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Hunter Biden’s laptop!
Unfortunately, the Emoluments Clause has no claws. >

There are quite a few laws and regulations that had their teeth removed. Arguably if something is illegal but there's no punishment then it's not illegal, which I'm sure Republicans have thought of and it's why they're always removing penalties for their "white collar" crime. >

And any non-proportional fine is basically just a permit >

You mean like banks making hundred of millions on opening fake accounts and being fined like $30 million? Yeah that's just the cost of doing business. >

He was a bigger risk than the media wanted to report.  We all knew what the issues were and that he was and still is a huge risk. >

The fact that no bank in America would loan to him was a kinda important clue. >

No we realized it, just like we realize all the crimes he's committed while never being brought to justice.
We know. >

Um...don't go lumping me in that we.  I knew for fucking sure he was/is a risk to humanity, sanity, and the world. Half the fucking people in this country wouldn't listen to me though.  Apparently I couldn't speak troglodyte well enough. >

Trump being a risk was such a surprise..... >

No, I think most of us realized how big the risk was. >

I work for a large US bank. You’ve all heard of it. In 1994, trump tried to get an Agency loan through us. Several lenders would share the credit risk under one loan agreement. I was on the due diligence team which went through trump’s finances. He didn’t get the loan. 
He’s actually much worse than most people imagine. >

You've worked at the same place since 1994? >

Since 1989 actually. I work terrible hours and they pay me lots of money. As soon as my daughter graduates from law school, I will retire. >

I realized this 20 years ago. >

American Psycho was published in 1991....
There are multiple references in there about donald trump being a kind of role model to Patrick Bateman.... >

don't worry, the incoming house of representatives will be on it and we'll have a full understanding after a thorough house investigation.
/s. because it's politics. >


Nonetheless, it is frightening to think of a president of the United States being so deeply involved financially with a nuclear armed country under an authoritarian ruler with a long history of threatening and invading its neighbors. If there was any type of foreign financial entanglement that comes closest to what the Founders feared most when drafting the emoluments clause, it is this.

Good point, but it’s like a forensic scientist looking at a dead body and being like, yup, he dead. >

Lol nuclear arms aren't in the constitution NICE TRY >

No, MSNBC. We fucking knew. >

Who could have predicted this?! /s >

We are probably on a few months out from the GOP openly soliciting bribes with impunity. >

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Last month the House Ways and Means Committee published six years of former President Trump's tax returns - documents that should have been released years earlier, whether by Trump voluntarily, or by congressional subpoena.
These returns, and other financial information about the Trump Organizations' foreign business dealings, and his foreign bank accounts, should have been available to Congress at the beginning of 2017, not gradually leaked out over the course of the Trump administration, with these latest tax returns only being released in late 2022.
Putin did not test his business and personal relationship with Trump by invading Ukraine while Trump was president, while the Trump administration's policies often diverged from the American president's praise for his Russian counterpart.


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Good summary, however it's more correct to say they COULD have been released in 2017. There was and still is no requirement for a President to turn over their taxes. >

But her emails! >

Don't matter how much of bigger risk he is. He's a risk and that's concerning already. But sadly it's impossible to convict him. >

It’s not impossible. I used to bullseye womp rats in my T16 back home, and they’re not much more corrupt than a money-laundering rapist seditionist. >

We know it. >

I'd like to reply to all the comments here that said they all realized this.  Me too.  ME FUCKING TOO.
The only people who didn't "realize" this absolutely did but were essentially being paid not to.  Or were real Trump Supporters, the literal dumbest Americans to ever exist. 
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Seriously if you support this man you're either a wealthy grifter or stupider than the average monkey that also has severe brain damage. >

jfc litigation over his emoluments began as soon as he took office. Since our "justice" system is a farce the clock was run out on the case and it was ultimately dismissed after Biden was sworn in. 
I cannot fathom how four fucking years was not enough to litigate an open and shut case. >


The tax returns also showed that Trump had business dealings in Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Georgia, Grenada, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Panama, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, South Korea, St. Maarten, St. Vincent, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. 

Am I the only one reading it to the tune of the Animaniacs? >

Nope. I am now. Thanks for that. Need a laugh today. >

A big time loser. They don’t came any bigger. >

Bigger risk than you realized. Some people can see a fucking crook a mile out. >

I'm a New Yorker. We tried to tell everyone. >

I doubt it was surprise to America's intelligence agencies. The ongoing wonderment, many of us endure, is why he suffers no consequences for his crimes, and why many still revere him as an exemplar of the successful man. >

He's a fucking liability. Look what's going on in Brazil, I doubt that would've happened if trump hadn't done the ground work. >

Who is 'we', because Im pretty damn sure millions recognized it would be an issue BEFORE he was elected. >

Who actually didn't realize that he was a monumental risk from, shit... even before, the day he announced his 2016 run? >

With Trump, it's always worse than it looks. >

My first clue was failed casinos. How bad at business do you have to be to lose money on casinos?