BREAKING: Democratic star Congressman Jamie Raskin brings down the hammer and demands that the Trump Organization turn over ALL of its business records in order to determine how much Trump profited from foreign governments.
This is exactly how you catch a crook...
Raskin, who is the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, is calling for the records in question because he believes that it's the only way to obtain a full picture of Trump's criminal presidency.
Raskin's new letter comes in the wake of a bombshell report from the committee which exposed Trump for earning roughly $8 million from foreign governments while he controlled the Oval Office.
Not surprisingly, Trump failed to disclose these massive profits to Congress. Raskin convincingly argues that this failure is a blatant violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.
Raskin slammed the Trump Organization for sending a letter to reject his previous call for them to return the ill-gotten profits. He said that the letter is "an admission that, without congressional consent, he collected while in office at least $7.8 million from at least 20 foreign governments—with the People's Republic of China and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia being his leading patrons."
"You conspicuously do not dispute the millions of dollars that foreign governments spent at Trump-owned properties, the identities of the corrupt and autocratic governments that spent those sums, or the myriad policy favors and changes that those governments were seeking to obtain from the Trump Administration—and, in numerous cases, did obtain—at the time they were filling Trump's pockets," Raskin wrote.
"Nor do you dispute that the former President never came to Congress to disclose the foreign government payments he wanted to accept or to seek congressional consent to keep them—as the Foreign Emoluments Clause required him to do," he went on.
"Perhaps if you pile up all the foreign state money former President Trump received while in office, the stack will reach as high as the Washington Monument, and we could call it the 'Washington Emolument,'" wrote Raskin.
As usual, Raskin nailed it. We need more public servants like this holding Trump and his MAGA mafia accountable.
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