So last night we had alarms and excursions (Ok, you may not be familiar with that expression, it’s Elizabethan Theater stage direction, an alarm is just that, excursion in this sense means everyone leaves the Stage and “goes on a trip” to the Wings. I use excursion here in it’s secondary meaning of launching into bloviating discourse. Clever eh?) over Unidicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio’s promise/threat to declare a “State of Emergency” and steal money from other Government Programs ($8 Billion is being bandied about currently).
Democrats in Disarray!
Pfui.
The situation is exactly the same as it was when the Congressional Compromise to fund the Government was reached. Unidicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio gets Zero Dollars for his Vanity Project Penis Wall O’ Racism (the $1.4 Billion is for Fencing, Barriers, and Repairs), in fact the biggest section of the Bill is the list of things Unidicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio can’t do with the money. It passed with a thunderous Veto Proof majority in the Senate and a nearly Veto Proof majority in the House. Unidicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio loses, bigly.
It was always a threat that he’d declare a “State of Emergency” and if he does- so what?
There are at least 2 ways this will be thwarted. First of all Congress can simply vote to lift the “State of Emergency”. Nancy Pelosi will certainly introduce a binding resolution to do so in the House, which she will win. According to the National Emergency Act Mitch McConnell is forced to hold a vote in the Senate where, Surprise!, only a simple majority is needed to pass it.
Why would Republicans defect? Well, there’s this little thing called Eminent Domain that would be needed to seize the land and Republicans as a rule consider that Expropriation of Property which they’re against.
Also, if upheld in Court, Unidicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio will establish the precedent that the next Democratic Administration can take everybody’s Guns away as soon as there’s another School Massacre (sadly inevitable).
And upheld in Court. That’s the second way this will be thwarted. The clear language of the National Emergency Act and the U.S. Constitution make this highly illegal despite the bootlicking opinion of his house lawyers in the OLC. Not to mention that each and every land siezure will be litigated, they already are.
He is losing and is seen as a Loser by everyone except the Media Moron Versailles Villagers who are visibly desperate for any excuse to parrot their Bothsiderist Vacuous Vapidities.
But wait! There’s More!
Trump’s company officially halts hotel expansion
By Jonathan O’Connell and David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post
February 14, 2019
President Trump’s company officially shelved plans Friday to create two hotel chains aimed at reaching customers mostly in places where the president has become politically popular.
The president’s eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who took over the company when Trump entered the White House, cited political attacks and negative media coverage in announcing the decision.
The brothers announced plans for the two lower-cost chains in a reception at Trump Tower shortly after Trump took office. Since then, the company has come under near-constant scrutiny from ethics officials and congressional Democrats over its business practices. After initially saying the company had dozens of deals in the works, no hotels, under the chain names of Scion and American Idea, have opened.
“We live in a climate where everything will be used against us, whether by the fake news or by Democrats who are only interested in Presidential harassment and wasting everyone’s time,” Eric Trump said in a statement Thursday.
The decision marked a first voluntary step back for the company since Trump took office.
When it launched the brands, the company announced that the first Scion and American Idea hotels would be in the Mississippi Delta, through a partnership with Mississippi businessman Dinesh Chawla and his brother, Suresh.
The Chawlas, owners of 18 hotels in the Gulf Coast region, are developing a 100-room hotel and conference center on 17 acres in Cleveland, Miss. The project is expected to cost the family more than $20 million and was to be the nation’s first Scion before the Trump Organization cut ties with the family this week.
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With Trump in office, the Trump Organization agreed not to pursue any new foreign deals, canceling what the company says was “ ‘billions of dollars’ worth of projects.” The company also restricted who could invest in its properties and hired an outside ethics counsel to review any new projects that it was planning to pursue.But because the president continues to hold a financial interest in the company, the Trump Organization has come under fire from critics charging that the company — and its expansion plans in particular — create conflicts of interest.
In two lawsuits wending their way through federal courts, the attorneys general of the District of Columbia and Maryland argue Trump is violating the Constitution’s emoluments clause, which bars gifts or payments from foreign or state governments.
Democrats on Capitol Hill are preparing a series of investigations into the president’s business, focused particularly on his D.C. hotel, which has benefited from spending by foreign governments and federal lobbyists.
Most recently, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) wrote to the Trump Organization demanding information about why T-Mobile executives had booked dozens of rooms at the Trump D.C. hotel after asking the Trump administration to approve a major merger.
With expansion made difficult, the Trump Organization has been left to defend its position in existing properties. The company lost branding and management deals for hotels in Toronto, Panama and New York. And owners of apartment and condominium complexes in New York have taken the Trump name down, saying the brand was hurting their property values.
In recent weeks, the company has been purging undocumented workers from the staffs of at least five of its golf properties.
Trump’s sons indicated they plan to restart their plans when their father leaves office.
“When politics are over, we will resume doing what we do best which is building the best and most luxurious properties in the world — the interest in the Trump brand has never been stronger,” Donald Trump Jr. said in the statement.
It will be interesting to see how Junior accomplishes that from his prison cell in Ossining.