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[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 255 points 1 month ago

US Constitution Article 1 Section 9 Clause 8, "Titles of Nobility and Foreign Emoluments":

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

It's literally unconstitutional. In the past, foreign gifts to presidents were typically turned over to the National Archives to avoid breaking the law. If Congress was a functional governing body they would rake him over the coals for this, among the hundred other laws Trump has casually flaunted.

[-] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 130 points 1 month ago

Yeah emoluments clause went out the window in trumps first term. Like week one, probably.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 month ago

The Quid Pro Quo Potus

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

The fig leaf was that his family were running the business side, not him.

Keeping a watch and gold bar has no fig leaf.

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[-] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 48 points 1 month ago

Congress and functioning while the republicans have the majority is an oxymoron.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 21 points 1 month ago

At least we have SCOTUS as a check on his powers!

[-] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 18 points 1 month ago

Yup, they’re working on a blank check…

[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

That is after they figure out how to make CA's new maps illegal after saying TX's maps were just fine.

[-] molestme247@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah right? Should be reason enough to burn this place down

[-] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

They already signed that one.

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[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Clearly, it doesn't mean things like airplanes, watches, and gold bars. It's written right there, anybody can see it, it's just that Libz can't read because of their public school education. They don't even make emoluments any more, that was an olden days thing, like Laudanum.

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[-] FishFace@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago

"he didn't accept it for himself, it's for the presidential library"

Hahaha gotteem

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[-] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah, well, it doesn’t say anything about bribes, so checkmate, librul!

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

We need a brand new congress. End literally every one if their terms and vote in new people.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago

There's a handful I'd keep, and a handful I'd execute. The rest can go, from both sides.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

~~Fuck~~ Eject, marry, kill

Eject all but a handful or two of the Democrats, marry Bernie, kill the fascists.

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[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 93 points 1 month ago

A gold bar? A fuckin' gold bar?

Didn't he whine about Bob Menendez doing literally this not long ago?

[-] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 62 points 1 month ago

"rules for thee and not for me" could be the regime's most consistent mantra

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Look, you don't need to demand answers to the turd:

It's a bribe. That's it. Your prez took a bribe to cut tariffs to a country.

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 23 points 1 month ago

Good think our system actually predicted this and its illegal even if it WEREN'T a bribe:

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

[-] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

without the Consent of the Congress

I mean, he's a sack of shit for certain, but Congress has the power to stop this and will not, so it is implicit consent.

[-] NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

First, I agree with you. But, even if Congress opposes him accepting it, they can't enforce it. Pretty sure Congress wrote into law that we were supposed to have the Epstein files a month ago.

[-] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Congress can impeach and convict for any offense at all, which would remove him from the presidency. Short of that, a president may do as he pleases, because the courts have no similar analog. Sad to say it, but it's true.

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[-] SoupBrick@pawb.social 57 points 1 month ago

The answer is because nobody is going to stop him.

[-] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Ding ding ding! Tell em what he's won, bob!

[-] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

He's won an all expenses paid trip to Alligator Alcatraz! (cue jazzy fanfare music as the camera pans over the Everglades)

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[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago

Didn't ask about the 400M jet from Qatar, so what's the deal now? Theatrics, knowing full well youre getting nowhere but wasting time from the real issues like EPSTEIN

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 15 points 1 month ago

Bet they're kicking themselves now. They gave him a fucking plane, and all Switzerland needed to do was give him a watch and a gold bar.

Probably didn't even need to do that. Suck up to the guy for 10 minutes and tell him how great he is, and he'll agree to anything.

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[-] Tilgare@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

None of us could afford to, but DAMN is it cheap to buy Diaper Don (relatively speaking). The tariff revenue that Americans would generate on Swiss imports FAR exceeds the value of a watch and a bar of gold.

[-] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Bribing politicians is cheap, it's generally millions for billions and more like 100k to billion for small politicians.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 16 points 1 month ago

Because he doesn't give a flying hoot about the American people. Or to be honest really his party. This is all just a grift for him.

Europe strategy seems to be more to just threaten him, it's unclear with what but he seems to have backed off tariffs in the EU, but I guess Switzerland felt that they needed to go the bride route. I don't know why because I guarantee Trump thinks Switzerland is in the EU

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"C'mon, let's cut the crap, here's a big hunk of gold. Deal?"

"Deal!"

MAGA Diplomacy

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

I mean Washington has been like that for a while but usually "campaign donations"

Most of Trump's bullshit is just saying the quiet part out loud. He is especially brazen about it and it doesn't make suck less.

[-] alpha1beta@piefed.social 33 points 1 month ago

It's about time Congress woke the fuck up. The only option here is to impeach - this is textbook corruption that would make Senator Menendez blush.

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[-] Binturong@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago

Global extortion racket goes brrrrrr. There will be no recovery until his and his regime are removed from power and jailed, he will not leave by any other process aside from just dying, and even then I wouldn't put it past the administration to use his image and AI to continue their assault on America.

[-] cmoney@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Supreme Court has ruled that you have to explicitly shout "THIS IS A BRIBE" then wink one eye while shooting finger guns and making that clicking sound with your tongue when exchanging gifts or money to be considered a bribe.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

The Supreme Court has ruled that this particular POTUS can do nothing illegal while performing an act of state. Since he accepted this bribe specifically as an act of state, it’s a legal bribe by their reasoning.

[-] slothrop@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Unless you're a Dem, then it's a bribe if someone says , "Hello" to you.

[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Yes sir, I have it on good faith that this democratic senator received a bribe of emotional gratification when the Canadian delegate wished her a nice day, to which she replied "You too", which is clearly indicative of some sort of illegal quid pro quo relationship.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago

NOW they want answers? Quatar gave him a 400 million dollar airplane (surely bugged) but you're drawing the line at a 20K Rolex with a gold bar?

Those Quataris really will be face palming now, seeing they could have bribed him so so much cheaper. They gave the ficker and airplane and he still fucked them over anyways

So just to help those corrupt fraudsters a little bit: BRIBING TRUMP DOESNT WORK

He will turn around tomorrow and fuck the Swiss right in the ass again anyway because of course he will, it's trump, he will have forgotten all about his Rolex by tomorrow and wonder why he's being so nice with the Swiss

[-] notannpc@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Hi Senator,

It was a bribe. Hope that answers your questions.

Sincerely, Everyone with a functioning brain.

[-] thoralf@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago

What aber does he expect. Trump is as corrupt as it gets. Isn’t that obvious?

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[-] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

100k investment 1000000k payout.

[-] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

They play him like a fiddle.

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[-] Strider@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Some people are reeeally slow in catching on....

[-] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago

Trump being corrupt is just another day in the Orange Republic

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

Trump’s love of lavish ~~gifts~~ bribes is well known and many are displayed in the Oval Office

Is it so hard to call out blatant corruption in front of your face?

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