re: How Donald Trump Might Start Violating the Constitution the Second He's Sworn In

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So someone explain to me why this is a big deal but wasn't with Clinton Foundation? I guess selling a real product/service is worse than taking in millions of dollars in "donations"

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Exactly! Was saying this from the get go, Trump actually built a real estate empire by putting his fortune at risk and Clinton built a fortune by putting the US at risk.

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Making an emoluments case. Meh. I don't think doing business with foreign governments=emoluments. So if an ambassador stayed at a Trump property, IMHO, that is not an emolument. That's normal course of business stuff.

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It's stupid on its face.

The founders hoped people who ran for office would be citizen legislators who went back to their old lives fairly quickly.

No rational person thinks they would have intended you give up all your businesses so that you could be in office and then have to go start from scratch when done.

That's a completely retarded view

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Constitutional law expert

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Where the frick has this guy been the last 8 years

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By US Official, do you mean like a Secretary of State maybe?

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Seriously....y'all rejected Clinton partially because you felt she was corrupt and had used her position for personal gain...but it is OK if Trump does it because Clinton did it? This is how we get into situations like Clinton running for president because at least half of us are willing to overlook anything and will accept anything if we can ascribe it to the opposition....

Obviously you're reading comprehension is lacking, so I'll spell it out for you.

I began my post by asking hasn't trump already announced plans to divest himself from a company he built (that sells a real product service). This would in no way indicate id be OK with Trump doing it.

I go on to ask if him having a real product/service to sell somehow makes this more outrageous than millions of dollars in return for... what? If proof was shown the Saudis paid 10 million for a one night stay at one of his gold resorts while he was president, damn fricking right I'd be livid. But that hasnt happened yet. This is an article talking about a hypothetical situation.

I ended my post with the point being where was all this concern from the fake news outlets like abc about the clinton foundation while Clinton was SoS. That ACTUALY happened.

Hopefully that clears up your obvious confusion.

Just a bunch of butt hurt liberals who will say "he didn't build that". So they take it away.