47 thoughts on “The Ultimate Emoluments Clause Violation”

  1. Awww, now.  No one thinks he’d make official decisions to protect his investments do they?  

  3. Not even Sarah Palin was this stupid. Trump: “The Kurds are fighting for their land, just so you understand…They didn’t help us in the Second World War, they didn’t help us with Normandy.”

  4. Poobah, and she was really stupid. 

    You don’t suppose it occurs to him that they are on the receiving end of the Turkish invasion while in WWII we were on the delivering end of the Normandy invasion do you?

  5. BTW for information purposes only.  The Kurds didn’t have a country during WW II since promises made to them following WW I were never fulfilled.  There is no way to know who did and whiche individual Kurds did or did not fight for the allies 60 years ago.  They still don’t have a Kurdistan with protected borders.  

  9. Fox Poll.  I Wonder what the numbers will be when #MAGAts find out they are backing a traitor willing to kill allies for hotel profits.

  10. Hey Captain Pompeo — there is a jail cell in the basement of the capital with your name on it
     

  12. I’d love to see the House figure out how to arrest that Pompous Phat Phucker. (Take your choice among the pompous phat phuckers in the SFB “administration” starting with the Phat Phucker in Chief.)

  15. trump: “The Kurds …They didn’t help us in the Second World War, they didn’t help us with Normandy.”

     that must have made Japan’s Abe  worry a bit  and perhaps think twice about that Nobel nomination for the twit

  16. NYTimes reporting  so far this morning

     ….At least 16 Kurds were reported to have been killed, one monitoring group said.

    Members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces were killed in the Tel Abyad and Ras al-Ain areas of northeastern Syria, along with six attackers of unknown identity, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a conflict monitor based in Britain. American troops had withdrawn from both areas on Monday.
    An additional 33 members of the Syrian Democratic Forces were wounded, the monitoring group said.

    [continues]

  17. fox news via msn:

    A member of U.S. Special Forces serving alongside the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria told Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin on Wednesday they were witnessing Turkish atrocities on the frontlines.
    “I am ashamed for the first time in my career,” said the distraught soldier, who has been involved in the training of indigenous forces on multiple continents. The service member, whom Griffin described as “hardened,” is among the 1,000 or so U.S. troops who remain in Syria.
    “Turkey is not doing what it agreed to. It’s horrible,” this military source on the ground told Griffin. “We met every single security agreement. The Kurds met every single agreement [with the Turks]. There was no threat to the Turks — none — from this side of the border.”
    President Trump said the U.S. would pull its troops from northeast Syria on Sunday, a move considered a blow to the U.S.-backed Kurds by many analysts and political observers. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan later announced a military operation in the region that he said was to “neutralize terror threats” and establish a “safe zone.”
    At least seven civilians have been killed in strikes in northeastern Syria since the assault began on Wednesday, according to activists and a war monitor. Turkey later announced that its ground forces had invaded the region to fight the Kurds.
    “This is insanity,” the concerned U.S. service member said. “I don’t know what they call atrocities, but they are happening.”

    […]

    “The Kurds are as close to Western thinking in the Middle East as anyone,” said the longtime member of Special Forces. “It’s a shame. We are just watching. It’s horrible.”
    “This is not helping the ISIS fight,” the military source said.
    Many of the ISIS prisoners “will be free in the coming days and weeks,” he predicted.
    Trump told reporters Wednesday afternoon that the captured terrorists were “really bad people who should go back to Europe.”
    “We said to various countries, we’d like you to take your people back. Nobody wants them, they’re bad,” Trump said, saying that “maybe the Kurds […] if not them, Turkey” would deal with the ISIS fighters.
    “The Kurds are sticking by us,” the Special Forces source stressed to Fox News. “No other partner I have ever dealt with would stand by us.”
    American troops were disappointed in the decisions being handed down by senior leaders, the source on the ground added.

  18. I wonder what insHanity and Lou (a mind is a terrible thing) Dobbs have to say about the Fox poll showing a majority of Americans want SFB impeached and removed from office. Maybe Faux finally got something right?

  19. Another day arrives – what will SFB do today to get attention?  The slaughter of the Kurds did kick a few of the greedy old perverts to act like someone stirred their Maalox backwards.  Will the Dems take advantage of this?  I am doubting there is any killer instinct in the group to move on this.

  20. mother jones:

    Reminder: Trump Has a Massive Conflict of Interest in Turkey

    […]

    Those Trump Towers are a pair of glass buildings in Istanbul that have borne Trump’s name since 2012. Trump doesn’t own the buildings—the situation might be less complicated if he did. Instead, Trump licenses his brand to the building’s actual owner, Turkish business magnate Aydin Dogan, who has been described as the single largest payer of taxes in Turkey. He’s a one-time antagonist of Erdogan who is now in step with the strongman.
    The conflict of interest and the way it could affect Trump’s position on important issues—or at least the perception of how it could affect his position—quickly became obvious after Trump made this comment. In June 2016, after Trump said he supported a ban on immigration by people from countries he said were associated with Islamic terrorism—he called them “terror countries”—Erdogan objected, and so did Dogan, and both threatened to remove Trump’s name from the buildings.
    That’s no small threat—according to personal financial disclosures filed by Trump, since he launched his bid for the presidency, he has earned somewhere between $3.2 million and $17 million in royalties from the deal. (The amounts are given in ranges; the precise figures are unclear.) 
    Less than a month after the threat to remove his name was made, Trump very publicly voiced support for Erdogan when the Turkish leader faced a coup attempt. And his closeness with Erdogan has continued, even over the objections of some of Trump’s most reliable supporters.

