Obama worked out those deals after he left office, the Post said. And there is no evidence he negotiated the contracts while serving as president. He went on to say the 16 million assault-style weapons in the U. But PolitiFact. During the Sept. While discussing the candidate's gun proposal Oct. A spokesman for O'Rourke's campaign told PolitiFact, "Beto has been clear that he is talking about a mandatory buyback program for assault weapons, which is not confiscation.
A University of Wyoming professor and gun law expert George Mocsary disagrees. That is confiscation," he said. When video of protesters in Minneapolis during an Oct. Ilhan Omar, according to The Associated Press. Omar was on a five-day trip to Morocco with other representatives while the campaign rally was happening, the AP said.
Star Tribune reporter Andy Mannix, who shot the video, told the AP he reached out to set the record straight after the footage was circulating on social media with fake information. In response to the false identification, California Rep. Karen Bass, who was on the trip with Omar, wrote on Twitter, "So sad to return to bigoted nonsense from people who think that if they see one person with a hijab on, they've seen them all," the AP reported. The Taters Gonna Tate website only publishes satirical or humorous stories, but many who read reposts on social media don't recognize that, Snopes said.
But this does not mean he earns no money. This notion is misleading because Trump continues to profit off of real estate he owns or manages, despite lawsuits arguing that this violates the Constitution's emoluments clauses.
Trump is not the first president to donate his salary. Former Presidents John F. Kennedy and Herbert Hoover, both wealthy before they took office, donated all their earnings.
When Trump announced his decision to forgo a salary, critics expressed doubt because presidents are required to be compensated for their work. Trump and his constituents have not yet announced where he will donate his salary for the first and second quarters of Federal regulations bar many government agencies from accepting donations unless approved by Congress.
If Congress does not approve them, the money goes to the Treasury Department's general fund. He marshaled a massive private-sector response.
In all, he oversaw the distribution of 40, tons of emergency meals, in what was a crucial precursor to the Marshall Plan. With his wife, Lou Henry, he had a strong moral sense of responsibility for his fellow citizens.
As many biographers have noted, however, Hoover had an equally strong moral sense that his private good deeds should be kept out of the public eye. Even during the Great Depression, when Hoover was blamed for the worst economic crisis in American history, he never allowed his many charitable activities to be made public or politicized in any way.
After leaving the presidency, he became an active supporter of the Boys Club of America, including service as chairman. Hoover was likewise committed to understanding the principles and policies that led to war or peace, deprivation or prosperity. The Hoover Institution gathered materials on a variety of topics, but came to be a leading repository for scholarship on the dangers of communism.
As President, he declined to spend any of his salary on himself. Instead, he gave it away to charities or as income supplements to his associates. During their long marriage, he and his wife extended charitable assistance to countless needy recipients, usually anonymously and through surrogates. Characteristically, however, Hoover concealed most of his benefactions, with the result that their full extent may never be known.
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