![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anillarionovTrump lawyer Sheri Dillon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F85sZM9DBA
Trump lawyer Sheri Dillon
DILLON: Good morning. It's my honor and privilege to be here today at President-elect Trump's request.
He's asked me, as you just heard, to speak about the conflicts of interest and the steps he's taking. As you know, the business empire built by President-elect Trump over the years is massive, not dissimilar to the fortunes of Nelson Rockefeller when he became vice president. But at that time, no one was so concerned.
President-elect Trump wants the American public to rest assured that all of his efforts are directed to pursuing the people's business and not his own. To that end, as he explained a few moments ago, he directed me and my colleagues at the law firm Morgan Lewis and Bockius to design a structure for his business empire that will completely isolate him from the management of the company.
He further instructed that we build in protections that will assure the American people the decisions he makes and the actions that he takes as president are for their benefit and not to support his financial interests.
DILLON: As he said, he's voluntarily taking this on. The conflicts of interest laws simply do not apply to the president or the vice president and they are not required to separate themselves from their financial assets. The primary conflicts of interest statutes and some have questioned it, is Section 18 USC 208 and it's simply inapplicable by its terms. And this is not just our interpretation. It's Congress itself who have made this clear in 1989 when it amended Section 18 USC 202 to state that, except as otherwise provided, the terms office and employee in section 208 shall not include the president.
Even so, President-elect Trump wants there to be no doubt in the minds of the American public that he is completely isolating himself from his business interests. He instructed us to take all steps realistically possible to make it clear that he is not exploiting the office of the presidency for his personal benefit. He also sought the guidance of individuals who are familiar with and have worked extensively in the fields of government ethics and constitutional law.
Critical to the Morgan Lewis team is Fred Fielding, standing here to our side and with us today and many of you have known him. He has served several presidents over the years including serving as counsel to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush as well as serving on President George H.W. Bush's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform and he also held the position of vice chair of the Ethics Resource Center.
Mr. Fielding has been extensively involved with and approved this plan. He's here today to support the plan and he will continue to provide guidance as the plan is implemented and as Eric, Don, along with others, take over management of the Trump organization.
I'm gonna detail some of the extraordinary steps now that the president-elect is taking. First, President-elect Trump's investments and business assets commonly known as the -- as the Trump Organization, comprising hundreds of entities which, again, if you all go and take a look at his financial disclosure statement, the pages and pages and pages of entities have all been or will be conveyed to a trust prior to January 20th. Here is just some of the paperwork that's taking care of those actions.
Second, through the trust agreement, he has relinquished leadership and management of the Trump Organization to his sons Don and Eric and a longtime Trump executive, Allen Weisselberg. Together, Don, Eric and Allen will have the authority to manage the Trump Organization and will make decisions for the duration of the presidency without any involvement whatsoever by President-elect Trump.
Further, at the president-elect's direction, the trust agreement provides -- that to ensure the Trump Organization continues to operate in accordance with the highest and legal ethics standards, an ethics adviser will be appointed to the management team. The written approval of the ethics adviser will be required for new deals, actions, and transactions that could potentially raise ethics or conflicts of interest concerns.
President-elect Trump as well as Don, Eric and Allen are committed to ensuring that the activities of the Trump organization are beyond reproach and cannot be perceived to be exploitive of the office of the presidency. President-elect Trump will resign from all officer and other positions he holds with the Trump Organization entities.
Further, in addition, his daughter Ivanka will have no further involvement with or management authority whatsoever with the Trump Organization. As she and Jared move their family to D.C., Ivanka will focused on settling her children into their new homes and their new schools.
The president-elect has also already disposed of all of his investments in publicly traded or easily liquidated investments. As a result, the trust will have two types of assets; first, it will hold liquid assets. Cash, cash equivalents and treasuries and perhaps some positions in a government approved diversified portfolio, one that is consistent with the regulations from the Office of Government Ethics.
Second, the trust is going to hold his preexisting illiquid, but very valuable business assets, the ones that everyone here is familiar with. Trump owned, operated and branded golf clubs, commercial rental property, resorts, hotels, rights to royalties from preexisting licenses of Trump-Marks Productions and Goods. Things like Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, all of his other business assets, 40 Wall Street will all be in the trust.
