Han kan ikke engang argumentere med at «når presidenten gjør det er det lov». Det er ikke «official use». Er det publisert et presidentdirektiv i Federal Register som gir tillatelse til dette? Ikke? Neivel, da er det også straffbart for produsenten.(a) Whoever knowingly displays any printed or other likeness of the great seal of the United States, or of the seals of the President or the Vice President of the United States, or the seal of the United States Senate, or the seal of the United States House of Representatives, or the seal of the United States Congress, or any facsimile thereof, in, or in connection with, any advertisement, poster, circular, book, pamphlet, or other publication, public meeting, play, motion picture, telecast, or other production, or on any building, monument, or stationery, for the purpose of conveying, or in a manner reasonably calculated to convey, a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States or by any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
(b) Whoever, except as authorized under regulations promulgated by the President and published in the Federal Register, knowingly manufactures, reproduces, sells, or purchases for resale, either separately or appended to any article manufactured or sold, any likeness of the seals of the President or Vice President, or any substantial part thereof, except for manufacture or sale of the article for the official use of the Government of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
Dette er nesten sjeldent «vakkert».Trump er så himla korrupt og uten anstendighet at man må le. Nå er det bestilt "Presidentsegl" til golfbanene. En bruk av seglet som ikke bare er upassende, men sannsynligvis også forbudt.
https://www.propublica.org/article/...ith-the-presidential-seal-that-may-be-illegal
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Helt til de plutselig ikke gjør det lenger.Different rules apply.
Det har jevnlig kommet rapporter fra dem som er blitt avhørt under etterforskningen om at de var overrasket over hva Muellers stab konfronterte dem med av materiale som FBI allerede satt med. Så Preet Bharara har nok rett, Mueller har allerede disse e-postene.Det låter som om han fant noe høyeksplosivt i de emailene da han bladde gjennom dem. Det blir interessant å se hva det var når de etterhvert legges frem i en rettssal. Mueller har dem formodentlig allerede og ville gi ham sjansen til enten å "overse" en mail eller til å bli tatt for å lyve om noe foran storjuryen. Gotcha.
Mueller is casting a wide net. We now know the target is Trump.
Ikke at noen egentlig trodde på at Cohen hadde betalt henne av egne penger på eget påfunn, men nå sies det også i klartekst at dette var en betaling på vegne av Donald J (og at han snøt sin egen advokat for pengene i etterkant).Mr. Cohen said he missed two deadlines earlier that month to make the $130,000 payment to Ms. Clifford because he couldn’t reach Mr. Trump in the hectic final days of the presidential campaign, the person said.
Ms. Clifford was owed the money in return for signing an agreement that bars her from discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump in 2006, people familiar the matter said.
After Mr. Trump’s victory, Mr. Cohen complained to friends that he had yet to be reimbursed for the payment to Ms. Clifford, the people said.
The point is that federal prosecutors have robust powers to deal with recalcitrant witnesses, and special prosecutors in high-stakes matters involving the president of the United States have particular incentives not to tolerate contumacious conduct on the part of witnesses they subpoena. Nunberg may think it would be “funny if they arrested me.” We suspect he’ll find it less so if and when “they” actually do.
Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier"The official said that he was merely relaying talk circulating in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but what he’d heard was astonishing: people were saying that the Kremlin had intervened to block Trump's initial choice for Secretary of State, Mitt Romney," the New Yorker reported Monday.
"The memo said that the Kremlin, through unspecified channels, had asked Trump to appoint someone who would be prepared to lift Ukraine-related sanctions, and who would coöperate on security issues of interest to Russia, such as the conflict in Syria," it said. "If what the source heard was true, then a foreign power was exercising pivotal influence over U.S. foreign policy—and an incoming president."
Jeg fikk opp dette på min indre netthinne av å lese innlegget ditt:Joda, ingen har rukket å bli dømt, og relativt lite er superduperbevist. Men allikevel merker jeg at jeg virkelig fryder meg over utviklingen her. Og at jeg har et virkelig ektefølt ønske om å se Donald steke i sitt eget andefett. Det er jo ikke helt bra, siden det i praksis gjør meg litt amerikansk i tankegangen. Men jeg nyter det.
Selv om jeg frykter at vi aldri får se noe hode på noe fat. Og jeg får beholde femmern min. Men jeg skal ihvertfall nyte ventetiden.
Litt som en kjempestor adventskalender med masse fine ting bak hver luke. Selv om det er en mistanke om at det ikke er noenting bak den siste luken.
Jeg velger å leve i håpet.
Imagine that you’re listening to some garrulous old guy in a diner, telling you what’s wrong with the world — which mainly involves how we’re being victimized and taken advantage of by foreigners. You hear him out; after all, there have been approximately 17,000 news analyses telling us that garrulous old guys in diners represent the Real America.
