D.C. and Maryland to sue President Trump, alleging breach of constitutional oath
 

Attorneys general for the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland say they will sue President Trump on Monday, alleging that he has violated anticorruption clauses in the Constitution by accepting millions in payments and benefits from foreign governments since moving into the White House.

The lawsuit, the first of its kind brought by government entities, centers on the fact that Trump chose to retain ownership of his company when he became president. Trump said in January that he was shifting his business assets into a trust managed by his sons to eliminate potential conflicts of interests.

But D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) and Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh (D) say Trump has broken many promises to keep separate his public duties and private business interests, including receiving regular updates about his company’s financial health.

'''Major Lawsuit''' Against Trump Promised by D.C., Maryland Officials - NBC News

The DC AG not good at all and right at his doorstep damn! :1orglaugh

So basically....George Washington was the richest man in the United States when he became our first President.

FDR and his family were one of the wealthiest families.
John F. Kennedy and the Kennedy fortune...

These were all just fine.

BUT they expect Trump to pretty much destroy everything he ever built his entire life.

Wow. So we are never supposed to have a successful President ever again.
It MUST ALWAYS be corrupt lifetime bureaucrats who have never been the same level as a guy like Trump and never will be in their entire lives who will be the President.

Boy the establishment is doing everything they can to destroy Trump and make sure that no outsider EVER tries to be President ever again.

People should be in the streets...but not protesting against Trump. They should be protesting FOR him.

Trump is a globalist billionaire, your examples were from the 1700's before cars, TV's computers etc. your false comparison is called a strawman argument.

You are right. Because, like you said, Trump is pro business. And he sure is. Quietly while Comey was testifying under oath about Trump's obstruction of justice, our government moved to kill the Dodd?Frank Consumer Protection Act. You know, the consumer protection act set up to protect us - the average American - from the business practices that caused the recession. Now big businesses can go back to making money and they can go back to fucking Americans.

Nothing is more corrupt than maryland politics

Oh yeah???
Well tell that to Spiro Agnew...oh, wait a minute. lol

Trump: Not first wealthy president, but unique conflicts of interest - CSMonitor.com



That was written in November 2016 - by now Saudia Arabia has signed a giant deal to buy weapons from the US, it never appeared on the "travel ban" list even though 15 of 19 9/11 terrorists were Saudi Arabian nationals and Donald just received a medal from them and did a little sword dance.

Or as they just said in the press conference: Trump calls to end the one China policy, then the Chinese prime minister comes for a visit, suddenly one China policy is fine again and Ivanka gets her trademark for China granted the same day

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...met-xi-jinping


And nobody wants Donald to destroy his business, he is supposed to put everything in a trust that is NOT managed by family members. Or does anybody really believe that his sons would never mention anything about his businesses when they are together?

Deflect Will Rogers Deflect Will Rogers...

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It's very fucking simple Robbie. There are RULES if you want to be the President of the USA. You must abide by those rules or you shouldn't try to be the POTUS.. If you join the military you have to obey rules. If you are a cop, you have to obey rules. If you are a doctor you have to obey rules.. If you want to be POTUS you have to follow the rules of the US Constitution.

Robbie thinks it ok for "HIS" guy to not follow rules but every one else has to follow rules or they be damned!


Being wealthy is NOT the issue Robbie.. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST ARE THE ISSUE... Trumps conflicts of interest are fucking extreme.. He is making money from foreign nationals who are enriching him by buying memberships to his clubs and moving their events to his hotels specifically to gain access to Trump and favor from the WH..

Trump is unfit to be the POTUS not only because of his day to day actions but because of his CONFLICTS OF INTEREST where he is taking money from people trying to gain favor from the WH..

You cried endlessly about the Clinton Foundation doing this and that was AFTER they left the WH. This is a thousand times worse and he's doing it while IN the WH...but suddenly you are ok with this because it's Trump..

lol...this is a trainwreck

Well that lawsuit will go nowhere. The only payments from foreign governments went to the Clinton Foundation, which is currently under many federal investigations.

A President cant own businesses? Are you guys communists?

Robbie is correct- the hypocrisy is pathetic.

Grow up & accept the fucking election results.

