Despite previous announcements that their schedules would not match, Argentine President Javier Milei Saturday managed to have a brief encounter with former US head of state Donald Trump on the sides of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland. Read full article
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Mar 01st, 2024 - 06:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Trump alleges he was not an 'officer of the U.S.' as president
Mar 04th, 2024 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse +1”In the case of K&D LLC v. Trump Old Post Office, LLC, 951 F. 3d 503, President Trump successfully argued that the U.S. President qualifies as an Officer of the United States, citing 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a)(1). The court's agreed, stating this statute permitted President Trump, in his capacity as an officer... of the United States, to remove the state suit relating to duties of his office to federal court.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officer_of_the_United_States
“People call it arguing out of both sides of your mouth,“
The Purposeful Argument: A Practical Guide By Harry Phillips, Patricia Bostian.
“He is not to be heard who alleges things contradictory to each other.” This elementary rule of logic expresses, in technical language, the saying that a man shall not be permitted to “blow hot and cold” with reference to the same transaction, or insist, at different times, on the truth of each of two conflicting allegations, according to the promptings of his private interest”
The person that holds the office of POTUS is an officer by any ordinary meaning of the words.
office
a position of authority or service, typically one of a public nature.
tenure of an official position, especially a government position.
officer
a holder of a public, civil, or ecclesiastical office.
a holder of a post in a society, company, or other organization,
especially one who is involved at a senior level in its management.”
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Also they more than adequately meet the USSC definition of the 'Plain Reading Rule'.
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