Immediately after Trump took the oath of office on Friday, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint
with the General Services Administration and called on the federal
government to notify the new president that he was officially in
violation of his lease for the Trump International Hotel down the street
from the White House. The lease that one of Trump’s company’s, Trump
Old Post Office LLC, signed with the government states that no “elected
official” of the U.S. government can share in the lease or derive
benefit from it.
(via Live Coverage of Donald Trump’s Inauguration – The Atlantic)
‘He Has This Deep Fear That He Is Not a Legitimate President’
‘He Has This Deep Fear That He Is Not a Legitimate President’
“Now, after more than two months of Trump’s norm-shattering
transition, we gathered Gwenda Blair, Michael D’Antonio and Tim O’Brien
by conference call (Wayne Barrett, the dean of Trump reporters, died on
Thursday in Manhattan after a long illness) to assess whether Trump has
continued to surprise them. Their collective wisdom? In a word, no.”
CPJ Safety Advisory: Covering the US presidential inauguration and protests – Committee to Protect Journalists
Some journalists and editors are concerned that the media will be
targeted or get caught up in violence during the events surrounding the
inauguration. Here are some tips to help journalists stay safe. They are
intended as guidance, and may not fit all situations.
Let the Record Show
Let the record show that I did not consent to this.
Let
it show that I did not vote for this man, that he did not represent
me, that I did not believe he was deserving of being here, that I
grieved his ascension.
