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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo they all flew down to Mar-a-Lago at tax payer expense
Is the Con's property profiting from all these meetings, lunches and dinners.
This cannot be right.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)All part of making America great again. If "America" is defined as Trump's bottom line.
scarletlib
(3,411 posts)No it is not right, if not an outright Constitutional violation of the Emoluments Clause, then at the least morally & ethically wrong.
riversedge
(70,239 posts)malaise
(269,022 posts)I cannot believe this shit. Why should they all leave DC - why aren't the meetings in DC - this is terribly wrong.
riversedge
(70,239 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,464 posts)kooth
(219 posts)It looks that way to me!
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dameatball
(7,398 posts)I do not know if it is at a discounted rate or what.....have no idea how Mar-A-Lago works. Same thing happens when the sons go off on a "business trip."
erronis
(15,286 posts)Anyone remember the old presidential retreats like Camp David or Truman's Key West? The current ahole wouldn't even bend over (if he could) to pick up that pocket change.
Used to be another branch of government would have some say over the abuse of power....
dameatball
(7,398 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)Then there was the scam where people would believe that by donate to Eric's charity 100% per cent of the money was going exclusively to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.
It is alleged the Eric Trump Foundation has been funneling donations -- from donors who believed the money was going to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital -- to the Trump Organization by paying high sums for use of Trump properties during fundraisers and redonating some funds to charities friendly with Trump interests. It is alleged that the Eric Trump Foundation paid the Trump family business hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last seven years for use of one of the organization's golf courses, funds which he claimed were being donated nearly in full to the children's cancer charity.
You can't redirect funds donated for one charitable organization to another charitable organization. Even though both are charities, it falls into the category of "bait and switch."
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FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)The SS guys have to pay for golf cart rentals when the orange asshole and his buddies go out and play golf!
Remember how the GOP hollered bloody murder whenever Obama played golf? (It wasn't that often, but they wouldn't shut up about it.) Meanwhwile not one word is said about the orange asshole and his entire cabinet.
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(52,243 posts)bluestarone
(16,959 posts)After getting control of congress (2018)????
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(52,243 posts)that it would be considered an improper payment that needs to be returned. I don't know the relevant laws. It's possible that there's no actual law preventing it.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)CrispyQ
(36,470 posts)Initech
(100,079 posts)It's obvious that he wants to be more at Mar-A-Shithole than he wants to be at the White House, so I say leave him there.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)machoneman
(4,007 posts)n/m
getagrip_already
(14,757 posts)for everyone in trumps entourage. At guest rates for the most part.
Even his security detail gets charged for using facility services like internet, office space, etc.
A complete con.
He is trying to run up the tab before he leaves. He will pardon everyone in his crime family and then pence will pardon him, probably just before his term expires.
With NY having a law that bars prosecution if someone has a federal pardon, he will get away with it.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Truckloads full for sure!
malaise
(269,022 posts)This cannot continue - it started out with his infomercial in the presence of the Japanese PM.
Jopin Klobe
(779 posts)... he's trying to copy his betrothed Vlad ...
... he's got the joint bugged, people ...
... this should be fun ...
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)what..........fucking nothing.
In fact the fucking traitor loving "turtle" goes in front of camera and says that the country doesn't need any "insurance" from Muller or Rosenstein getting fired..............I guess this asshole drives a car around without any insurance, after all he fucked the Constitution a ways back , and he really fucked the Constitution when it came to Gorsuch.........................fucking asshole..............
This asshole can't have a state dinner at the white house, this asshole can't have a state dinner at Camp David..................nope, he gets to fly fucking down to Palm Beach (3 million a pop) and fuck every taxpayer in the country, with the those beady fucking black narcissistic malignant psychopathic mafia eyes .........................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
malaise
(269,022 posts)They are all part of this kakistocracy
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
bluestarone
(16,959 posts)Every fucking day they are spending spending spending! NO FUCKING WATCHDOG TO STOP ANYTHING!!