Trump Doral resort to host G-7 summit — sparking yet another ethics fight for the White House

So is being atrong enough to stand alone

 

You haven't provided anything proving that it will be provided at cost; Trump saying so does not make it so

 

You know what? You guys go ahead and run with this.

It keeps your minds occupied and might lift your spirits for a little while.

 

You would never know because no tax returns will be available

 

In Trump’s defense, I must say that by having the G-7 Summit at Doral, the US will be at a great advantage as long as our delegation doesn’t stay there. Doral is famous for bed bug infestation and we might be able to get over on the foreign leaders while they are furiously scratching their crotches.

 

Probably gas from the KFC he eats daily.

 

NO ONE EVER SAID, THAT BUT YOU!.....its all hush ,hush,,,give us that inside scoop!....From the administration not your blogs!

 

This is Priceless advertising for Trump Properties

Trump needs the bailout ............... revenue is down 70 % at the fleabag hotel

 

Hard to negotiate when you are busy dealing with before bugs biting your ass.

 

Again, the artist of the deal is using his own brand of negotiating skills. The Trump Taj Mahal also used roaches and bedbugs to gain advantage at the gaming tables.

 

Occupied and ignoring the fact that the trump administration admitted to a quid pro quo yesterday. Also that they abandoned te s of thousands of US allies to be slaughtered on a whim.

Which would you like to defend?

 

....you and I both know trumpettes wouldn't sign onto the idea of holding trump to his word as a reason for impeachment.

 

Sure, but it is an opportunity to drag Obama's name into this again. Distract, deflect, avoid.

 

No, they did not admit any such thing.

To come to that conclusion, one would have to lie by removing all but the last couple sentences of the testimony.

Which, of course, is what leftists do.

Full answer to "and that's why we held up the money".

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/press-briefing-acting-chief-staff-mick-mulvaney/

MR. MULVANEY: Sure. I’ll — let’s deal with the second one first, which is — look, it should come as no surprise to anybody — the last time I was up here — I haven’t done this since I was Chief of Staff, right? The last time I was up here, some of you folks remember, it was for the budget briefings, right?


And one of the questions y’all always asked me about the budget is, “What are you all doing to the foreign aid budget?” Because we absolutely gutted it, right? President Trump is not a big fan of foreign aid. Never has been; still isn’t. Doesn’t like spending money overseas, especially when it’s poorly spent. And that is exactly what drove this decision.


I’ve been in the office a couple times with him, talking about this. And he said, “Look, Mick, this is a corrupt place.” Everybody knows it’s a corrupt place. By the way, put this in context: This is on the heels of what happened in Puerto Rico, when we took a lot of heat for not wanting to give a bunch of aid to Puerto Rico because we thought that place was corrupt. And, by the way, it turns out we were right. All right? So put that as your context.


He’s like, “Look, this is a corrupt place. I don’t want to send them a bunch of money and have them waste it, have them spend it, have them use it to line their own pockets. Plus, I’m not sure that the other European countries are helping them out either.”


So we actually looked at that, during that time, before — when we cut the money off, before the money actually flowed, because the money flowed by the end of the fiscal year — we actually did an analysis of what other countries were doing in terms of supporting Ukraine. And what we found out was that — and I can’t remember if it’s zero or near zero dollars from any European countries for lethal aid. And you’ve heard the President say this: that we give them tanks and other countries give them pillows. That’s absolutely right, that the — as vocal as the Europeans are about supporting Ukraine, they are really, really stingy when it comes to lethal aid. And they weren’t helping Ukraine, and then still to this day are not. And the President did not like that. I know it’s a long answer to your question, but I’m still going.


So that was — those were the driving factors. Did he also mention to me in pass the corruption related to the DNC server? Absolutely. No question about that. But that’s it. And that’s why we held up the money.

 

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Why shouldn’t the President host the event at one of his resorts? He doesn’t take a salary (which I disagree with). He is completely transparent with what he is doing. It shows pride and ownership in what his country stands for. He actually has a stake in the things he believes in.

 

I admire the Trumpsters' tolerance for corruption.

Of course, it's wrong when Obama makes money selling a book or giving speeches.

But when Trump forces the government to hold the G7 on one of his properties, or federal officials visiting Washington have to sleep at the Trump International Hotel, or that the New York court is closing the President's fake charity foundation , no problem there.

 

Jebus on a stick.

Nothing applies to Trump ever.

The right spent the last 10 years screaming every time a Clinton made 10 cents claiming they were grifting taxpayers. You all screamed that the Clinton Foundation was nothing more than grift garnered thru his time in office. You all wanted him hung in the public square calling that treasonous......

Trump actually looks you in the face and says, “I’m going to make foreign leaders pay me to attend the G7 Summit”, and the rights comment is “nothing to see here....move along...nothing to see here....”

The hipocrisy is beyond stunning. But I always thought at some point that some on the right would actually find some shame and call him out for something.....but no. You keep defending him at every turn. F’n ridiculous

But do remember o’righties.......when a dem gets in office in 2020, you all get to sit down and **** when they do anything. YOU set the new standard, and with everything you defended Trump for, you get to say NOTHING when the dem takes office.

You all have zero credibility

FULL STOP

 

He DOES take a salary. He donates it.

 

lol. And the difference is...?

 

Again, if Carter had said, "I'm going to sell all my peanuts to the government at cost - but I'm not going to let you see my books to know if it's at cost or just what I say my cost is. And nobody else can submit a bit to sell the government peanuts - not even if it's at their cost, Carter would have been impeached in a second.

So how do all you free market people pretend that there is not not something terribly wrong with Trump telling the government they have to buy his peanuts and nobody else can try and sell the government peanuts. How do we know that someone else can't provide the same service at lower cost. There are dozens of high end resorts and golf clubs in the South Florida area. Why does Trump get to cut all of them out of the bidding?

 

The government STILL has to pay him. How he decides to spend it makes no more difference than Obama buying a dog with his salary. It's still money out of the treasury.