To catch a thief
Ah now this is a good look for a current president. Yes indeed, this really reflects well on us and our institutions and choices.
A New York judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2 million to an array of charities to resolve a lawsuit alleging he misused his own charitable foundation to further his political and business interests.
Judge Saliann Scarpulla said Trump breached his fiduciary duty to the Trump Foundation by allowing his campaign staff to plan a fundraiser for veterans’ charities in the run-up to the 2016 Iowa caucuses.
The event, which passed money through Trump’s non-profit, was designed “to further Mr. Trump’s political campaign,” Scarpulla said.
The judge also signed off on agreements reached last month between Trump’s lawyers and the New York attorney general’s office to close the Trump Foundation and distribute about $1.7 million in remaining funds to other nonprofits.
In the agreements, Trump admitted to personally misusing Trump Foundation funds and agreed to pay back $11,525 in the organization’s funds he spent on sports memorabilia and champagne at a charity gala. He also agreed to restrictions on his involvement in other charitable organizations.
Can a President be impeached for conduct that occurred in the campaign to become President. Asking for a friend…
Rob – may I introduce your (and your friend) to a man known only as Richard M. Nixon? A mysterious figure, involved in a mysterious way in a mysterious break-in at the campaign headquarters for the opposition party…
He can be impeached for not picking up his dog’s shit in the park so…
Just a few years ago, it would have been inconceivable that a sitting president of the United States was fined $2 million for abuse of charitable funds, and that it wasn’t even the biggest scandal he was facing.
I miss that.
Ready for the return of No Drama Obama (and I am not among those who think he was the best president we ever had. He was presidential and humane and decent, but he had a lot of policy missteps. So what? When we want a perfect president, guess we’ll need Jesus…and we know how well that works, right?)