Through instructions in the trust agreement, President-elect trust -- President-elect Trump first ordered that all pending deals be terminated. This impacted more than 30 deals, many of which were set to close by the end of 2016. As you can well imagine, that caused an immediate financial loss of millions of dollars, not just for President-elect Trump, but also for Don, Ivanka and Eric.
DILLON: The trust agreement as directed by President Trump imposes severe restrictions on new deals. No new foreign deals will be made whatsoever during the duration of President Trump's presidency. New domestic deals will be allowed, but they will go through a vigorous vetting process.
The president-elect will have no role in deciding whether the Trump Organization engages in any new deal and he will only know of a deal if he reads it in the paper or sees it on TV. Because any new deal could -- and I emphasize could -- be perceived as causing a conflict or as exploiting the office of the presidency, new deals must be vetted with the ethics adviser, whose role will be to analyze any potential transactions for conflicts and ethics issues.
The ethics adviser will be a recognized expert in the field of government experts. Again, his role will be to scrutinize the new deals and the actions, and any new deal must receive written approval.
To further reinforce the wall that we are building between President-elect Trump and the Trump Organization, President-elect Trump has ordered, through his trust agreement, to sharply limit his information rights. Reports will only be available and reflect profit and loss on the company as a whole. There will be no separate business by business accounting.
Another step that President-elect Trump has taken is he created a new position at the Trump Organization; the position of chief compliance counsel, whose responsibility will be to ensure that the Trump businesses, again, are operating at the highest levels of integrity and not taking any actions that could be perceived as exploiting the office of the presidency. He has also directed that no communications of the Trump Organization, including social media accounts, will reference or be tied to President-elect Trump's role as president of the United States or the office of the presidency.
In sum, all of these actions -- complete relinquishment of management, no foreign deals, ethics adviser approval of deals, sharply limited information rights -- will sever President-elect Trump's presidency from the Trump Organization.
Some have asked questions. Why not divest? Why not just sell everything? Form of blind trust. And I'd like to turn to addressing some of those questions now.
Selling, first and foremost, would not eliminate possibilities of conflicts of interest. In fact, it would exacerbate them. The Trump brand is key to the value of the Trump Organization's assets. If President-elect Trump sold his brand, he would be entitled to royalties for the use of it, and this would result in the trust retaining an interest in the brand without the ability to assure that it does not exploit the office of the presidency.
Further, whatever price was paid would be subject to criticism and scrutiny. Was it too high, is there pay for play, was it too much pay to curry favor with the president-elect. And selling his assets without the rights to the brand would greatly diminish the value of the assets and create a fire sale.
President-elect Trump should not be expected to destroy the company he built. This plan offers a suitable alternative to address the concerns of the American people, and selling the entire Trump Organization isn't even feasible.
Some people have suggested that the president-elect sell the business to his adult children. This would require massive third-party debt sourced with multiple lenders, whose motives and willingness to participate would be questioned and undoubtedly investigated. And if the president-elect were to finance the sale himself, he would retain the financial interests in the assets that he owns now.
Some people have suggested that the Trump -- that President-elect Trump could bundle the assets and turn the Trump Organization into a public company. Anyone who has ever gone through this extraordinarily cumbersome and complicated process knows that it is a non-starter. It is not realistic and it would be inappropriate for the Trump Organization.
Some people have suggested a blind trust, but you cannot have a totally blind trust with operating businesses. President Trump can't unknow he owns Trump Tower and the press will make sure that any new developments at the Trump Organization are well publicized.
DILLON: Further, it would be impossible to find an institutional trustee that would be competent to run the Trump Organization. The approach that he is taking allows Don and Eric to preserve this great company and its iconic assets. And this approach is best from a conflicts and ethics perspective. It creates a complete separation from President-elect Trump -- it separates him and prevents him from participating in the business and poses strict limits on what the trustees can do and requires the assent of any ethics adviser to a new deal.
I'm going to turn to one last topic today that has been of interest lately called emoluments. That's a word I think we've all become familiar with and perhaps had not heard before.
And we're gonna describe some other actions that President-elect Trump is taking to avoid even the appearance of a conflict.
