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Bobathonic's avatar

You'd have to ask whomever determined that. I'd assume those are defined as revenue for services and not as foreign emoluments. Of course that was all corrupt money laundering, but paying his business for a supposed service is different than handing the president a pricey gift.

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FAFO PAB!! Demme's avatar

Oh, Wonkette and it's wily ways!

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gammarae's avatar

If it's all so innocent because it's how businessmen work, then it's yet another reason that businessmen should NOT be presumed to be a great choice for president

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Kgprophet's avatar

That's it. I'm not going to vote for Trump in 2024 because emails.

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Paul's avatar

Yes. She became a judge, FFS.

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Kgprophet's avatar

Do not mistaken CNN for liberal media.

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Brian Bixby's avatar

If he had been an Amazon or Microsoft exec they would have canned his ass so fast his head would swim.

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Bindersfulohostbodies's avatar

Lol! Absolutely not! CNN is the contrast for Fox and nothing more.

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Hiram's avatar

It's like the checker shadow illusion of morality. You can pretend that tiles in the shadow are lighter than the unshaded tiles as long as you don't bring the two into too close a comparison. Sartre probably had words on this.

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Brian Bixby's avatar

While the Rethugs make a big deal about Clinton's email server, they conveniently forget that she did that at the suggestion of Rice and Powell, who did the same thing.

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

That would be nice. But if we are going to have corrupt politicians, maybe add some actual penalties for violating the norms. Those poor violated norms . . .

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Zap's avatar

"Watch me eat spam naked" was the tagline.

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

At this point, I have no idea. I've reached the pointy stick point of political discourse.

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mailman27's avatar

You weren't supposed to realize that the blur of word salad was meaningless.

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TDubzz's avatar

This YouTuber gets to the same point with the person who called in:

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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