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You mean you keep just beating the same old dead horse.
You do know that this was brought up 6-8 months ago by you dems?
Having construction loans on real estate is not a conflict of interest.
Where are the mods to lock this thread, it's all just bringing up issues that have already been beaten to death.
Beaten to death? He's not even President yet. Yeah I know, he won! Election is over.
Lock the thread? How about - don't read if you're not interested. Retreat to a safe space where you won't be triggered. Is it Post Traumatic Election Disorder?
Sheeesh, these Authoritarian Followers are something else.
Why do they hate to be held to any ethics standards, instead of attacking the ethics office why not just comply?
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Come on dems, this isn't hard to understand.
Say it with me, the president, and vice president are exempt.
Trump is going above, and beyond what is required.
The President & Vice President are exempt from any ethical standards?
President-elect Trump sure does seem to be going above & beyond in making that clear to the American people.
Are they also exempt from adhering to the Constitution? Specifically, Article I, Section 9, Clause 8? Is the President required to take an oath to preserve, protect & defend the Constitution of the United States?
The president, and vice president are exempt from conflicts of interest.
The ethics committee saying Trump has to do more to separate himself from his businesses is not true, he is exempt from conflicts of interest.
Congress made the president, and vice president exempt so they can always act in the best interest of the country, even if the president, or vice president may gain from some action.
If you don't like it, take it up with congress who made them exempt.
The Trump Organization entered into a contract with the General Services Administration to lease the Old Post Office pavilion, a 117-year old property, in order to open the hotel. The Office of Government Ethics apparently determined ethics rules preventing other federal employees from making money from their positions do not apply to the President. Schooner disagrees.
“The contract specifically says that no elected official of the United States government can share or benefit from the lease. It’s a 60 year lease with the GSA but the language is unequivocally clear, ” Schooner said, “GSA should end the contract.”
More troubling, Schooner also points to the Constitution’s “Emoluments Clause,” which says that “no person holding any office of profit or trust under” the United States “shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.” He says this could eventually be grounds for an “impeachment issue” for Donald Trump.
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