Some questions for Lie-a-Watha:
1. How could a lease signed in 2003 become a “new” conflict-of-interest in 2016?
2. How did the Trump Organization’s “leasehold interest” become “ownership”? Hmmm... Thesaurus, anyone?
3. Doesn’t Lie-a-Watha know ANY competent lawyers? Even though legal “competence” is rare at Harvard.
4. How does Trump’s payment of rent TO the GSA become payment of an “emolument” FROM the GSA? See question 3...
Adding questions:
5. Just when and how did John F. Kennedy and his family shed ownership of Chicago’s Merchandise Mart, then the largest commercial building in the world? (Clue - The Kennedy’s owned the MM throughout his Presidency well into this millennium. The MSM said squat.)
6. Just how did Lyndon Baines Johnson manage to obtain FCC licenses for his broadcast empire worth over $1 billion which he and Lady Bird held until her death a few years ago? (Clue - Good management of LBJ’s salary as a school teacher and politician which never exceeded $30k per year until he became president....even better than Hillary’s cattle futures gambit.)
7. Just how did President Obama manage to purchase an estate home worth over $1.5 million in the upscale Hyde Park section of Chicago and get a mortgage when he made no down payment (none) and never had earned more than $100,000? (Clue: His deal involved a convicted property fraudster who was en route to prison when the home was purchased. Enhanced by a peculiar subdivision of the property such that the sale of 15% yielded more $ than the 85% on which the residence stood.)
Because it has a clause saying that elected officials of the government of the United States cannot benefit from the lease and Trump only became an elected official three weeks ago.
You nailed, pfony. Trump owns nothing — it’s a lease.
Hey, Lie-a-watha, you dumb squaw or what? Only pale face makum money as Harvard professor. If you want’m real big teepee, every Cherokee know more wampum come from own’n your own casino.