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tonkadtx wrote:Appointed as Secretary of State for the United States until 2013, some would argue a more powerful position than any elected office except President

tonkadtx wrote:Strong indications she sold access to her position to foreign governments.

tonkadtx wrote:

NBC says the briefing to Trump didn't happen. CNN gave Trump an inch, he took a mile.

You have a source for that Turd? There is someone in my FB circle that we are Gorilla stomping who is still insisting this story is true. Including the Golden Showers.

nafod wrote:Every day that we talk about Trump and urine in the same sentence is a brighter day than yesterday.

Seriously, Trump supporters. If pictures and video had accompanied the story so that it was indisputable, would you have been surprised? Or just disappointed he was caught?

Washington (CNN) – Self-proclaimed birther Donald Trump..."I have people that have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding,"

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
An 'extremely credible source' has called my office and told me that @BarackObama's birth certificate is a fraud.
4:23 PM - 6 Aug 2012

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
Attention all hackers: You are hacking everything else so please hack Obama's college records (destroyed?) and check "place of birth"
6:06 AM - 6 Sep 2014.

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
How amazing, the State Health Director who verified copies of Obama’s “birth certificate” died in plane crash today. All others lived
4:32 PM - 12 Dec 2013

bennyonesix wrote:You are an admitted liar.

powerlifter54 wrote:This is going better than I hoped for.

Citing the late justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion that a president cannot be more conflicted than his subordinates, Shaub brushed aside Trump’s excuses. “I appreciate that divestiture can be costly. But the president-elect would not be alone in making that sacrifice. I’ve been involved in just about every presidential nomination in the past 10 years. I also have been involved in the ethics review of presidents, vice presidents and most top White House officials. I’ve seen the sacrifices that these individuals have had to make. … He’s going to be asking his own appointees to make sacrifices. He’s going to be asking our men and women in uniform to risk their lives in conflicts around the world. So, no, I don’t think divestiture is too high a price to pay to be the president of the United States of America.”

Richard Painter, who served as ethics counsel in Republican administrations, pointed out that there has been a bipartisan tradition of upholding ethical norms.

Both Painter and Eisen stressed that the emoluments clause explicitly prohibits foreign governments’ money from flowing to the president. “The president is not above the law,” Painter said. Eisen predicted that Congress “won’t allow these emoluments flow.” Donating the proceeds of illegal emoluments is no solution, Eisen said. Eisen and Painter pointed out that foreign emoluments may flow from other parts of his business beyond the hotels. (These include trademarks, bank loans and other financial benefits.)

tonkadtx wrote:Here, I'll do what you did. You said 7 or 8 years. It's only been 3 years. BOOM!

milosz wrote:Insane, uncorroborated stories have worked out well for the GOP for the last 30 years, Democrats might as well play too.

Judgments about what and how and why to publish vary from publication to publication, and that variation is healthy and productive. What CNN and BuzzFeed executed last night was a classic high-low interaction: CNN reported that the dossier existed and that it was of great public importance; BuzzFeed produced the dossier. CNN's vagueness was redeemed by BuzzFeed's specificity, and BuzzFeed's risk-taking was justified by CNN's testimony about the ultimate news value.

johno wrote:Damn shame we didn't elect the candidate who exposed national secrets to foreign hackers and the party that couldn't prevent a hack attack after repeated FBI warnings.

DrDonkeyLove wrote:If only there were a group of highly paid analysts and pundits to put things into a useful and relevant context.

nafod wrote:

DrDonkeyLove wrote:If only there were a group of highly paid analysts and pundits to put things into a useful and relevant context.

Don't know about you, but my posting here is pro bono