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deminks

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Mon Jan 23, 2017, 02:48 PM Jan 2017

Ex-Bush ethics lawyer: Donald Trump will conform with the Constitution or we will remove him

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/ex-bush-ethics-lawyer-donald-trump-will-conform-with-the-constitution-or-we-will-remove-him/

Richard Painter, the former chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, warned on Monday that Donald Trump “will be impeached” if he continues refusing to conform to the U.S. Constitution.

In a Monday interview on Australia’s ABC News, Painter said that he hoped that Trump would “figure this out” when it came to understanding the Constitution’s ban on receiving profits from foreign governments and the protections it gives to the rights of Americans.

“He did what he needed to do to be a successful businessman, he figured that out and he now has to figure out how to be a successful president,” Painter explained. “But he is going to need to sell his business interests, he’s going to need to stop giving inflammatory speeches and not try to politicize our intelligence services.”

The former Bush adviser said the FBI and Director James Comey engaged in “illegal political activity before the election and we don’t want any more of that.”

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