What's more, an incoming president should be required to liquidate his assets and place them in a blind trust. No more "nice little tradition" that can be flouted by someone like Trump. “We’ll see after the committee. It’s Trump’s excuse throughout the piece. president-elect Donald Trump is getting away with it. :Senators' questions at Trump impeachment trial show most minds are made up, University of Michigan law professor Barbara McQuade called Dershowitz's logic "absurd" and said, "If the Senate is to maintain any semblance of a check on presidential abuse, surely it must reject this argument.". Meanwhile, more disturbing details emerged about Trump's apparent lobbying campaign to get government officials in Argentina to approve his project in Buenos Aires. Neither man noted that though Nixon was elected to two terms, his presidency was foreshortened by paranoia and lawbreaking. Donald Trump -- not yet the 45th president, but soon -- certainly played to that notion today, when the New York Times questioned why it's not a conflict of interest when he and his children are still running his global development firm at the same time that the world's leaders are looking to curry favor with the new chief. Ron DeSantis reopens bars, restaurants and other businesses at full capacity, without restrictions, to tell his story (for money) to British journalist David Frost, When the president does it, that means it is not illegal, the New York Times questioned why it's not a conflict of interest when he and his children are still running his global development firm at the same time that the world's leaders are looking to curry favor with the new chief, a country with which he may or may not have business interests, the Times reported that Trump had lobbied his right-wing pal Nigel Farage, a member of the European Parliament, to do something about the wind farm, admitted in a filing to the IRS that it's involved in so-called "self-dealing, No more "nice little tradition" that can be flouted by someone like Trump.
I’m sure I’ll win,” Trump replied. He was forced to resign in disgrace. It should be enacted -- by a constitutional amendment if necessary -- that presidential candidates will be required to release at least several years worth of federal income tax, or their election will be voided. Clinton had appeared to call her "the favorite of the Russians.". ", — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016, The law is not totally on Trump’s side. Folks clung to this idea even though the actual evidence was mixed: People boasted that "the system worked" when Nixon was forced to resign, on the brink of certain impeachment -- but the pardon that was issued to Nixon by then-president Gerald Ford weeks later suggested that presidential justice remains elusive.
Those words were largely seen by the American public -- which continued to hold the ex-president in low esteem -- as a symbol of his unbowed arrogance.