Emoluments clause is "phony," says the President of the United States of America

[Speedy]

I suppose Pres. Trump has a small point because a number of Pres. Obama’s books have sold outside the USA. Pres. Obama could make this go away by donating all the profits from foreign sales to charity.

[Sarcany]

Speedy wrote:
I suppose Pres. Trump has a small point because a number of Pres. Obama’s books have sold outside the USA. Pres. Obama could make this go away by donating all the profits from foreign sales to charity.

Obama actually went and got permission from the Senate ethics committee for his publishing contract and royalties while he was senator.

He agreed not to publish another non-fiction book during his time in office as president and donated the profits from the children's book version of "Dreams From My Father" to charity, providing scholarships for children of wounded and fallen soldiers.

[AllGold]

“you people with this phony emoluments clause.”

My beef is with all the news sources that simply offer up a sound bite like that without adding that Trump is a lying sack of shit. The top-of-the-hour radio news summaries are particularly bad. They may not mean to but they are just reinforcing Trump's B.S.

[graylocks]

dammit, who the hell wrote that pesky constitution anyway!

[Speedy]

Sarcany wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
I suppose Pres. Trump has a small point because a number of Pres. Obama’s books have sold outside the USA. Pres. Obama could make this go away by donating all the profits from foreign sales to charity.

Obama actually went and got permission from the Senate ethics committee for his publishing contract and royalties while he was senator.

He agreed not to publish another non-fiction book during his time in office as president and donated the profits from the children's book version of "Dreams From My Father" to charity, providing scholarships for children of wounded and fallen soldiers.
Excellent. Thanks!

[deckeda]

AllGold wrote:
“you people with this phony emoluments clause.”

My beef is with all the news sources that simply offer up a sound bite like that without adding that Trump is a lying sack of shit. The top-of-the-hour radio news summaries are particularly bad. They may not mean to but they are just reinforcing Trump's B.S.

Margaret Sullivan has a piece in WaPo giving recent examples of where the media is finally learning how to report on Trump. Instead of the usual, “this was said/critics are saying” formula they are now including the truth of the context. Her first example came from NYT. Every WaPo news story lately now does it this way: “Trump claimed without evidence ‘X’. Instead of the old way, Trump claimed X. Critics dispute that.”

In the pre-Trump era they didn’t think it was their call to proclaim truth and lies, but to merely report what happened. That’s slowly changing.

[GGD]

deckeda wrote:
[quote=AllGold]
“you people with this phony emoluments clause.”

My beef is with all the news sources that simply offer up a sound bite like that without adding that Trump is a lying sack of shit. The top-of-the-hour radio news summaries are particularly bad. They may not mean to but they are just reinforcing Trump's B.S.

Margaret Sullivan has a piece in WaPo giving recent examples of where the media is finally learning how to report on Trump. Instead of the usual, “this was said/critics are saying” formula they are now including the truth of the context. Her first example came from NYT. Every WaPo news story lately now does it this way: “Trump claimed without evidence ‘X’. Instead of the old way, Trump claimed X. Critics dispute that.”

In the pre-Trump era they didn’t think it was their call to proclaim truth and lies, but to merely report what happened. That’s slowly changing.
The first time I recall headlines using "without evidence" was when he claimed Obama tapped his phone. That was just 6 weeks into his presidency. Mar 4, 2017.

"Trump, Offering No Evidence, Says Obama Tapped His Phones"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/us/po...hones.html

"Trump, without evidence, accuses Obama of wiretapping him; 'Simply false,' Obama spokesman says"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017.../98734316/