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The impeached president regularly refers to himself as The Law and Order President. But perhaps he has a point — after all, he’s constantly breaking our laws in no particular order.
Here’s Trump’s unlawful march through our alphabet, from A to Z.
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Governors have had to beg for ventilators and Personal Protective Equipment from our national stockpile DURING THE WORST PANDEMIC IN A CENTURY because our narcissist-in-chief has ordered FEMA to send supplies to states that are “appreciative.”
Took a while to get your stimulus check? That’s because they were delayed until each one of them bore the signature of President Baby.
He also continues to dismantle any independent oversight into his grifting. In short, he is holding anyone who isn’t all-in on Team Trump hostage.
Reminder that President Trump was impeached for his abuse of power, but the Senate voted to let him off the hook. As a result, we are still seeing his abuses of power today.https://t.co/LaCf3A3qdT
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) June 2, 2020
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In 2017, Trump told then secretary of state Rex Tillerson that it was “just so unfair that American companies aren’t allowed to pay bribes to get business overseas. I need you to get rid of that law.” Rex didn’t and so Trump got rid of Rex.
Federal law defines bribery as the solicitation of “anything of value personally” by a public official “in return for” an official act. It also specifies that a bribe can be a reward for an act the public official would have done anyway so just soliciting a bribe is bribery.
In addition, the bribery statute is clear: Soliciting a bribe is illegal even if the bribe is never paid. And Trump wanted to LEGALIZE BRIBERY!
Yes, Trump bribed Ukrainian President Zelensky. Yes, Trump tried to bribe then Florida Governor Jeb Bush to allow him to build casinos in Florida. Yes, he’s been tied to organized crime for decades which is laden with bribes.
Incidentally, the Constitution makes clear that a president who engages in bribery “shall be removed from office.” In fact, it is one of only two crimes specifically mentioned as conduct that would necessitate impeachment and removal. Spoiler alert: Read on. He committed the other one, too.
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It wasn’t just the $130,000 hush money check Trump’s lawyer/fixer Michael Cohen wrote to porn star Stormy Daniels. There were eight criminal offenses in all, including seven felonies.
Here is a handful of them.
• Causing American Media Inc. (AMI) to make and/or accepting an unlawful corporate contribution related to Karen McDougal.
• Two instances of causing Cohen to make and/or accepting illegal individual contributions related to Stephanie Clifford and February 2015 online polling.
• Causing Donald J. Trump for President LLC to file false reports with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
• Making a false statement by failing to disclose liability to Cohen for the Clifford payment on his 2017 public financial disclosure form.
• Conspiracy to defraud the United States by undermining the lawful function of the FEC and/or violating federal campaign finance law related to “hush money” payments, false statements, and cover-ups of reimbursement payments to Cohen made by the Trump Organization.
Didn’t expect to see this crime here, did you?
A June 3 tweet by the @TeamTrump account with the video now displays the message: “This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.” Twitter confirmed it received a DMCA takedown request from the owner of one of the video’s images, but the company did not specify who it was.
We are working toward a more just society, but that means building up, not tearing down.
Joining hands, not hurling fists.
Standing in solidarity, not surrendering to hostility. pic.twitter.com/mp8957czvh
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) June 3, 2020
It’s not the first time Twitter has removed Trump videos over copyright complaints. The law and order president unlawfully used a Nickelback song and also used parts of “The Dark Knight Rises” score, all without permission.
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Shortly after the impeached president’s election, he paid out a $25 million settlement to students at Trump University, which had promised to teach them the “secrets of success” in the real estate industry. Because telling people to inherit $400 million from daddy and then buy buildings and what-not isn’t really helpful.
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The president’s vast private business holdings, specifically his hotel in D.C., have put him in “compromising financial entanglements with foreign and domestic governments.”
According to the lawsuit against him, “President Trump’s continued ownership interest in a global business empire, which renders him deeply enmeshed with a legion of foreign and domestic government actors, violates the Constitution and calls into question the rule of law and the integrity of the country’s political system.”
