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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Sun Dec 16, 2018, 10:26 PM Dec 2018

Six potential legal problems for him

Anthony Zurcher
North America reporter

... A ProPublica report on Friday detailed concerns by a "top inaugural planner" that the Trump International Hotel in Washington was overcharging the inaugural committee for rooms, meals and facilities, which could be a violation of tax law ...

... federal investigators in New York are looking into whether any foreigners illegally made donations to the inaugural committee ...

In June .. attorneys general for the District of Columbia and Maryland sued Mr Trump, alleging that the president is continuing to profit from foreign government spending at his properties ...

New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood has alleged that the Trump Foundation effectively served as means to advance the president's political and business interests in violation of state laws governing the tax-free status of charitable organisations ...

... Trump has been directly implicated in a campaign finance violation .. for which his .. personal attorney has received a prison sentence ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46407999

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Six potential legal problems for him (Original Post) struggle4progress Dec 2018 OP
unflattering photos Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2018 #1
So basically illegal bribes through his businesses. sunonmars Dec 2018 #2

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,346 posts)
1. unflattering photos
Mon Dec 17, 2018, 07:41 AM
Dec 2018

Is it just me, or have news outlets been using less 'presidential' photos of Twitler since the Jim Acosta blow-up? The photos no longer seem standard, stock vip-on-a-trip images, but more like bad snapshots with slightly off lighting, framing, or unflattering poses.

The BBC article's choice:

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