The long nightmare has just begun: Inauguration of a fraud.

[annabenedetti]

We’re the lawyers suing President Trump: his business dealings violate the Constitution

No one, not even the president, is above the law. From the first moments of his presidency, Donald Trump has been violating an important constitutional provision: the foreign emoluments clause, which prevents a government official from benefiting personally from a foreign government.

Article I, section 9, of the Constitution states: “And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, 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.”

This provision was meant to restrict the ability of foreign governments to influence American officeholders. The world “emolument” may sound archaic, but the goal of the clause is clear. And it’s as important today as it was two and a half centuries ago: It helps to prevent the reality and the appearance of conflicts of interest that both distract our officials and undermine public confidence in the integrity of their decisions, which ought to be made in the sole interest of the American people.​

 

[Danoh]

Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Once Grilled Sally Yates About Standing Up to the President

When Sally Yates was confirmed as deputy U.S. attorney general nearly two years ago, she assured Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions that she would be willing to stand up to the President if he took "unlawful" action.

Sessions: Well, you have to watch out because people will be asking you to do things, you just need to say no about. Do you think the Attorney General has a responsibility to say no to the President if he asks for something that's improper? A lot of people have defended the Lynch nomination, for example, by saying, ‘Well, he appoints somebody who's going to execute his views. What's wrong with that?’ But if the views a President wants to execute are unlawful, should the Attorney General or the Deputy Attorney General say no?

Yates: Senator, I believe that the Attorney General or the Deputy Attorney General has an obligation to follow the law and the Constitution and to give their independent legal advice to the President.
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Former Acting Attorney General: Sally Yates will be remembered not only as cut from the same cloth as all America's many great hero's, but as the women who that unjust action against her (for her great, great courage, on behalf of our country) by that out of control self-deluded, self-interested misogynist was the beginning of that fool's own, self-inflicted end.

Huge, huge mistake on Trump's part and that of his cronies.

It will go to his/their heads...heading him towards his own end...

Just as his actions have been going to his lemming's so called "good Christian" heads.

As I posted last year...Nixon...all over again.

Aboslute power, thank you, once again.

Matthew 8:32 And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.

Time to rename the White House...The Titanic.

 

[patrick jane]

Aboslute power, thank you, once again.

:rotfl:

 

[ok doser]

Nixon was a phenomenal president

 

[annabenedetti]

DeVos Apparently Plagiarized Parts Of Her Responses To Senate Questionnaire

Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump's pick to be secretary of education, apparently lifted entire phrases and sentences from sources without attribution in her written responses to a questionnaire from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
The Washington Post first flagged the phrasing similarities on Tuesday.

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Oh, the irony of a Secretary of Education plagiarizing responses...

 

[annabenedetti]

King: Travel ban 'probably the worst foreign policy decision' since Iraq

Sen. Angus King said the Trump administration's controversial travel ban is "the worst foreign policy decision" since the US invaded Iraq.

"It will make America much more dangerous," he told CNN's Alisyn Camerota Tuesday on "New Day." "I think this is probably the worst foreign policy decision since the invasion of Iraq. What it's done is played right into ISIS' hands."
. . . .

He said the President's ban advances ISIS' goals.

"They want us to turn this into a war of the west against Islam. They have explicitly said they want to drive a wedge between peaceful, nonviolent Muslims and the West, particularly America," King said.

"Over the weekend there were all kind of excited communications from ISIS about what a great thing Donald Trump had done for them."

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[Danoh]

Nixon was a phenomenal president

I suspect that gaping difference between him and President Trump tantrum will remain.

 

[Danoh]

If you are so sure about that then give me your house once you are proven wrong.

Why? You worried about the two houses you'll lose in two years :chuckle:

 

[Danoh]

:rotfl:

It's what Trumper tantrum believes he has.

Good; the faster his self-inflicted downfall.

 

[ok doser]

It's what Trumper tantrum believes he has.

aboslutely !!

 

[ClimateSanity]

Why? You worried about the two houses you'll lose in two years :chuckle:

Keep being smug. You'll find out

 

[1Mind1Spirit]

Town said " No, I can read fairly well and I've read him. "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety".


Looks like you failed to understand what you read because you are misapplying it.

Franklin was not referring to the loss of liberty of non citizens.

No citizen has lost any liberty in the issuing of the executive orders.

Looks like these folks can't figure out anchor babies are not citizens either.

Still cryin' about Franklin's constitutional executive order in 1935 here....

http://calstate.fullerton.edu/news/2005/valenciana.html

 

[1Mind1Spirit]

Nixon was a phenomenal president

Yep, and Trump should follow suit after he reinstitutes tariffs with ceiling prices.

 

[Danoh]

Keep being smug. You'll find out

Found out many years ago (about his life-long history of political and financial corruption in service of his massively over-blown self-interest - you know; the info you repeatrdly refused to even look into).

Regrettably, you are willfully blind.

 

[1Mind1Spirit]

DeVos Apparently Plagiarized Parts Of Her Responses To Senate Questionnaire

Betsy DeVos, President Donald Trump's pick to be secretary of education, apparently lifted entire phrases and sentences from sources without attribution in her written responses to a questionnaire from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
The Washington Post first flagged the phrasing similarities on Tuesday.

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Oh, the irony of a Secretary of Education plagiarizing responses...

As if the media gets to grade her paper.

That's a riot.

 

[Danoh]

As if the media gets to grade her paper.

That's a riot.

"The media" what a moronic, one size fits all accross the board is your fool use of that phrase - gotta luv ya, you're at least consistent in your narrow mindedness :chuckle:

 

[Danoh]

aboslutely !!

Lol

 

[1Mind1Spirit]

"The media" what a moronic, one size fits all accross the board is your fool use of that phrase - gotta luv ya, you're at least consistent in your narrow mindedness :chuckle:

Keeps me from bein' carried away with all that hot air. lol

 

[Town Heretic]

Trump, the guy who claims to love and respect the military he wants to build up, tosses the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff out of the Principal's Committee and inserts the alt right loving, zero experience or reason to believe he'll be an asset Bannon instead. This in a week where he's embarrassed himself with a stump speech before the CIA only a narcissist could love and continued his demonizing of the press/disinformation campaign via the bully pulpit, with some aides calling for the firing of reporters seen as antagonistic, among other remarkably ham handed efforts that have seen his popularity drop below the waterline faster than the Titanic.

It has many wondering that if he's determined to follow in the footsteps of Teddy Roosevelt, at what point will he take speaking softly to heart? And might the volume be compensating for the size of his shtick?

 

[Crucible]

"The media"