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Julian Englis

(2,309 posts)
Tue May 16, 2017, 07:44 AM May 2017

Trump D.C. Hotel becomes a billboard soliciting bribes

From CNN:
'Pay Trump bribes here' sign projected onto Trump's DC hotel

Visitors to the Trump International Hotel in Washington were greeted with a provocative message Monday night: "Pay Trump bribes here."
Artist and filmmaker Robin Bell said he projected those words onto the hotel's facade from a van across the street, hoping to call attention to accusations that President Donald Trump is allowing foreign leaders to pay for access by staying at a Trump property just a few blocks from the White House.
"It's a pretty clear cut example of impropriety," Bell said in a phone interview. "This is not like politics as usual. The rules and the lines are being pushed so far and this seemed to be so clear to me."

Bell also projected the text of the emoluments clause, which prohibits US officials from accepting foreign gifts, onto the hotel's facade, alongside images of the Turkish and Russian flags.
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Trump D.C. Hotel becomes a billboard soliciting bribes (Original Post) Julian Englis May 2017 OP
Trump probably turned to Bannon and said... yurbud May 2017 #1
love this... dhill926 May 2017 #2

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
1. Trump probably turned to Bannon and said...
Tue May 16, 2017, 09:04 AM
May 2017

"Do we have a big enough bucket out there to collect them?"

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