    […]

    When he ran for office, Trump said he would handle conflicts of interest like this by turning over his businesses to his children. He didn’t. Instead, he simply stepped away from the daily operations of his business empire, but he retains full ownership of almost all of the assets, including the licensing company that collects royalties from Dogan.

  21. by George and others according to wapo:

    More than a dozen prominent conservative lawyers, including George T. Conway III, offered their legal reasoning for an “expeditious” impeachment probe into President Trump, creating a document they hope will be read by Republicans who continue to stand by the president.
    The 16 attorneys, many of whom worked in Republican administrations, wrote in a joint statement to be released Thursday morning that Trump’s now infamous call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the text messages between diplomats and Trump’s public call for China to investigate a political opponent are “undisputed” events that amount to Trump violating his oath of office.
    “We have not just a political candidate open to receiving foreign assistance to better his chances at winning an election, but a current president openly and privately calling on foreign governments to actively interfere in the most sacred of U.S. democratic processes, our elections,” they wrote.

    [continues]

    more according to the hill:

    George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, and a group of prominent conservative lawyers are calling for an “expeditious impeachment investigation” into President Trump in wake of revelations about his dealings with Ukraine, as well as his public call for China to investigate a top political opponent. 
    “We believe the acts revealed publicly over the past several weeks are fundamentally incompatible with the president’s oath of office, his duties as commander in chief, and his constitutional obligation to ‘take care that the laws be faithfully executed,'” Checks & Balances, the conservative coalition George Conway launched last year, said in a joint statement released Thursday. Sixteen attorneys, some of whom served in Republican administrations, signed the statement. 
    The attorneys acknowledge that new facts related to Trump are emerging on a daily basis. But they write that Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and public call for China to investigate 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden prove Trump violated the oath of office. They also cite text message exchanges between U.S. diplomats as an example of the president violating his sworn oath. 
    “These acts, based on what has been revealed to date, are a legitimate basis for an expeditious impeachment investigation, vote in the House of Representatives and potential trial in the Senate,” they write.  [continues]

     

  22. also in the hill:

    George Conway, a conservative lawyer and the husband of White House Counsellor Kellyanne Conway, in a new interview denounced a White House letter refusing to cooperate with the House impeachment inquiry, calling it a “garbage” defense that “virtually guarantees” President Trump‘s impeachment. 

    “The thrust of (the letter) is that there are some kind of constitutional obligations that the House has failed to meet that therefore render its impeachment inquiry illegitimate and unconstitutional, which is complete nonsense, because all the Constitution says is that the House has the sole power over impeachment,” George Conway said on “Stay Tuned with Preet,” a podcast hosted by former U.S. attorney Preet Bharara, according to an advance recording published by CNN.

    George Conway later called the White House’s plan to refuse to cooperate in the House inquiry “a disgrace to the country, a disgrace to the presidency, and a disgrace to the legal profession.”

    […]

    “It’s hard to count the number of ways that this letter is, constitutionally and legally, garbage,” George Conway, an outspoken critic of Trump’s, said on Twitter following the release of the letter. “This letter, in and of itself, is an impeachable offense.” 

  24. I’d like to see trumpty dumpty explain away if any of our soldiers gets killed in Syria.
     
    Jamie…   the magats are too stupid and will back him even if he puts a gun to a US soldier’s head and pulls the trigger.  They have no smarts and they have no shame.

  25. Anybody got an albatross we can hang around Trump’s fat neck to symbolize his Kurds problem?

  26. As it turns out, Kurds were allies in WW II

    Many Kurds served with British RAF Levies in WW2, defending RAF bases during pro-Axis coup in Iraq in 1941. Their parachutists served with Royal Marines in Italian campaign.

  29. The George and Kellyanne show is perhaps all about making sure that at least one member of the family is employed when this is over.

  30. Both of them will be employed after.  She’ll be a consultant, he’ll continue to be a lawyer.  They’ll continue to be among the country’s wealthy.  
    SFB loses it.  Polls do suck – when they are not favorable.  When they are, he crows about them. 

  31. The Condom’s major claim to fame is she can teach goopers how to talk to women
    She did so well with Todd Akins and Richard Mourdock  no wonder SFB wanted her.
    And im[ortant to remember she gets money from the Mercer’s  she is their bitch. or really their asshole

  32. A couple of rudie’s friends are sitting somewhere near Alexandria Virginia Federal Court house getting ready for their appearance this afternoon before a federal judge, 2pm EDT.  I wonder if rudie will show up to represent them?  That would be a hoot.  What would be real funny is if SFB decides to pardon them. 

  33. I don’t think Rudie will be making a court appearance for his pals  —
    campaign contribution violations  big ones — do you think one of them had a one night stand with SFB

  36. I don’t know if their schtick is strong enough for a show together, but you never know with tv.

  39. good  point, bink, but  even if there is an “after” they’ll always have pence as bogart said to bergman

     

  43. “Now, we’re Italy.” – Mr Bink
    Thank G!D ! At least we’re not Romania or Poland. And, we can still hang ’em from lamp posts.
     
     

  44. I dunno how that eye-rolling sun broke out in my post, but I’ll take it as a good omen.

  45. Tweet from “We Are Kurds” to a someone seeking forgiveness.

    Thanks brother ,we honor to have great frient like you and all who really help us ,we are not abandoning our friends ,it not in our culture. Still we have connections with those who come as volunteers to kurdistan to fights again isis. Its not your fault. You and all Americans…

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