PabloReports: Does Donald Trump get to keep this Qatari jet after the presidency?
Raskin: No, he does not. You know why? Because the Constitution says he can’t do it.
Because the Constitution says that the president may not receive a present, an emolument—which means a payment, an office or title of any kind—from a king, a prince, or a foreign state without the consent of Congress.
And Congress has not consented to him keeping a $400 million jet. So it’s got to be turned over immediately to Congress for disposition.
We can either send it back to the people in Qatar, or we can keep it and do something different with it. But it doesn’t belong to the president.
You know, Abraham Lincoln, in the middle of the Civil War, wanted to keep some elephant tusks he’d gotten from the King of Siam. He never kept a present before. He wrote a letter to Congress. He said, “Can I keep this?” And Congress said, you know, you’re doing a great job, Honest Abe, and we love you, but no, you can’t keep it. Turn it over to the Department of State. That’s the right way to do it.
Every other president has come to Congress to ask whether they can keep one of these foreign gifts from a government, king, or prince. President Trump should be no different. He’s got to come to us too. And if not, we’ll just have to requisition it and confiscate it.
So this was immediately after being shot huh?
Is it jusy me or is that ear completely intact?
Not even Wolverine heals that fast.
(And look at his lying face!)
Staged 100%
It’s just bonkers that we’ve been bombing a foreign country for a month now, our president is threatening to bomb it “back to the stone age”, and preparing for a ground invasion while our Congress remains on vacation, never bothering to even have a vote on this war.
I will admit it.
I LOVED Trump unhinged when he was on the campaign trail. He was outspoken, politically incorrect and fearless in his brutality. And I loved it. In the wake of so much political correctness, it was refreshing to see a man who didn't care what people thought.
He was a breath of fresh air.
He wasn't a politician and that's what I loved about him.
The problem is, our chickens have come home to roots.
We said, "let Trump be Trump."
Now here we are. On the brink of nuclear war.
Pray for America.
We did this to ourselves. And to the world.
"The danger with a sick deranged malignant narcissist like Donald Trump is they end up destroying not just themselves but everyone around them. And so, the real question is whether Republicans will finally realize, 'We have to get rid of him too' and 'We have to help the Democrats get rid of him before he destroys us all."
Trump described to me on Air Force One on January 10, 2019 a way to casually crucify migrants on the border wall.
He’s not Christian. He’s inhuman.
His threat today on Easter to bomb Iranian civilians is consistent with his character.
BERMAN: Do you think Congress should have a vote if the United States is going to make a whole civilization die?
MIKE LAWLER: John, you are parsing here
BERMAN: I was quoting
Christie: I think anyone that follows politics can tell there are no principles left in my party. Even for people who agree with some of the stuff the president is doing, if you are honest with yourself, you know it is not based on principle. He wakes up every morning and tries to figure out, what is the best thing for him to do in his self interest that day.
But the real lack of principle is on display every day in the House and Senate. These people have become lemmings.
🚨BREAKING: Lawrence O'Donnell looked America in the eye tonight and said on live TV what many are thinking about Donald Trump's profane, perverse, filthy outburst on Easter Sunday to commit war crimes.
"The 25th Amendment was written for yesterday at 8:03am."
“His increasingly extreme actions, impossible to miss, cannot be glossed over. Something is terribly wrong with him. It is deadly dangerous…He must be removed from power.” https://t.co/G11Yq5DLA9
"Don’t cry for Pam Bondi. She shed no tears for Alex Pretti and Renee Good. She shed no tears for the US Constitution that she helped light on fire. She shed no tears for the Epstein victims she betrayed with malice, incompetence and contemptible indifference."
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I remember the first piece of advice I got on briefing President Trump in 2017:
He doesn’t read. Bring pictures. Only try to impress ONE thing on him. And if there has to be words, single page only.
WATCH: The White House took down this video, but we still have it.
Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.