I would certainly love to be proven wrong about this

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Men’s Warehouse Guy: Trump just handed the Democrats an airtight impeachment case…

…but they won’t prosecute him for this, I guarantee it.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    You mean he defied the consitution’s emoluments clause - he very much did NOT defy emoluments.

    The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them

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      2 months ago

      Indeed, I used shorthand so I that I didn’t have to say “emoluments clause of the 4the Amendment of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America” There, all fixed for you.