Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumPresident Trump's Air Force One video trashing Mayor Bill de Blasio may have violated law
Source: New York Daily News
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 Trumps left shoulder, affixed above a window, is the presidential seal.
Link to tweet
Thats a big no-no, according to Virginia Canter, an ethics lawyer with Citizens Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a non-partisan watchdog group.
Its 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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Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-presidential-seal-federal-election-commission-deblasio-political-20190517-4vhkqxh27fealg54yvmfnemqzi-story.html
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
kacekwl
(7,016 posts)the long long long list.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
MontanaMama
(23,313 posts)matter?
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dalton99a
(81,475 posts)Nothing will happen, and he knows it
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Siwsan
(26,260 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
dchill
(38,484 posts)All is broken!
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saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)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.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
BeyondGeography
(39,370 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
spooky3
(34,444 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
True Dough
(17,304 posts)It couldn't mean less to that cretin.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Something will be done - by us.
Dont give Trump a pass.
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Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Despair is real - hopelessness is not.
Cultivating hopelessness with blanket negative statements?
Cowardice.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)are not affected by. the lack of empathy by my fellow democrats has really knocked me
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)are merely points of view that only history ultimately decides
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FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
badhair77
(4,217 posts)Now to find someone in power to do something about it. Dems can we nay go so far. It does look like its up to the voter.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
robleb
(162 posts)Now there is a big frickin' surprise!
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pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Pathetic.
Just hope we dont go full Hitler.
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avebury
(10,952 posts)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.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
dlk
(11,561 posts)Why not? Hes never been held truly accountable for his many decades of crimes.
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musicman65
(524 posts)and one for ourselves,to use at the ballot box
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)Only once today? That must be a record.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Lock him up.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
corbettkroehler
(1,898 posts)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.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
NYC Liberal
(20,135 posts)the night before the election in 1984, under the guise of a formal presidential address:
Republicans dont care about ethics or the law.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden