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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums💥Friday night news dump: Trump financials released
Link to tweet
Trump twice pushed back the deadline to release his 2019 financial disclosures. Then dropped them with no warning late on Friday. Then said he was banning TikTok and pulled everyone's attention away. We're still paying attention. See his finances here:
https://www.citizensforethics.org/president-trumps-2019-personal-financial-disclosure/
https://s3.amazonaws.com/storage.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/31221516/Trump-Donald-J.-2020Annual-278-1.pdf
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crickets
(25,983 posts)Link to tweet
* why doesn't Trump Org have an Incorporated status ?
* why doesn't Trump Org have a Board of Directors ?
* why does Trump Org have so many LLCs ?
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MagickMuffin
(15,952 posts)Someone has a lot of digging to do!
spanone
(135,877 posts)unblock
(52,326 posts)The emoluments clause works, but enforcing restrictions against the president specifically is hard when the political will isn't there. But it works in other contexts.
My opinion is that the emoluments clause could be used to force Donnie to return any emoluments to the federal government. I don't think we can get him on criminal charges for it, but we should be able to make him cough it up.
BComplex
(8,066 posts)don't let go of it.
spanone
(135,877 posts)BComplex
(8,066 posts)Once we take control of the levers of power.
napi21
(45,806 posts)I counted 210! Lots of diversions too. Assets are in many different names; Melania LLC, & many others. There is a list of who he owes $$ to, but the amts. are shown as "over $50,000, etc. so there's no way to determine just how much he owes & to who. I'm waiting for the release of his tax returns! Those will show the unvarnished truth!
BComplex
(8,066 posts)napi21
(45,806 posts)MAYBE even his family!
BComplex
(8,066 posts)damn things. New York had his number from the get-go.
onethatcares
(16,185 posts)remember, as my mom used to say. One lie leads to another and you can never remember the previous three let alone the last ten.
BComplex
(8,066 posts)qwlauren35
(6,150 posts)I'll keep waiting for it to come out.