Thursday, October 17, 2019

#BedBugSummit : How Many Crimes?

My first comment on Trump's announcement he was awarding the 2020 G7 to his own resort, the Trump Doral, was a quick comment to a statute someone else pointed out to me:
The Emoluments Clause is all very well, but it's hard to enforce. A clearly written statute is much cleaner.
Later someone said that this law applied only to employees and officers, and not to the President. I feel there is a valid argument that the President is an officer of the government (after all, Chief Executives are generally regarded as a Corporate Officer) but it's a pretty moot point since he'll never allow prosecution of himself. Read the law for yourself:  https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/208

Later, "AboveTheLaw" posted a quick rundown of the likely federal procurement law violations. Somewhere someone would go to jail for this, if not Trump himself (again, the AG is his poodle)
President Trump Is Violating More Than The Emoluments Clause With His Doral Summit


I did a little research on the Doral and Miami International Airport. Just looking at the map it would seem to be a major disruption which of course Trump would not care about but Floridians and travelers just might remember at election time:

Some say Trump withdrew his idea because he didn't like the Democrats criticizing it. That strikes me as silly because he loves the Democrats criticizing him. More likely he didn't like the GOP defections on the subject, or he got worried about carrying Florida in 2020. He needs it to stay out of jail.

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