Message from @zero_consequences
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They may mean the 'domestic' emoluments clause, which is honestly just as inapplicable.
`The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.`
I think they're trying to imply that having the FBI HQ across the street from a Trump hotel is somehow increasing its revenue and is therefore some sort of additional payment to him above his salary.
They're gonna strain their muscles stretching that hard.
Which is nonsense for two reasons: a) it's not like that building is going to cease to exist if the FBI leaves; another federal department will take it over. and b) even if Trump has been receiving revenue from FBI patronage to his hotel (unproven) then keeping them there will neither increase or diminish that revenue.
Moreover, he's the *fucking president*. He can decide where he wants *federal departments* be be headquartered, just like Obama apparently did when he approved the move.
It is not a violation of the emoluments clause for the president to receive money from the U.S. government.
This also fits into his campaign promise to cut federal spending, and his more recent promise to force all federal departments to cut 5% of their budgets. The FBI has worked with this headquarters for decades, they can keep using it.
even _directly_
You're thinking of the foreign emoluments clause. There's also a domestic one, quoted above.
But it also is inapplicable.
This entire article is bullshit. I'm agreeing with you.
huh
super confusing too
because usually when you hear "emoluments clause"
you think of the ineligibility clause
An onion article for y'all entertainment: https://politics.theonion.com/trump-slams-worldwide-jewish-conspiracy-for-not-doing-m-1830077401
Martin Luther King Jr. never registered as a Democrat or a Republican:
"In a 1958 interview, he expressed his view that neither party was perfect, saying, "I don't think the Republican party is a party full of the almighty God nor is the Democratic party. They both have weaknesses ... And I'm not inextricably bound to either party.""
__Source__: https://books.google.com/books?id=qW-NYdIefPgC&pg=PA364#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://boingboing.net/2018/10/28/paypal-closes-accounts-on-far.html This cancer though...
I fuckin love how the left calls the right anti-semitic all the while being pro-pale-not-a-fuckin-state-stine
Yep.
it is hilarious
its because the right that is anti-semitic is actually more lefty. they are nat socialists after all
"vandalized"
somebody spray painted bullet holes on the buildling
vandalized by gunfire
holy shit lmao
thats some suicide via 2 shots to the back of the head shit
Sounds like CNN needs a few of their reporters to be "vandalized by gunfire"
They didnt give a shit about the mexican journalists who get vandalized by knives
Charlie hebdo was vandalized by AK fire
@angeryer tfw you find incriminating evidence against the Clintons
Lmao
space engineers
god i wish that game was more popular
Same
Paid 20$ for it
Havnt played it once
it has issues
*god i wish that game had devs that cared more about it*