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March 27, 2019

A timeline of Trump's impeachable offenses - the Democratic Coalition

A timeline of Trump’s impeachable offenses

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During Cohen’s testimony, Trump’s former fixer and attorney submitted copies of checks that Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and the COO of the Trump Organization made to him — evidence supporting Cohen’s claim that the president engaged in criminal conduct while in office. Cohen provided a copy of a check that he says was personally signed by Trump in 2017 to reimburse him for paying off Stormy Daniels, an adult-film actress who had alleged having an affair with Trump. Added Cohen: “The President of the United States thus wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws.” This is evidence of a federal crime committed by Trump while in office, and yet another impeachable offense.

According to a March 5, 2019 report, Trump pressured Kelly and McGahn to grant security clearances to Ivanka and Jared so that it wouldn’t look like the president was inappropriately influencing the process. Both McGahn and Kelly refused, and Trump ultimately granted the security clearances himself. The reports contradict statements made by both Trump and Ivanka, who have denied there was any inappropriate influence in granting the security clearances. Clearly, this is an abuse of power and it is extremely reckless with our national security.

On March 4th, 2019 we learned that Trump ordered former White House Economic Adviser Gary Cohn to pressure the Department of Justice to block the AT&T Time Warner merger. Trump opposed the merger because Time Warner owns CNN, a news network Trump regularly derides and refers to as “fake news.” This is another obvious abuse of power and disgraceful attack on the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.

On March 13th, 2019 we learned from Rep. Jerry Nadler that Whitaker in closed door testimony “did not deny” that Trump reached out to him to discuss a case against Cohen. This contradicts Whitaker’s February public congressional testimony and, if true, is yet another example of the president obstructing justice.

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much more at link https://medium.com/@TheDemCoalition/a-timeline-of-trumps-impeachable-offenses-daa8950c3921

A timeline of Trump’s impeachable offenses by @TheDemCoalition https://link.medium.com/zpbD332chV

this guy is dirty. and corrupt. and evil. with Russia and without.

March 27, 2019

Here's CREW's massive conflicts-of-interest report on trump

We, the media, EVERYONE has lost the forest for the trees. We are getting royally steamrolled and flattened by a very vile, powerful, shameless and united propaganda blitz from the right.

Meanwhile there is already such extensive evidence of trump wrong-doing and impeachable offenses.

https://www.citizensforethics.org/trump-timeline/

CREW is committed to holding government officials, including President Trump, to account when they abuse their power and fail to work in the public interest. Because President Trump refused to divest from his business empire, we tracked interactions these businesses had with the government and those trying to influence it during the president’s first year in office. By doing so, CREW documented more than 500 conflicts of interest for President Trump.

As CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder said when President Trump announced he would not divest, President Trump’s failure to adequately address his massive conflict of interest issues means that “[e]very decision he will make as president will be followed by the specter of doubt, and will be questioned as to whether his decision is in the best interest of the American people or the best interest of his bottom line.”

Here we present a timeline of instances in which the government and special interests interacted with President Trump’s private business interests since he took office. The events can be filtered by broad categories in the pull-down menu and narrower categories by checking the boxes below, so we encourage you to take a look at whatever interests you. Check out our report on these conflicts, Profiting from the Presidency: A Year’s Worth of President Trump’s Conflicts of Interest, by clicking here.

https://www.citizensforethics.org/profitingfromthepresidency/

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FIRST, President Trump and other government officials have routinely visited Trump properties and promoted them throughout the past year, signaling to those seeking to influence the government that the president’s commercial properties are important new centers of power and influence.

-President Trump spent a full third of the first year of his administration—121 days—visiting his commercial properties.

-Seventy-two executive branch officials, more than 35 members of Congress, and over a dozen state officials visited Trump Organization properties during the first year of the Trump administration.

-President Trump and his White House staff promoted the Trump brand by mentioning or referring to one of the president’s private businesses on at least 54 different occasions during the president’s first year in office.

SECOND, far from this signaled access to power being an empty promise, those who patronize President Trump’s businesses have, in fact, gained access to the president and his inner circle. Indeed, it appears that at least some of those guests are trying to use that access to exert influence.

THIRD, the promotion of the president’s businesses as centers of power and influence appears to be paying off: During President Trump’s first year in office, a variety of industry groups, foreign governments, and political committees patronized his businesses.

-There have been more than 40 instances of special interest groups holding events at Trump properties since January 20, 2017.

-Eleven foreign governments have paid Trump-owned entities during the president’s first year in office, and at least six foreign government officials have made appearances at Trump Organization properties.

-Political groups spent more than $1.2 million at Trump properties during the president’s first year in office. Prior to President Trump’s 2016 campaign, annual spending by political committees at Trump properties had never exceeded $100,000 in any given year going back to at least 2002.

Taken together, the 500+ entries on the Trump Inc. timeline present a clear picture of a presidency being used to turn a profit and the president’s businesses serving as points of access to the corridors of power. As many feared, President Trump is not only making money in spite of his official position—in many cases, he’s making money because of it.

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