The Trump crime family will be in State court in New York before long, facing multiple charges of using their scam foundation for personal and political gain. The beauty is that civil and criminal convictions in State courts are beyond Presidential pardon powers. Corrupt would-be autocrat Donald "Rump" Trump is sweating over the potential civil penalties and criminal charges (including making false statements) in this case, as evidenced by his angry tweet storm yesterday.
If this were only a situation comedy, rather than a corrupt, sick man in the Oval Office.
BONUS:
Just talking to a former IRS official about this. He was amazed at the range of the violations here. "They hit an extroardinary catalog of how *not* to run a private foundation. There’s little else he could have done that would have made it worse." https://t.co/349rMIV8rr— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) June 14, 2018
The face you make when the guy who accused your foundation of wrongdoing gets lit up for extensive wrongdoing in his... pic.twitter.com/i2NB6oexTT— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 14, 2018
How weak was the oversight in Trump's charity, which he used as a piggy bank? One of its board members - for more than a decade - didn't realize he was on the board https://t.co/8dJhX6CjtE pic.twitter.com/X7GeMJV4NK— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) June 14, 2018
BONUS II: The New York Times has a blistering editorial on the suit:
In precise and damning detail, the suit catalogs Mr. Trump’s repeated violation of both state and federal laws by tapping the foundation’s funds for his own personal purposes, including paying out legal settlements, making political contributions and purchasing a portrait of himself to hang in one of his golf clubs.
The Trump Foundation is “an empty shell,” the suit says, with no employees and no oversight by its board of directors, which has not met for nearly 20 years. This has allowed Mr. Trump to run it “according to his whim, rather than the law.” [snip]
Though they were fantasies in so many other ways, most of Donald Trump’s scams — from bankrupt casinos to phony universities — never really pretended to be in the public interest. But his foundation, like his presidency, does. And like everything else with the Trump name slapped on it, neither is remotely what it purports to be.
