Posted on 05/17/2019 7:26:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For the last two years, the media have been complaining that Donald Trump was violating the Constitution's emoluments clause and enriching himself. There has been a series of nuisance lawsuits because heaven forbid people from foreign countries be staying at or playing at Trump properties. There is no indication that Trump is charging anyone extra or handing out favors for them staying there, but the lawsuits and garbage stories go on.
Under those rules, no one who owns businesses that have any foreign customers need apply for the presidency. That way, only career politicians can win.
Now the Washington Post and others are running stories cheering that Trump's businesses are faltering. Shouldn't that show that he isn't using the presidency to enrich himself?
The media have run fake news stories for over two years about Russian collusion, obstruction when there is no crime, and any number of other things where they are essentially campaigning for Democrats while seeking to destroy Trump and other Republicans. The truth and the American people haven't mattered for a long time — only putting Democrats back in power, which makes the media much more dangerous to our freedom and the integrity of our elections than anything Russia or China has done or is doing.
While journalists are up in arms because people from foreign countries are staying at Trump properties, they never cared about Hillary and her family enriching themselves greatly while she was in office, selling access to foreign countries.
They also didn't care as Obama handed out taxpayer money and jobs to big contributors.
The media looked the other way as Obama and his team confiscated money from taxpayers and set up slush funds at CFPB, Justice, and the IRS and illegally diverted funds for political purposes and to reward supporters.
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So, President Trump may actually be poorer after serving as President, while the Clintons and Obama became quite wealthy after government service. How does that work exactly?
Even though he was associated with the Pendergast machine, Truman and his wife took the train back to KC when he left office. Things sure have changed.
Why would Trump do that? He has his OWN money
This is an honest man, who has risked everything to save the USA--because of his love for America and the American People, his love of TRUTH, and his basic goodness.
His opponents cannot understand him because they have none of his virtues, including towering intelligence and magnificent puissance. They think that he is a version of themselves, which he is not.
They will say or do anything to discredit him. They have lost all credibility, and all honest people admit this.
One of the character traits necessary to being a liberal is the ability to simultaneously believe completely contradictory facts and never question the logical conundrum of your beliefs.
Ever since the Trump tax returns have become an issue, I have heard sensible people say something like this:
“I am not concerned about how a politician became rich before he was elected to office. I am very concerned about how he became rich while in office.”
Politicians should not be able to enrich themselves while in office nor get entitlements far greater than we the people. Isn’t that a novel concept?
Unlike Obama 6 billion didn’t come up missing under Trump.
The ‘media’ is fullasheet, as anyone knows who has two brain cells to rub together.
If h wanted to get rich you would think he’d start by taking his salary for the first four years
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