Emoluments comes from the Constitution. The Constitution says "officials may not accept gifts, titles of nobility, or emoluments from foreign governments with respect to their office, and that no benefit should be derived by holding in office."
The so-called Emoluments Clause has never been interpreted, however, to apply to fair value exchanges that have absolutely nothing to do with an office holder.
No one would have thought when the Constitution was written that paying your hotel bill was an emolument. Instead, it would have been thought of as a value-for-value exchange; not a gift, not a title, and not an emolument.
But since President-elect Trump has been elected, some people want to define emoluments to cover routine business transactions like paying for hotel rooms. They suggest that the Constitution prohibits the businesses from even arm's-length transactions that the president-elect has absolutely nothing to do with and isn't even aware of.
These people are wrong. This is not what the Constitution says. Paying for a hotel room is not a gift or a present and it has nothing to do with an office. It's not an emolument.
The Constitution does not require President-elect Trump to do anything here. But, just like with conflicts of interests, he wants to do more than what the Constitution requires.
So, President-elect Trump has decided, and we are announcing today, that he is going to voluntarily donate all profits from foreign government payments made to his hotel to the United States Treasury. This way, it is the American people who will profit.
In sum, I and president-elect's (sic) other advisers at Morgan Lewis have determined the approach we've outlined today will avoid potential conflicts of interests or concerns regarding exploitation of the office of the presidency without imposing unnecessary and unreasonable loses on the president-elect and his family.
We believe this structure and these steps will serve to accomplish the president-elect's desire to be isolated from his business interests and give the American people confidence that his sole business and interest is in making America great again, bringing back jobs to this country, securing our borders and rebuilding our infrastructure.
The American people were well -- well aware of President-elect Trump's business empire and financial interests when they voted. Many people voted for him precisely because of his business success.
President-elect Trump wants to bring this success to all Americans. Thank you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/11/trump-press-conference-annotating-what-the-president-elect-said-on-russia-the-economy-and-more/?utm_term=.080074b2b427
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F85sZM9DBA
Trump lawyer Sheri Dillon
DILLON: Good morning. It's my honor and privilege to be here today at President-elect Trump's request.
He's asked me, as you just heard, to speak about the conflicts of interest and the steps he's taking. As you know, the business empire built by President-elect Trump over the years is massive, not dissimilar to the fortunes of Nelson Rockefeller when he became vice president. But at that time, no one was so concerned.
President-elect Trump wants the American public to rest assured that all of his efforts are directed to pursuing the people's business and not his own. To that end, as he explained a few moments ago, he directed me and my colleagues at the law firm Morgan Lewis and Bockius to design a structure for his business empire that will completely isolate him from the management of the company.
He further instructed that we build in protections that will assure the American people the decisions he makes and the actions that he takes as president are for their benefit and not to support his financial interests.
DILLON: As he said, he's voluntarily taking this on. The conflicts of interest laws simply do not apply to the president or the vice president and they are not required to separate themselves from their financial assets. The primary conflicts of interest statutes and some have questioned it, is Section 18 USC 208 and it's simply inapplicable by its terms. And this is not just our interpretation. It's Congress itself who have made this clear in 1989 when it amended Section 18 USC 202 to state that, except as otherwise provided, the terms office and employee in section 208 shall not include the president.
Even so, President-elect Trump wants there to be no doubt in the minds of the American public that he is completely isolating himself from his business interests. He instructed us to take all steps realistically possible to make it clear that he is not exploiting the office of the presidency for his personal benefit. He also sought the guidance of individuals who are familiar with and have worked extensively in the fields of government ethics and constitutional law.
Critical to the Morgan Lewis team is Fred Fielding, standing here to our side and with us today and many of you have known him. He has served several presidents over the years including serving as counsel to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush as well as serving on President George H.W. Bush's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform and he also held the position of vice chair of the Ethics Resource Center.
Mr. Fielding has been extensively involved with and approved this plan. He's here today to support the plan and he will continue to provide guidance as the plan is implemented and as Eric, Don, along with others, take over management of the Trump organization.
