Goofle

Imagine if he did meddle with them. He'd be doing something he's not supposed to do.

Back in reality land, how pathetic has this Trump presidency been? Done basically nothing he ran on.

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Anteater

It's almost like the fact that DT isn't really a Republican nor a Democrat has ultimately isolated him politically to the extent where its impossible to get anything done.

Better luck in 2020 boyz n gurlz...though if you believe Michael Moore it looks like he's a two termer.

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Chula Vista

Is VERY publically pressuring the owners to fire their employees not meddling?

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Frownland

Nope. It's dumb as **** and a plain-faced distraction though.

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Frownland

-in agreement not snideness

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Chula Vista

This might apply since Trump is obviously using his partisan base to try and influence the owners.

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

I appreciate your use of the word might. Here are my thoughts on the law as it applies to this.

If (1) applies to this case, then he's good because he's just saying "well how nice if [lame pandering that doesn't reference legal action]". That's not threatening an act. Easy.

(2) is where it gets tough. The use of the word influence is extremely ambiguous, do you have any cases that establish precedence for that? You yourself have told me that the president is an incredibly influential figure and that people will glob onto his actions regardless of their ethical nature. So according to that law, anything that a president does that causes someone else to do something is illegal, which would put every president in jail which makes me think that there's more to the picture than that. If I had a legal definition for influence that aligned with this case, I would probably agree with you, but I'm too lazy to find it myself.

Imo, it's just a very blatant display of a traditional PR tactic from a person who is not used to being a figure with an almost UNPRECEDENTED(!!!!!!!) amount of scrutiny directed towards every breath he takes on a scale that's large enough for people to not just roll their eyes at it. Not that most of the breaths he takes aren't polluted from the oil companies he takes bribes from etc etc however much qualifying it takes to get you to actually see my point, of course. Either this boilover will fizzle out and be forgotten when the heat is adjusted or it will lead to some actual SCOTUS/Congressional decisions that could put Trump in a pinch. For now, my money's on the former because I gamble on politics like a good citizen.

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Mindy

heres a 2nd source.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...warning-243324

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Chula Vista

Trump is urging his republican base to boycott NFL games, by not going to them or not watching them on TV, unless the NFL CEOs do something (fire them or create new workplace rules) in regard to their employees.

People boycotting NFL games would directly affect the CEOs revenue stream (private business income): loss of ticket sales, loss of concession sales, loss of parking fees, loss of souvenir sales, decrease of ad revenue if TV ratings were to go down, etc.

If nothing else, you would think Trump's goverment appointed legal team would be advising him back off with the NFL rhetoric.


UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE!

In other news, Trump's trying to deflect the critisism of his handling of the Puerto crisis over to Puerto Rico and their outspoken mayor!!!!!!

Trump attacks San Juan mayor over hurricane response - CNNPolitics

Maybe things would be different if he had a Trump resort on the island???

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

Do you know of any precedence that establishes a legal definition for what would be considered influence? It's an incredibly slippery slope. For example, this would be illegal under a loose interpretation, but is it really? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...skins/2927351/

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