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twitter.com/JohnDingell/status/1030810480909144065
dalton99a
(81,534 posts)PSPS
(13,603 posts)The "adult children" may as well be referred to as Uday and Qusay.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)They are lacking in honor.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,745 posts)I've always heard "madder than a wet hen". Same meaning, and very true.
TryLogic
(1,723 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)cagefreesoylentgreen
(838 posts)BluesRunTheGame
(1,618 posts)...was on a record of Utah Phillips' stories. I think the record was called "Moscow Hold".
eppur_se_muova
(36,274 posts)DownriverDem
(6,229 posts)John Dingell was my rep until he retired. Now his wife Debbie Dingell is my rep and fighting hard for Michigan's 12th District. Before someone asks, yes Debbie Dingell was very qualified to take John's place.
shraby
(21,946 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)But the contrast is still remarkable. Putting a PEANUT FARM in a blind trust versus owning a hotel that visiting dignitaries and grifters are expected to stay at, his daughter getting special licenses from China for knockoff clothing, etc etc.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)that's the big difference. Both he and they know that every dollar they spend there goes into Trump's pocket, and all he has to do is ask, "Where are you staying while you're in town?" to find out whether they are worthy of his largesse.
I think what rankles me most (at least concerning this topic) is the lie he told during the campaign that he would put his assets into a blind trust run by his children. It then turns out his children give their father regular reports on how the Trump organization is doing, and then discuss other ways to use Trump's position to generate more income for the family coffers.
I hope the lawsuit that AGs from Maryland and D.C. brought against Donnie Scoops for violating the Emoluments clause will go all the way, or at least complete discovery, which is the next step in the process.
The DOJ has failed twice so far to get the case thrown out of court, first on the "you don't have standing to sue" argument and then on the "there's no quid pro quo" one. The government lawyers had argued that unless it was an explicit bribe that was directly paid to the president, and the briber got something in return, it didn't fall under the Emoluments clause. The judge rejected that narrow definition.
Where the case now stands is that the judge has focused the case solely on the Trump hotel in the Old Post Office building, which is leased from the government. The next step is for the AGs to begin discovery, which is a bucket of worms the DOJ will fight with everything they've got. If there's one thing that Trump's shenanigans can't stand up to, it's the truth. "The thing about science is that facts don't change, no matter what you believe," said Neil Degrasse Tyson, and I think it applies to the law as well.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)And at his age, he's still out there doing good works, while that trouser stain in the WH thinks he is worthy of the office.
How far we have fallen when it comes to character and integrity in the Oval Office.
Marcuse
(7,493 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,982 posts)rule of law dammit.
calimary
(81,350 posts)thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)He knew (and respected) the law.
More importantly, he knew that he was NOT above the law.
Hekate
(90,737 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)running a country for his boss, the Russian mafia leader. POP/GOP love this corruption and extreme avarice by this potus and his family. Proves white kkkristian males are back in charge after a real man/POTUS scared the shit out of this group of racists who were always spreading rumours that he was a Muslim, was building detention camps for arrested white people like they did for children of brown people? That Obama's wife was always described by these people in the most disrespectful and denigrating manner, leaking where the Obama children were taking vacations. It went on and on for 8 years and now this POS running my country????
These people running this country are dyed in the wool racists. A majority of them like that goddamned 'preacher' in Uganda treating Ugandans like his slaves in their country. I bet trump, sessions, bannon, gorka , ivanka, jarrad, his 2 idiot sons and all of the WSP/GOP leaders laughed and got drunk on that one. Not one of them has a compassionate, empathetic bone in their body, Puerto Rico proved that, nor a soul. DAMN THEM TO HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!