Democratic senator makes the case that Trump’s ‘slush fund’ is an impeachable offense

He’s going to be dead of a heart attack or amphetamine overdose before the dems get off their asses and actually do anything.

Nearly everything he does is an impeachable offense

If nothing else it’s enough to get him under oath and testifying in front of Congress. That’s my biggest problem with all of the impeachments at no point have they forced his hand and used the full power of congress to make him testify.

it’s a criminal offense. attempted theft by deception. the suit was illegitimate from the start. filed way past the 2 year limit. it would have been thrown out of court on that alone.

If orchestrating an insurrection isn’t an impeachable offense, nothing is.

Well yeah. For any sitting President fund his supporting criminals that he himself pardoned with taxpayer dollars is not just a criminal offense in itself, but it sets up a clear and present danger for the rest of us because it tells his supporters that it’s ok to commit criminal acts without any consequences.

This administration shits on the Constitution daily.

The daily emoluments breaches are impeachable

Yeah. He’s wildly unfit for office. Quite a lot of the things he does are worthy of impeachment.

The trouble is that Republicans are either fully on board with his bad behavior (as when he’s trampling over law and tradition to implement their more radical agenda items), or at least willing to tolerate it as the price they have to pay for power (as with his flagrant corruption and shocking incompetence).

There is simply no hope of the proper functioning of our checks and balances as long as the Republicans are in a position to hamper that process.

Trump prioritized J6er compensation before Epstein victims. Gee I wonder why

This whole presidency has been a massive impeachable offense.

You’d be hard pressed to name 3 things he’s done since being in office that weren’t impeachable offenses.

The whole scheme is completely at odds with the constitution.

It amounts to a level of corruption you would expect of a king or a dictator.

Trump was a private citizen when he first filed damages claims against the individual responsible for leaking his tax information.

That individual was convicted and sent to prison, but when Trump became president, he tried to further settle the matter with HIMSELF by filing another lawsuit seeking $10 billion in damages. An unprecedented move.

Trump’s own DOJ, which now serves at his behest, was supposed to DEFEND the IRS, not work in tandem with the president to negotiate a settlement on his behalf.

But few people are taking about what this information divulged.

To put it simply, Trump is a tax evader.

This is precisely why he broke with presidential tradition and did not release the information himself, even though he pledged otherwise.

What also isn’t being discussed enough is the process by which a blatantly unlawful, and ludicrous $10 billion dollar lawsuit turned into an “anti-weaponization” fund paid for by the American taxpayer.

The judge in the case argued that it had no legs because it lacked “adverseness” and was constitutionally invalid.

In other words, there was no dispute between the parties involved because Trump was opposing himself.

> “There must be an honest and actual antagonistic assertion of rights by one individual against another, which is neither feigned nor collusive.”

The judge gave Trump and his attorneys a deadline to explain themselves.

They couldn’t…

So two days before that deadline, Trump dropped the suit specifically to avoid the judge ruling that the whole case was unconstitutional.

The judge was about to pull the rug out from underneath Trump when his personal DOJ negotiated the $1,776 BILLION “settlement” to avoid an incontestable ruling.

The case had no ground to stand on, but Todd Blanche and Trump’s corrupt DOJ found a way around that by concocting a scheme to create a confidential slush fund for him, his corrupt cohorts and his violent followers at the taxpayer’s expense.

The other question that’s not being asked enough is, if Trump was the supposed victim of the tax leak, why is everyone except Trump getting a payout?

And the answer only makes sense when you realize the corruption involved.

The judge was about to rule that Trump couldn’t sue his own government. The case was going to die and Trump would have nothing to show for it.

The problem was, he couldn’t take the money himself because it would amount to a clear cut violation of the Emoluments Clause, for which Trump would be undoubtedly impeached.

So instead, the “settlement” was restructured so that, on its face, Trump receives no money but gets in return:

Immunity in perpetuity from the IRS; permanently barring the agency from ever auditing him, his family or his businesses again

And of course, $1.776 billion flowing to a slush fund he secretly controls. And a fund no less run by a commission that his own crooked AG appoints and can fire at will.

All in all, it’s the most egregious misuse of tax dollars and the most corrupt act committed by a president in modern history.

Put it on the list

How many fucking cases do we need?

I mean does it even matter. He imposed tariffs left and right and they were all deemed unconstitutional.

Damn near Every single thing he has done is an impeachable offense.

It’s graft, pure and simple.

It’s kind of a meaningless statement. The only body that gets to decide what is or isn’t impeachable is the House of Representatives. So, as Gerald Ford famously put it:

>An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

You don’t say?

I have some others if you’d like them. 

Ya think?!!!! 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️