Attorney General Pam Bondi gave Donald Trump the green light to accept a $400 million “flying palace” as a gift from Qatar.
ABC News reported that the Qatar royal family is expected to gift Trump a Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet ahead of his big trip to the Middle East, where he is expected to visit Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar to secure “economic agreements.”
Bondi and Trump’s top White House lawyer, David Warrington, have already smoothed the legal details. They concluded that the gift is “legally permissible” because it is being handed to the United States Air Force and then will be transferred to Trump’s presidential library foundation. They also determined it does not constitute a bribe because the gift does not hinge on an official act.
They can just have Congress give the nod, and it would all be legal and correct. But for some reason, they don’t seem to want to do that.
So much of what the courts are ruling Trump can’t do could simply be legalized by Congress.
Almost as if the GOP wants to treat Trump like a king, and cry about it when the courts don’t acquiesce.
Or they’re a bunch of cowardly bitches who don’t want to take the blame for doing the unpopular things they actually want done, and are happy to let Trump be the face of shitty GOP policy.
Or, most likely… Both.
They rule by executive decree now.
She didn’t. She defied the Constitution. Those aren’t the same thing.
Bondi:
They also determined it does not constitute a bribe because the gift does not hinge on an official act.
Emoluments clause:
…no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
Bondi, we’re not talking about bribes, we’re talking about explicit violations of the Constitution. So where’s the Congressional consent?
Oh, because Qatar gives it to USAF, and USAF gives it to Trump, it’s “legally permissible.” Gosh, what a novel idea. Definitely not something a first year law student would see as a strawperson introduced in a transaction specifically to evade illegal conduct.
what don’t y’all understand about the transitive property of emoluments?
SCOTUS has ruled that Trump is immune from prosecution.
This is really one step away from, “It’s not embezzling if you award money to a non-profit you have full control over.”
Didn’t DeSantis just do that in Florida?
You can’t buy me new dresses, that would be unethical. But, I bet my husband would appreciate some new dresses. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
Hope that shit fucking crashes.
I mean there’s a good chance. Air traffic control in the US is hanging by a thread.
And it’s current-day Boeing. So there’s actually a really good chance.
Is the rule really written that it needs to be a bribe? I’m a state employee and we can’t even accept food from vendors under conflict of interest rules for gifts, there’s no need for any bribe to occur for it to count.
No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
US Constitution section 9 clause 8.I’d say that’s pretty clear an official act to the giver’s benefit is not a necessary element of the prohibited conduct. If something is offered, both houses of congress must vote to allow it or the gift must be declined.
Clearly if the Founders didn’t want
SCOTUSthe President to be given anRVairplane, they would have said as much!-Clearance Thomas
Yeah, but, you see, it’s the air force that’s getting the gift, it’s just meant for orange Hitler’s exclusive use. That’s clearly not a gift to him personally. /wink
And they’ve stated in advance that the Air Force won’t continue to own it after Trump to benefit the United States.
You see you low born can’t get anything but higher ups.
I hope it’s a Boeing
Corruption abound
Eat the rich
Constitution? What’s that?
Is it that piece of paper hanging in the bathroom in Mar-a-Lago that the orange utang wipes his ass with every day?
How are those checks and balances working?
Blank checks and no balance.
Fight back already. Damn. Dude is just rubbing it in your face now.
Very useful advice thanks.
Advice? You don’t want advice. People including myself have tried. We are met with excuses and derision only.
You want smart ass comments that inflame and invite so that’s what you get.
You’re so right, bestie.
Got any more for me?
Sure, I’ll just quit my job and travel the 4500 km to Washington DC, then I will stand outside and yell across the lawn to him that “I demand satisfaction!”, and when he walks down to the fence to talk to me I’ll challenge hin to a duel.
You guys will use any excuse not to fight back. I’m almost of the belief that you all deserve what you’ve gotten but I still hold on to some little thread that most people are genuinely good and smart. You continually prove otherwise however. It’s hard to even believe there’s even just one good one left. Enjoy dancing with the stars or whatever is more important than the lives of your fellow countrymen and eventually yourself.
Some of us are fighting. They don’t put it on TV or push it to the front of social media the way they did the BLM protest, but we are out there. I am out there every weekend at my state capital building screaming and I am not alone.
I’m not even gonna. You don’t want to know.
They also determined it does not constitute a bribe because the gift does not hinge on an official act.
Right. Just out of the goodness of their hearts then. A belated housewarming gift.
Oh, we should probably let all of the low-level government workers know that they don’t have to worry about eating that muffin at next month’s meeting.
This claim is non-sensical.
Is a bribe really a bribe if it’s provided in exchange for an official act? That sounds more like a contractual arrangement, which is obviously not a bribe.
Additionally, it’s obviously worse if the reciprocation is undocumented. The money is provided in exchange for various favors of an undisclosed nature.
Their ruling is a non-sequitur. They’re basically just saying “it’s a bribe, deal with it”.
Bowel’s moving castle
