Trump's corruption reaches new heights.

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On Sunday, ABC News reported that President Donald Trump plans to accept a 400 million US dollar “Flying Palace” of the royal family of Qatar. It seems that the Super-Luxury Boeing 747-8 Jumbo Jet becomes the new Air Force One until the president leaves the office. At this point, it becomes the property of his foundation of the presidential library of an unregulated slush fund, which serves as his personal pork height. In other words, Trump-The recently small American children said that they would have to limit the number of dolls they enjoy in this new era of the straps. Only one “stupid” person, said the president on Monday, would reject such an offer.

Attorney General Pam Bondi – who is apparently also used for life and considers Trump to live – the ABC -Nachrichten that Trump's top lawyer of the White House, David Warrington, has noticed that this gift is “legally permissible” because it is addressed to the Air Force of the United States Air Force and then transferred to the Trump's Presidential Foundation. (Bondi himself used to receive 115,000 US dollars per month for the lobbying on behalf of Qatar.) These very real, very serious lawyers also found that the acceptance of the aircraft is not a bribe, since the gift does not depend on an official act. Bondi delivered a legal memorandum last week that dealt with all these questions to the White House office after Warrington asked her about the legality of the Pentagon, which accepted a massive palace in the sky. The memo has not yet been forwarded to the public, possibly because its argument would be apart even with the slightest independent inspection.

The legal problem here is obvious and familiar from Trump's first term. The constitution states that “no person who has a office or trust”, can accept a foreign leader or a nation without “consent of the congress” “present, emolument, office or title or any kind”. This external glow is one of three Various constitutional provisions, the emoluments limit-a concept of art, the gift, benefits or value creation includes-everything reflects the bone-deep terror of the framers of public corruption. The delegates of the constitutional convention absolutely wanted to protect their young nation against Venal citizens and discuss the fears from corruption so often that James Madison made their job with the topic of special note.

Many delegates, including Alexander Hamilton, were annoyed that “one of the weak sides of the republics” was their susceptibility to “foreign corruption”. Managers who have been raised by people to “stations with great priority and power” may have written Hamilton to give up their “compulsory obligations”, which were lured by “compensation” by other nations, who strive for influence. In other words, federal officials could be so enthusiastic about the abundance of foreign leaders, especially monarchs, that they could sell their own country to dangle a share of the wealth in front of them. The delegates tried to protect this existential threat to the republican “virtue” by accepting the foreigner -emulse -clause -unanimous and without debate.

Do these concerns sound known? It is amazing how precisely discussions about foreign influences in 18 years^TH-Century America follows today's controversy by Red-Siren Trump; The gift of a “flying palace” from a monarch overseas to an American president in 2025 is exactly the kind of emolument that the Framer wanted to ban. And their fear of corruption was separate from and wider than their concerns about bribes. It is not true how the New York Times' Eric Lipton claimed on social media that corruption “requires explicit consideration”, an “official action” in exchange for a gift. bribery Usually only such a deputy per quo requires, and in a separate part of the constitution, it is viewed as a inferior crime. However, the foreigner emulsions clause is used to prevent a different purpose: Federal civil servants from the mere temptation of gifts, titles or payments from foreign powers, regardless of whether they take official measures in return or not. The Framer understood that influence could be bought subtly, that corruption could penetrate the calm cultivation of favor, obligation or vanity. The clause was developed to completely close this door.

Today, however, this door is wide open. The “flying palace” is only the start: Trump also takes another program with his crypto company in foreign money and grants coveted access to rich foreigners that pack its pockets – another program that is likely to complain. The federal courts fought themselves with emolutionary cases in connection with Trump's first term after the President of Foreign Officers had made a great prize in his DC Hotel. However, the Supreme Court rejected these cases after lost re -election in 2020. Part of the difficulty has long been the plaintiffs, who can find that they are personally damaged by Trump's acceptance of emolents. The strict constant rules of the Supreme Court make it difficult for someone to prove such an injury. The Framer does not seem to have expected that the Federal Justice's enforcement of this clause would fall; They obviously assumed that the President would give the congress the opportunity to approve or refuse the gifts that were offered by foreign states.

This system worked for centuries, whereby the presidents applied for the approval of the congress for emolument offered. Now, as with so many other standards, it has now collapsed. And the congress controlled by GOP has not shown any interest in protecting his privilege about this (or other) problem.

One of the strange paradoxes of this current era is that the same people who claim to adhere to the “original public meaning” of the constitution, as he complies with the constitutioned constitution, also to say that words such as “emolument” and “bribes” and “gifts” actually do not mean what they mean clearly and expressly, and that the preserving of gifts that are from external potent it actually has influence. The way in which Trump will continue to work will be by striking his fist through the overton window until everything we all have as basic ideas about giving, bribes and counterclaims and the business will appear archaic, precious and unarmed. The Framer had evil that foreigners would give the President gifts to get their way to access and power to Cadge. Now it happens again. This time in the form of a Sky Palace, which is not even a temporary gift to our president, but a permanent foreigner of a foreign monarchy directly to the person of Donald J. Trump.

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