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Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
Tue Nov 22, 2016, 11:57 AM Nov 2016

WSJ Tells Trump To Liquidate All Assets because currently trump is corrupt.

What the Wall Street journal, and Washington Post, and many ethics experts are warning about is they suspect that Trump may violate the so-called “Emolument Clause” found in Section 9 of Article I of the U.S. Constitution. Some are already accusing him of a violation. The Emolument Clause says;

“No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”


It appears that Trump is signaling that he is willing to violate the Emolument Clause of the Constitution by accepting benefits from foreign officials or governments via his many business holdings. Such as allowing foreign dignitaries or foreign business partners to pay to stay at his hotel in order to curry favor with the president; those actions would violate the Constitution. As Slate reported, several constitutional experts said, “A payment from a foreign official or state-owned company to a Trump hotel or other branded company could potentially violate that [Emolument] Clause.”

One of those “branded companies,” Trump Towers Pune in India, has elicited the intent of Trump’s Indian business partners “hope to exploit their ties to Donald Trump,” the fascist moronic Americans chose to be “their” president. In fact, those partners actually flew to New York last week to hold a meeting with Trump and his family while he was right in the middle of a “soon-to-be president’s” task of assembling his cabinet of white supremacists and Islamophobes.


http://www.politicususa.com/2016/11/22/fearing-corrupt-white-house-wsj-tells-trump-liquidate-assets.html

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lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
1. Surrender them to the United States Treasury you NAZI pig bile bastard. Show us how much you love
Tue Nov 22, 2016, 11:59 AM
Nov 2016

the Great Homeland!

BeyondGeography

(39,374 posts)
2. Basic, but Trump will never make that choice
Tue Nov 22, 2016, 12:04 PM
Nov 2016

the Republicans won't care and neither will his voters. There will only be movement on this if Trump proves to be a disaster, enough congressional Republicans overwhelmingly prefer Pence and they conclude the political price for impeachment isn't too high.

BeyondGeography

(39,374 posts)
4. I'm not hopeful about the courts
Tue Nov 22, 2016, 12:22 PM
Nov 2016

The most important cases will end up In the SC, which will have a new Baby Scalia (and maybe worse; where are those celebratory Notorious RBG threads now?). Our only hope is that Roberts stands with our four justices like he did on O-care.

Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
7. IT will be interesting to watch th Repugnants who for 30 yrs have been screaming that Bill & Hillary
Tue Nov 22, 2016, 09:13 PM
Nov 2016

are emissaries of the devil and are the personification of corruption now be serenely unconcerned about the very definition of corruption that is The Fraudster.

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