Trump Breaks The Law With Campaign Stunt At Daytona 500

[Zolorp]

Since the Republican Senate gave Trump a license to break ANY law at ANY time, this is largely a moot point...

Trump Breaks The Law With Campaign Stunt At Daytona 500

SUN, FEB 16TH, 2020 BY JASON EASLEY

Donald Trump used the taxpayer-owned and funded presidential limousine to take a lap at the Daytona 500 in a presidential campaign stunt.

Here is Trump riding around the track:

Link to tweet

As Maggie Haberman pointed out Trump is using taxpayers resources for his reelection campaign:

Link to tweet

It is illegal for elected officials to use taxpayer resources for personal political events. The presidential limo is not owned by Trump. It is owned by the taxpayers. Trump went to the Daytona 500 as part of his presidential election campaign. It wasn’t an official presidential event.

Trump had no public events listed on the presidential schedule for Sunday.

The reason why no other president has taken a lap in the presidential limo at Daytona before is that it is illegal.

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https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/16/trump-illegal-lap-daytona-500.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Name a day when he didn't break the law.

[burrowowl]

3. Can't

[Different Drummer]

2. Meh.

The Senate has given him license to do whatever he wants...and he's doing what he wants.

[FoxNewsSucks]

4. Looks like they manipulated the picture

to make it look like they're REALLY flyin around that corner.

It's sad how many Americans will be fooled by that, instead of realizing the con man is again breaking the law to sucker the dupes.

[Lochloosa]

6. Or, he is sitting in the back right. Just saying.

[FoxNewsSucks]

8. Wouldn't it take more than 239 pounds

to get a reinforced limo to lean like that?

[dewsgirl]

15. That's what I was thinking...🤣

[mercuryblues]

5. Here I was hoping

the Czarina would fall on her ass walking the track in her stilettoes she is so fond of. Race tracks are heavily banked, as you can see in the limo pic. look at the tires.

[Wounded Bear]

7. I'm sure AG Barr will get right on that...

(just in case)

[empedocles]

9. I happened to be at my gym on the arc machine 1p to 1:30p. fox news on.

fox news nonstop showing trump having Air Force 1 doing flyover, fly and around Daytona race track. Then shows plane landing. Then camera fixed on waiting a long time for trump to descend stars from AF 1. Then getting into limo.

[barf]

[LuvNewcastle]

10. Rev. 17:8

8 The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come.

[moondust]

11. "personal political events"

Note that he is holding rallies immediately preceding and virtually in the midst of all these Democratic primaries. They are nothing more than "personal political events." Taxpayers are apparently paying for his travel and everything else even though his campaign is selling tickets to them. First it was Iowa, then New Hampshire, now Nevada, and I'm sure he'll make it to SC and more.

Good to know it's "illegal."

[MichMan]

12. Did not know that it was prohibited

Just wondering how did former incumbent presidents travel to campaign events, without using government resources like Air Force 1 and Secret Service Motorcades?

[Zolorp]

13. Travel to is different from using as a prop during.

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Tacky is as tacky does.

[MurrayDelph]

16. To paraphrase Humpty Dumpty

Trump "makes a point to do six impeachable things before breakfast."

[dweller]

17. i'm hoping it was a practice run

for his white bronco escape crawl that is due

✌🏼

[democrattotheend]

18. Doesn't he have to reimburse the government for campaign-related travel?

If this was classified as a political event he or his campaign will have to reimburse some of the costs. This CRS document explains how it works: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS21835.pdf

The taxpayers still shoulder some of the costs, because the president only has to pay the equivalent of a first class commercial ticket for travel on Air Force One. But that was also true for Obama and every other president before him. I think it's a compromise since the president doesn't have a choice about flying on AF1 or riding in Secret Service limos.

If Trump is classifying campaign events as official events to avoid the reimbursement, that's a different story.

[smirkymonkey]

19. What a loser!

He'll do anything for attention.

[Boulevardier]

20. I'm so looking forward to next year. Let a river of indictments...

...rain down upon him.

[slumcamper]

21. He DIDN'T break the law.

There is NO law which he is not ABOVE!

The law, for all practical purposes, does not apply to him. To the extent that it still exists, it is a mere inconvenience to be dealt with by edict or fiat, and applies only to those who challenge his authority.

He is King...he is Dictator. We are in that place. And we are mere subjects reduced to quibbling among each other about whose tax plan or health care plan or environmental plan, or whatever, is best.

Who among our field is laser focused on THE tyrant???

[Takket]

22. i'm sure an investigation and criminal charges are coming any time now......