Sure, but for this particular nut case, it’s her full-time job!
Indeed. He possesses the medal but is not a winner of the Nobel Prize. The medal is symbolic, not a deed and certainly the honor can not be bestowed by anyone or anything other than the Nobel organization.
Question: Aren’t gifts to US presidents owned by US citizens and not the president? So, doesn’t Trump have to give the medal to a museum or the National Archives or something? (really asking)
I think the law only applies if it’s from someone representing a foreign government. And it applies to everyone in the government (even employees), not just the POTUS.
Machado holds no official government position in Venezuela and isn’t allowed to because of “administrative and fiscal violations” that occurred when she was a legislator according to the current regime. Therefore, any gift she would give him is a personal one.
I guess this means that Putin is now a Superbowl Champion, by virtue of stealing one of the superbowl rings.
As to the why of the gift, my theory is because she knows that as long as she had it in her hands, he would intensely personally resent that someone else was holding on to my prrreciioouuusss .
And though already his Venezuela policy largely dismisses the role of the legit opposition she represented, she’d rather not have him actively hostile at them over having failed to properly fawn and grovel.
I do not think gifts that fall under this law must come from foreign governments. Section (c) of the law you cited does not seem to restrict it to foreign governments. Any gift counts (with some exceptions as noted in the law…I doubt this would meet those exceptions).
IANAL so best guess here.
I think presidents can buy gifts from the government for their actual value.
Why would the current occupant of the presidency do this when he could simply not do this and nobody will do anything about it?
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Please, people, stop using imagur.
But he’s a billionaire right? A quick calculation suggests the value of the gold in the medal is around $18,000 today (ballpark). Surely he can afford that? (This of course does not account for any value it might have beyond the precious metal which it certainly might…like a baseball bat is pretty inexpensive but if Babe Ruth hit a home run with that bat it is worth considerably more.)
Of course he can. But it’s not about whether or not he can afford to buy it. It’s about whether or not he’s strong enough to STEAL it. That’s the point. To show his power.
You keep saying that, and I share your annoyance that the UK can’t view Imgur, but I’m not going to switch over to a less useful host just to be visible in the UK, and nothing else really is as good. Your beef is with the rules that the UK government passed that Imgur found unacceptable.
Can we discuss it in this thread.
of course. the thread was there, yet I didn’t know it was widespread. My post was weeks ago.