• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    my objection to taking this 747-800 from Qatar is not that it’s an attempt to bribe the president. It is not it’s corrupted. It is not that its a violation of the emoluments clause.

    Hid problem is not with the violations of law or the very apparent impropriety in accepting highly valuable gifts from for foreign heads of state with an agenda. It’s only the who that state is that is the bother. If it were, say, Russia? He would be fine with it.

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      Reading the whole statement, I think he’s saying all those things are problems, especially the Pam Bondi connection, but he’s more offended that it was built with profits off our war dead. If he didn’t care at all about the rest he wouldn’t mention them. He’s just adding a Conservative argument against it.

    • tomenzgg@midwest.social
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      I’ve been subscribed to this asshole for nearly a decade (keeping tabs on what that side is thinking and talking about) and this kind of hypocritical positioning is par for the course.

      His recent take on Kilmar Abrego Garcia was repeatedly reiterating that he had credible ties to MS-13 and that the president totally has every right to just boot this man to another country but he was worried that Trump’s defiance of the courts might endanger qualified immunity for federal officials.