Dubai - George W. Bush's Ethics Lawyer: Trump Will Be in Violation of Constitution on Day One
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http://democracynow.org - Could Donald Trump be in violation of the Constitution on his first day in office? That’s the conclusion of some leading constitutional law experts. The Constitution prohibits officeholders from accepting "any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state." Law experts say many of Trump’s businesses are already benefiting from his presidency. Kuwait, for example, recently moved its National Celebration Day from the Four Seasons in Georgetown to the Trump International Hotel instead. According to ThinkProgress, Kuwait faced political pressure from the Trump camp to move the location. Other diplomats have reportedly been urged to hold events at Trump’s hotel. Trump and his family also have holdings or projects in Argentina, Brazil, Georgia, India, Ireland, Japan, Philippines and Turkey. In addition, Trump’s businesses owe hundreds of millions of dollars to foreign banks, including Deutsche Bank, UBS and Bank of China. We speak to Richard Painter, professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota. He was the chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush from February 2005 to July 2007. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: http://democracynow.org Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today: http://democracynow.org/donate FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE: Facebook: http://facebook.com/democracynow Twitter: https://twitter.com/democracynow YouTube: http://youtube.com/democracynow SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/democracynow Daily Email: http://democracynow.org/subscribe Google+: https://plus.google.com/+DemocracyNow Instagram: http://instagram.com/democracynow Tumblr: http://democracynow.tumblr.com Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/democracynow iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/democracy-now!-audio/id73802554 TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Democracy-Now-p90/ Stitcher Radio: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/democracy-now
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Wow...I'm ended up at the wired side of the internet again...What's this..? Ex USSSR state television employees in exile? and good luck with that.
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Stop the stupidity.
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NPR is going bye, bye. . .No more tax money to pay for their propaganda. BTW, barry as an illegitimate POTUS has dropped 26,000+ bombs in 2016! Hurray for the peace prize killer!
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I think many people voted for Mr. Trump because he is NOT a globalist like Mrs. Clinton.
That having been said, I think Mr. Trump has been accustomed, most of his life, to being able to do whatever he wants to do, just because he has vast wealth (and because that wealth can be paid to lawyers to explain away his almost-criminal or barely-criminal activities). I think he thought that if he was elected president of the United States, he would have even more freedom to do whatever he wants. He didn't have a clue that, as president (in theory at least), he will be subject to MORE rules than applied to him in the private sector.
It's wake-up time! -
well I never thought ethics and george bush would ever come in the same sentence
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When your daddy won't let run his real estate, especially under such scrutiny.... LuL
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Never stop asking that orange faced, traitorous bastard to show us his TAXES.
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I've never heard of anyone wanting to impeach a president before he ever took office, much less the MILLIONS of people! Amazing! I just hope he doesn't push the button! I want my grandchildren to have a good life.
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Americans do not care about that . After all the Constitutional Lawyer Barak Obama was also in violation as were Bush, Father and Son. So why this singling out of one man?
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Wait, did I just hear the words "Bush" and "Ethnics" in the same sentence?
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Think Progress is the Clinton donor right?
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A republican house and a republican senate isn't about to impeach it's own president; especially if he's making them all richer. Once again, the voters will get screwed over, only this time more than ever. What will be interesting is if in 2018, any of those who voted for, and got screwed over, will have the brains to understand what THEY have done, or if they will continue to believe the propaganda which Trump will spew, finding some way to blame the minority party for the mess that they create.
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the only honest politicians ever were abe lincon and hillarious clinton
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Richard Painter was an ethics lawyer for Bush? That tells you to disregard everything he says about ethics. Mr. Painter is another Ellsworth Toohey.
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wonder how much money bush got from causing wars etc
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big deal obama viplated the constition continuously in many ways his whole term. not that i like trump who is just another piece of crap swamp toad
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thank God you are canadian, stay there where you belong and don't worry about us americans, i know the truth, unlike you , time will tell and yes i love Donald Trump such a decent man, you mind your canadian business and don't bud your nouse in our american business
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He saved the country and its people from the certain disaster of either a neocon GOP Presidency-Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, or John Kasich-we know what they are like, or the equal horrors of predicate felon Hillary Clinton, or Comrade Sanders (Venezuela v.2,0, anybody?)!
Thank you, Donald Trump! At least a CHANCE at MAGA! -
How on earth could anyone vote for somebody who refuses to make his financial interests known?
The very fact that he insists on keeping all of his tax records secret is a huge red flag to anyone with half a brain.
So now that those half-a-brain idiots have elected him, nobody knows what or why he makes certain world-changing decisions.
What makes this even more worrisome is the fact that most Trump supporters don't even want to know. They feel it's nobody's business.
These are the morons who put Trump in power. And they still think they did a good thing. Idiots! -
THE BUSHES GRAND FATHER CAME FROM GERMANY HE KISSED HITLERS ASS (BROWNOSE) AND HE BROUGHT HITLERS IDIOLOGY TO THE USA AND STARTED TO IMPLEMENT THE NAZIS WAY OF GOVERNMENT AS WELL AS KISSINGER, AND THEY STILL A IT THAT IS WHY THEY HATE TRUMP, HE IS NOT ONE OF THEM
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