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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's stunt was in violation of federal policy.
The Office of Government Ethics section 2635.702 states that a federal employee shall not use his public office for his own private gain, for the
endorsement of any product, service or enterprise, or for the private gain of
friends, relatives, or persons with whom the employee is affiliated in a
nongovernmental capacity.
Maybe just maybe some citizens should file charges against this fucker and that illegal immigrant...........has anyone asked him about his fucking green card papers yet............just asking for friend............
Ocelot II
(129,076 posts)That's how he rolls. He's a walking crime scene, might as well just wrap him up in that yellow tape.
Justice matters.
(9,390 posts)Freedumb to do whatever he wants anytime he wants to... and...
that all these rules (Laws) against his freedumb come from "Communists" ...
Magoo48
(6,688 posts)DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)Since when have Trump, his CABAL, or any Republican Politician for that matter, paid the slightest bit of concern for the Rule Of Law, or the Constitution, as well as ethics or morals????????
arthritisR_US
(7,794 posts)authoritarian seeting.
GreenWave
(12,333 posts)not a President.
CanonRay
(15,952 posts)He commits at least 10 felonies a day.
SergeStorms
(19,962 posts)It's at least 25 per day, at a minimum.
vapor2
(3,765 posts)Walleye
(43,817 posts)Wealth is the only thing besides cruelty that Trump has any respect for. I dont know how we get rid of Elon. He has Velcroed himself to this government.
Justice matters.
(9,390 posts)with $WASTIKA$ painted on his ugly-looking products... like the my-pillow conman experienced.
And like that stupid drunk nosferatu... (who should have known better...)
Walleye
(43,817 posts)Chellee
(2,283 posts)Dulcinea
(9,667 posts)Walleye
(43,817 posts)stopdiggin
(15,030 posts)I think I would prefer a conversation on just how utterly small - and SAD ...
How immensely proud ....
FloridaBlues
(4,651 posts)Justice matters.
(9,390 posts)The Home of the Brave is empty.
ToxMarz
(2,758 posts)So there's nothing to enforce. If he had a boss, then maybe he could be fired or reprimanded somehow for violating a policy, but he is the ultimate decider as far as adhering to policy goes and what the penalties are. All we can do is keep score of the violations and stew about it. Hopefully some of his supporters will take note, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
NNadir
(37,299 posts)Tootbsb
(142 posts)No one has the balls.
twodogsbarking
(17,580 posts)dchill
(42,660 posts)In main.
Lokee11
(394 posts)Tried to get me to believe this TESLA BS was not like this -

BUT more so like when Biden drove the Jeep at the White House
Just cannot deal with these people anymore -
Sorry.
littlemissmartypants
(31,640 posts)He and his buds are a bunch of psychopaths. Following any law isn't a concern for the psychopath. They don't acknowledge the difference between right and wrong or believe in laws. It's an entirely foreign concept for their twisted minds. They can't even think about it.
Laws are not and never will be a deterrent for any psychopath. It's one of the characteristics that defines them.
Some people never learn.

thesquanderer
(12,903 posts)A policy could be used to dismiss someone who works under you. But Trump has no superior to decide his fate. The only way this could be used would be as a foundation to impeach (which, as oft-discussed here in the past, is a political process, not one of law enforcement). But this House will not impeach, and this Senate would not convict. So he can pretty much do what he wants, unless maybe we somehow manage to get control of Congress in 2026.
And, as the court has decided, as long as whatever he does is done in his official capacity as president, it can't be illegal, either.
Liberal In Texas
(15,983 posts)What he did is illegal. But of course the supremes say he's above the law.
Katcat
(541 posts)Whats new?
IronLionZion
(50,819 posts)Bureaucracy is holding him back from greatness.
He's sending his muskrat to chainsaw through red tape.
sakabatou
(45,771 posts)Orrex
(66,675 posts)Botany
(76,398 posts)
Btw I used to use Goya products all the time but I have stopped using them since
the head of the Company endorsed Krasnov.
Sanity Claws
(22,336 posts)So of course he will continue doing it.
a kennedy
(35,300 posts)🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬
ShazzieB
(22,214 posts)He breaks laws constantly. Please tell us what specific instance you're referring to.
progressoid
(52,584 posts)ShazzieB
(22,214 posts)I will go check the news, thanks.
CentralBlueTexan
(20 posts)A bully shill always be a bully. The fact that he is also a convicted felon doesnt change anything.
turbinetree
(26,982 posts)that is what is so aggravating..............it has and always has been outright blatant...........
Wednesdays
(21,588 posts)
Ivanka Trump says she had every right to promote Goya Foods products on social media
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/ivanka-trump-says-she-had-every-right-to-promote-goya-foods-products-on-social-media-2020-07-20
https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5f1091ef3075b61a6e553443/master/w_1920,c_limit/Gessen-Goya.jpg
Bo Zarts
(26,254 posts)Like father, like daughter.
progressoid
(52,584 posts)That's soooooo 2015
rzemanfl
(31,129 posts)people calming down and having a Coke. Different times.
DownriverDem
(6,971 posts)a green card. He is a citizen of the US and Canada.
bee_peaceful
(84 posts)spanone
(141,013 posts)FUCKING FELON
BurnDoubt
(1,472 posts)Nice boots!!! Nice boots!!!
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JustAnotherGen
(37,565 posts)calimary
(89,041 posts)Not sure Ill live that long, though.
HarryM
(444 posts)Even though he got it illegally. He left South Africa shortly before he was 18, and would have had to serve the military there. He moved to Canada, where he was granted citizenship due to his mother being born in Canada. In 1995, he got a student visa but left college to take part in the dotcom bubble, and other business schemes. That would have made his student visa invalid. He became citizen of the US in 2002.
AFAIC He should be sent back to South Africa, and fitted with one of their traditional pieces of jewelry.
Dem4life1234
(2,533 posts)The man continues to do illegal shit and no one is doing anything to stop him.
Very damn frustrating.
Kid Berwyn
(22,958 posts)
Others whove done a tiny fraction of what hes done are now living out their lives in a Supermax.
Eugene
(66,801 posts)Now he's going full autocrat and kleptocrat without any pretense of legitimacy.
Gimpyknee
(1,025 posts)markodochartaigh
(5,029 posts)Our reality is like a bizarre Hollywood spoof where the president paves over the Rose Garden to put in an auto dealership.
Is this the logical endpoint to a culture which values style over substance and plastic fakeness over reality?