I'm gonna detail some of the extraordinary steps now that the president-elect is taking. First, President-elect Trump's investments and business assets commonly known as the -- as the Trump Organization, comprising hundreds of entities which, again, if you all go and take a look at his financial disclosure statement, the pages and pages and pages of entities have all been or will be conveyed to a trust prior to January 20th. Here is just some of the paperwork that's taking care of those actions.
Second, through the trust agreement, he has relinquished leadership and management of the Trump Organization to his sons Don and Eric and a longtime Trump executive, Allen Weisselberg. Together, Don, Eric and Allen will have the authority to manage the Trump Organization and will make decisions for the duration of the presidency without any involvement whatsoever by President-elect Trump.
Further, at the president-elect's direction, the trust agreement provides -- that to ensure the Trump Organization continues to operate in accordance with the highest and legal ethics standards, an ethics adviser will be appointed to the management team. The written approval of the ethics adviser will be required for new deals, actions, and transactions that could potentially raise ethics or conflicts of interest concerns.
President-elect Trump as well as Don, Eric and Allen are committed to ensuring that the activities of the Trump organization are beyond reproach and cannot be perceived to be exploitive of the office of the presidency. President-elect Trump will resign from all officer and other positions he holds with the Trump Organization entities.
Further, in addition, his daughter Ivanka will have no further involvement with or management authority whatsoever with the Trump Organization. As she and Jared move their family to D.C., Ivanka will focused on settling her children into their new homes and their new schools.
The president-elect has also already disposed of all of his investments in publicly traded or easily liquidated investments. As a result, the trust will have two types of assets; first, it will hold liquid assets. Cash, cash equivalents and treasuries and perhaps some positions in a government approved diversified portfolio, one that is consistent with the regulations from the Office of Government Ethics.
Second, the trust is going to hold his preexisting illiquid, but very valuable business assets, the ones that everyone here is familiar with. Trump owned, operated and branded golf clubs, commercial rental property, resorts, hotels, rights to royalties from preexisting licenses of Trump-Marks Productions and Goods. Things like Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, all of his other business assets, 40 Wall Street will all be in the trust.
Through instructions in the trust agreement, President-elect trust -- President-elect Trump first ordered that all pending deals be terminated. This impacted more than 30 deals, many of which were set to close by the end of 2016. As you can well imagine, that caused an immediate financial loss of millions of dollars, not just for President-elect Trump, but also for Don, Ivanka and Eric.
DILLON: The trust agreement as directed by President Trump imposes severe restrictions on new deals. No new foreign deals will be made whatsoever during the duration of President Trump's presidency. New domestic deals will be allowed, but they will go through a vigorous vetting process.
The president-elect will have no role in deciding whether the Trump Organization engages in any new deal and he will only know of a deal if he reads it in the paper or sees it on TV. Because any new deal could -- and I emphasize could -- be perceived as causing a conflict or as exploiting the office of the presidency, new deals must be vetted with the ethics adviser, whose role will be to analyze any potential transactions for conflicts and ethics issues.
The ethics adviser will be a recognized expert in the field of government experts. Again, his role will be to scrutinize the new deals and the actions, and any new deal must receive written approval.
To further reinforce the wall that we are building between President-elect Trump and the Trump Organization, President-elect Trump has ordered, through his trust agreement, to sharply limit his information rights. Reports will only be available and reflect profit and loss on the company as a whole. There will be no separate business by business accounting.
Another step that President-elect Trump has taken is he created a new position at the Trump Organization; the position of chief compliance counsel, whose responsibility will be to ensure that the Trump businesses, again, are operating at the highest levels of integrity and not taking any actions that could be perceived as exploiting the office of the presidency. He has also directed that no communications of the Trump Organization, including social media accounts, will reference or be tied to President-elect Trump's role as president of the United States or the office of the presidency.
In sum, all of these actions -- complete relinquishment of management, no foreign deals, ethics adviser approval of deals, sharply limited information rights -- will sever President-elect Trump's presidency from the Trump Organization.
Some have asked questions. Why not divest? Why not just sell everything? Form of blind trust. And I'd like to turn to addressing some of those questions now.
Selling, first and foremost, would not eliminate possibilities of conflicts of interest. In fact, it would exacerbate them. The Trump brand is key to the value of the Trump Organization's assets. If President-elect Trump sold his brand, he would be entitled to royalties for the use of it, and this would result in the trust retaining an interest in the brand without the ability to assure that it does not exploit the office of the presidency.
