President of the United States Just Called the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution 'Phony'

[G_j]

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-president-of-the-united-states-just-called-the-emoluments-clause-of-the-constitution-phony/

President Donald Trump, who swore to “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” called the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution “phony” on Monday, just two days after he backed off holding the 2020 G-7 at Trump National Doral due to “Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility.”


Josh Dawsey
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"You people with this phony Emoluments Clause," Trump tells assembled media questioning him about attempt to put G-7 at his own resort.

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12:37 PM - Oct 21, 2019



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The Emoluments Clause at Article I, Section 9:

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.

And at Article II, Section 1:

The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.

[NanceGreggs]

1. What else should we expect ...

... from a phony 'pResident'?

[PatrickforO]

2. Well, there we have it! Trump and his drooling, imbecilic supporters don't

bee-lieve in no ee-moll-you-ments clause!

[Joe941]

3. Reality tv president.

[leftstreet]

4. Washington held the G7 at Mt. Vernon !!!1111 n/t

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. and sold them Brits the captured aircraft of 1776!!!

Everybody knows he got rich selling tickets to beds he never slept in.

[tulipsandroses]

5. Phony president!

He doesn't read, so you know he has no idea what the constitution says

[not_the_one]

6. He thinks the CONSTITUTION is phony.

ANOTHER great campaign ad sound bite.

The PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES thinks the U.S. CONSTITUTION is PHONY!!!

And YOU, a so-called PATRIOTIC AMERICAN, are still going to vote for him?

[Alea]

7. Of course he did

[3catwoman3]

8. He understands...

...FUCKING NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[CatMor]

9. I'm surprised he didn't say ..

Obama, Hillary or Schiff wrote the clause just for him.

[napi21]

10. I'm believing all the reporters I've heard...DT NEVER READ the Constitution!

If he did, he didn't understand it. He also calls impeachment a phony thing made up by the Dems. I understand Mitt has intimated he might vote for impeachment, and I'm sure he will give courage to some other Senators who are leaning that way. I just hope it persuades at least 20 Pubs to join them and kick this JA out on his fat A**

[notinkansas]

11. My jaw dropped when I heard him say that.

It really drives home the fact that there is just no bottom in terms of how low this man can go.

[hunter]

12. It's not the Second Amendment, so whatever...

[Lock him up.]

13. Yeah... imagine if President Obama ever said the Second Amendment is...

... phony (which in these modern times, it is... imagine shooting at any SWAT team from the bathroom window...)

Imagine what the hypocritical rethugs would have done to him the next day...

Impeach in the morning, remove in the afternoon!