PGT: President-Elect Donald J Trump

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by photon

Haha the next reporter Trump called on after calling CNN terrible and fake news was... Breitbart!

Well, he did hire their executive chairman to be his campaign CEO

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by troutman

S.E. Cupp ‏@secupp If journalists want to preserve integrity and power of press, they should ALL walk out when Trump bashes ONE of them.


Keith Olbermann ‏@KeithOlbermann
The entire media corps should have walked out after Trump's attack on CNN.


Olbermann and Cupp agree.

Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!

[photon]

Not meaningful but still funny. Trump's lawyers for this conflict of interest reduction exercise, Morgan Lewis, was 2016's Russia Law Firm of the Year.

https://www.morganlewis.com/news/cha...rm-of-the-year

[Senator Clay Davis]

Originally Posted by photon

Not meaningful but still funny. Trump's lawyers for this conflict of interest reduction exercise, Morgan Lewis, was 2016's Russia Law Firm of the Year.

https://www.morganlewis.com/news/cha...rm-of-the-year

How is it not meaningful? It speaks to exceptionally poor self awareness by the Trump administration if nothing else.

[The Fonz]

Does Pointman ever post in here? I'm curious about their (Russians) opinion of the alleged (confirmed?) Russian involvement in the US election.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

"I have many meetings with intelligence" lol.

[CaptainCrunch]

The call used to be a crazy person with a gun opened fire today at . . . .

will soon be replaced

A crazy person with a nuclear arsenal opened fire today killing millions.

The only thing that would make this even more entertaining is if Trump had appointed Tom Cruise as his Minister of Religious freedom.

[Wormius]

How far into the future was "Idiocracy" set? Is Mike Judge a prophet?

[troutman]

What is Tom Arnold getting at, on the Apprentice tapes?

Tom Arnold ‏@TomArnold
Original owners been offered $5 mill 2 pay confidentiality agreement plus lifetime employment Mark Cuban but family's still scared. Respect.


Tom Arnold ‏@TomArnold
Not my tapes to release. Assembling my own free of charge. Could use a little herp and I could move really fast.i'll take any out takes

[IliketoPuck]

Poorly worded but I would interpret as life time employment from Mark Cuban, and payment of damages from breaking the confidentiality agreements, in return for distributing tapes. But they are scared of releasing due to repercussions beyond monetary....

[GirlySports]

I have no idea what just happened with that Trump presser...other than a lot of people making fools of themselves. Trump (not that he cares), the tax attorney, several members of the press, etc. It's too bad the Buzzfeed posting was such a screw up b/c the legit stuff to be concerned about is getting buried.

Trump tax returns has almost reached the Hilary email level of pointless.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by octothorp

The bizarre thing about the reaction to this on reddit was all these people saying, "Y'all are so dumb for falling for something that 4-chan started. You should all totally trust 4-chan now when they say they're behind these rumours."

I came across one person who essentially said that the MSM was pushing this as "fake news" to distract from Pizzagate.

[Muta]

LOL, I still can't believe Donald Trump is going to be the President of the United States, and represent them on the international stage for four years (if he makes it that long). He's going to get destroyed.

Well done America.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by troutman

Tom Arnold ‏@TomArnold
Not my tapes to release. Assembling my own free of charge. Could use a little herp and I could move really fast.i'll take any out takes

He should have watched the press conference. He would have got a ton of herp ... as well as a ton of derp.

[Tacopuck]

Originally Posted by GGG

Isnt he still in non-compliance with the emouluments clause if as an asset owner a foreign government has a contract with one of his assets regardless of who is managing said assets.

What Tillerson did is what is required, resign, divest, penalty clause for returning afterwards(though the wording on the penalty clause still might not be sufficient).

And even then if his familial relations still have ownership the conflict of interest may still exist.

With respect to the emoluments clause, his lawyer mentioned any money that is paid to the Trump Organization from foreign state governments, heads of state, or state orgs (example them using Trump branded hotels) would be donated to the US treasury so the money would not goto the Trump Organization (and thus Trump and his family) and instead would goto the US public.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by troutman

Tom Arnold ‏@TomArnold
Not my tapes to release. Assembling my own free of charge. Could use a little herp and I could move really fast.i'll take any out takes

I'm sure you're probably already good on that front, Tom.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Tacopuck

With respect to the emoluments clause, his lawyer mentioned any money that is paid to the Trump Organization from foreign state governments, heads of state, or state orgs (example them using Trump branded hotels) would be donated to the US treasury so the money would not goto the Trump Organization (and thus Trump and his family) and instead would goto the US public.

That doesn't change anything. The money paid for lodgings is not where the main concerns for conflict of interest are

[direwolf]

Just getting caught up on everything. Looks like I missed quite the sh-- show this morning.

[photon]

Originally Posted by Tacopuck

With respect to the emoluments clause, his lawyer mentioned any money that is paid to the Trump Organization from foreign state governments, heads of state, or state orgs (example them using Trump branded hotels) would be donated to the US treasury so the money would not goto the Trump Organization (and thus Trump and his family) and instead would goto the US public.

That's not what she said. She said:

"So, President-elect Trump has decided, and we are announcing today, that he is going to voluntarily donate all profits from foreign government payments made to his hotel to the United States Treasury. This way, it is the American people who will profit."

Just foreign government payments to his hotel (singular, likely in reference to the one in Washington that's been in the news).

Many will come away with the same impression you did though and think the conflict of interest issue has been mitigated, but it hasn't.

[Tacopuck]

Originally Posted by photon

That's not what she said. She said:

"So, President-elect Trump has decided, and we are announcing today, that he is going to voluntarily donate all profits from foreign government payments made to his hotel to the United States Treasury. This way, it is the American people who will profit."

Just foreign government payments to his hotel (singular, likely in reference to the one in Washington that's been in the news).

Many will come away with the same impression you did though and think the conflict of interest issue has been mitigated, but it hasn't.

Fair point, but missing the pluralization doesn't mean explicitly she is referring to one hotel. It could be, but It could also have been a slip in her speech. Regardless the truth will come out once those payments to the US Treasury go on record.