Agency overseeing Trump's D.C. hotel lease failed to examine ethical, constitutional conflicts

[FelineOverlord]

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[RockRaven]

1. I had assumed they knowingly behaved corruptly...

It turns out they DID, just not in the manner I had assumed.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Intimidated is more like it.

Bet they got the message early - don't fuck with the pResident and his real estate plans.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Gee, ya think?

[gratuitous]

4. "Everybody knows . . ."

The Emoluments Clause is pretty straightforward and everybody knows what it means. That is, everybody knows what it means until someone as corrupt as the former guy comes along, and violates it nine ways from Sunday. Then, suddenly, we're all caught up in his self-justifying lies, and nobody knows what the Emoluments Clause means. We get caught up in semantics and meaningless shades of meaning, and the agency tasked with reviewing the nakedly corrupt deal completely loses its way, can't figure out what's ethical or constitutional, and figures it's more expedient to just let the former guy break the law.

[FelineOverlord]

5. Remember Emily Murphy?

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[Nevilledog]

6. Ummmm......

[TomSlick]

7. Shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

Imagine, a Trump-era federal agency over looking Trump's ethical lapses. Who would have thought?

[pecosbob]

8. Elected officials should be barred from entering into contracts with the government

period

[kentuck]

9. There seems to be some deep corruption in the GSA.

It definitely should be investigated.