Here’s an interview with two women who claim they illegally worked for cheatin’ Donald at his Bedminster, New Jersey resort.
In addition, numerous former models who worked for Trump Model Management say that they worked for the agency in the United States despite not having proper permits. Some of them worked on tourist visas, either never getting the correct permits or else getting them only after working in the U.S. illegally for months.
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President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee was investigated for pay to play violations, and misspending portions of the $107 million it raised from donations.
In addition, a New York judge ordered Trump to pay $2 million in damages for misusing funds from a tax-exempt charity. Yes, he STOLE FROM A CHARITY for his 2016 presidential campaign, to pay off some of his business debts, and even to BUY A PAINTING OF HIMSELF.
The judge said that “Mr. Trump owed fiduciary duties to the Foundation. Mr. Trump breached his fiduciary duty to the Foundation.”
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The Secret Service has spent at least $950,000 to stay overnight at Trump-owned properties, including Mar-a-Lago and Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.
Hey, if you think his protectors are getting a sweet deal at Trump World you’d be wrong. Prices are nearly as inflated as his inauguration attendance numbers.
For the icing on the grifting cake, the Secret Service has just signed a $45,000 contract to rent thirty golf carts in order to protect an unnamed “dignitary” in Sterling, Virginia — home to one of Trump’s clubs. The contract was described as an “emergency order.”
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On June 13, 2019, the independent Office of Special Counsel sent Dirty Donald a report determining that Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act dozens of times and calling on the President “to remove Ms. Conway from her federal position immediately.”
The White House claimed absolute immunity for Ms. Conway to decline any request from Congress for her testimony.
The Hatch Act restricts federal employee participation in certain partisan political activities. Federal employees may not seek public office in partisan elections, use their official title or authority when engaging in political activity, solicit or receive contributions for partisan political candidates or groups, and engage in political activity while on duty. * Unless, of course, Trump is president.
TEN Trump officials were found to have violated the Hatch Act following CREW complaints.https://t.co/v1i6F5rWKB
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) June 21, 2019
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I was going to talk about the crimes committed by Trump’s Inauguration committee — who overpaid for space at Trump’s hotel and failed to disclose gifts to the committee, as required by law — but by now you realize there’s fraud tied to every Trump committee, so it’s anticlimactic.
Instead…Steve Linick, the State Department inspector general who was fired by the Bunker Bully, was investigating Trump attempting to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia without congressional approval.
I JUST GOT IMPEACHED FOR MAKING A PERFECT PHONE CALL!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 16, 2020
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Trump reportedly/allegedly threatened Republican senators not to vote to remove him from office in his impeachment trial.
CBS News reported that GOP Senators were warned: “Vote against the president, and your head will be on a pike.”
In opening statements, House managers examined the debunked conspiracy theories invoked by Pres. Trump.
A @POTUS confidant tells CBS News that GOP senators were warned: “vote against the president & your head will be on a pike.”
Here's @nancycordes https://t.co/LV1Y6QveIh pic.twitter.com/tLB9EpoWr8
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) January 23, 2020
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Jamal Khashoggi was a Washington Post journalist who was brutally murdered by Saudis because of his unfavorable reporting on their kingdom of corruption.
How did Trump punish the murderers of one of our columnists who lived in Virginia? By praising the killers and defending the crown prince and helping to rehabilitate his image.
The Saudis paid no price for the murder and were instead rewarded for it. The Trumpians ignored a congressional resolution imposing sanctions on the regime for human rights abuse and vetoed a bipartisan resolution that would have ended U.S. military assistance to the country’s reign of inhumanity in Yemen.
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Since his inauguration — in which he lied about the size of the crowd — there have been over 19,100 other lies told by Mr. Law and Order. And that doesn’t include the lie where he was sworn in to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
He’s a well-rounded liar. From lying to Special Counsel Robert Mueller about his knowledge of his campaign’s contacts with WikiLeaks; to saying he knew the coronavirus was a pandemic before it was even a pandemic; all the way to insisting that he nicknamed James Mattis “Mad Dog” (despite Mattis having the moniker in 2004), there has never been anyone more versatile with creating false narratives.
