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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo Trump has now admitted to a high crime in paying the $2,000,000 penalty for his scam charity.
The House can impeach him in one day then the Senate can vote to find him guilty and
remove him from office the next day. End of story.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212665780
He took money in to help the vets and kept it until he was caught and he used $25,000
of his charity to bribe Florida's A.G. not to investigate his scam Trump U.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212665680
Vinca
(50,302 posts)to trigger impeachment considering Individual 2 is now in jail. With all the things we know Trump has done, the Ukraine brouhaha is kind of small potatoes.
mucifer
(23,559 posts)dying when he withholds funds that were appropriated by congress because he wants to win an election and have another country fabricate lies. It's way worse than the Cohen stuff.
You are correct that there are so many illegal things he has done to cause so many to suffer.
gab13by13
(21,385 posts)they did die because they lacked weapons because Trump held back the money.
Botany
(70,567 posts)Cattle Rustling (although we do have Trump steaks) & illegal gill net fishing.
BTW this "thing" is so big nobody outside of maybe Putin and Barr can understand
all the moving parts.
It is all very complex and I don't think most people will be able to comprehend how big and far reaching it is. Every revelation seems to lead to another. Trump and his corrupt minions have been very busy. We may never even know the full extent of their corruption.
Botany
(70,567 posts)All roads lead to Putin.
And a few apparently to Saudi Arabia as well, which could also lead back to Putin I suppose.
malaise
(269,157 posts)and then denied it to his base
Botany
(70,567 posts)By paying the 2 million Trump had a "factual admission" of breaking the law.
malaise
(269,157 posts)STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
I am the only person I know, perhaps the only person in history, who can give major money to charity ($19M), charge no expense, and be attacked by the political hacks in New York State. No wonder why we are all leaving!
Every penny of the $19 million raised by the Trump Foundation went to hundreds of great charitable causes with almost no expenses.
The New York Attorney General is deliberately mischaracterizing this settlement for political purposes.
In fact, the court rejected the Attorney Generals frivolous request for statutory penalties, interest and other damages.
It has been 4 years of politically motivated harassment first by lightweight AG Schneiderman, prior to his resignation for beating up women then AG Underwood, who was impossible to deal with, and now AG Letitia James, who does not acknowledge that we gave 100% of the funds to great charities, but refuses to investigate the Clinton Foundation with all of its problems. All they found was incredibly effective philanthropy and some small technical violations, such as not keeping board minutes.
We resolved the case with the understanding that all money previously in the foundation has gone to charity. I am therefore happy to donate $2 million to the following worthy charities: Army Emergency Relief; Childrens Aid Society; City Meals on Wheels; Give an Hour; Marthas Table, United Negro College Fund; United Way of Capital Area; and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Botany
(70,567 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Justice is coming
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Botany
(70,567 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,202 posts)He has committed every crime possible related to holding a federal positon plus money laundering and campaign finance violation. And also he was a john and Epstein's buddy when he met his current wife the Slovenian sex worker. And also he committed treason.
This is the man the richest man in the world, and possibly one of the shortest Russians, Putin, picked to work with as his puppet in the US.
This is the man the filthy rich American capitalist have chosen to represent their country. All the top filthy richest families in the US are supporting Trump. They are enabling him to continue his crimes so they can get their tax giveaways. Trump is the embodiment of American capitalism. The orange mass and his Slovenian sex worker are the true representation of capitalism and the filthy rich.
Botany
(70,567 posts)Cattle Rustling & illegal gill net fishing.
Quixote1818
(28,959 posts)If this had been Obama you know the ropes would have been out perhaps literally. Republicans would have had their talking points going out to everyone full throttle! I just don't get why Dems can't work effectively like that. This is a HUGE criminal deal and hardly anyone knows about it because Democratic leadership is ignoring it.
spanone
(135,861 posts)April 10, 2018
Judge finalizes $25 million Trump University settlement for students of 'sham university'
The order from U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel the same Indiana-born judge Trump called biased because of his "Mexican heritage" comes a year after he first approved the settlement. It marks the end of two class-action lawsuits and a civil lawsuit from New York accusing Trump of "swindling thousands of Americans out of millions of dollars through Trump University," in the words of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
"This settlement marked a stunning reversal by President Trump, who for years refused to compensate the victims of his sham university," Schneiderman said in a statement.
Indeed, Trump claimed as a candidate that he "never" settled lawsuits, and would not do so in the case of Trump University. "That's why I won't settle," Trump told MSNBC in 2016. "Because it's an easy case to win in court ... How do you settle a case like that?"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/04/10/trump-university-settlement-judge-finalized/502387002/
dalton99a
(81,568 posts)slater71
(1,153 posts)This guy has always been a thief, a mafia style thug and a con man. He thought he could do the say thing as president and no one would stop him. He has to be impeached because if the Senate refuses to impeach him, we will be looking at 4 more years of this fuck stick. His dumb ass supporters will put him in again because they don`t care for nothing but beating democrats.
Quixote1818
(28,959 posts)This could do real damage to Trump if they run with it. And it's a done deal! He has admitted to a crime!
calimary
(81,440 posts)But at some point, we have to get to a vote. There are so damn many offenses and crimes and violations and frauds that hes committed that there wouldnt be the time and energy to litigate them all.
We need to leave a mark. Impeach. And remove if possible. If not possible, leave him permanently marked and damaged for all of history.