Article 3 – Fraud: Abused his Trust as President by continual lies and frauds

Article 3: – Fraud: Abused his Trust as President by continual lies and frauds

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Trump, since before assuming his office, has shown continual contempt for the laws and traditions of the United States, which he has expressed by continual lies and misrepresentations. Vanity Fair counted at least 9,179 (Vanity Fair) by March 2019, the current count is over 10,000+ whoppers since taking the oath of office. While many of these lies are legal, some of them are illegal, many misdemeanors, some point to felonies.

We hold him in contempt of Congress for the lies, but the ones that are crimes represent potential for corruption, a corrupting influence on the rest of the country and unless he is held to account he and others will continue to violate law and standards of proof.

Summary

• Lying about the path of Hurricane Dorian. On September 1st he claimed that Dorian might hit Alabama, which was erroneous. When confronted with that lie, he doubled down and on September 4th he presented a doctored weather map showing a sharpied in circle over Alabama, which was added. The mistake was something anyone can make, but he insists he never made a mistake. This is a misdemeanor. 18 U.S. Code § 2074. False weather reports

“Whoever knowingly issues or publishes any counterfeit weather forecast or warning of weather conditions falsely representing such forecast or warning to have been issued or published by the Weather Bureau, United States Signal Service, or other branch of the Government service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both.”

• Financial Fraud lies

We have the example of his misrepresentations of his finances, which constitute several types of fraud. Most of these are high misdemeanors. however, some of those lies are outright frauds and felonies.

From Vanity Fair, a sample of the fraudulent lies that constitute Wire Fraud:

1. “In a 2011 document known as a “Statement of Financial Condition,” Trump purported to own 55 home lots ready to sell for at least $3 million apiece at his Southern California golf course. Yet, in reality, he’d only been zoned for 31, thereby overstating his future revenue by a cool $72-odd million.
2. In a document from 2012, he tacked on an extra 800 acres to the size of his roughly 1,200 acre Virginia vineyard. In 2013, in an attempt to bolster his bid for the Buffalo Bills, a two-page “Summary of Net Worth” conveniently omitted his ownership of two hotels, in Chicago and Las Vegas, meaning, per the Post, “that some of Trump’s actual debt load was hidden from anyone reading the statement.” [Vanity Fair]

Therefore we hold that Donald J Trump should be censured, impeached and referred for prosecution after he leave office, for those of his lies that violate the law. And he should be removed for office for his brazen abuses of trust and is willful refusal to obey the Constitutional Precept that he “faithfully execute the office” and “preserve, protect and defend the constitution.” We respectfully submit to the Senate the full list of Trump's frauds and misrepresentation as documentation for these high crimes, committed both before he ran for President and while in office.

This would be followed with a long list of his income tax, wire-fraud, bank-fraud, etc.... allegations and documentation.

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