President Trump's Air Force One video trashing Mayor Bill de Blasio may have violated law

[Eugene]

Source: New York Daily News

President Trump’s Air Force One video trashing Mayor Bill de Blasio may have violated law

By DAVE GOLDINER
| NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAY 17, 2019 | 2:34 PM

President Trump tried to give his latest attack on Mayor Bill de Blasio an aura of authority — but he may just have broken the law in the process.

While jetting on Air Force One to a political fundraising event, Trump tried to look presidential by sitting behind a desk as he blasted de Blasio as soft on crime and quick on taxes.

But look a bit closer and an ethics watchdog spots a big problem for Trump in the video. Over Trump’s left shoulder, affixed above a window, is the presidential seal.

Link to tweet

That’s a big no-no, according to Virginia Canter, an ethics lawyer with Citizens Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a non-partisan watchdog group.

“It’s not appropriate to use the seal in this way,” said Canter, a former assistant White House counsel. “It sends the message that this is the official view of the U.S. government .... not a political (attack).”

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[PoliticAverse]

1. Add it to the impeachable offenses list. n/t

[kacekwl]

29. Yes,

the long long long list.

[MontanaMama]

2. Does MF45 breaking any law

matter?

[dalton99a]

3. He is a criminal protected by criminals

Nothing will happen, and he knows it

[Siwsan]

4. The only laws despotic dictators care about are the ones they can use as a weapon

[dchill]

5. No law is too big. No law is too small.

All is broken!

[saidsimplesimon]

11. Ignorance of the law is not

a great defense. It is the cry of those criminals who attempt to win by claiming "the system is rigged against them". It's a shameful political ploy that I expect from those who support the weirdo, loser with his finger near the button of doom.

[BeyondGeography]

6. Inappropriate? He'll take that as a compliment

[spooky3]

7. Is it ok to use an official govt plane to go to a fundraising event?

[True Dough]

8. Trump routinely pisses all over "appropriate"

It couldn't mean less to that cretin.

[FreepFryer]

9. People can say "nothing will be done" but that is shortsighted.

Something will be done - by us.

Don’t give Trump a pass.

[Kurt V.]

12. Nothing will be done. That's obvious. Nothing being done is giving him a pass every single day.

[FreepFryer]

19. What's obvious is the cowardice of whining in despair while others roll up their sleeves. (n/t)

[Kurt V.]

23. Despair is real. ppl are suffering. calling it cowardice is .... i won't.

[FreepFryer]

24. Perhaps you prefer to define it as Stockholm Syndrome. When it's that insistent, it's cowardice.

Despair is real - hopelessness is not.

Cultivating hopelessness with blanket negative statements?

Cowardice.

[Kurt V.]

25. no i don't define it as s.s. i define it as real ppl facing real daily issues that ppl like you ,

are not affected by. the lack of empathy by my fellow democrats has really knocked me

[FreepFryer]

26. "people like me"? Wow. Plenty of empathy for all who refuse to disempower others. (nt)

[Kurt V.]

27. I'm sorry. but yes ppl like you. that fail to understand basis human behavior. Cowards and heroes

are merely points of view that only history ultimately decides

[FreepFryer]

28. Every word untrue, in every sense. (n/t)

[badhair77]

10. Another pebble for the pile.

Now to find someone in power to do something about it. Dems can we nay go so far. It does look like it’s up to the voter.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. SOP; Standard Operating Procedure and another gas lighting for which there are never a consequence

[robleb]

14. Violated the law?

Now there is a big frickin' surprise!

[pdsimdars]

15. tRump violates law, but who's going to do anything about it?

[dhol82]

18. Exactly. Who ever does anything against it?

Pathetic.
Just hope we don’t go full Hitler.

[avebury]

16. I wonder what the statute of limitations would be for this crime.

If it lasts beyond this term of office and we can kick Trump out of the WH, you just add one more charge to the numersous ones that he is probably stacking up.

[dlk]

17. Trump Routinely Thumbs His Nose at the Law

Why not? He’s never been held truly accountable for his many decades of crimes.

[musicman65]

20. Give him the finger

and one for ourselves,to use at the ballot box

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. Trump broke the law? Oh noes!

Only once today? That must be a record.

[Mc Mike]

22. He's an habitual felon.

Lock him up.

[corbettkroehler]

30. Definitely Illegal But Also Moot

If we have learned anything, it is that our system of the Executive policing itself was relatively effective for centuries but no longer. Barr would be in charge of prosecuting this.

tRumpublicans have yet to meet a law they couldn't conspire to evade.

[NYC Liberal]

31. Like Reagan campaigning from the Oval Office

the night before the election in 1984, under the guise of a formal “presidential address”:

Republicans don’t care about ethics or the law.