Trump Says Obama Is Violating Emoluments Clause Even Though It Doesn't Apply To Private Citizens

[CatWoman]

Donald Trump once against demonstrated on Tuesday that he knows very little about the laws of the country he’s supposed to be leading.

During a taxpayer-funded campaign rally in Pennsylvania, Trump whined that people are upset that he’s profiting from the presidency. He deflected the criticism by accusing former President Barack Obama of violating the emoluments clause by signing a $65 million book deal.

“I got sued on a thing called ’emoluments,'” Trump said, according to NBC News. “Now nobody looks at Obama getting $60 million for a book. That’s OK, even though nobody in history ever got that much money for a book. … But with me, it’s everything.”

The only problem, of course, is that Obama signed the book deal after he left office in 2017, when he was no longer president of the United States.

As NBC News pointed out, “Barack Obama and Michelle Obama signed a joint book deal for $65 million in 2017, after Obama had left office. The emoluments clause applies to federal officeholders, not private citizens.”

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/08/13/trump-obama-emolument-clause-apply-private-citizens.html?fbclid=IwAR3vNDKavZMU1CB6UvvwBivAFwuIk6_vvhVsWUMyfqH6_-yvB0umVtABbVo

[UniteFightBack]

1. I think he knows damn well that it doesn't apply to them. He is just chumming the water. nt

[EveHammond13]

5. he's practically screaming the N-word at them. that's the message he wants to send.

[kimbutgar]

15. You know he 's becoming so deranged as he gets hit with a thousand cuts he'll say aloud

The “n” word, disavow it and then embrace aloud. And his hate monger followers will bark in agreement.

It’s coming people.

[NBachers]

19. Then that will be the new normal.

[rufus dog]

23. Kelly O'Donnell will just brush it off as a "flip comment" n/t

[EveHammond13]

25. tut tut! boys will be boys! KKK will be KKK!

[yonder]

30. chummer-in-chief doing what chummers do.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Getting wealthy while black

Plus, even bigger, Trump knows no one will give him anywhere near that much to write a book.

[JoeOtterbein]

3. Once again, I thought another Trump headline was from..

...The Onion!

[VOX]

4. 45's tiresome bullshit attacks on Obama and the Clintons are music to his base's ears.

They draw some twisted energy from their Neanderthal figurehead when he bashes anyone from the “Democrat Party” (sic).

[spanone]

6. If you could only write, don.

dumbfuck

[tanyev]

7. The "I know you are but what am I?" defense doesn't really apply here, DOTUS.

[NCLefty]

8. Trump says plus Literally Anything equals B.S. :p

[CanonRay]

9. He's just so freaking jealous

and it's killing him.

[CatWoman]

26. you guys all need to sign this petition

https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/rename-fifth-avenue-in?r_by=9010466&source=s.fwd

[dmr]

34. Done!

[Thomas Hurt]

10. He is just whining because it is something else he has to meet to keep up with O.

No Nobel prize, no 65 million dollar book deal, Little Donnie's feeweeings is hurted.

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. Hey, Spanky!

You'd have to pay me $75 million to read any book that you wrote.

[Turbineguy]

12. Trump is an idiot.

He wants to constantly remind us.

[BlueStater]

13. More deranged lies.

Why couldn't he have just tripped while coming down that escalator and broke his fucking neck? Honestly.

[Panich52]

14. SOP projection. Nearly every time Trump accuses someone of something,

he's the one who's guilty

[Aussie105]

16. 25th amendment

Are we there yet?

[nilram]

17. More projection than a 24-hour 12-plex

[3catwoman3]

18. The first 12 words suffice.

Donald Trump once again demonstrated on Tuesday that he knows very little.

[RainCaster]

20. Tweeting while stupid

Trump's world in a nutshell.

[sakabatou]

21. "Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty."

Trump has to keep deflecting.

[smirkymonkey]

22. What? Idiot Boy says what?

God, he is just so stupid I can't believe he has made it this far in life without getting himself trapped in the tank of a toilet at the men's room at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

[coeur_de_lion]

24. He's so fucking stupid

but some of his knuckle dragging base will believe this.

[Paladin]

27. Anybody with half a brain cell knows this is bullshit.

Which means his slavering base believes every ignorant word.

[malaise]

28. He's a fucking dunce

and he appears proud of it

[duforsure]

29. By saying this

He's admitting he is the in violation of it. He always projects his guilt onto others, that's one of his many tells.

[colsohlibgal]

31. He Is Getting Crazier Almost Daily

Evil and a Mental Case and yet tens of millions will vote for that in 2020.....which makes his voters robotic and/or dumb.

[onethatcares]

32. worst thing

the idjits will pick that up and run with it, they'll spout it far and wide because they're too fucking stupid to do any type of thinking.

William Penn would not be proud of the new crop of dumbasses at all.

[Gothmog]

33. Trump is an idiot

[rurallib]

35. Can you fail junior high civics while you are president?

Asking for a teacher friend.