#emoluments

Coming soon: Gaz-a-Lago!

Don't laugh, the Trump crime family has had its eyes on the Middle East for some time.

Kushner's Affinity's assets jump to $4.8 billion after Gulf cash injection

LONDON, March 28 (Reuters) - Jared Kushner's investment company Affinity Partners saw assets under management jump 60% last year to $4.8 billion, according to a regulatory filing, after it received a cash injection from Middle East investors including Qatar's sovereign wealth fund. Kushner, son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump, launched the investment firm in 2021 after leaving the White House at the end of President Donald Trump's first term, when he was a top adviser on the Middle East. Affinity secured $1.5 billion of extra capital in 2024 from two of its existing investors - Abu Dhabi-based Lunate and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund the Qatar Investment Authority - Kushner told an investment podcast in December.

Saudi Arabia is scheming with Russia to reduce oil production to drive up gas prices before the 2024 election.

They both want Traitor Trump back in office to do their bidding. Putin has undue influence over Trump for reasons yet unknown. Saudi Arabia spends very large sums on Trump properties and businesses and has "invested" billions with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.

While not technically a law, it is a very rigid precedent that a sitting president cannot be indicted while in office. This is supposedly in place to ensure that the president isn't distracted by lawsuits while running the country, ensuring that the only legal way to punish a president is via impeachment. Well, today the Supreme Court decided that a president can't be indicted even AFTER leaving office either.

The Gonad Lump violated the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which says that politicians cannot receive gifts (bribes) from foreign powers without congressional approval. He's a businessman with his fingers in a lot of pies overseas, so he made a shit ton of money from this way, but couldn't be indicted for it because he had the nominal immunity of the office of the presidency. Now that he's out of office, the lawsuits against him could move forward, right? WRONG! The conservative majority court decided that because he's no longer the sitting president, the cases are all moot. You can't punish a president for breaking the law of he's no longer president, but you can't punish him for breaking the law if he still is the president either. Therefore, the president is above the law and cannot be punished under any circumstance.

Now I'm sure they'll reverse themselves if Biden of anyone from his administration broke the same law because conservatives love the double standard (it's okay when WE do it, but now when YOU do it), but Biden is a career parliamentarian who wouldn't break that specific law anyway. The Gonad Lump was pretty much the only scumbag with the audacity to openly break that law and brag about it, and the Court sided with him because they're counting on him running again in 2024 and nominating even more justices. They won't be satisfied until the 6-3 conservative majority becomes a 9-0 conservative unanimity.

This man is dangerous and needs to be stopped. He will almost certainly be acquitted in his second impeachment trial, meaning there will be even fewer consequences for breaking the law (this time for inciting literal insurrection against the government because he didn't like the outcome of a free and fair democratic election). He'll be emboldened, rewarded for his behavior, reconditioned to continue this behavior in the future like an evil political Skinner Box.

I wouldn't doubt it if the Supreme Court just throws out the trial before it happens. They'll give the same moot argument, "oh, he's no longer the sitting president, there's no point in punishing him for his crimes now that he's out of office, he's learned his lesson, no need to kick him when he's down."

Yeah, he's learned a lesson. He's learned that he's legally untouchable so long as he has an iron grip on his party so that they'll never hold him accountable for anything. Impeachment is so toxically partisan that it is functionally useless, meaning the only legal avenue for punishing a president is itself moot.

Justice is a fucking joke in this country.