Ba ha ha ha. If it wasn't Trump I'd think it was a joke. Note that the "Donate" button is still there. Minimum donation: $35. I wonder what the donations are going toward. My guess is to pay for the campaign he bragged about paying for himself, or just straight into his pocket. Which is kind of the same thing, I guess.
A cut of it might go to Pence's church, so he can still get into heaven.
You would think a normal human being would give a free hotel room to people that are there to take a bullet for you.
The US has VERY strict laws with respect to gifts to government officials and the like from corporations. Every time I have to submit an expense report at work, I have to confirm that my expense report does not contain any gifts for or expenses that are related to government staff or officials, be it for hospitality or T&E. This is not something our shark tank of lawyers take lightly. Gifts and covering expenses for government officials can be seen as bribery.
By itself, Trump Tower providing complimentary lodging for government employees would have massive legal ramifications. The fact that Trump was actively running for president at the time would make it unimaginably worse.
President-elect Donald Trump ripped the election recount on Saturday, calling it "a scam" and "ridiculous" and noting that Hillary Clinton had already conceded.
Trump charged in a statement that the effort was nothing but a fundraising ploy by the Green Party and its nominee, Jill Stein.
"This recount is just a way for Jill Stein, who received less than one percent of the vote overall and wasn't even on the ballot in many states, to fill her coffers with money, most of which she will never even spend on this ridiculous recount," the President-elect said in a statement, which labeled the effort as "ridiculous" in a headline.
On Saturday night, Trump tweeted, "The Green Party scam to fill up their coffers by asking for impossible recounts is now being joined by the badly defeated & demoralized Dems."
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For his information, this is all going into a dedicated and segregated account so that it can only be spent on the recount," she told CNN's Pamela Brown on "Newsroom."
"He may be creating his own facts here as he's been known to do some times in the past," Stein added. "He himself said it was rigged election unless he won it."
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Trump said, "The people have spoken and the election is over, and as Hillary Clinton herself said on election night, in addition to her conceding by congratulating me, 'We must accept this result and then look to the future.'"
Due to the character count limit of a tweet, you seem to have left that out.
And you seem to have left out the fact that the guy who is going to be the President is ranting like a wronged schoolgirl on Twitter.
He's got better things to do and worry about. Bitching on Twitter is not on the list. Hell, the Presidential thing to do would be to say "I welcome a recount, we need confidence in our democracy bla bla bla". Instead he takes it as a personal insult and starts crying in public.
Remember, this isn't a normal person anymore. He's not just a sleazy tycoon going up and down in his golden elevator. He's going to be the president in less than two months.
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Remember, this isn't a normal person anymore. He's not just a sleazy tycoon going up and down in his golden elevator. He's going to be the president in less than two months.
I don't really think it's out of line to address the recount publicly, and twitter's the method he uses for that. Had he got in front of a camera and made a brief statement, it would have the same weight but probably wouldn't be seen by as many people. I'm not sure why people seem to be upset by the fact that he uses twitter at all. The content of the tweets wasn't crazy, by his standards.
I do think his response is wrong, though. The best thing he could say would be something like, "if people want to spend their money to gain greater faith in the process and the result of the election, that's entirely up to them, but it's very unlikely that this recount will change anything", rather than object to it being done at all. But it's Trump; he's not very smart and he's going to get defensive about everything.
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I don't really think it's out of line to address the recount publicly, and twitter's the method he uses for that. Had he got in front of a camera and made a brief statement, it would have the same weight but probably wouldn't be seen by as many people. I'm not sure why people seem to be upset by the fact that he uses twitter at all. The content of the tweets wasn't crazy, by his standards.
I do think his response is wrong, though. The best thing he could say would be something like, "if people want to spend their money to gain greater faith in the process and the result of the election, that's entirely up to them, but it's very unlikely that this recount will change anything", rather than object to it being done at all. But it's Trump; he's not very smart and he's going to get defensive about everything.
so not level crazy then? makes a change I suppose.
