Trump Teases a Gettysburg Convention Speech. Experts Say It's an Ethics Breach.

[Zorro]

If he accepts his nomination at the Civil War battlefield, the president will be conducting partisan business on federal property.

After repeatedly throwing a wrench into plans for the Republican National Convention this summer, President Trump on Monday tried to offer something tantalizing about the upcoming gathering, saying that his renomination speech would take place either at the White House or the Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, Pa.

“We will announce the decision soon!” Mr. Trump teased in a Twitter post.

It was perhaps a predictable move by the first president to be credited as an executive producer of a network reality show while sitting in office.

But whether Mr. Trump will actually deliver a nationally televised address in Gettysburg — the site of the Civil War’s bloodiest battle, a place memorialized in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln as hallowed ground — remains an open question.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/us/politics/trump-gettysburg-convention.html

There is absolutely nothing this colossal asshole won't defile, desecrate, or debase.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. How many ethics breaches is that now?

[enough]

2. Ethics? They don't need no stinkin ethics. NT

[MurrayDelph]

10. Ethics are something

Republicans only believe in when they can weaponize them against Democrats.

(Same for budget deficits)

[Ilsa]

3. Maybe a Confederate evil spirit will attach itself to him.

They'll be good company for each other and the other evil living within him.

[NBachers]

5. Just imagine the wart-filled cluster of evil beasties who must be attached to his rotting evil soul.

[Aristus]

9. If a Confederate evil spirit did attach itself to Trump,

what would Trump do differently?

[ResistantAmerican17]

4. Somebody tell the ignorant shit muffin that Gettysburg was a decisive Union victory and

By Lee’s own admission was the beginning of the end of the Confederacy. Given his admiration for racist traitors he should give his speech at Ft. Pillow

[doc03]

6. Why would that matter? nt

[yellowcanine]

7. Trump would defile the hallowed ground of Gettysburg.

President Lincoln is turning over in his grave.

[aquamarina]

8. His entire presidency has been a fucking ethics breach.

[whistler162]

11. Let him speak in front of Pickett's Monument