One basis for Trump's impeachment

[rareboy]

One of the talking heads on the TV machine said the president cannot “waive” his salary. He can divert it to some other recipient, but statute requires that he receive it.

3 U.S. Code § 102 - Compensation of the President (LII)​

Mark my words...not only will he receive it but he'll be asking for a raise in about a year.

 

[Kabluey]

It is too early to start accusing us of that. But, yes, when politicians get away with stuff, it lowers the standard for those that follow.

Well Trump has reached the bottom of the barrel, so the only way is up.

Unless they actually ruin the US economy.
Seriously think it's comical how the tea party projects their own failings upon everyone else.

 

[rareboy]

the Donald has stated that as President he can't have any conflicts of interest because, well, he's the President

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovemen...y_nothing_he_can_do_is_a_conflict_of_interest

But seriously.

This tells you everything that you need to know.

He really, really, really doe believe that he is above the law.

 

[Kulindahr]

Mark my words...not only will he receive it but he'll be asking for a raise in about a year.

Legally I don't think he can get a raise while in office. He might be able to get one enacted that would start at the beginning of his second term, depending on whether or not one term ending and a new one beginning counts as stopping being in office and then starting again.

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But seriously.

This tells you everything that you need to know.

He really, really, really doe believe that he is above the law.

No, he's just like a Yale lawyer: he believes the law means whatever he says it does.

 

[Stardreamer]

Ahh well problems of Trump's businesses is solved, the renowned Constitutional Scholar Donald Trump has just informed us that the President can not have a conflict of interest!

“The law's totally on my side, the president can't have a conflict of interest,” he told the Times, according to a tweet from reporter Maggie Haberman.

So of course all this is okay:

Trump himself confirmed that he has continued to talk business while holding meetings as president-elect. After the Times reported that Trump raised the issue of unsightly wind farms in Britain that could mar the view of some of his golf courses there with British politician Nigel Farage, Trump said, “I might have brought it up.”

“My company's so unimportant to me relative to what I'm doing,” he said.

“In theory I could run my business perfectly and then run the country perfectly. There's never been a case like this,” he added.

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/307219-trump-on-his-business-ties-the-president-cant-have-a-conflict-of-interest

So its all okay there nothing to worry about

 

[nycguydowntown]

Two repub lawyers said unless trump gets some good legal advice----he can easily be walking into an impeachable conflict of interest crime----Doubt if the feckless Dems would do anything about it But---this past week he already had a meeting with the Argentinian president and talked business with his daughter present and asked the Brexit guy to block windmills that would ruin the view from his golf course in Scotland lol. This should be a fun 4 years!

 

[frankfrank]

Maybe I should write and ask him to send [his salary] to my conservation not-for-profit.

CONSERVATION and Donald Trump

Not something he'd do in THIS universe.

Dream on.


As for his statement that, as President, he cannot have a conflict of interest, that could of course have two meanings:
1. If you're President, you SHALL not have conflicts of interest, or:
2. If you're President, it's IMPOSSIBLE for you to have a conflict of interest because...well...you are President.

We know which one he meant - the one with the longer sentence. (Maybe he'll get an even longer sentence after impeachment, conviction and removal, and criminal trial.)

 

[Telstra]

Some of you laugh out of disparation or dis-pare.
I don't see any funny side at all.

 

[nycguydowntown]

Some of you laugh out of disparation or dis-pare.
I don't see any funny side at all.

well we are in totally uncharted territory----we never had a businessman (con artist) president before that owns real estate all over the world---or rents out his name for money---lot's of it---and is always looking for favors from local governments (which is why he was a Democrat one year and a repub another lol) to help him make more money. The hotel in Argentina has been held up since 2008 ---so if he asks the Argentine president to move things along and make his hotel happen---so his family can make more money---and he's president of the USA---THAT is illegal! Period.

 

[gsdx]

Some of you laugh out of disparation or dis-pare.
I don't see any funny side at all.

He's the 'president-elect'. He's already using his position to influence his own country and other countries around the world for his own benefit. That is a 'conflict of interest'. (Google it.) That is illegal, and he doesn't think it exists in his case or he thinks it doesn't exist at all. His comment can be interpreted both ways, but, either way, he thinks he can do whatever he wants as president... and he can't.

