Posted on 10/18/2024 12:59:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
House Democrats on Friday accused former President Donald J. Trump of accepting “hundreds of unconstitutional and ethically suspect payments” through the Trump International Hotel in 2017 and 2018, moving weeks before the election to remind voters of the ethical issues raised by his refusal to divest from his businesses while in office.
The 58-page report from Democrats on the Oversight Committee includes their final findings in a yearslong investigation digging into the Trump Organization’s management of the hotel. It accuses Mr. Trump of ripping off the Secret Service by charging the agency exorbitant rates and of inappropriately accepting payments from clients who worked for state governments or were seeking appointments and pardons from him.
“Mr. Trump has made clear that he will not only refuse to divest from his businesses in a possible future presidency, but he will seek to multiply opportunities to commodify the Oval Office for his personal enrichment by turning thousands of civil service jobs into patronage positions — all with the attendant payoff possibilities from supplicant job-seekers and the prospective blessing of his handpicked Supreme Court justices,” said Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee.
House Republicans dismissed the report as old news and accused Democrats of hypocrisy for investigating Mr. Trump but not members of President Biden’s family, including his son Hunter.
“Unlike the Bidens, the Trumps actually have businesses and made money from the services they provided,” said Jessica Collins, a spokeswoman for the Republican-led House Oversight Committee. “Today’s report is more recycled garbage from the Democrats’ fruitless and close to a decadelong investigation of President Trump.”
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The miserable, lunatic Left calls success and creation of wealth “Unethical and Unconstitutional.”
How I hate the lunatic Left. The lunatic Left is the Road to Serfdom.
House Democrats speaking of unconstitutional and ethically suspect payments.
The masters of it that’s tacky.
Did you think they were going to quit their legal harassment?
the last gasp reality burn is in effect
Better tell Memphis mayor Paul Young. He just bought the downtown Sheraton Hotel. (With taxpayer bonds)
Not a chance.
The lunatic left is an unholy abomination from hell and needs to be sent back there where it belongs.
Ratskin again.
Everyday more projection
Indeed
Are you a NYT employee?
If you aren't interested in an article, don't click on it. There are plenty of people who are, but since you are the center of the universe they don't count.
Was our first and greatest president "accepting 'hundreds of unconstitutional and ethically suspect payments'" through his farms from our then-greatest enemy?
Was George Washington "commodifying" the presidency because he had a long-standing business that continued to operate while he was holding the office of President of the United States?
-PJ
And another poster posts Medical Xpress frequently, almost only.
I'm an old FReeper with the ability to keep scrolling. Carry on.
Rush Limbaugh dedicated most of his showtime to corporate gaslight press articles. I post them because nobody else does because of precious snowflake bullies who think their poor eyes should not be subject to even the titles of those articles. Since nobody else posts them it's easy to find NYT articles that haven't been posted to FR.
I miss the old days when you could come back to FR every hour and read dozens of new posts. Sometimes nowadays there are no new ones for hours.
If you want to see more articles from different sources you could try posting a few now and then. Looks to me like you have not posted any since 2012, but you have plenty of time to whine about what I post.
Making millions via insider trading is ethical though. /s
Trump is accused of ripping off the Secret Service by over charging them ..........
Hooray....glad to hear it,
Trump ought to get a medal for that.
Au contraire! The Bidens have lots of "businesses." They sell the "Biden brand." Not long ago, there was huge, almost insatiable demand for it.
George Washington didn’t divest his businesses.
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