Philip Bump: In shocking testimony that caused jaws to drop with surprise, we learned this week that, contrary to promises, Trump conducted Trump Organization business from the White House. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

In shocking testimony that caused jaws to drop with surprise, we learned this week that, contrary to promises, Trump conducted Trump Organization business from the White House. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Of course Trump intertwined the Trump Organization into his presidencywww.washingtonpost.com If reelected, there’s no reason to think that he’d do anything different.

Hey do you remember.... 🤣

do you mean to tell me that the obviously fake press conference where he pretended to divest from his businesses, and the press pretended to believe him was fake?

Not sure much of the press pretended to believe him.

So they actually believed him? Or just abetted him?

Yeah, there wasn't really any follow-up, and he then proceeded to dump millions of tax dollars into his golf resorts and take foreign clients at his hotels.

Then why didn’t they report it that way?

Okay, and then Maggie Haberman said …. What?

welp, they sure af didn't tell any of us that; it just sorta floated away into the memory hole...

'Twas by design, sir.

Was this the press conference with a table and stacks of paper and maybe binders and boxes? The one where no reporter seemed to ask to see some of this proof? Or am I confusing his distancing from his private business with another cover up from his time in office?

The only thing worse than going along with the pretense that the emperor was wearing new clothes is being so delusional as to believe it oneself.

For people who didn’t believe him, they sure as hell did a lot of covering him and broadcasting him live.

Didn't Hillary Clinton lay the groundwork for this by conmingling Clinton Foundation fundraising with State Department business while using the Clinton Foundation as a shadow presidential campaign?

Are you really trying to argue that Trump did this because the precedent had been set by Hillary? First off, Trump does not give one shit about precedent or norms, and Trump’s whole selling point was supposedly “draining the swamp” of politicians who were self serving like this.

I'm saying Democrats don't really GAF about the rules. Democrats are supporting a genocide.

But, the huge stack of papers! So, so many pages. Big credibility.

Beautiful pages.

shocking to whom who’s jaws are dropping here

Oh sure, just talk about the “testimony under oath” and ignore how many folders filled with blank paper he stacked up on that table.

No way, i don’t believe it, you gotta bean kidding me

The dude released photographs of him and his whole family flagrantly committing crimes by violating the Hatch Act. I don’t know what more the courts want? Him holding up photo ID, a copy of today’s newspaper, and a poster that says “here are all the crimes I’m willfully doing”?

“We need a businessman!”🤦‍♂️

...and they got one

Yea a crappy one with many failed businesses and several bankruptcies! 😂

ah, so *that's* why the wall wasn't built

LMFAO!!

The only think that’s shocking about this is that people are shocked.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to find there were breaches of ethics going on in there.

Came into the replies specifically to find this reaction and you did not disappoint.

Gambling, this establishment, etc

I'm sure the national media will be outraged.

I mean, I think The Washington Post counts?

Would be nice if this were on the front page. Instead the lead is "Biden increasingly isolated on Gaza."

Gaza and its fallout are much more important than Trump and will have knock-on effects long after he and Biden are piles of bones and dust.

With all due respect to the genocide in Gaza, a Trump presidency would radically change the nature of our government. There's a serious risk of an authoritarian regime there. It's weird that people don't get that.

It's also weird that people think a Trump presidency would do anything other than make that situation much worse.

it may "become" an authoritarian regime, he said, turning away from the police beating student demonstrators at this very moment

Both are extremely important

...no

its a fucking genocide rick

So, you haven't read the story?

babe you are 80 years past the time everyone was expected to learn what a genocide is and why its important.

idk man im thinking that might actually be a touch more relevant

But there's no actual _news_ in that story. And I don't see how "Presidential candidate is caught lying" is less important than a war thousands of miles away. The threat of a Trump presidency is far more important than Gaza.

Sickening. I hope one day you reunite with your humanity.

This is the just beyond cruel. A *threat* of a Trump presidency is more important than the slaughter of an entire ethnic group? Are you hearing yourself?

You don't have to skeet this. But since you did, you should delete it