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Trump Foundation admits to violating ban on ‘self-dealing,’ new filing to IRS shows
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...t-draw7&wpmm=1
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 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 even though he will soon become the United States’ commander-in-chief.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/drai...e+Raw+Story%29
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/polit...t-draw7&wpmm=1
Echoing corrupt, Tricky Nixon, another Repug bag of
Trump And Kellyanne Conway: If The President Does It, That Means It’s *Not* Illegal!
Cashing in BIGLY in Argentina!
Over the weekend, there were a flurry of stories 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, 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 in New York City.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/...y-in-argentina
With a Meeting, Trump Renewed a British Wind Farm Fight
When President-elect Donald J. Trump met with the British politician Nigel Farage in recent days, he encouraged Mr. Farage and his entourage to oppose the kind of offshore wind farms 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/bu...er=rss&emc=rss
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/...n-royal-decree
Well that makes all the difference. Impeach him!
Donald Trump’s Business Dealings Test a Cons utional Limit
Emoluments Clause, an obscure provision of the Cons ution 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 le, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign state” unless Congress consents.
Mr. Trump’s companies do business with en ies 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 and a lender for another building 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, 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...er=rss&emc=rss
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 le 18 Section 208 of the U.S. code 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 cons utionally bound not to accept gifts or compensation from foreign governments under the 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/...iticus+USA+%29
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 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.”
about statements by incoming National Security Adviser Mike Flynn—that “fear of Muslims is rational” and that “Islam is a political ideology” that “hides behind being a religion”—Priebus defended these statements. Raddatz asked Priebus whether Flynn’s remarks were “in line with how President-elect Trump views Islam.” Priebus replied: “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.’ ” 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, stiff-armed the senator’s scruples. “We’re going to have a president again who will never say what we will never do,” 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_a..._no_rules.html
Don The Con Trash's administration will be a bigger stain on America than the Repug Reign of Error 2001-2008 was and still is.
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/dona...ht-to-proceed/
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.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 11-23-2016 at 04:07 PM.
One of the reasons our country is in the ter.
lol
The Dali Lama was exiled, was he not?
pagreed. 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 ed and un able.
Aww, Booty didn't get his way? Start posting bat crazy, lunatic Leftwing nut sensationalized garbage articles written by some unknown bat 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.
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 su ious expenditures and budgets — if the Office of Congressional Ethics or the Department of Justice investigates them 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 do ents 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 of the Office of Congressional Ethics, which caused a public outcry but failed to pass.
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/...ss%20HuffPost&
All the rightwingnutjobs here support the Repug corruption without exception, right?
This kind of is what is reported coming out 4th rate hole countries, dictatorships.
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.
Bend over and then you will be able to count me in.
The old Chooch!!!
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