Despite your best efforts to avoid being condescending, however, you can’t help noticing that his opinions seem a bit, well, factually challenged. No, we aren’t experiencing a huge wave of violent crime carried out by immigrants. No, we don’t give away vast sums in foreign aid. And so on down the list. Basically, what he imagines to be facts are things he thinks he heard somewhere, maybe on Fox News, and can’t be bothered to check.
And his notion of what to do about these imaginary problems amounts to no more than a bar stool rant. “Trade wars are good, and easy to win,” he tweeted, where he clearly thinks that “winning” means selling more to the other guy than he sells to you. That’s not how it works.
Listening to a garrulous old guy spout nonsense is annoying in the best of circumstances. But when this particular old guy controls the world’s largest military, nukes included, it’s downright scary.
The grinding pressure of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is starting to do strange things to people's heads.
"This guy is all over the map," former FBI special agent Josh Campbell said, dubbing the Nunberg show "the Great Unravelling."
"Up until this point Mueller's team has been so tight, we haven't seen the leaks so it has been very difficult to see what he's looking for," Campbell said. "I think it's incredible, seeing today this episode unfold before our eyes because it gives us that insight into where the investigation is ultimately headed."
Nunberg, apparently interpreting questions already put to him by Mueller's investigators, said for instance that he believes that the special counsel has something on Trump related to the Russian meddling effort on the 2016 election: "I suspect they suspect something about him," he told Borger.
He also claimed the special counsel is trying to prove that Trump associate Roger Stone colluded with Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks site which is reputed to have links with Russian intelligence.
In another claim that would be highly significant if it turns out to be true, Nunberg claimed Trump knew about a meeting between his son Donald Trump Jr., campaign officials and a Russia delegation offering dirt on Hillary Clinton.
"He talked about it a week before and I don't know why he did this," said Nunberg, in his second CNN interview, this time with Jake Tapper.
"I don't know why he went around trying to hide. He shouldn't have," Nunberg said.
The President has denied he knew anything about the meeting.
gøy så lenge det ikke blir krig, depresjon og annet fanteri. selv syntes jeg det er skremmende med en korrupt narsissist som president i USAJoda, ingen har rukket å bli dømt, og relativt lite er superduperbevist. Men allikevel merker jeg at jeg virkelig fryder meg over utviklingen her. Og at jeg har et virkelig ektefølt ønske om å se Donald steke i sitt eget andefett. Det er jo ikke helt bra, siden det i praksis gjør meg litt amerikansk i tankegangen. Men jeg nyter det.
Selv om jeg frykter at vi aldri får se noe hode på noe fat. Og jeg får beholde femmern min. Men jeg skal ihvertfall nyte ventetiden.
Litt som en kjempestor adventskalender med masse fine ting bak hver luke. Selv om det er en mistanke om at det ikke er noenting bak den siste luken.
Jeg velger å leve i håpet.
G_B's argumentasjon i denne tråden har alltid dreid seg om WHATABOUTHILLARY?!?!?! Det er jo knapt mulig å forsvare gjøken som holder til i det hvite hus på noen annen måte enn å late som om alle andre er like ille. Whataboutism - har funket for russerne i femti år.Vel, det ene dreier seg om brudd på retningslinjer for håndtering av epost (alvorlig nok), det andre dreier seg om mulig samarbeid med fremmed makt. Jeg ser en forskjell her , og så får vi se hvordan det spiller seg ut. Og presidenten har jo fått den FBI ledelsen han ville ha - det var vel ikke uten grunn han sparket Comey, eller var dette bare nok en bekreftelse på at fyren mangler impulskontroll og er ute av stand til å vurdere konsekvensen av egne handlinger (det ser i hvert fall slik ut for meg)? Men interessant at mer og mer av argumentasjonen din dreier seg om at Hillary er like ille, vi får jo tolke det som vi vil, jeg tenker mitt. Siden Hillary var veldig ille i din bok, sier vel det en del om Trump.
SELVFØLGELIG!G_B's argumentasjon i denne tråden har alltid dreid seg om WHATABOUTHILLARY?!?!?! Det er jo knapt mulig å forsvare gjøken som holder til i det hvite hus på noen annen måte enn å late som om alle andre er like ille. Whataboutism - har funket for russerne i femti år.
Nå må det snart rekke med pølsevev.Something is rotten in the land of the brave, og det er ikke Donald Trump!G_B's argumentasjon i denne tråden har alltid dreid seg om WHATABOUTHILLARY?!?!?! Det er jo knapt mulig å forsvare gjøken som holder til i det hvite hus på noen annen måte enn å late som om alle andre er like ille. Whataboutism - har funket for russerne i femti år.