So Trump has now admitted to a high crime in paying the $2,000,000 penalty for his scam charity.

[Botany]

The House can impeach him in one day then the Senate can vote to find him guilty and
remove him from office the next day. End of story.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212665780

He took money in to help the vets and kept it until he was caught and he used $25,000
of his charity to bribe Florida's A.G. not to investigate his scam Trump U.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212665680

[Vinca]

1. I've never understood why his designation as "Individual 1" in the Cohen case wasn't enough

to trigger impeachment considering Individual 2 is now in jail. With all the things we know Trump has done, the Ukraine brouhaha is kind of small potatoes.

[mucifer]

2. No it's not small potatoes. It's treasony. It's international and people could be

dying when he withholds funds that were appropriated by congress because he wants to win an election and have another country fabricate lies. It's way worse than the Cohen stuff.

You are correct that there are so many illegal things he has done to cause so many to suffer.

[gab13by13]

3. It's not "could be dying"

they did die because they lacked weapons because Trump held back the money.

[Botany]

4. I think the only crimes that Trump and company haven't committed are:

Cattle Rustling (although we do have Trump steaks) & illegal gill net fishing.

BTW this "thing" is so big nobody outside of maybe Putin and Barr can understand
all the moving parts.

[PatSeg]

20. Yes

It is all very complex and I don't think most people will be able to comprehend how big and far reaching it is. Every revelation seems to lead to another. Trump and his corrupt minions have been very busy. We may never even know the full extent of their corruption.

[Botany]

21. But in the end Nancy P was 100% right

All roads lead to Putin.

[PatSeg]

22. Yep

And a few apparently to Saudi Arabia as well, which could also lead back to Putin I suppose.

[malaise]

5. He admitted it to the judicial branch

and then denied it to his base

[Botany]

6. In the Trump Foundation Lawsuit, Donald Trump Admitted He Broke the Law

By paying the 2 million Trump had a "factual admission" of breaking the law.

[malaise]

8. Correct but he still thinks he can fool the sheeple

STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

I am the only person I know, perhaps the only person in history, who can give major money to charity ($19M), charge no expense, and be attacked by the political hacks in New York State. No wonder why we are all leaving!
Every penny of the $19 million raised by the Trump Foundation went to hundreds of great charitable causes with almost no expenses.

The New York Attorney General is deliberately mischaracterizing this settlement for political purposes.
In fact, the court rejected the Attorney General’s frivolous request for statutory penalties, interest and other damages.

It has been 4 years of politically motivated harassment – first by lightweight AG Schneiderman, prior to his resignation for beating up women – then AG Underwood, who was impossible to deal with, and now AG Letitia James, who does not acknowledge that we gave 100% of the funds to great charities, but refuses to investigate the Clinton Foundation with all of its problems. All they found was incredibly effective philanthropy and some small technical violations, such as not keeping board minutes.

We resolved the case with the understanding that all money previously in the foundation has gone to charity. I am therefore happy to donate $2 million to the following worthy charities: Army Emergency Relief; Children’s Aid Society; City Meals on Wheels; Give an Hour; Martha’s Table, United Negro College Fund; United Way of Capital Area; and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

[Botany]

10. "Every penny of the $19 million .... went to hundreds of great charitable causes."

[malaise]

14. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Justice is coming

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. He wishes he ever looked like that. LOL!😜

[Botany]

19. And in truth Trump is a God awful tennis player

Link to tweet

[Farmer-Rick]

7. Is there a crime that the current president of the United States has NOT committed?

He has committed every crime possible related to holding a federal positon plus money laundering and campaign finance violation. And also he was a john and Epstein's buddy when he met his current wife the Slovenian sex worker. And also he committed treason.

This is the man the richest man in the world, and possibly one of the shortest Russians, Putin, picked to work with as his puppet in the US.

This is the man the filthy rich American capitalist have chosen to represent their country. All the top filthy richest families in the US are supporting Trump. They are enabling him to continue his crimes so they can get their tax giveaways. Trump is the embodiment of American capitalism. The orange mass and his Slovenian sex worker are the true representation of capitalism and the filthy rich.

[Botany]

9. Is there a crime that the current president of the United States has NOT committed?

Cattle Rustling & illegal gill net fishing.

[Quixote1818]

11. As Bill Maher said, Dems should be all over this!!! Why hasn't Dem leadership commented on this????

If this had been Obama you know the ropes would have been out perhaps literally. Republicans would have had their talking points going out to everyone full throttle! I just don't get why Dems can't work effectively like that. This is a HUGE criminal deal and hardly anyone knows about it because Democratic leadership is ignoring it.

[spanone]

12. Let's not forget....he's a criminal

April 10, 2018

Judge finalizes $25 million Trump University settlement for students of 'sham university'

A federal judge finalized the $25 million settlement between President Trump and students of his now shuttered Trump University on Monday, with New York's attorney general claiming “victims of Donald Trump’s fraudulent university will finally receive the relief they deserve.”

The order from U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel — the same Indiana-born judge Trump called biased because of his "Mexican heritage" — comes a year after he first approved the settlement. It marks the end of two class-action lawsuits and a civil lawsuit from New York accusing Trump of "swindling thousands of Americans out of millions of dollars through Trump University," in the words of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.


"This settlement marked a stunning reversal by President Trump, who for years refused to compensate the victims of his sham university," Schneiderman said in a statement.

Indeed, Trump claimed as a candidate that he "never" settled lawsuits, and would not do so in the case of Trump University. "That's why I won't settle," Trump told MSNBC in 2016. "Because it's an easy case to win in court ... How do you settle a case like that?"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/04/10/trump-university-settlement-judge-finalized/502387002/

[dalton99a]

13. Kick

[slater71]

15. This has to be brought up all day on Monday.

This guy has always been a thief, a mafia style thug and a con man. He thought he could do the say thing as president and no one would stop him. He has to be impeached because if the Senate refuses to impeach him, we will be looking at 4 more years of this fuck stick. His dumb ass supporters will put him in again because they don`t care for nothing but beating democrats.

[Quixote1818]

18. YES! Democratic leadership and the press should be relentless on this.

This could do real damage to Trump if they run with it. And it's a done deal! He has admitted to a crime!

[calimary]

17. Just add it to the list.

But at some point, we have to get to a vote. There are so damn many offenses and crimes and violations and frauds that he’s committed that there wouldn’t be the time and energy to litigate them all.

We need to leave a mark. Impeach. And remove if possible. If not possible, leave him permanently marked and damaged for all of history.