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

Article 4 – USC30121: Election Campaign Violations

Article 4 – USC30121: Illegal Election campaign contributions and working with foreign powers to win election

Statement of Offense

Donald J. Trump, even before becoming President of the United States operating as a criminal enterprise and committed election law violations and corrupt actions in contempt of law and ethical standards. He has solicited, taken and profited from aid, "things of value", from foreign governments. He has sought and taken contributions to his campaigns from foreign powers since he was candidate Donald Trump.

Sought and accepted assistance from the Russians in getting "dirt on Hillary Clinton"

Has purged counter-intelligence, law enforcement and other personnel from the office to protect foreign powers.

Article 8 – Stonewalling and Misuse of Executive Privilege

Donald J. Trump in his role as President, his Attorney General William P. Barr, are asserting dictatorial powers by asserting the doctrine of "unitary executive", by their misuse of executive privileges and emergency powers.

Complaint

This administration has refused to cooperate with Congress, respect the laws of the United States or the separation of powers, specifically, congresses power over the purse. Trump has stonewalled Congressional efforts to get information from his officers, barred his lieutenants from testifying on matters within the scope of the House's oversight functions, and claimed a fictitious version of Executive privilege to justify this stonewalling and lack of cooperation. As a consequence he has obstructed justice, diverted funds from their intended use, and broken a number of laws. More importantly he is usurping powers reserved to the legislature and asserting dictatorial powers by doing these things.

Article 1 – Willful failure to respect the Constitution and rule of law

Article 1 – Willful failure to respect the Constitution and rule of Law

Executive Summary

We hold that Donald J. Trump, his principle officers and supporters have not only failed to faithfully execute the laws of the country and the strictures and requirements of the Constitution but they have used their offices to commit the high misdemeanor of promoting bigotry and hate against immigrants, muslims, people from our southern neighbors and other countries. We hold that, as stated in an article of impeachment introduced in 2018 that:

“In his capacity as President of the United States, unmindful of the high duties of his high office, of the dignity and proprieties thereof, and of the harmony, and respect necessary for stability within the society of the United States, Donald John Trump has with his bigoted statements done more than simply insult individuals and groups of Americans, he has harmed the American society by attempting to convert, or converting, his bigoted statements into United States policy and by associating the presidency and the people of the United States with bigotry, violence and abuses of power, on one or more of the following occasions:”

Pirates Versus the Commons

Privateering Versus the Commons

An essay in Scientific American titled: The tragedy of the tragedy of the commons, debunks a seminal article that claimed that the obstacle to progress was “the tragedy of the commons” Unfortunately, as the article by By Matto Mildenberger on April 23, 2019 explains:

“The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe—plus his argument was wrong.” [Scientific American Article]

Article 2: – Perfidy:Donald Trump's cruel abuse of Power, engaging in Cruel and Genocidal Actions

Article 2: – Perfidy:Donald Trump's cruel abuse of Power, engaging in Cruel and Genocidal Actions

Donald J. Trump, in his capacity as President of the United States, unmindful of his duties and responsibilities has engaged in illegal, extra-legal and genocidal behavior. This behavior violates international law and norms, US law, and has resulted in numerous deaths and harm to persons in his trust. Donald John Trump has escalated from the racist and bigoted speech, threats and incitement of his first few years into efforts to build concentration camps for immigrants, asylum seekers and to begin to build the infrastructure needed to commit genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Criminal and Unconstitutional Actions

In his efforts to end what he calls “chain migration”

• separated parents from children,
• indefinitely detained people not even charged yet, with misdemeanor border crossing.
• indefinitely detained asylum seekers who previously would have been released to family.
• separated children from their parents in order to deem their children as abandoned.
• Closed legal crossings thereby causing the death of migrants forced to either wait at the border or to perilously cross deserts and rivers.
• Endangered people in his custody via over-crowding, indefinite detention and cruel treatment.
• Caused the unnecessary deaths of migrants and children of migrants.
• Detained US Citizens refusing to accept their proof of identification.
• By these means he has violated laws requiring humane treatment of people in the custody of the United States.
• Imposed a ban on Immigration from Muslim, African and other non-European countries.
• Sought to revise general immigration law to deny green cards to legitimate applicants.

Article 5 – Emoluments; Soliciting and Taking Emoluments in defiance of the Constitution.

Article 5 – Emoluments; Soliciting and Taking Emoluments in defiance of the Constitution.

https://www.citizensforethics.org/2000-trump-conflicts-of-interest-counting/

Donald J. Trump and his family have displayed a contempt for his office by his actions and inactions. He has shown a flagrant disregard for the emoluments clause and and the rules and laws that Presidents are supposed to abide by.