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Really? Kennedy was before cars? What the fuck was he riding in when he was shot?

BENGHAZI.

Why do people keep talking about Hillary Clinton? She's out and done with. You guys keep dragging this up like it's big news and "Look what Hillary did". Hillary lost, she's out of it. We are talking about Drumpf here, not Hillary, not the election.

It's a full time job for some of you defending tRumps illegal acts. At what point do you think to yourself "I think I've been duped"?

1. No President has EVER decided to label Saudi Arabia as a terrorist nation.
Sweet Baby Jesus Obama kissed their asses just as hard as every other President ever did.
And that big arms deal? Just made U.S. companies billions of dollars and creates jobs.
Also gets the Saudi's to defend THEMSELVES.
Sweet Baby Jesus Obama was just like all the other bureaucrats and never forced them to pay their own way
Trump just changed that.

2. That's totally wrong.
What China DID do was agree to help with North Korea and has taken action already. More than ever before on North Korea. Something that other President's couldn't get them to do.
Trump was masterful with China.
He used tough language. Then the Chinese leader came to HIM. Trump then got what he wanted from him.
Win/win.
Not sure why you feel compelled to look for anti-Trump biased writers spinning it as "bad".
IF Obama had the skill to pull off that feat (and he doesn't, which is why things got so bad), you and the media would have been praising Obama as the greatest President of all times...oh wait, the media already does. lol

3. Bullshit. He isn't "supposed" to do anything. The President of The United States is under NO legal requirement to put his business in some kind of "trust".
What a crock of shit.
When you run a business you ALWAYS keep your hand on the wheel or it falls to pieces.
God knows that the media and the Fascist "left" have done everything they could during the election to destroy Trump's businesses.
Fuck them.
Trump worked his entire life building that.
Sweet Baby Jesus Obama became President without ever having a real job, much less owning anything. And now? Somehow "magically" he is a multi-millionaire.
But don't worry about that. Nothing to see there.
Let's just make Trump hand over his family business.

I don't understand how you can't see the "chilling effect" this is meant to have on ANY outsider ever daring to run for President again.
This is an attempt by the establishment to consolidate power among the Republican and Democrat Partys.

They thought they had already done that by making laws that cripple third-party candidates right out of the gate along with the media backing them up.

But they never saw Trump coming. And they didn't understand that real working people are sick of their shit.

And the Roosevelt immense family fortune and business ties.

Some of the people on here are pathetic and sound like fucking pussy's who just want to get a handout and can't stand that they aren't smart or fast enough in life to make money.

Nope...this whole nonsense is about the election and the now debunked claim that Trump was under investigation for "colluding" with Russia against Hillary
Guess what? That means that even more of the corruption of the DNC is going to be revealed. More Hillary transgressions as SOS will be revealed. And yesterday a new report came out about Fast And Furious which makes the Obama Administration look even worse.
Special counsel investigations tend to not end up where they started.
Remember?
The Whitewater investigation ended up with Pres. Clinton perjuring himself under oath on national television over something as dumb as Monica Lewinsky.
And that led to Congress impeaching him

You need a reality check.. Clinton's impeachment failed. The House voted to impeach him, but he was acquitted in the Senate. If Clinton had been successfully impeached he wouldn't have finished his term..

THE IMPEACHMENT FAILED TO PASS BOTH THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE..

Bill Clinton was not impeached he was acquitted. You right wing morons just love to make up fake reality.. You live in a fake world because you are incapable of researching for yourself and only accept what people you agree with tell you. Facts mean nothing to you, only what you want to hear. You guys are mentally ill...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeac...y_the_Senat e

in before wikipedia is obviously liberal fake news...

It's a full time job telling these stupid red hats they are stupid.. :1orglaugh

Never in my life have I seen so many people being willfully manipulated by ignorance.. It's literally the dumb leading the dumb with these guys. If there was ever any question as to how Hitler was able to get people to do what they did there is no question anymore. The ignorant can easily be told what to do and what to believe because they ask no questions of their leaders and seek out no answers they might disagree with..

