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My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person -- always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!

“I don’t see what their defense is,” said Campaign Legal Center general counsel Lawrence Noble, who is also former counsel for the Federal Election Commission. “She did this on television. She was very clear it was advertising. Hopefully at the very least they will acknowledge this is wrong.”

Don W. Fox, former general counsel and former acting director of OGE, told The Washington Post that “Conway’s encouragement to buy Ivanka’s stuff would seem to be a clear violation of rules prohibiting misuse of public office for anyone’s private gain.”

Conway’s endorsement of the Ivanka business also highlights an awkward reality for a White House threatening U.S. companies seeking to move jobs or operations overseas. Nearly all of Ivanka-brand merchandise is manufactured in low-cost-labor countries, including China, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

Malcolm wrote:Dipshit Drumpf wants the pigs to be able to legally steal your things.

At a listening session with county sheriffs from around the country, Drumpf invited the sheriffs seated in the White House’s Roosevelt Room to make a statement while reporters were present. Rockwall County, Texas, Sheriff Harold Eavenson spoke up first to discuss asset forfeiture, a practice by which law enforcement can seize the cash and property of individuals suspected of committing a crime without a guilty verdict.
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“On asset forfeiture, we’ve got a state senator in Texas that was talking about introducing legislation to require conviction before we could receive that forfeiture money,” Eavenson said.

I really, really wish this was a quote from History of the World, Part I. But no, it's one of Texas's finest arguing FUCK CONVICTIONS. We need money, even if you're not guilty. If you get it, spend it, then the accused gets acquitted, do you pay it back?

“Can you believe that?” Drumpf interjected.

“And I told him that the cartel would build a monument to him in Mexico if he could get that legislation passed,” the Texas sheriff continued.

“Who is the state senator? Do you want to give his name? We’ll destroy his career,” Drumpf replied, presumably suggesting that the lawmaker would suffer for holding a position contrary to the president’s.

Spoken like L. Ron Hubbard himself.

After the Politico article ran, Leach posted on Facebook: "Hey! I oppose civil asset forfeiture too. Why don't you come after me you fascist, loofa-faced s***-gibbon!!"
The lawmaker wasn't finished.

A little later, Leach took to Twitter, Trump's preferred platform, saying: "Hey @realDonaldTrump I oppose civil asset forfeiture too! Why don't you try to destroy my career you fascist, loofa-faced, s***-gibbon!"

Still later, Leach wrote on Facebook: "S***-Gibbon" goes viral! Maybe someday it will be written on my tombstone....or his."

In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally

TheCatt wrote:

In any other election year, the National Security adviser cozying up to the Russians pre-election and then lying about it would be a barn burner.

Leisher wrote:front page of this website seems to disagree.

Leisher wrote:

In any other election year, the National Security adviser cozying up to the Russians pre-election and then lying about it would be a barn burner.

See, you say that, but the front page of this website seems to disagree.

(Is the exact, same scandal there? No, but plenty of others. And is cozying up to the Chinese better than the Russians, like the Clintons did?)

Troy wrote:

Leisher wrote:front page of this website seems to disagree.

Ah, good old nostalgia, miss those days.

Meanwhile another Goldman Sachs banker got confirmed today to drain the credit regulations, I mean swamp.

National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has resigned, a Drumpf administration official confirmed Monday evening.

The resignation came amid a growing scandal over Flynn's contact with Russia's ambassador during the transition period, and his apparent obfuscations to Vice President Mike Pence about the calls.

GORDON wrote: Holy fucking shit, I had a lot of stuff to do today but this NS advisor thing throws the whole schedule off.

The F.B.I. declined to comment. The White House also declined to comment Tuesday night, but earlier in the day, the press secretary, Sean Spicer, stood by Mr. Trump’s previous comments that nobody from his campaign had contact with Russian officials before the election.