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Donald Trump once against demonstrated on Tuesday that he knows very little about the laws of the country hes supposed to be leading.
During a taxpayer-funded campaign rally in Pennsylvania, Trump whined that people are upset that hes profiting from the presidency. He deflected the criticism by accusing former President Barack Obama of violating the emoluments clause by signing a $65 million book deal.
I got sued on a thing called emoluments,' Trump said, according to NBC News. Now nobody looks at Obama getting $60 million for a book. Thats OK, even though nobody in history ever got that much money for a book.
But with me, its everything.
The only problem, of course, is that Obama signed the book deal after he left office in 2017, when he was no longer president of the United States.
As NBC News pointed out, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama signed a joint book deal for $65 million in 2017, after Obama had left office. The emoluments clause applies to federal officeholders, not private citizens.
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UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)kimbutgar
(21,137 posts)The n word, disavow it and then embrace aloud. And his hate monger followers will bark in agreement.
Its coming people.
NBachers
(17,108 posts)rufus dog
(8,419 posts)EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)yonder
(9,664 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,370 posts)Plus, even bigger, Trump knows no one will give him anywhere near that much to write a book.
JoeOtterbein
(7,700 posts)...The Onion!
VOX
(22,976 posts)They draw some twisted energy from their Neanderthal figurehead when he bashes anyone from the Democrat Party (sic).
spanone
(135,830 posts)dumbfuck
tanyev
(42,552 posts)NCLefty
(3,678 posts)CanonRay
(14,101 posts)and it's killing him.
CatWoman
(79,301 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)No Nobel prize, no 65 million dollar book deal, Little Donnie's feeweeings is hurted.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,733 posts)You'd have to pay me $75 million to read any book that you wrote.
Turbineguy
(37,323 posts)He wants to constantly remind us.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Why couldn't he have just tripped while coming down that escalator and broke his fucking neck? Honestly.
Panich52
(5,829 posts)he's the one who's guilty
Aussie105
(5,383 posts)Are we there yet?
nilram
(2,888 posts)3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)Donald Trump once again demonstrated on Tuesday that he knows very little.
RainCaster
(10,869 posts)Trump's world in a nutshell.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Trump has to keep deflecting.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)God, he is just so stupid I can't believe he has made it this far in life without getting himself trapped in the tank of a toilet at the men's room at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
coeur_de_lion
(3,676 posts)but some of his knuckle dragging base will believe this.
Paladin
(28,254 posts)Which means his slavering base believes every ignorant word.
malaise
(268,967 posts)and he appears proud of it
duforsure
(11,885 posts)He's admitting he is the in violation of it. He always projects his guilt onto others, that's one of his many tells.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Evil and a Mental Case and yet tens of millions will vote for that in 2020.....which makes his voters robotic and/or dumb.
onethatcares
(16,167 posts)the idjits will pick that up and run with it, they'll spout it far and wide because they're too fucking stupid to do any type of thinking.
William Penn would not be proud of the new crop of dumbasses at all.
Gothmog
(145,168 posts)rurallib
(62,411 posts)Asking for a teacher friend.