Whether the Department of Justice will look into any of that, under some more normal future leadership, is another question. Trump was impeached for extorting a foreign government to help his re-election campaign, after all. God knows how much of that sort of thing has been going on. It's certainly something an investigator might want to look into. Depending on what was offered in return, that could look an awful lot like bribery. try to convince the British government to steer the British Open golf tournament to one of his resorts in Scotland. We found out in the last couple of weeks that Trump had his ambassador to the U.K. (He has spent a third of his days as president at his own resorts and hotels.) We know that we have been forced to pay him at least $1 million for hotel rooms alone, at prices raised far beyond the "cost" that the Trump Organization claims it charges. If investigators want to look further, there's the matter of all the taxpayer money that has gone into Trump's pockets virtually every weekend, when he leaves Washington to promote his properties and play golf. It even makes a very strong case that he can be prosecuted after he leaves office for committing these crimes. It's hard to know where to start, but as you may recall there's a report that lays out in great detail Donald Trump's attempts to obstruct justice in the Russia investigation. Congress can make new laws and the president can create executive orders, but if they want to get the job done there must be some accountability for this crime spree. And that's just for starters.īut one of the most important priorities must be to re-establish democratic and ethical norms in the wake of Trump's brazen corruption. Our failed public health response to the coronavirus is a deadly wakeup call: The federal government has atrophied under the insane fiscal and political priorities inflicted upon it over the past couple of decades by nihilist Republicans and impotent Democrats. Foreign policy will have to be dealt with immediately, as will the assessment of the damage to the administrative state. #Trump saying he wont have time to golf fullIf the nation manages to oust Donald Trump from the presidency in November - and he actually agrees to leave in January - the new administration and the Congress will have its hands full just trying to keep the country from falling even deeper into a depression and halting the death toll from the pandemic.
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