Further, whatever price was paid would be subject to criticism and scrutiny. Was it too high, is there pay for play, was it too much pay to curry favor with the president-elect. And selling his assets without the rights to the brand would greatly diminish the value of the assets and create a fire sale.
President-elect Trump should not be expected to destroy the company he built. This plan offers a suitable alternative to address the concerns of the American people, and selling the entire Trump Organization isn't even feasible.
Some people have suggested that the president-elect sell the business to his adult children. This would require massive third-party debt sourced with multiple lenders, whose motives and willingness to participate would be questioned and undoubtedly investigated. And if the president-elect were to finance the sale himself, he would retain the financial interests in the assets that he owns now.
Some people have suggested that the Trump -- that President-elect Trump could bundle the assets and turn the Trump Organization into a public company. Anyone who has ever gone through this extraordinarily cumbersome and complicated process knows that it is a non-starter. It is not realistic and it would be inappropriate for the Trump Organization.
Some people have suggested a blind trust, but you cannot have a totally blind trust with operating businesses. President Trump can't unknow he owns Trump Tower and the press will make sure that any new developments at the Trump Organization are well publicized.
DILLON: Further, it would be impossible to find an institutional trustee that would be competent to run the Trump Organization. The approach that he is taking allows Don and Eric to preserve this great company and its iconic assets. And this approach is best from a conflicts and ethics perspective. It creates a complete separation from President-elect Trump -- it separates him and prevents him from participating in the business and poses strict limits on what the trustees can do and requires the assent of any ethics adviser to a new deal.
I'm going to turn to one last topic today that has been of interest lately called emoluments. That's a word I think we've all become familiar with and perhaps had not heard before.
And we're gonna describe some other actions that President-elect Trump is taking to avoid even the appearance of a conflict.
Emoluments comes from the Constitution. The Constitution says "officials may not accept gifts, titles of nobility, or emoluments from foreign governments with respect to their office, and that no benefit should be derived by holding in office."
The so-called Emoluments Clause has never been interpreted, however, to apply to fair value exchanges that have absolutely nothing to do with an office holder.
No one would have thought when the Constitution was written that paying your hotel bill was an emolument. Instead, it would have been thought of as a value-for-value exchange; not a gift, not a title, and not an emolument.
But since President-elect Trump has been elected, some people want to define emoluments to cover routine business transactions like paying for hotel rooms. They suggest that the Constitution prohibits the businesses from even arm's-length transactions that the president-elect has absolutely nothing to do with and isn't even aware of.
These people are wrong. This is not what the Constitution says. Paying for a hotel room is not a gift or a present and it has nothing to do with an office. It's not an emolument.
The Constitution does not require President-elect Trump to do anything here. But, just like with conflicts of interests, he wants to do more than what the Constitution requires.
So, President-elect Trump has decided, and we are announcing today, that he is going to voluntarily donate all profits from foreign government payments made to his hotel to the United States Treasury. This way, it is the American people who will profit.
In sum, I and president-elect's (sic) other advisers at Morgan Lewis have determined the approach we've outlined today will avoid potential conflicts of interests or concerns regarding exploitation of the office of the presidency without imposing unnecessary and unreasonable loses on the president-elect and his family.
We believe this structure and these steps will serve to accomplish the president-elect's desire to be isolated from his business interests and give the American people confidence that his sole business and interest is in making America great again, bringing back jobs to this country, securing our borders and rebuilding our infrastructure.
The American people were well -- well aware of President-elect Trump's business empire and financial interests when they voted. Many people voted for him precisely because of his business success.
President-elect Trump wants to bring this success to all Americans. Thank you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/11/trump-press-conference-annotating-what-the-president-elect-said-on-russia-the-economy-and-more/?utm_term=.080074b2b427
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2017-01-13 05:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-13 06:21 am (UTC)Q: what do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the sea?
A: a good start
Брехня. Никакого разделения реальных интересов не будет. Он проходимец. Будет самое коррумпированное президентство со времён Хардинга.