Rochard, people keep talking about the Clintons because there are multiple investigations into their scam foundation. The mountain of crimes is enormous. WIth Trump there's not much to talk about, since there's zero evidence of wrongdoing. So yes, it's time to accept the election results and turn off Rachel Maddow and other hysterical media clowns.

Crockette Defending a Rapist who hangs with Pedophiles!



Hey Crockette, the primaries were outright stolen from Bernie. Then the voters rejected Hillary. It's all Hillary's fault. Trump saved us from her evil. The democrats made up the Russia hoax. What aren't you understanding?

If I were a dick, I could probably get you banned for that you fucking moron.. It's a good thing I think you are such a fucking dumb fuck you don't know any better..

I'll give you the benefit of doubt that you are a dumb fuck.. dumb fuck..

They don't think for themselves, that's the point.

They watch Infowars wars, or Brietbart is read to them, and they parrot whatever they are told to think, like this:They litterally have no thoughts of their own and Alex Jones is their Messiah with the latest lie, oh I mean "inside scoop"


The sad thing is Alex Jones lies to them and they believe him, then states in his child custody suit that it's all an act, and they don't believe him, they are in hook line and sinker.

Alex Jones is the Queen & Trump their king

Chump's corruption trumps that!

stefan I think that not one european will ever understand that (except italians and greeks)
imagine what would happen if Merkel would have a hotel or whatever brand with her name on it. she would survive the next day in her office.

this is a completely different idea we have from politicians as americans have and that´s why we can not discuss with them at that point because they do it since a few hundert years like that and because they do it a few hundert years like that they think it is right.

it does not lead you any further as a discussion about weapons in civil hands.

this trump story will end before this year ends and i am pretty sure that the one and only voter who brought him there will kick him out also. and this voters name is PUTIN.

Why is that? We should talk about that.

Saudi Arabia has paid nearly $200k to Trump's hotel in the past six months. How is that not illegal?

I'm guessing: "OIL"

And I'm also guessing that any country in the Middle East that are willing to ally themselves with us is valued.

If we turn our backs on Saudi Arabia and a group like ISIS takes it over? That's gonna be a major shitstorm.

Don't you agree?

It's not legal & Robbie supports it, the same guy who said Clinton was corrupt for taking charity money when she was out of office.

Also: D.C., Maryland To Sue Trump Over Foreign Payments : NPR

Crockette, you can't get someone banned because YOU defend rapists. Did I say something that's untrue, or are YOU the dumbfuck in this thread? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

:pimp

I'm sure that there has been millions of dollars spent at Trump's hotels and resorts in the last 6 months by a lot of people.

So what?

Biased political talking heads on television are trying to twist it that somehow people staying at a hotel owned by Trump equates to "buying him off"...and you listen to that nonsense?

$200K???? I'm not rich, but that's still not a lot of money even to me.
To Trump it's nothing. And you are acting like that money all goes straight into his pocket...because that's how business works and hotels operate.

WRONG.
I guess you're just kinda forgetting that when you stay at a hotel they have an electric bill, maintenance costs, hotel staff, administration salary's, etc. , etc.

The average profit margin of running a hotel is a little under 5% (as it is for most businesses...but you wouldn't know that since you are an employee).
So let's pretend that over 6 months Saudi Arabian officials stayed at Trump hotels around the world and spent $200, 000

So the COMPANY profits $10 grand out of all of that.
Wow.

You sure aren't using your brain when you blindly listen to these biased pundits are you? You're still operating on hatred. And it makes you look dumb.
I know you're not dumb.
That's why you should just let this stupid argument go.
You aren't changing anything except perhaps the professional opinion that people have of you.

Thanks for posting these informative videos.

Everyone make sure to subscribe to The Alex Jones Channel on YouTube :thumbsup

i would agree that trumps assets should be managed in a blind trust, like normal presidents. he should not be running business while in office. it just looks corrupt, whether or not it is.

so im with the dumb libs on this one. now kiss my ring dumb libs because i can cross the isle, while you dumb shits are blind rats for 1 side only.

:2 cents:

You don't have that fake nic blocked?! :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

But what "normal" Presidents are you referring to?

The only President's in "modern" times with this level of wealth was Roosevelt and Kennedy.

Those family businesses were not put in any "blind trust".

