I will still be posting on the PBH thread

I saw the inaguration just before leaving Mumbai. Excellent speech I thought. America needs to win more. I agree.

What I heard it didn't think was anything more than bs. But I don't think it's trump's fault. I'd bet he had nothing to do with writing that speech (it was also too coherent to be his)... of any of the million things we can judge him for... that speech is likely not one.

But I'm shocked to not see anyone here complain of his use of a teleprompter. Didn't we see that complaint 8 years ago?

Heard it = heard of it.
Goddammit I've got to start reviewing before hitting post.

Axl wrote that speech... 😟

Aren't they all really. 🇨🇮

Bad mics are the new excuse.

Spicer reminds me of Baghdad Bob with his wife Tammy Fay Conway.

yep...Conway told us yesterday, with a straight face, that they will provide alternative facts. She basically said that Thumpher doesn't trust the media so he will tell us whatever he wants and we have to accept his alternative facts as the truth. Aren't alternative facts make believe, falsehoods, not real?

Then she said Thumpher won't release his tax returns because the American people don't care (if he cheats on his taxes, lies about income/losses, has debt sources in Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, owns business interests in foreign countries where the U.S. has opposing interests) about his tax returns: they only care about their own tax returns and whether Thumpher can lower their taxes.

So, we are all gullible selfish morons who will believe a self-dealing liar as long as the liar gives us some money?

On the upside she now says he will release his taxes once the audit is done... I could have sworn that sitting presidents aren't able to be prosecuted for anything prior to their presidency... don't know why the audit would be going on still...

so...he ran for president to get the IRS off his ass?

Some legal scholars support the idea that a sitting President can't be charged and prosecuted for criminal behavior prior to or during his term. If so, prosecuting a President would give the Judicial branch a huge power over the Executive. A potential criminal prosecution could happen after the President leaves office, if the statutes of limitation allow, or are argued to have been stayed. This has never happened and nothing has been codified, so it's all speculation.

There is the impeachment process, where a sitting President can be held accountable. It requires the Congress, specifically the house first to begin the process to determine that the President has committed "high crimes and misdemeanors." There isn't an indication or definition of what that is, or whether that includes conduct before taking office, except a low bar was set when lying about a BJ was considered a high crime/misdemeanor, an impeachable offense. As long as the House is solidly GOP, that isn't going to happen, regardless of what Thumpher has done, or will do.

As for an on-going audit, isn't the IRS an executive branch, and Thumpher their boss? He's going to direct them to keep auditing, then lose the file just before he leaves office...