Карсон не смог даже гарантировать на слушаниях что Трамп не получит прибыли от гос программ по строительству жилья.
Наконец, коррупция не ограничивается личным бизнесом. Любопытная статья лауреата нобелевской премии по экономике Пола Кругмана: www nytimes com/2016/11/21/opinion/build-he-wont html
no subject
Date: 2017-01-14 08:05 am (UTC)А до того он все обамские сроки пропагандировал печатание денег и рост госрасходов как единственный способ победить кризис.
Поэтому за бесстрастный нейтральный академический авторитет в данном случае его позвольте не принять.
Кстати, слушаете ли вы увлекательное веселое шоу ContraKrugman?
Там каждую неделю можно узнать новое из азов экономики, разбирая ошибки и противоречия, допущенные нобелевским лауреатом в своих свежих публикациях.
К сожалению, на той неделе в конце октября разбиралась другая заметка Крюгмана, про долг, тема, по которой он по какой-то причине изменил свое мнение на противоположное после выборов неправильного президента.
no subject
Date: 2017-01-15 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-16 03:24 pm (UTC)Чтобы залить деньгами самые горящие места, администрации пришлось переписать все плохие долги и активы на государство, удвоить госдолг, лишить работы кучу народу различными регуляциями и обобществлением здравоохранения.
Небольшая доза критического мышления позволит вам разглядеть это без труда за праздничным декоративным фасадом, который рисуют пропагандисты демпартии.
Трамп свалял дурака, не предупредив нацию о неизбежном крахе экономики в ближайшее время. Теперь ему придется делать вид, что "все хорошо, прекрасная маркиза" и тянуть время, как и Обаме в свою каденцию.
А зачем нам нужен крах экономики и почему он неизбежен?
Date: 2017-01-20 06:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-14 10:56 am (UTC)Прямо Никита Сергеевич в 1961 г - "Нынешнее поколение советских людей будет жить при коммунзме!"
Или товарищ Проханов в ноябре 2008 за пару дней дло выборов в США (я сам слышал по RTVi) - "Если Обама станет президентом США, Израиль через несколько месяцев перестанет существовать".
Re: Авгиевы конюшни
Date: 2017-01-13 10:26 am (UTC)"Пограничный налог" + "способствование экспорту"= MAKE DEPRESSION GREAT AGAIN.
Бешеного пса в направлении Китая...
Как бы Трамп не сбежал в русской подлодке в Барвиху с Аляски потом.
Re: Авгиевы конюшни
Date: 2017-01-15 08:08 pm (UTC)Re: Авгиевы конюшни
Date: 2017-01-20 06:57 am (UTC)Израильтянам безусловно помогут после Обамовской подставы. В Прибалтике так и будут стоять смертники что бы Путину соблазна не давать. На счёт Ракки сильно сомневаюсь, тут Мосул бы взяли наконец.
Да, и Дональд на сколько я в крусе активно борется с этим border adjustment налогом.
no subject
Date: 2017-01-13 07:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-13 07:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-13 11:26 am (UTC)Кандидат, секретарь Клинтон признала победу Трампа.
Президент Обама признал.
Коллегия выборщиков признала.
Какие могут быть основания, чтобы ставить под сомнение результат выборов? Никаких. Мне крайне не нравится пока Трамп, который скорее напоминает то ли Жириновского, то ли в лучшем случае Берлускони. Но не вижу никаких поводов ставить под сомнение его результат.
no subject
Date: 2017-01-13 12:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-13 01:06 pm (UTC)http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/12/us/politics/ethics-experts-trumps-conflicts-of-interest.html
Нынешний глава OGE (Office of Government Ethics) пишет в ответ на отказ Трампа продать свой бизнес:
It’s important to understand that the president is now entering the world of public service. He’s going to be asking his own appointees to make sacrifices. He’s going to be asking our men and women in uniform to risk their lives in conflicts around the world. So, no, I don’t think divestiture is too high a price to pay to be the president of the United States of America.
Главный вывод - оставаясь владельцем компании, которая взаимодействует с правительствами других стран, Трамп с первого дня вступления в должность будет грубо нарушать Конституцию США, тем самым создавая основания для импичмента.
