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Bugging Out
Author: Raine    Date: 08/26/2019 13:04:59

After a week in South Florida with my sister and her family, we are back to reality. I did skim the events of the week but very little politically was discussed.

So, let me get this right, 'The chosen one' thinks that Jews who vote for Dems are disloyal and we should nuke a hurricane? He also called the Chairmen of the Fed an Enemy of the people.

Via Twitter, he ordered companies to leave China immediately and demanded that US auto manufacturers reduce the prices of autos by 3000 dollars across the board.

It's hard to believe that it was lass than a week ago that we found out he wanted to buy Greenland. Also less than a week ago, The NRA called the White House and suddenly background checks are off the table.

Now I may have been in the sun a lot last week, but it does seem like there was a special kinda extra craziness happening in DC.

This morning I woke up to read this little gem:
President Trump said Monday he was likely to hold next year’s Group of Seven summit in Doral, Fla., at his resort, meaning he would personally profit from one of the world’s most prestigious gatherings of foreign leaders.

Trump, appearing with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a bilateral meeting at the G-7 conference, touted Trump National Doral for its proximity to the Miami airport, among other reasons.

“They love the location of the hotel,” he said, adding it is near the airport. “We haven’t found anything that’s even close to competing with it. Really you can be there in a matter of minutes after you land.”

(snip)

The Constitution prohibits presidents from taking “emoluments,” or payments, from foreign states. Trump has continued to do business with foreign governments at his hotels — saying the Founders meant to ban outright bribes, not business transactions. But his company has also said it is not actively seeking foreign governments as customers.

This is a sharp move in the opposite direction.

In this case, Trump is using his power as president to compel foreign officials — the six other leaders and their entourages — into becoming his customers. The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an early-morning request for comment. The company says it donates all its profits from foreign governments to the U.S. Treasury, but has not explained exactly how it calculates “profit” in this case.
This is the same resort that is in deep finacial trouble, as reported back in May. It's also the place that settled a very gross lawsuit.
In a bit of good news for the new president, court records show his attorneys in Miami have reached a tentative settlement with a business traveler who sued the resort after his back, face and arms were devoured by voracious bed bugs at the revamped resort.

(snip)

Linder, 63, filed suit in late July along with photos of his back and neck riddled with red blotches after he slept at the resort’s $300-a-night Jack Nicklaus-themed villa.

In Occupant-adjacent news, Sean Spicer is heading to DWTS and Sarah Slanders Huckabee Sanders is heading to Fox news. This is more proof that people are normalizing and rewarding abhorrent actions from a deeply corrupt and inept Administration.

I needed that vacation just to be reminded of how awful things really are in the Oval Office. Let's get this week rolling!

and
Raine
 
 

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