Chicago-headquartered Seyfarth Shaw cut ties with Trump Org on Wednesday
They are the latest to drop contracts with Trump s business after Capitol riot
Property services giant Cushman & Wakefield and Deutsche Bank also cut ties
New York City Mayor de Blasio cancelled all city contracts with the company
PGA stripped its namesake championship from Trump s New Jersey golf course
Eric Trump blasted the hits to the business as part of liberal cancel culture
“The skyline has a stain on it and we want to remove that, Villegas told NBC 5 in an interview, adding that the sign stands against everything we stand for.
Should the ordinance pass, in order for it to apply to Trump Tower, Congress would need to impeach and convict President Donald Trump.
Trump faces a single charge “incitement of insurrection” - after the deadly Capitol riot in an impeachment resolution that the House will begin debating Wednesday. I was in the Marines and I took an oath to defend this country against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and there s no expiration date on that, Villegas said. And so I ve turned in my M16 rifle that I used to defend this country for a pen as a legislator and this is going to be my way of trying to defend against a domestic enemy.
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The 2,891-square-foot sign Donald Trump slapped on his 96-story Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago could come down, if an influential alderman has his way.
Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36th), Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s City Council floor leader, plans to introduce an ordinance at the Jan. 27 City Council meeting that would force the issue seven years after the vanity sign along Chicago’s riverfront touched off a clash of giant egos with then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
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The ordinance states the sign permit, which must be renewed annually, “shall be denied, or such permit shall be revoked, if the applicant or any controlling person of the applicant…has been convicted of a crime of treason, sedition or subversive activities.”