I can't even imagine what would happen to ANY business if it were stuck into a "blind trust" and left to rot for years.

Especially when he has his family running the business anyway. (just like the Kennedy family did).
Why on Earth would you want to destroy a lifetime's achievement just to make some politicians happy (and destroying Trump is exactly what would make them happy).

I wouldn't do it. It's not any law that says he has to. If there were such a law he probably wouldn't even have run and we could all consign ourselves to always having un-exceptional Presidents for the rest of history.

As it stands now...the very best and brightest can still run for President (even though the media and the bureaucrats have done their best to brainwash people into thinking it's impossible for anyone but corrupt politicians to do it)

just because its not illegal doesnt mean its proper. it simply creates obvious conflicts of interest. Why could not the trump organization be turned over, temporarily, to a blind trust where trustees run it? its not like it will go broke without him. He's not losing the business, just eliminating the conflict of interest by letting others run it. the fucking thing runs itself anyway.

im not happy with some of his personal decisions, even if they are "legal". ivanka really should not be in the west wing. nepotism is natural in the private sector, looks not so good in the public sector. how much is she making off taxpayers, & doing what exactly? & too much golf.

but i love how he makes liberals insane. :)

^^ Calls me fake.

Believes the mainstream media fake news. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Bladewire, i'm sorry if you don't like actual facts.

However, the facts don't care about your feelings. :thumbsup

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you mean same as in lybia?

lybia was one of the countries with the highest life standard for their citizens but they did not want to make an oil deal with the US.

then the "poor suffering people" have been "exempted" and now the country is a desaster with no working goverment, no prosperity, no health care and people die from hunger or loosing their lives by trying to make the way to europe.

and after all that you wonder why these people are mad and become terrorists????

the politics of the USA was the MAJOR terrorists breeder in the past 60 years.

the "world police" always appeared in countries with oil or other natural resources - if there is nothing in a country the "police" turns the head away no matter how many people die.

now you are complaining your selfmade problems and voted a guy what is the biggest ignorant who refuses even to to think about own guilt.
he gives a flying fuck on all of you - even his voters. he think he is god and prays to himself ever fucking day in the mirror.

this guy have done nothing good yet - not even a single thing and the whole fucking world is scared because US voted an idiot for president.

italians had their mussolini, germans their hitler, russians their stalin - god thanks that americans have now their own monster what will find his permanent place in the history books as the dumbest president ever exist.

and they took themselves out of their business. What did you misunderstand about that?

What on Earth are you talking about? "Took themselves out of their business"

Show me. Show me where the Kennedy businesses were put in private trusts. Or the Roosevelt's many businesses.

You can't. Because they didn't.

What did you misunderstand about that.

I wouldn't turn my business over to some people who had no passion for it or any skin in the game. No fucking way.

Trump's business is a family owned business. Not a corporation.
It hinges on his name and personality as it's selling point.

Appointing some people who have never achieved that kind of success in their lives and don't really care if the business succeeds or fails? No way Trump should do that.

I think it would be a horrible business decision.

everything ok with that but than he don´t have to go for president.
nobody in this fucking world will be able to seperate own interests from country interests.
nobody forced him to become president and if he decide for that he should decide it 100% FOR THE COUNTRY.

italy was a very good example for what can happen if a "business man" is running the country. the corruption what was there under berlusconi can only be topped by trump.

but berlusconi was only dangerous for his own country. trump is dangerous for the whole world.

Well thats absolutely fine Robbie.

As long as you dont want to be POTUS.

However the Baboon decided he wanted to be President as is his right - but that means you have to stick to the rules.

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Wow, big surprise :)

What rules? There is no law that says he has to turn over his biz to a trust.
If there were, then NOBODY would want to be President

no law necessary when you deal with mentally healthy people.
no mentally healthy person will accept the boss of a company to be the first man in a labor union. and nobody will ask for the law why it is crazy to give the gardener job to a goat.

and out of that THERE IS a law what is there for preventing such conflicts:
§202 of 18. US-Code - what is valid for every person working for the state. so you should better ask why a fuck the president and senators are excluded from that law.

no better ask your father and grandfather why they did not ask this question long before.