked and unfuckable.

[Chucho]

Aww, Booty didn't get his way? Start posting batshit crazy, lunatic Leftwing nut sensationalized garbage articles written by some unknown batshit crazy Letist wingnut with zero value.

Did Little Linus lose his blankey and now cant suck his thumb??

Greatest meltdown ever and someone in more denial than the guy who is an expert on everything.

[boutons_deux]

Congress Quietly Passes New Rule Allowing House Members To Hide Records From Ethics Probes

Politicians can now shield expenditures from investigations.

the House GOP quietly changed a rule last week to allow members to keep their records hidden from ethics or criminal investigations.

The tweak allows politicians to conceal any information members produce — even suspicious expenditures and budgets — if the Office of Congressional Ethics or the Department of Justice investigates them (http://www.businessinsider.com/us-congress-ethics-probe-rule-2017-1?IR=T) for criminal activity,

The change essentially makes a member of Congress the owner and sole controller of any records he or she creates, regardless of whether those documents touch on a public interest, such as use of taxpayer funds or the commission of a crime.

The change granting records control to members was passed without much notice amid news of a plan to gut the independence (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-office-congressional-ethics-rules_us_586b00e0e4b0d9a5945c34c6) of the Office of Congressional Ethics, which caused a public outcry but failed to pass (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-gop-faceplant-on-ethics-coup-shows-public-shame-still-matters_us_586bfc31e4b0eb58648acae4).

Under the new regulation, a lawmaker being investigated for misuse of taxpayer funds, for example, might now assert the privilege to withhold spending records from law enforcement authorities.

Had that measure existed earlier, certain accounts might not have been accessible for corruption investigations that resulted in charges against members of Congress.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/secret-new-rule-allows-house-members-to-hide-records-from-ethics-probes_us_58746aefe4b099cdb0ff34eb?y8lxusg03ew6u5w mi&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Morning%20Email%20011016&utm_content=The%20Morning%20Email%20011016+CID_3a4 3b7292c51acdb6cd780a458938358&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Mary%20Papenfuss%20HuffPost&

All the rightwingnutjobs here support the Repug corruption without exception, right?

This kind of shit is what is reported coming out 4th rate shit hole countries, dictatorships.

How about "President For Life" Don The Con Trash?

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How about "President For Life" Don The Con Trash?








Count me in. That's what Obama wanted but had nary wherewithal to get 'er done. He just had the [[[want]]] ID'ed & cornered.

[Chucho]

Count me in. That's what Obama wanted but had nary wherewithal to get 'er done. He just had the [[[want]]] ID'ed & cornered.


Bend over and then you will be able to count me in.

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Bend over and then you will be able to count me in.

The old Chooch!!!