Facts. The US Constitution gives the power of the purse exclusively to Congress — not to the Executive and the President. Likewise, the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution explicitly prohibits a president from taking any compensation or any thing of value other than his salary unless specifically permitted by an act of Congress. Every single nickel that Trump has taken besides his salary is not just illegal, it’s unconstitutional. That $400 million dollar jet he took from a country he called terrorist in his first administration? Unconstitutional. The $2 billion dollars the Saudi crown prince directed to be given to Trump’s son in law, against the advice of the prince’s own financial advisors? The hundred million dollar parcel of land Trump tried extracting for free from the State of Florida and one of its universities in the dark of night without the legally required public notice? None of this is normal, legal, nor constitutional, and Trump and his family are on track to grift between $50 and $100 billion dollars before this term is up. And let’s not forget, Trump didn’t even have one billion dollars to his name before he became president — a reputable reporter printed as much and Trump threatened to sue for defamation but never did, because a court would have looked at actual evidence to prove whether said reporter was telling the truth, and that court would have publicly proven Trump much poorer than he claimed to be for most of his life.
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