Did anyone see the Attorney General of Washington/Maryland scathing emoluments, conflicts of interest, and general corruption announcement about 20 minutes ago? It was brought up yesterday (in this thread I think) and the DOJ made a statement Friday (?) getting ahead of the news and saying emoluments don't apply to Trump lol.

Skimmed forward and stopped reading here.

If by "seems alright" you mean "is incredibly irresponsible and possibly violates professional ethics rules", then you're right.

He cannot properly assess what if any legal jeopardy they might be under unless they fully disclose everything they did, said, and witnessed. They should not disclose this info to him because (a) since he doesn't represent him, the conversations aren't protected by attorney-client privilege and (b) because he does represent someone else, the lawyer has a clear conflict of interest in making sure his client gets off.

It's easy to say that innocent people don't need lawyers, but that's simply not true, especially in ongoing situations where good legal advice can help ensure that you don't mess up in the future. Trump's attorney is basically telling a bunch of people about to walk through a mine field that they shouldn't bother putting on their helmets and flak jackets.

The mar-a-lago act bill guy just came up with the cofveve act bill.

So much winning; it's almost unfair.

Another federal court has ruled against President Donald Trump's revised executive order limiting travel from six predominately Muslim countries.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politi...ban/index.html

A miserable thought: If the GOP **** up healthcare so bad that it triggers a mass migration to CA, their position in the Senate and Presidential elections will actually improve.

It's ok. Muslim Ban 2.0 isn't the one Trump wanted anyway. 1.0 is already waiting for the Supreme Court.

Both AGs were just on CNN with Wolf.

"Wolf, you've been a Washingtonian your whole life. Foreign diplomats are rushing into Trump's hotel with fistfuls of money in order to curry favor with the Trump company for foreign policy. I've never seen anything like it."

I hope Spicey gets asked about this soon at the briefing. Walls closing in...

EDIT: Oh, the AGs also talked about how Mar-a-Lago memberships doubled to 200k/year and how hotel rooms at Trump International DC went up, both right after becoming POTUS.

LMAO the 9th Circuit cited Trump's tweet last week AND Spicer in rejecting the ban

ahahahahahahahahahaha

Gillibrand has a lot of work to do if she wants to be seen as anything more than another insincere D weathervane. She may be a decent veep candidate, but I think it'd be a mistake to have her at the top of the ticket.

Amazing.

Why do they keep bringing these filibusterists/distractionists who constantly lie and misquote stats about projects they aren't getting done for the American people anyway?

"Too many job openings in America" LOL. (To be fair, I think he was talking about 2 fields.)

Here's a hot take. Trump's buffoonery and incompetence limit his ability to normalize authoritarianism. Thus, on some level, we should be thankful for the clown show.

The country was in the mood for some authoritarian, America first bull****. Imagine the long term risk if that authoritarianism had come in a competent package, rather than a narcissistic, stupid, bumbling, day-glo orange package.

Ah that makes me feel good.

What exactly is the point of this 6 country Muslim ban? Why were these 6 countries cherry picked and not others?

Was Trump just hoping to get these banned first and then add additional countries to the list?

Or is Trump just an incompetent buffoon that did this w/o rhyme or reason before moving on to the next topic?

Right now the package actually looks like this:

trump's labor secretary Alexander Acosta looks like hugh hefner 40 years ago

They're the 6 middle eastern countries Trump doesn't have business interests in.

Even better, the next time it happens, we will be more prepared. Because the next guy that tries it will know what he's doing.

Oh yea, that's right. I forgot about that. LOL the chutzpah of this administration is something else.

McConnell is a lot of things, incompetent isn't one of them. IMO.

He's such a loser, it's a bit ironic his brand is winning. More like the Charlie Sheen "winning."

Once again, they can't even answer questions about the most basic details. Massive generalization at this podium.

Willing to bet that behind closed doors, every little detail is addressed about how much Trump and his privileged oligarchs get out of it.

oh look these *******s who spent a decade ranting about Obamacare being drafted in secret (it wasn't) are refusing to release their senate health care bill