"The president‘s outrageous request 4 $230M from the fed gov is not only an abusive attempt 2 raid the coffers of the #Treasury, but it’s also an apparent violation of the #DomesticEmolumentsClause—a constitutional provision that expressly prohibits the prez from taking any #emolument from the US other than his statutory salary. And, unlike the #ForeignEmolumentsClause, the domestic clause→applicable solely 2 the US prez, & #Congress has no power 2 waive it"
Donald Trump's newest plan violates the constitution, according to a bipartisan group of White House ethics attorneys.Trump recently announced he would be seeking $230 million as reimbursement for legal fees from when he was indicted on federal charges, before he began his second term.But that plan ...
NO WONDER #TheConvictedFelon doesn't think foreign #dictators laundering MILLIONS in bribes to him by buying his #MemeCoin scam and gifting him a $400M #FlyingPalace isn't an #emolument/#bribe.
He thinks an "illegal campaign contribution" is where the person NOT running for office is paid off. 🤦♂️
#TooStupidToBePresident #DonTheCon #DonCapone
@juliewebgirl FOTUS will never use the ‘gift’ as #airforce1. #USAF bought 2 completed but undelivered Transaero 747-8’s to convert to VC-25Bs in 2017 but they won’t be delivered until 2027 at the earliest. The Qatar plane would face a similar lengthy multi-billion dollar modification timeline before being mission-ready.
So this flying palace will be gifted by #FOTUS to himself for his personal use only.
tRumpo's #Qatar #Emolument is a disaster in the making
Congress put rules in place ages ago to ensure that federal appointees and employees (including judges) don’t use their jobs to enrich themselves.
The "Office of Government Oversight" vets those officials for conflicts of interest and can compel them and their spouses and minor children to dispense with assets deemed likely to create a conflict.
For our purposes, all you need to know is that those rules don’t apply to the president, vice-president, or federal lawmakers
—which is stupid, but whatever.
⭐️The Constitution, however, does place limits on elected federal officials.
The president is entitled to a predetemined salary and that’s all.
He is forbidden from taking anything further of value from the federal governments or any state government.
Furthermore, without the consent of Congress, no federal officeholder may accept “any present, #Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
👉This is not ambiguous. It means no foreign money, period.
💥Yet President Donald Trump’s affairs are awash in foreign money. (Domestic, too.)
Among other problems, foreign governments have rented units at Trump Tower,
booked rooms and events at his hotels and resorts,
and approved his company’s overseas deals and developments
—not to mention those of son-in-law Jared Kushner,
whose private equity fund got a $2 billion investmentfrom a Saudi sovereign wealth fund shortly after he left the White House,
and whose new partnership with the Trump Organization opens a very problematic new can of worms.
Trump “received significant payments and benefits from foreign governments” during his first term, says Noah Bookbinder,
the executive director since 2015 of Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington ( #CREW ), which two years later sued Trump in an emoluments case that focused on Trump’s DC hotel,
and served as outside counsel in a similar lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia.
The hotel, operating out of a federal building, became a mecca for both foreign governments and American companies and CEOs who hoped to curry favor with the administration.
“The research we’ve done, combined with what the House did, suggest that more than $13 million
—potentially much, much more
—came to his businesses from foreign governments,” Bookbinder told me.
These legal actions were upheld by federal appeals courts, but they dragged on
and the Supreme Court declared them moot on January 25, 2021,
as Trump was no longer in office.
“As a legal matter, it is as though [our cases] never existed.
And so even those favorable appeals decisions don’t have any precedential value,” Bookbinder says.
That was tough to stomach, and now Trump is back at the trough without any further guardrails
—or consequences paid.
He was in “clear violation of provisions intended to protect the public from corruption,” Bookbinder says,
“and it’s very, very hard, it turns out, to get courts to enforce them
—or get anybody to enforce them.
That’s deeply frustrating, and one more example of Trump finding ways to be lawless.”
CREW is now in a triage process to determine its priorities,
and which legal actions might stand a chance of success
—such as the lawsuit it and other groups filed earlier this week to challenge the actions of Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
In any case, Bookbinder says, the public can expect more influence-peddling during Trump’s second term,
only now “there are factors that create the risk of emoluments at a much higher level.”
Prior to the election, CREW cited four primary areas of concern,
not merely for conflicts of interest
—that would be a very long list
—but where Trump is likely in violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clauses.
And now there are five areas,
because only days before he was sworn in, a Trump-controlled entity called
"World Liberty Financial" launched a pair of “meme” cryptocurrencies:
$TRUMP and $MELANIA.
Idiot Business
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Trump & Epstein: Biz partners.
Flip them all
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