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Senator demands answers after Trump accepted Rolex and gold bar before slashing tariffs on Switzerland
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2026
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US Constitution Article 1 Section 9 Clause 8, "Titles of Nobility and Foreign Emoluments":
It's literally unconstitutional. In the past, foreign gifts to presidents were typically turned over to the National Archives to avoid breaking the law. If Congress was a functional governing body they would rake him over the coals for this, among the hundred other laws Trump has casually flaunted.
Yeah emoluments clause went out the window in trumps first term. Like week one, probably.
The Quid Pro Quo Potus
The fig leaf was that his family were running the business side, not him.
Keeping a watch and gold bar has no fig leaf.
Clearly, it doesn't mean things like airplanes, watches, and gold bars. It's written right there, anybody can see it, it's just that Libz can't read because of their public school education. They don't even make emoluments any more, that was an olden days thing, like Laudanum.
Congress and functioning while the republicans have the majority is an oxymoron.
At least we have SCOTUS as a check on his powers!
Yup, they’re working on a blank check…
That is after they figure out how to make CA's new maps illegal after saying TX's maps were just fine.
Yeah right? Should be reason enough to burn this place down
They already signed that one.
"he didn't accept it for himself, it's for the presidential library"
Hahaha gotteem
"It's a PERFECT deal."
We need a brand new congress. End literally every one if their terms and vote in new people.
There's a handful I'd keep, and a handful I'd execute. The rest can go, from both sides.
~~Fuck~~ Eject, marry, kill
Eject all but a handful or two of the Democrats, marry Bernie, kill the fascists.
Yeah, well, it doesn’t say anything about bribes, so checkmate, librul!
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