Политическая реальность, однако, такова, что у правящей республиканской партии нет достаточной мотивации, чтобы что-то по этому поводу сделать.
no subject
Date: 2017-01-13 09:15 pm (UTC)И в каком законе вообще есть подобное?
Насколько я знаю, достаточно на время президенства передать их в траст.
no subject
Date: 2017-01-14 09:13 pm (UTC)No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
Простыми словами, государственным чиновникам, включая президента США, запрещается получать выплаты или какие-либо другие услуги от иностранных государств. Если Трамп не продаст свой бизнес, он этот пункт нарушит сразу же после вступления в должность. Это вообще-то достаточные основания для импичмента.
Буш младший тоже был бизнесменом, но перевёл весь свой капитал в слепой траст. Это значит, что его деньги были вложены в акции американских компаний, но он не знал, в какие именно. У Трампа совсем другая ситуация.
no subject
Date: 2017-01-14 10:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-14 10:41 pm (UTC)The most fundamental difficulty for this proposal is that the Emoluments Clause is concerned with ownership, not management. If Mr. Trump retains an ownership interest in the Trump Organization, then his personal bottom line is necessarily affected by everything that the business does, whether or not the decisions of that business are directed by, or even known to, Mr. Trump personally.
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/gs_121616_emoluments-clause1.pdf
Другое дело, что Конституция - это бумажка, если только кто-то, облеченный властью, не предпринимает шагов, чтобы ее защитить. По российскому опыту мы это хорошо знаем. У республиканского большинства в Конгрессе пока что нет желания устраивать Трампу импичмент.
no subject
Date: 2017-01-14 11:42 pm (UTC)Если вслушаться в сказанное на пресс конференции
Date: 2017-01-20 07:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-15 01:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-15 05:58 pm (UTC)Я не юрист, но, мне кажется, проблема решается просто: если Трамп продает (а не сдает в аренду) свой бизнес, он обязан отказаться от доходов (royalties) от использовании своего бренда. Слепой траст (вроде того, что использовал Буш младший) это как раз и делает.
С точки зрения национальных интересов США (страны с ВВП в $17 триллионов) бренд президента США намного дороже бренда отдельного миллиардера.
no subject
Date: 2017-01-16 01:17 am (UTC)Кроме того, там верно сказано:
"The American people were well -- well aware of President-elect Trump's business empire and financial interests when they voted. Many people voted for him precisely because of his business success."
Тем более, лучший способ для Трампа еще больше разбогатеть это оздоровить экономическую атмосферу, заслужить репутацию будучи успешным президентом 1-2 срока, а затем этим воспользоваться для расширения своего бизнеса. Очевидно, в этом нет конфликта интересов (даже наоборот), и это не требует веры в альтруизм.
no subject
Date: 2017-01-17 10:42 pm (UTC)Конгрессмен Ted Lieu, который представляет богатые прибрежные районы Лос Анжелеса, в объяснении своего решения пишет в числе прочего:
“On January 20, Trump will be in violation of Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution because of the massive conflicts of interests he has with his global business holdings. That provision of the Constitution was designed to prevent foreign influence over American elected officials. Trump can cure this Constitutional defect by divesting his holdings or putting them into a blind trust, but so far has been unwilling to do so. “
https://lieu.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-lieu-statement-his-decision-not-attend-inauguration
no subject
Date: 2017-01-18 01:11 am (UTC)Уже стесняюсь спросить: вы пост читали?
no subject
Date: 2017-01-18 01:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-13 02:28 pm (UTC)1. Викиликс: мы работаем только с анонимными источниками, и не знаем наших информаторов
2. Викиликс: Данные от взлома почты Подесты нам дали не русские
Далее, вывод.
=============
Аналогичный метод работает и с досье Трампа
1. Коен не был в Праге. Это был другой Коен
2. Коен выкладывает в твиттер обложку (!) паспорта
Далее, вывод.
============
Свежее:
Totally made up facts by sleazebag political operatives, both Democrats and Republicans - FAKE NEWS! Russia says nothing exists. Probably...
released by "Intelligence" even knowing there is no proof, and never will be. My people will have a full report on hacking within 90 days!
1. Это были не кремлевские
2. Да, это были кремлевские
3. Через 3 месяца предоставлю доклад.
