Congress targets President Trump for using the Oval Office to line his pockets

[CatWoman]

WASHINGTON — Congress is ramping up its investigation of President Trump’s use of his office to benefit his businesses — and adding it to the list of possible impeachable offenses.

Spurred in part by Vice President Mike Pence's recent three-hour detour to stay at a Trump golf resort in Ireland, the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight Committee are demanding information about that and other recent official Trump activities that ring the cash registers at Trump businesses.

“The Committee does not believe that U.S. taxpayer funds should be used to personally enrich President Trump, his family, and his companies,” Oversight Chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) wrote in one of five letters released Friday.



Trump has been under fire since before he got in office for potentially using the job to pad his bottom-line.

Early on, watchdogs warned of violations of the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause, which bars the president from accepting payments from foreign governments. The Constitution also bars him from taking payments from federal or state governments.


Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) singled out such payments in a letter to the Secret Service and the White House Counsel seeking details on Trump’s recent attempts to woo G7 nations to hold their next international summit at Trump’s Doral Miami resort.

It is Pence’s trip to Ireland that seems to have especially stoked the committee’s ire.

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[KPN]

1. How about just start impeachment inquiry, hearings, whatever. This is getting old.

[malaise]

2. I disagree

They are dotting every i and crossing every t.
Go Dems! Justice is coming.

[CatWoman]

3. what gets me is people always yell

"why are the dems so quiet" or "where are the dems on this"?

and when shown they are responding, nothing but fucking gripes about the response.

[CatWoman]

6. so they aren't supposed to say anything about Trump virtually using his office and public airwaves

to sell Vega Matics?

[malaise]

8. +1,000

[KPN]

7. Hope you are right! At least this investigation is pointed at Pence -- there's that positive in it.

I'm just fearful that we (Dems) will appear ineffective to too many voters come 2020. I'm concerned that (1) the seemingly endless "x" number of "investigations" runs the risk of beginning to sound and look like my neighbors chihuahua's yipping at my heals -- a pesky but ineffective nuisance; (2) that this is in the face of bald-faced criminality and corruption that rips at the fabric of our Constitution, our democracy and our Justice system; and (3) the strong, real and warranted sense that shouldn't we be doing something about this by doing what the Constitution intended?

How many investigations ist it now that have been announced since January 19th, 2017??? Are we up to 60 yet?

[Desert Dem]

11. Exactly!

[kentuck]

5. Well, that's the way he's always done it...

Why stop because he's in the White House? There might be a dollar that escapes him?

[Brainfodder]

9. Used his willing kids as accomplices, don't let the evil spawn off the hook.

I might forgive Eric, he's special.

[Enoki33]

10. It's well known tRump operates like a Mafia boss who views the presidency

as a cash machine. Time for Congress to publicly shout that reality in any and all the ways they can. Let the voters deduce the monster is also a criminal.