We are not laughing out of 'desperation' or 'despair'. We are laughing at his stupidity of thinking he isn't breaking any laws by what he is doing.

During his inauguration, I believe he must swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States, and he's not even doing that now.

 

[rareboy]

His stupidity and cupidity is staggering beyond reckoning.

I'm sure the only thought that is ever going through his mind is

'What's in for me?'

So third world.

So sad.

 

[gsdx]

^ Indeed, and if the rumours about his Tower in Argentina being given a permit following a phone call to the Argentinian president are proved to be true...

 

[Stardreamer]

So for anyone wondering exactly what the big deal is, This Bloomberg article lays it out pretty well:
Trump Would Have a Hard Time Divesting His Businesses—Even If He Wanted To
“Trump the brand is very closely intertwined with Trump the man.”

Some items of interest:
- Jose E.B. Antonio chief executive and controlling stockholder of Century Properties Group in Manila has been named as a special envoy to the US by the Philippines. His company has over $5 million of investment deals directly with Trump over his naming rights to the Trump Tower in Manila. When asked if his business ties with Trump when dealing with the US he said it might be an asset.
- A great many of his investments are tied to his name and would be worthless without him, making them hard to divest or put in a blind trust. Many of these are in sensitive places like the UAE.
- He holds a 60 year concession on the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC. Foreign Diplomats are lining up to reserve and/or rent the most expensive penthouses there AND making it clear that they are doing to to curry the favor of Trump.
- Trump owes Deutsche Bank over $300 million in loans. Trump's justice department will be taking over the legal issues between the US and Deutsche Bank over it's lending practices that contributed to the 2008 recession.
- Similar financial issues and conflicts exist between Trump and the Bank of China.
- The Trump administration will be taking over the IRS which is currently involved in legal issues with the Trump Foundation for proven charges of self-dealing (using charity money for its own purposes).
- Several of his closest advisors have similar conflict issues.

Here is the real rub, as Bloomberg summed it up. There has never been a President with so many business ties. There has been so much made of how Trump being wealthy was independent of the political big money system in Washington but nobody stopped to think what new strings and conflicts that wealth brings with it and there is ALWAYS strings and conflicts.

 

[nycguydowntown]

Is it incumbent on US taxpayers to protect the 500 Trump properties from terrorist attacks?

The Trump hotel-casino here in Las Vegas seems to be a soft target.

Security experts said that most of his properties are soft targets----I don't know what they are going to do about this---but surely he will find a way for the taxpayers to protect his properties ---he's very cheap with his own money.

 

[nycguydowntown]

Is it incumbent on US taxpayers to protect the 500 Trump properties from terrorist attacks?

The Trump hotel-casino here in Las Vegas seems to be a soft target.

Security experts said that most of his properties are soft targets----I don't know what they are going to do about this---but surely he will find a way for the taxpayers to protect his properties ---he's very cheap with his own money.

Well stated Stardreamer about the financial mess he is already in---it's an almost unsolvable situation with illegal things everywhere you turn---even if you wanted to be honest---which has never been a concern of trumps lol

 

[heir-to-the-wind]

One small bomb in a Trump hotel, or even the threat, might ruin his business.

A casino like in Vegas would be easy.

 

[gsdx]

One small bomb in a Trump hotel, or even the threat, might ruin his business.

It would be even more effective if Bob is carrying a bomb!!

 

[Stardreamer]

I was thinking with Trump as president, all these properties around the world with his name on them could become a terrorist target.

 

[gsdx]

Is this a conflict of interest? Trump is selling Christmas ornaments for $180 on his 'shop.donaldjtrump' website. He sent out the announcement on his subscribers' mailing list.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-wants-to-make-christmas-trees-great-again-164753215.html

Cha ching cha ching!! Let that cash register ring!!

 

[frankfrank]

I'm not sure if the cap (which is overpriced by at least $165) is a conflict of interest...it probably is.

But certainly the Argentina thing, where his hotel is no longer "frozen" a mere three days after he asked the President there to "release" his hotel so that he can remodel it, or finish it, or open it, or whatever he hasn't been able to do, most certainly IS.