4. У спецслужб USA нет фактов по досье и не будет. Кремлевские сказали, что его не существует.
Далее, вывод
Главный вывод - Трампнаш
no subject
Date: 2017-01-14 10:44 am (UTC)Тито тоже был в 1945 г на 100 процентов "наш" для Сталина.Мао в 1950 - то же самое.О политических фигурах в СССР/РФ между 1985 и 1993 и говорить нечего, всё свежо в памяти (кто чей был и на сколько времени - и "чемоданы компромата" не помогли).
"Если хочешь рассмешить Всевышнего - расскажи Ему о своих планах".
История про то, С.Иванов ли свалил Ту-154
Date: 2017-01-13 05:10 pm (UTC)http://svoboda2.com/igil-katasrofa-rf
Что же на самом деле было на борту самолета Ту-154Б2 RA-85572 упавшего в Черное море? И почему расследование о его падении проводится в такой тишине?
Российски СМИ с завидной сдержанностью обходят вниманием катастрофу российсого Ту-154, упавшего в Черное море в районе Сочи. Но, как бы не старались кремлевские пропагандисты, как не напрягались особисты, но нет ничего такого тайного, которое не стало бы явным.
Что же стало известно из различных источников?
Несмотря на то, что официально было заявлено, что на самолете находилось 92 человека, в реальности их было: 163, из них:
23 лётчика, летевшие на смену в Хмеймим
17 авиатехников и инженеров
3 генерала
25 специалистов ССО: снайперы, авианаводчики, операторы БЛА
6 человек ФСО
Ансамбль Александрова и доктор Лиза были лишь прикрытием, ширмой, для перевозки основной поставки.
Специальным грузом в Сирию летели:
Ракеты к ПТРК «Корнет», 120 ед, из них с экспериментальной боевой частью- 20 шт
Патроны 338 Лапуа -30000 шт, Баррет 10.5мм- 10000 шт, 408 Chey Tac-40000 шт
Денежные средства, доллары США- 332 000 000.
В Сочи самолет «подзаправили», в самолет подсели: 2 генерала и 6 сопровождающих груз лиц (ФСО) прибывших сразу после совещания у Путина.
Вылет самолета из Москвы специально был спланирован на 2 часа ночи, хотели «проскочить».
Не «проскочили»….
Что еще очень интересно!
Неожиданно, после того как с российским бортом случилась трагедия, боевикам ИГИЛ в Сирии вдвое сократили зарплату!
Об этом сообщает британский Индепендент, со ссылкой на представителя казначейства ИГ:
«Из-за исключительных обстоятельств, с которыми столкнулось «Исламское государство», было решено снизить выплачиваемую всем муджахидам зарплату вполовину. Это решение касается всех, вне зависимости от занимаемой ими позиции», — говорится в приказе который попал в руки журналистов.
Также в приказе в типичной, как оказалось не только для России манере, проводится реклама бедности, нищеты и жертвования, приводятся аяты из Корана, рассуждения о «джихаде ради богатства» и «джихаде ради души» и отмечается, что практика раздачи продовольствия дважды в месяц сохранится.
Весьма странное совпадение, не находите?
Re: История про то, С.Иванов ли свалил Ту-154
Date: 2017-01-13 11:38 pm (UTC)Тяжелое наследие
Date: 2017-01-13 06:29 pm (UTC)Ефим Фиштейн – международный обозреватель Радио Свобода
http://www.svoboda.org/a/28224213.html
no subject
Date: 2017-01-14 02:59 am (UTC)http://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/ranking/release/cardin-warren-wyden-durbin-carper-casey-merkley-baldwin-respond-to-trump-announcement-not-to-resolve-conflicts-of-interest
no subject
Date: 2017-01-14 06:22 am (UTC)http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/01/13/virgil-deep-state-strikes-back-permanent-campaign-donald-trump/
Cool, cool, cool!
Date: 2017-01-14 11:39 pm (UTC)Don’t treat Donald Trump as if he’s a normal president. He’s not
Jonathan Freedland
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/14/donald-trump-not-normal-president-congress-theresa-may
тоже по теме, не менее информативно
Date: 2017-01-15 06:30 pm (UTC)