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Back in 1984, Trump Tower was one of only two major buildings in New York City that sold condos to buyers who used shell companies that allowed them to purchase real estate while concealing their identities. The New York state attorney general’s office said that when Trump closed a deal with an alleged Russian gangster named David Bogatin, whether or not Trump knew it, he had just helped launder money for the Russian Mafia.
According to a BuzzFeed investigation, over 1,300 condos, one-fifth of all Trump-branded condos sold in the United States since the 1980s, were shifted “in secretive, all-cash transactions that enable buyers to avoid legal scrutiny by shielding their finances and identities.”
The Trump Organization has dismissed money laundering charges as unsubstantiated. Unfortunately, it’s nearly impossible to penetrate the shell companies that purchased these condos — you’d need subpoena power to see how much money laundering by Russians went through Trump-branded properties.
Anders Aslund, a Swedish economist, said: “Early on, Trump came to the conclusion that it is better to do business with crooks than with honest people. Crooks have two big advantages. First, they’re prepared to pay more money than honest people. And second, they will always lose if you sue them because they are known to be crooks.”
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On what other planet would Jared Kushner be qualified to bring peace to the Middle East, solve the opioid crisis, or lead a coronavirus task force? And I’m sure it’s pure coincidence that Ivanka was awarded a bevy of trademarks, all miraculously fast-tracked, from China.
In case you didn’t know, Ivanka has no experience and no right to represent America at the G-20 or the United Nations, or anywhere for that matter.
someone please tell mister law and order we haven’t forgotten he gave Jared and Ivanka security clearances when the intelligence orgs said they shouldn’t have them — and we were never told why https://t.co/8BOK2HSJgV
— shauna (@goldengateblond) June 5, 2020
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Another Trump specialty!
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Former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates told a court Trump DID discuss WikiLeaks with Roger Stone during his 2016 presidential campaign despite the president claiming in sworn written answers to Robert Mueller that he doesn’t remember doing so.
“I do not recall discussing WikiLeaks with him,” Trump wrote to Mueller’s team. “Nor do I recall being aware of Mr. Stone having discussed WikiLeaks with individuals associated with my campaign.”
Perjury. https://t.co/aQthPgbOKe
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) November 12, 2019
Here’s the famous Access Hollywood tape being played on a giant screen near the White House. Enjoy the majesty of His Majesty!
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If Michigan and Nevada didn’t stop this silly “letting their voters vote by mail during a pandemic”, then President Lawless would withhold federal aid to those two states.
Oh, that’s illegal. No, I didn’t forget about Ukraine. We’ll get there.
Michigan sends absentee ballot applications to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General Election. This was done illegally and without authorization by a rogue Secretary of State. I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2020
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There’s a reason Trump doesn’t want you to see his taxes — because it could show that he’s been running an organized crime racket. Yes, I know. It’s hard to fathom him running an organized ANYTHING.
The Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) defines a number of illegal activities that Trump could have participated in over the years. First, the law defines a racketeer as:
“A person who has committed ‘at least two acts of racketeering activity’ drawn from a list of 35 crimes — 27 federal crimes and 8 state crimes — within a 10-year period.”
Just two crimes from a list of 35 over a decade? Where do I place my bet?
The RICO Act was designed to charge the bosses at the top of crime syndicates — people a step or two removed from the actual crimes committed, those whose will is made real, even without a direct order.
Here is some of Michael Cohen’s testimony:
“Everybody’s job at the Trump Organization is to protect Mr. Trump. Every day, most of us knew we were coming and we were going to lie for him about something.”
Cohen also alluded to wide-ranging criminality within the Trump Organization before, during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, including election finance violations, bank fraud, charity fraud, tax fraud, insurance fraud, obstruction of justice and suborning perjury.
