Is the very act by a president calling parts of the US Constitution 'phony' an impeachable offense?
Judy Rofe, Controversial Aussie. Seeing it and saying it how it is.
trump knows he's in an unspeakable mess. He is a man tormented by his own misdemeanours. He is a man beside himself with worry. Yet, he has denounced Democrats who consider him responsible for glaring maltreatment of the office he occupies, of organising "a coup"; of nurturing constitutional scholars to clarify that, indeed, the founders gave the Congress the power of impeachment to contend with presidents like him. trump has tweeted in dishonourable ill-treatment of history and language, that a mindfully developed impeachment enquiry is proportional to "a lynching".
Given any time he has his back against the wall, he hurls a racial bomb. trump knows without a doubt his back truly is against the wall this time. He comprehends that he is vulnerable and it is obvious to him that he is in deep trouble for associating his position with an end goal to get another nation (or, maybe, phony nations) to explore a political adversary. Nevertheless, he is in inescapable trouble for mishandling his position to endow himself and his family’s interests. Given that was his goal forthright and foremost long before he ran the race it has now backfired on him. So the beleaguered president is flying off the handle about the emoluments clause of the US Constitution.
Under strain from congressional Republicans who are battling to make sense of how they can protect a president who so glaringly participates in regular bad behaviour, trump resentfully chose to scrap his intention to have the G-7 summit at his Trump National Doral Miami resort, yet he did not do so unobtrusively. trump is currently snarling about “you people with this phony emoluments clause.”
Hello, you pundit. The emoluments clause is not ‘phony.’
For all the discussion about foreign interests involving Ukrainians and Russians, trump's self-managing is the utmost risk to his administration. As House Judiciary Committee member Steve Cohen imparted, “The president is skating on thin ice these days, and the ice is melting.” Cohen attacked trump for proposing that the section of the Constitution that guards against corruption is fake.
Members of the White House make a vow to uphold the Constitution. They revere a significant part of the work. In fact, a major portion of the work of James Madison and America’s founding fathers who drew the Constitution. To state that it is fake is to soundly slap the faces of the founding fathers. Furthermore, having a blatant disregard for the Constitution to which trump took an oath; to label, the most hallowed, the most sacred record in the nation is an impeachable offence. trump says it's "phony." Well, the impeachment clause is not phony! The partition of forces isn't phony! There's a great deal trump may believe is phony, yet he remains offensive and impertinent; disrespectful of the nation’s heritage and the country's founders.
There are numerous reasons to hold him responsible. In any case, positioned is a particular emphasis on trump’s violations of Article 1, Section 9, of the US Constitution, the Foreign Emoluments Clause, which states that:
No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
and Article II, Section 1, the Domestic Emoluments Clause, which states that:
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.
trump is happy with being unethical and deceitful. After he proposed utilising the Doral for the G7 Summit, the Judiciary Committee griped the trump family's close to home monetary interests are obviously shaping decisions made in regard to official U.S. government exercises, and this is unquestionably the sort of risk that the Constitution's Emoluments Clauses were designed to prevent.
The Doral proposition accentuated the emoluments issue. In any case, it is more deep-set than just one plan. There is a lot of evidence of disgusting trump behaviour, starting with the recurrent stays by organisation officials, including Pence during his recent Ireland trip, at off-the-beaten-track trump properties. And what of the concerns brought about of the ways in which trump’s business interests seem to impact his governing decisions with respect to nations, for example, Saudi Arabia and Turkey?
Cohen is prepared to arraign trump for violations of the emoluments clause, and that is as it should be. As he said, “I took an oath to uphold the Constitution. That includes the Emoluments Clause. Trump may not like it, but that doesn’t make it ‘phony.’
Is the very act by a president calling parts of the US Constitution 'phony' an impeachable offense? you asked.
America’s constitution can only reiterate that protecting the United States government from corruption and foreign pressure is pivotal. Abuse of the Emoluments Clause is an impeachable offence.
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