Quotes
When we’re negotiating with other countries, the concern is that our negotiating position will change if someone does a favor or delivers a gift to the president of the United States,
Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer in the administration of George W Bush, said
President Trump and the Trump family have moved at breakneck speed to profit from a massive crypto scam on the American people.”
An advisory sent to congressional Democrats this week and seen by the Guardian saidThe status quo has been saying no, because it’s an actual and apparent conflict of interest, and it could jeopardize our domestic and foreign policies,
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This isn’t America first. This is not what he promised the American people. This is Trump first,
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Trump has put a for-sale sign out front of the White House,
said Norm Eisen, the executive director of the legal advocacy group State Democracy Defenders Fund and a White House “ethics czar” and ambassador to the Czech Republic under Barack ObamaYou think the founders wouldn’t have considered that a bribe?”
he said
We won three elections, OK? And some people want us to do a fourth. I don’t know. I’ll have to think about it,
Mr. Trump told the troops, yet again floating the idea of an unconstitutional third term in office
Somebody’s going to be taking the credit for this. You remember, press, ... this guy did it.”
he said, pointing to himselfGovernments and publics throughout the gulf like Trump a lot,
said Jon B. Alterman, a global security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in WashingtonThis was the one place that’s guaranteed to give him a very enthusiastic, warm and tightly controlled welcome,
Mr. Leber added
We commend President Trump’s decision to lift all sanctions on Syria,
the leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jim Risch, Republican of Idaho; and Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire, said in a joint statementAs a construction person, I’m seeing perfect marble. This is what they call perfecto,
Mr. Trump said at one point, admiring the royal court in Doha, the capital of QatarIt’s crucial for the wider world to note this great transformation has not come from Western interventionists or flying people in beautiful planes, giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs,
Mr. Trump said at a gathering of Saudi royalty and business elites in RiyadhThe U.S. and Qatar are feeding and fueling the world,
the emir said, before turning to Mr. TrumpThey feel Western liberals want to shame them on their domestic issues, everything from L.G.B.T. rights to abuse of migrant workers,
Mr. Alterman addedThe respect shown to our country was incredible. Nobody’s treated like that. Nobody’s treated well like that.”
On Friday, the president reflected on his trip on Air Force OneThe last four days have been really amazing,
Mr. Trump said on Thursday, as he was leaving a palace in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where he had just been feted_(cropped).jpg)
Drill, baby, drill.”
In Doha, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, adopted Mr. Trump’s energy sloganThey don’t say ‘subject to financing,’
Mr. Trump saidI’ll be sitting home, who the hell knows where I’ll be, and I’ll say, ‘I did that,’
he said