Posted on 10/22/2019 2:37:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Congressional Democrats will file a legal brief in federal court on Tuesday asserting that President Trump’s promotion of his Doral resort for the G-7 summit was further evidence he has violated the Emoluments Clause, despite his decision to reverse course.
The initial announcement last week — from Trump’s acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, as he stood behind the official White House podium — provided the president’s personal property with “invaluable publicity” that in and of itself may amount to an emolument, a House Democratic source said.
Democratic lawmakers and their aides debated how to proceed over the weekend, after the president tweeted that he had reversed the decision and would not hold the G-7 summit at his Florida resort, only three days after Mulvaney’s announcement.
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“Rubicon?” President Trump could fire every flag officer in the five services this morning and replace them with suitable O-6s and O-5s. He could pardon Mike Flynn and give him five stars if he wanted to.
All one has to do is turn off the news.
I recommend that everyone do this.
someone please cue up that “aww..jeez, not this s**t again” guy......
Thanks
If something doesn’t give here soon, I’m going to start thinking that the evil cabal just might be bigger than the DJT Team.
It seems to me that it was the democrats who provided the Trump property with invaluable publicity, will they investigate themselves?
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