January 20,
2017: Trump Shows Off New National Salute
Day One
That He Vowed
(The long haul back home)
Trump’s first 100 days in
office and 20 of his possible
actions along with his cabinet
and these possible Department
Heads and much,
much more follows below. and on real and perceived hot spots for conflicts of interests this neat piece of reporting from Politico with several examples ... so, imagine our president in this scenario? Wow...
His first day in office – he pledged
is this:
Possibly roll back
regulations, impose tariffs, or making some none-too-discreet phone calls from
the Oval Office to who-knows-where, candidate Trump vowed to “bring back the
vanishing jobs of miners, bakers, and assembly-line workers, beginning on Day 1
of my administration.” He then added: “It’s going to happen fast. This is so
easy.” (Vowed to a crowd in Charleston, WVA).
#1 tremendous potential “conflicts of
interests” between Trump, Inc. CEO and Trump in his duties as President for
USA, Inc.:
Introduction and Background:
Trump, Inc. is worldwide and renowned, but he is subject to huge and massive
conflicts of interests between his job and his business interests. Simply
having everything in a blind trust is not an answer … with his 3 kids running that
trust – see CRS report to Congress below.
… In essence a blind trust
means he has zero involvement and that would mean family members running the
show and counting the money as it were in his name.
Solutions: (1) Create a bona fide
“blind trust” independent from him and his family, or, (2) divest all of his
holdings before taking office, since he would after Jan 20, 2017 be president
and therefore obligated to appoint people in high positions and courts that
could rule on conflicts that could arise…
Related to above:
Trump’s immediate family members, i.e., wife or children cannot take over in what he describes
as a “blind trust.” Federal law and
rules do not allow that. Cite the following extract from a CRS report to
Congress:
“A blind trust,” as discussed
in this report, is a device employed by a federal official to hold, administer and manage the private
financial assets, investments, and ownerships of the official, and his or
her spouse and dependent children, as a method of conflict of interest
avoidance. In establishing a qualified blind trust upon the approval of the
appropriate supervisory ethics entity, the
official transfers, without restriction, control and management of private
assets to an independent trustee who may not communicate information about the
identity of the holdings in the trust to the official. The trust is considered
“blind” because eventually, through the sale of transferred assets and the
purchase of new ones, the public officer will be shielded from knowledge of the
identity of the specific assets in the trust. Without such knowledge, conflict of interest issues would be
avoided because no particular asset in the trust could act as an influence upon the
official duties that the officer performs for the Government.”
From
NPR (PBS) – a very key example.
America’s system of
political checks and balances may vanish in the first 100 days of a Donald
Trump presidency and Republican-run Congress. Facing no restraints other than
protests they can ignore, Republicans driven by far right-wing ideologies,
partisan score-settling and fealty to corporate America may seek to erase all
traces of the Obama years and reset the political and judicial stage for years
to come. It’s not just Trump’s draconian campaign pledges that stand to be
initiated or imposed; it’s (1) House Tea Party types who have been obstructing
and investigating the Obama administration for years, (2) Senate Republicans who
put their party’s interests before the nation by blocking jobs bills,
infrastructure bills and Supreme Court nominees, now feel vindicated.
Listed are the 16 worst-case
scenarios that could mark Trump’s first 100 days.
USSC Vacancies:
USSC nominees:
Trump unveiled a list of 11 potential Supreme Court picks in May
and has added several names since. Asked by CBS interviewer Lesley Stahl about
his criteria for selecting judicial appointees, Trump confirmed he'd pick “pro-life” judges who would also be “very
pro-Second Amendment.”
As for Roe v. Wade, the
Supreme Court decision barring states from preventing women from having an
abortion, Trump said that women seeking
the procedure might have to “go to another state” if the decision were
overturned.
Immigration Reform: Trump has said he would quickly cancel a program Mr. Obama put in
place by executive action that gave protection from deportation and work
permits to about 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the United States
as children (DREAMERS) part of the
EO on the DACA ruling, sort of a
ruling (4-4).
(CNN) (June 23, 2016) – In a crushing blow to the White House, the Supreme
Court announced Thursday it was evenly divided in a case concerning President
Barack Obama's controversial executive actions on immigration. (And this is why
we need 9 justices and not 8 – but Trump still wants it 5-4 and this GOP will
not process Judge Garland – shitty politics that impact people and their
lives).
The one-sentence ruling, issued without comment or dissent, means that the programs will
remain blocked from going into effect, and the issue will return to the lower
court. It is exceedingly unlikely the programs will go into effect for the
remainder of the Obama presidency.
Mr. Obama, speaking at the White
House, lamented the ruling. “For more than two decades now our immigration
system, everybody acknowledges, has been broken. And the fact that the Supreme
Court wasn't able to issue a decision today doesn't just set the system back
even further, it takes us further from the country that we aspire to be.”
The ruling will impact the more than 4
million undocumented immigrants seeking to be able to come out of the shadows
and apply for these programs to stay in the United States. Immediately after
Obama announced them in late 2014, Texas and 25 other states challenged the
plans and they were blocked nationwide by a federal district court the next
year.
IMPACT:
Millions would lose their jobs and college scholarships that allowed many to
attend college and start careers. They would be vulnerable to deportation.
From
the LA TIMES: Nearly a third of
the 742,000 so-called Dreamers — those given protection under the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals program — live in California and are potentially
at risk of losing legal status.
TRUMP IMMIGRATION PLANS LEAD TO
UNCERTAINTY FOR 'DREAMERS'
Using the same executive authority that Obama used to create the DACA
and other initiatives (DREAMERS), Trump also can quickly fulfill his
promises to severely restrict the number of refugees admitted each year
and to effectively bar visitors from countries with large Muslim populations.
Trump said he quickly would cancel all those Obama programs. So, “police
state” here we come why? All that would take massive law enforcement operations
to be required to ramp it up with widespread raids in communities and
workplaces.
Mr. Trump is also likely to expand detention centers along the border
for illegal line crossers, ending the Obama administration’s practice of releasing
many families who have come fleeing violence in Central America so they can
seek asylum in immigration courts.
Mr. Trump has said he will punish so-called sanctuary cities, which
have curbed their cooperation with the immigration authorities, by withholding
federal funding.
Update: Many today again say they will not enforce his harsh
immigration steps... a huge movement is afoot in that regard, bet on it. Police
Chief in LA said “That is not our job and I won’t make it our job.”
RESISTANCE IS
ON THE MOVE IT SEEMS???
Now what about that Wall and Mexico
fitting the bill?
Trump also has promised to
start construction right away on a wall across the Southwest border that was
the signature proposal and rallying cry of his campaign.
But, that will take
money from Congress, Trump now says. Um…
first broken promise and pledge. Mexico will pay for it – yeah, sure they will.
Second broken pledge.
How many more Trump oops are
forthcoming? I’d have to say a ton…!!!
I don’t know what will or
will not happen in Trump’s first 100 days – no one knows for sure, but we all
have our guesses and imaginations – and none are pretty based on what we know
about this man.
My summary for all Trump
voters: You have been had … it’s that simple.
Stay tuned, and thanks for stopping
by.
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