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CousinIT

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Sat Jan 14, 2017, 04:05 PM Jan 2017

Republicans Were All About Holding Obama Accountable But Trump is Somehow Exempt

On Friday, Chuck Schumer condemned Jason Chaffetz’s attempt to bully the ethics watchdog, Director of Office of Government Ethics, Walter Shaub. Schumer called Chaffetz’s “attempt to bully Mr. Shaub out of doing his job are absolutely despicable.”

Chaffetz was far from chastened by the experience and has defended his attacks on Mr. Shaub. He told The Washington Post‘s Jennifer Rubin that he had “deep concerns” during the campaign and called Shaub “unethical,” when it is Trump’s own unethical actions (and failure to act where divestment is concerned) that are the problem.

Chaffetz’s position is that wealth puts you above the law: “The president and vice president are exempt. The voters understood this was a wealthy individual.”

This is untrue. Nobody is above the law, including the president and vice president. Chaffetz breezily waves away concerns about Trump being in in violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution from day one, pushing Gingrich’s line that the laws that have applied to every other American president shouldn’t apply to Trump because he’s somehow special.

This is the same stance taken by Trump himself. Rubin points out,

Chaffetz’s passivity in the face of well-publicized concerns about the Emoluments Clause stands in stark contrast to his aggressive, self-initiating action during the Obama years. He is not alone. Indeed, the entire Republican House seems entirely uninterested in keeping its promise to act as a check on Trump. The oath they take is to defend the Constitution, an obligation which places on Chaffetz and other Republicans the responsibility to investigate, not sit idly by, if a week from today the president will be in violation of the clear text of the Constitution.


Every Republican seems to have forgotten all the laws they said applied to President Obama, because magically, they somehow no longer seem to apply to a man who is both whiter, and, presumably, richer. We don’t know because Trump won’t release his financials, but that’s what he says.


http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/14/republicans-holding-obama-accountable-trump-exempt.html
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Republicans Were All About Holding Obama Accountable But Trump is Somehow Exempt (Original Post) CousinIT Jan 2017 OP
As Karl Rove said about Valerie Plame Chasstev365 Jan 2017 #1
every is acting so surprised at how horrible the cons are Ohioblue22 Jan 2017 #2
I know. They are shameless hypocrites .. ananda Jan 2017 #3
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