In creating the opportunity for anybody with sufficient wealth to purchase an audience, Trump risks falling foul of a part of the US Constitution—the emoluments clauses—that prohibit the president from accepting gifts or financial compensation from foreign and domestic state actors.
He’s been breaking the emoluments clause since 2016!
His entire corrupt party does not care and they are in power. I never want to hear the GOP talk about someone else being corrupt ever again.
Didn't he already violate this clause in his first term and nobody chose to impose consequences?
Hahah man wiping ass with constitution warned it may come off as unseemly…
Priviledging audiences with foreign leaders who stayed at his DC hotel. Priviledging foreign leaders who paid to stay at his golf courses. Spending every weekend at his own golf courses while the $ paid to house and feed his security goes into his pockets. Crypto is just the new version.
He's a living, breathing, daily embodiement of violating the emoluments clause, and has been since 2016.
In a worst-case scenario for the president, the potential for negative optics could add fuel to calls for his impeachment. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/trumps...
Use Rule Ix
He'll croak before anything touches him. He's got 75million human shields. But people around Trump will probably crumble. They often do. They want to kiss that ring so badly but it's cursed. They don't think it is cause Trump gets away with everything but they aren't Trump. They are gettable
You’re joking right? This country just turned a blind eye to January 6th.
Most thieves tend to be furtive in conducting their larceny, with one exception of course; bank robbers who ply their trade in broad daylight.
He knows he will never be held accountable
At present, the names of the TRUMP holders set to win a place at the dinner are concealed behind pseudonyms and alphanumeric crypto wallet addresses. The White House did not respond when asked whether the attendee list will be made public.
Corrupt as hell. Just amazing.
The list of impeachable offenses is getting long. How much longer does it have to be? The crypto veil of secrecy should move this forwa
The Secret Service will want to know names.
But let’s be real—based on how things have gone in the past, it’s unlikely Trump would face consequences for skirting foreign emoluments laws. It all hinges on how tightly he still has Congress in his pocket—aka the very folks who are supposed to enforce the Constitution, impeachment and all.
gets to the heart of the matter... Trump is not the problem, our system has many checks built in to stop one maniac. It doesn't however have a system of checks that works when an entire party abdicates its Constitutional role.
Great reporting but dude is already “at odds” with the Constitution.
Dude is wiping his ass with it at this point
Negative optics really soft pedals what is happening. The President is literally selling access to himself to the highest bidder. It is obviously corrupt and ample cause for impeachment.
Find out if Leonard Leo & Steve Calabresi and their loyal attorneys from the Federalist Society (FS) who’ve been drafting & crafting Trump’s EO’s and motions are playing crypto and playing crypto with Trump.
wow, I wish I could ever be as naively optimistic as Jeff Hauser
I’m concerned that he will have no accountability for his actions
The rap sheet is growing into a rap novel.
He should have been thrown in jail, but judges were too scared of him. He should have been sharing a cell with his "best friend" Epstein.
Then let’s start now and get him impeached, removed and jailed in prison. We can impeach but unless he’s removed and jailed I’m afraid he won’t leave.