The "When will Donald Trump leave office in disgrace?" Pool

People close to Trump say that one of his major criteria was that his appointees had to look the part. He was casting it like a feature film (and he has said as much himself, as someone quoted him). They couldn't be ugly, they had to be telegenic. Pretty much in character for Trump. He spent months buying marble sinks for the bathrooms in Trump Airlines, rther than researching what business travels actually wanted, like more frequent flights.

. On the contrary our passive aggressive narcicisst current President with his phone and his pen has behaved in a rather authoritarian Putinesque manner himself.

Obama's curtain call: A look back on a legacy of executive overreach

... those on the left have shifted their sights from expanding big government programs to...worrying about the possibility of executive overreach during the next administration.

This new-found concern for executive power is ironic given that the Obama administration’s signature move has been aggressively to sidestep the democratic process.

The Obama administration issued 560 major regulations in its first 7 years, and regulations and executive orders continue to be pushed through the administration post-election.

Though Obama has frequently touted his pen and phone policymaking, these actions on immigration, environmental policy, and presidential appointees have often been swatted away by the Supreme Court.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, issued a July 2014 report that found 20 instances in which a unanimous high court ruled against the administration.

The Obama administration has fared worse before the Supreme Court than any other modern president’s administration.

“This reflects an Obama administration pattern of ignoring the rule of law and usurping the role of Congress—as illustrated, for example, in its unauthorized efforts to rewrite the immigration laws and the Obamacare statute without congressional authorization,” Abbott said

District and appellate level courts halted many of Obama’s executive actions. Some of Obama’s actions still await a ruling in court, such as his gun control initiative.

All of this is quite remarkable given that the Constitution vests the power to make law with Congress, not the president, as President Obama, once a lecturer in constitutional law, well knows.

True, but Trump is going to be president, not a TVlproducer, and we damned well should hope he uses other criteria more important, If you look at his choices, you might be hard pressed to find other criteria than looks.

Unless there a charge of income tax evasion who the **** cares? As far as I'm concerned we should do away with the IRS and mail in a ******* 3x5 card that I did my taxes on.

The allegations first surfaced in late March, when former Manhattan Borough president Percy Sutton told a New York cable channel that a former business partner who was “raising money” for Obama had approached him in 1988 to help Obama get into Harvard Law School....

In the interview, Sutton says he first heard of Obama about twenty years ago from Khalid Al-Mansour, a Black Muslim and Black Nationalist who was a “mentor” to the founders of the Black Panther party at the time the party was founded in the early 1960s.

Sutton described al-Mansour as advisor to “one of the world’s richest men,” Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

Prince Alwaleed catapulted to fame in the United States after the September 11 attacks, when New York mayor Rudy Guiliani refused his $10 million check to help rebuild Manhattan, because the Saudi prince hinted publicly that America’s pro-Israel policies were to blame for the attacks.

Sutton knew Al-Mansour well, since the two men had been business partners and served on several corporate boards together.

As Sutton remembered, Al-Mansour was raising money for Obama’s education and seeking recommendations for him to attend Harvard Law School and had asked Sutton to write a letter of recommendation for Obama to help him get accepted at Harvard Law School.

"I was introduced to (Obama) by a friend who was raising money for him,” Sutton told NY city hall reporter Dominic Carter. “The friend’s name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, from Texas."

Obama college costs paid by Saudis Arabs, Khalid Al-Mansour requested Arab money, Vernon Jarrett Percy Suttton confirm.

....but to avoid letting them run all over us.

Jesus, am I the only one who remembers Nixon?

vindictive lieing sociopathic conman

Nobody wants a war with Russia, but it would be great if Trump could banish those dollar signs in his eyes so he could properly see Putin's goals. Again, not to engage in war, but to avoid letting them run all over us.

What amazes me is how many lieing, sociopathic, conmen voters we have in the U S.