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Trump Admits He Was “Doing Services” for Foreign Governments Who Paid Him (newrepublic.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's a word for that it's on the tip of my tongue

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Does it start with a T and end with reason?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Technically it would be emolument. Luckily, there is an emoluments clause in the constitution, (Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 8) which explains that the president isn’t allowed to accept emoluments from foreign powers while in office. And the man just told on himself on Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

If only SCOTUS hadn't ruled that the emoluments clause is moot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It's treason, then...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, no. The US isn't presently at war with Russia or China or... basically anyone (with the obvious loophole of proxy and ally wars...), so nobody is capable of legeally-defined treason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Everybody like to trot that word out, but is unable to define a legal "enemy". I consider Russia a fucking enemy, hate their guts, but legally and diplomatically, they're not that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/4302

It’s pretty clearly defined.

The word “enemy,” as used herein, shall be deemed to mean, for the purposes of such trading and of this chapter— (a) Any individual, partnership, or other body of individuals, of any nationality, resident within the territory (including that occupied by the military and naval forces) of any nation with which the United States is at war, or resident outside the United States and doing business within such territory, and any corporation incorporated within such territory of any nation with which the United States is at war or incorporated within any country other than the United States and doing business within such territory.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

We're still at war with North Korea. There is a declared ceasefire that has mostly held since 1953 but the latest peace talks to end the war started in 2018 and fell apart after South Korea elected a conservative government in 2023. The soldier that escaped to NK to avoid his legal troubles in SK last year may well have committed treason. Or at least attempted to, NK didn't really seem to want him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The US never declared war with North Korea.

The last declaration by the US was WWII.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

No, South Korea may still be at war with them.