L'Emmerdeur wrote:An interesting coincidence:
"Donald Trump’s Legal Team Won a ‘Russia Law Firm of The Year’ Award"
The lawyer at Trump's press conference yesterday who laid out the non-divestiture, "trust me, we won't talk about business," and "oh, it would be too big a sacrifice for him to actually divest" plan is a partner in the firm mentioned above--Morgan Lewis & Bokius.
Given how bad a businessman Trump is, it shouldn't matter, should it? The guy bankrupted a casino! He has zero business acumen and would have done better if he just put money in the bank, sat home and watched TV and watched his interest grow. The notion this "buffoon" would be able to piece together a national policy that benefits his businesses is absurd! He's too stupid for that. The guy is a complete idiot!
But, he has to comply with the law. There is no doubt that if there is an illegal conflict of interest while he is in office, that the Democrats, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, etc., will let us know all about it, and all the members of the legal academia will have no problem writing lengthy opinions on why a business interest or property holding does or does not constitute a conflict. Other than degree, these issues are not new. Other Presidents have been very wealthy and owned significant business interests. The Kennedys have always been rich and had vast business enterprises for nearly 100 years. Nobody was hand-wringing about Ted Kennedy when he ran, and nobody was worried about the Emoluments Clause when Kennedy was President -- well, at least not more than with any President. The President can't receive an emolument from a foreign power. Great. That term has Constitutional meaning and should be enforced. If he breaks it, then fine. He should be prosecuted.
If you folks are right, and the steps being taken by the President Elect are bogus and inconsequential, then he's going to be prosecuted. That should be your greatest wish -- it's a gift to you. You hate him. If he can't even manage to structure things so he doesn't break the law or Constitution, then with all the enemies he's created -- Cruz, Kasich, the entire Bush family, John McCain, Paul Ryan, and ever, single Democrat -- plus, the fact that he is a well-known buffoon, idiot, moron, blowhard, lousy businessman, non-politician, with no experience, and no ability to build a coalition of any kind due to his massive ego, how hard will it be to get him impeached?
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
