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keith wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:52 pm The surprise is that nobody has asked what really happened to those 'donations' since those 'Federal Agencies' are prohibited by law from receiving private donations.

keith wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:52 pm The surprise is that nobody has asked what really happened to those 'donations' since those 'Federal Agencies' are prohibited by law from receiving private donations.

Agencies and bureaus of the Federal Government now have authority to receive and use donations of funds.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:02 pm

keith wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:52 pm The surprise is that nobody has asked what really happened to those 'donations' since those 'Federal Agencies' are prohibited by law from receiving private donations.

I'm not sure that is still the case.

Agencies and bureaus of the Federal Government now have authority to receive and use donations of funds.

https://www.gao.gov/products/b-149711

Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
07/29/21

Under the weak leadership of Mitch McConnell, Senate Republicans continue to lose. He lost Arizona, he lost Georgia, he ignored Election Fraud and he doesn’t fight. Now he’s giving Democrats everything they want and getting nothing in return. No deal is better than a bad deal. Fight for America, not for special interests and Radical Democrats. RINOs are ruining America, right alongside Communist Democrats.

noblepa wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:02 pm

keith wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:52 pm The surprise is that nobody has asked what really happened to those 'donations' since those 'Federal Agencies' are prohibited by law from receiving private donations.

Is that true? I know that, in general, you can make donations to the Federal government. I've heard that it happens. Not a lot, but it happens, perhaps a hundred times a year or so. With 300M people in this country, over 100M of whom are taxpayers, that's a drop in the bucket.

I've also heard of people leaving bequests to the Federal government in their wills.

Is the rule that one can only donate to the US Treasury and not specify how the money is to be spent?

WATCH: Mark Meadows Says Trump Meeting with ‘Cabinet Members’ at Jersey Golf Club About ‘Moving Forward in a Real Way’
TOMMY CHRISTOPHER JUL 31, 2021 8:30 AM

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said that former President Donald Trump has been meeting with “cabinet members” at his New Jersey golf resort, mysteriously adding that they’re planning to “move forward in a real way.”

As he did throughout the interview, Meadows referred to Trump in the present-tense “the president,” and described meeting with “members of our cabinet”:

Well, we met with several of our cabinet members tonight, we actually had a follow-up member, meeting with some of our cabinet members, and as we were looking at that, we were looking at what does come next. I’m not authorized to speak on behalf of the president, but I can tell you this steve. We wouldn’t be meeting tonight if we weren’t making plans to move forward in a real way, with president Trump at the head of that ticket.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 11:41 am WTF cabinet is this? Is this the shadow government?

WATCH: Mark Meadows Says Trump Meeting with ‘Cabinet Members’ at Jersey Golf Club About ‘Moving Forward in a Real Way’
TOMMY CHRISTOPHER JUL 31, 2021 8:30 AM

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said that former President Donald Trump has been meeting with “cabinet members” at his New Jersey golf resort, mysteriously adding that they’re planning to “move forward in a real way.”

As he did throughout the interview, Meadows referred to Trump in the present-tense “the president,” and described meeting with “members of our cabinet”:

Well, we met with several of our cabinet members tonight, we actually had a follow-up member, meeting with some of our cabinet members, and as we were looking at that, we were looking at what does come next. I’m not authorized to speak on behalf of the president, but I can tell you this steve. We wouldn’t be meeting tonight if we weren’t making plans to move forward in a real way, with president Trump at the head of that ticket.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-mar ... -real-way/

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 11:37 am As my dog, Shadow, would say after being banished to the basement after jumping the fence, "Totally worth it."

(After jumping the fence and returning to the front door after her frolic, shadow knew she had to go to the basement for a couple of hours. Hell, she'd come in the front door and go straight to the stairs without being told.)

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 11:54 am Hubs had a question since we keep hearing DeSantis is high on trump's '24 VEEP list - where does trump live if he picks DeSantis? Any problems with him taking up residence at Bedford?

noblepa wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 6:47 pm

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 11:54 am Hubs had a question since we keep hearing DeSantis is high on trump's '24 VEEP list - where does trump live if he picks DeSantis? Any problems with him taking up residence at Bedford?

He'll just do like Dick Cheney did and declare one of his other houses or hotels to be his "residence".

Cheney, clearly a resident of Texas, declared his vacation home in Colorado as his residence, to avoid the Constitutional conflict.

I don't believe there is any statute that clarifies the Constitutional provision that the President and Vice President can't be from the same state. I don't think that the founding fathers expected a candidate to have a vacation home in Vail and a home in Texas.

I think that Congress could pass a law that would pass Constitutional muster, clarifying how one's primary residence is determined, for the purpose of running for POTUS or VPOTUS. Perhaps your most recent voter registration. Or the address given on your 1040.

keith wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:08 pm

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:02 pm

keith wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:52 pm The surprise is that nobody has asked what really happened to those 'donations' since those 'Federal Agencies' are prohibited by law from receiving private donations.

I'm not sure that is still the case.

Agencies and bureaus of the Federal Government now have authority to receive and use donations of funds.

https://www.gao.gov/products/b-149711

Well then I stand corrected.

To be clear, this list documents announcements — not receipts — of Trump’s donations.

CNN reports that “federal regulations prohibit agencies from accepting donated funds unless Congress grants authority to the agency to accept the donation. Without congressional authorization, donated money is deposited into the general fund of the Department of Treasury.” We contacted the Department of Treasury to find out if documentation for any such deposits is publicly available and have yet to hear back.

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 11:54 am Hubs had a question since we keep hearing DeSantis is high on trump's '24 VEEP list - where does trump live if he picks DeSantis? Any problems with him taking up residence at Bedford?

Facing disbarment, Texas AG Ken Paxton backs away from Trump's fraud claims
Ken Paxton was all-in on Trump's conspiracy theories. Now he's arguing technicalities to keep his law license
By JON SKOLNIK
PUBLISHED JULY 30, 2021 5:45AM (EDT)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, an ardent Trump supporter who was the lead plaintiff in a last-ditch Supreme Court case aimed at overturning the 2020 election, appears to be backing away from his past claims of widespread election fraud. Facing discipline or even potential disbarment in Texas, Paxton now merely alleges that there were "irregularities" in battleground states, while still suggesting those could somehow have affected the overall result

Paxton's apparent retreat came earlier this month in response to an array of grievances filed by several members of the Texas bar: retired lawyer Neil Cohen; Kevin Moran, president of the Galveston Island Democrats; former Texas Court of Appeals Chief Justice David Chew; and Dr. Brynne VanHettinga. In their initial complaint, the group argued that Paxton should face professional discipline over his bid to undermine the 2020 presidential election, saying that Paxton's December petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that President Biden's victory should be set aside, was both frivolous and unethical.

In Paxton's response to their grievances, which was provided to Salon, the attorney general argued that "Texas's filings were not frivolous" because "the 2020 election suffered from significant and unconstitutional irregularities in the Defendant States." Paxton further claimed that, by this logic, he and his office "did not violate the disciplinary rules."

Paxton's response is a clear departure from his previous rhetoric, much of which explicitly supported former President Trump's grandiose conspiracy theories about systemic election fraud. Earlier this month, Paxton told a Dallas crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference that his "fight" for election security "is not done."


https://www.salon.com/2021/07/30/facing ... ud-claims/