Trump’s former lawyer/fixer also alleged that Trump inflated the value of his assets when applying for real estate loans, and decreased his earnings on tax return forms to lower his tax indebtedness.
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According to title 18 of the U.S. Code, sedition is defined as “to conspire to overthrow or destroy by force the government of the United States or to level war against them, to oppose by force the authority of the United States government; to prevent, hinder, or delay by force the execution of any law of the United States; or to take, seize, or possess by force any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof.”
LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2020
LIBERATE MINNESOTA!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2020
LIBERATE MICHIGAN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2020
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Let the tweets do the talking…
1. There's only question for the press or the @HouseDemocrats: When will the @Whitehouse release the full audio of Trump-Putin call before Trump ordered the attack on peaceful US protesters? No transcripts. Full audio. Or we should impeach him. Again. For levying war Treason.
— Tim Hogan (@TimInHonolulu) June 2, 2020
Today would be a good day for @realDonaldTrump to release his tax returns.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) June 4, 2020
He literally admitted to his involvement, on video, in the Rose Garden on the White House lawn.
— RobertMcCleave (@RobertMcCleave1) June 7, 2020
The Fake President.
Really what kind of American president uses tear gas on his citizens for a photo op? What kind of American president threatens to send American military out against American citizens. You had your chance and failed. Time to move on. #Biden2020
— maddkat (@maddkat57) June 4, 2020
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This may have come across your desk at some point. Basically, Trump was blackmailing a country into doing a fake investigation of his then-likely and now definite opponent. And, if not, he would withhold nearly $400 million in military aid.
Ukrainian President Zelensky didn’t bite on the threat, but had it not been for a courageous American whistleblower, the funds may have never been released. Even though Congress had approved it months before.
Oh, P.S. – the long delay in not getting Ukraine the funds led to more deaths at the hands of their Russian oppressors than Benghazi.
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More projecting from the projection president. He registered to vote in Florida using an out-of-state address. That’s illegal.
The president put false information on his voter registration form, a crime punishable by five years in prison. https://t.co/fEng73sEoY
— Slate (@Slate) June 3, 2020
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Trump launched airstrikes against Syria in April 2017 — WITHOUT A VOTE IN CONGRESS!
In Yemen, land of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, Trump continues to help Saudi Arabia drop American-made bombs despite opposition from both chambers of Congress.
And, if he considers himself a “war time” president due to the pandemic, then his lack of giving a damn and calling the coronavirus a “hoax” for two months led to at least 36,000 unnecessary deaths. More war crimes.
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Trump is the architect of the illegal Muslim ban, illegal child separations, (former ICE Director: said that some migrant family separations are “permanent”), blocking asylum seekers, and illegally blocking young undocumented immigrants from federal housing loans.
As to the latter, the Trump administration changed housing policy while repeatedly telling Congress there were no changes made.
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Trump wasn’t fond of our ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovich because she wasn’t a yes man and was attempting to do the right thing. So…. Trump wanted someone to “take her out.” And that didn’t mean dinner.
“Get rid of her! Get her out tomorrow. I don’t care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. OK? Do it.” — Donald J. Trump putting out a hit on an American Ambassador?
Then WHILE YOVANOVICH was on the stand testifying against Trump, The Donald was tweet threatening her in real-time! Quick reminder kids, witness intimidation and witness tampering is a crime.
"It's very intimidating." pic.twitter.com/YCPwO21dtS
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 15, 2019
Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2019
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Summer Zervos, the former “Apprentice” contestant (and a Republican!) who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in 2007, presented evidence in a new court filing to back up her claims. She is also suing Trump for defamation after he called her a liar about the alleged assault.
“I was on the Apprentice. After the show was completed, Trump invited me to a hotel room under the guise of working for him. He had a different agenda. Please contact me to speak further as I have tried to make contact,” the email states, under the subject line “Trump Hit On Me.”
Here are 24 others who have accused the impeached President of sexual assault.
