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Subpoenas Issued in Emoluments Clause Case Against Trump and D.C. Hotel

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By Glynn Wilson – In the federal case that charges President Donald J. Trump with violating the emoluments clauses of the Constitution by doing business with foreign governments at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. just down the street from the White House, a slew of new subpoenas went out Tuesday from attorneys general…

Federal Judge Rules Against Trump in Emoluments Clause Case

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Attorneys General Allege That Trump’s Business Enterprises Violate U.S. Constitution – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a major blow to President Donald J. Trump and a historic court ruling, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that a lawsuit alleging that Trump’s business enterprises violate the emoluments clauses of the U.S. Constitution may proceed…

Federal Lawsuit Alleges Trump Violates Constitution’s Emoluments Clauses

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – One year ago today, a historic federal lawsuit was filed against a sitting president of the United States alleging that Donald Trump’s wide-ranging business entanglements violate the U.S. Constitution emoluments clauses against accepting gifts and engaging in private financial transactions with foreign governments. The first-of-its-kind case was filed…

Appeals Court Judges Reinstate Emoluments Lawsuit Against President Trump

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — A three judge panel of federal appeals court judges has overruled a lower court and allowed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump to go forward for violations of the Emoluments Clause of the United States Constitution by Trump hotels and restaurants for illegally profiting from business with foreign…

Trump Corruption Revealed in Foreign Government Spending at Trump Hotel

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In another stunning example of how Donald Trump corrupted the presidency for his own personal benefit, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform released documents on Monday showing how at least six foreign countries spent upwards of $750,000 at the Trump Hotel in Washington as a way to…

Trump Is Going Down and We Will Dance on His Grave

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — All over the district and beyond, there is a growing fantasy in the land among Democrats that Donald Trump is not only going to lose the 2020 election in a massive landslide, but that when he tries to cling to power anyway, he is…

How to Build Republican Support for Impeachment

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  WASHINGTON, D.C. – While House Speaker Nanci Pelosi recently came out for a quick, short impeachment investigation focusing only on President Donald Trump’s abuse of power with regard to withholding military aid to Ukraine in exchange for a “favor” of an investigation into his political rival Joe…

Judge Rules Against Trump in Federal Corruption Case

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a significant blow to Donald J. Trump’s legal attempt to block a lawsuit and investigation into how his private business practices violate the anti-corruption emoluments clauses in the U.S. Constitution, a federal court denied a series of motions by attorneys for the president this week and allowed…

Mueller Fails to Conclude Trump Colluded With Russia, Leaves Open the Question of Obstruction of Justice

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Mueller Report Delivered to Congress, Attorney General Barr Releases Summary Letter – By Glynn Wilson – In one of the most disappointing moments in the history of American democracy and jurisprudence, Attorney General William Barr released a short, four-page letter to Congress on Sunday summarizing the key findings in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report after…

Former FBI Director Andrew McCabe Makes the Case that Trump is ‘The Threat’

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SUNDAY READER – By Glynn Wilson – Another Sunday morning, another disjointed show on Face the Nation, with moderator and CBS News senior foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan misframing the issues in the never ending pretense of mainstream media to be “fair and balanced” and appeal to Democrat and Republican viewers and please corporate advertisers.…

Human-Induced Global Warming Impacts Are Already Being Felt by Life on Earth

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By Glynn Wilson – In direct contradiction to the public position of the president of the United States, two of the federal agencies charged with monitoring the science on climate change released a joint statement and a report on Wednesday declaring unequivocally that the effects of human-induced global warming from the burning of fossil fuels…

Inspector General Releases Report Criticizing General Services Administration for Ignoring the Constitution on Trump D.C. Hotel Lease

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Staff Report – Inspector General Carol Fortine Ochoa of the independent General Services Administration released a report on Wednesday announcing its legal finding that the GSA ignored guidelines spelled out in the U.S. Constitution’s Emoluments Clause and related agency guidelines by allowing President Trump to keep the lease on the old post office building in…

The Year of the Dog 2018: Year in Review

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  It has truly been the Year of the Dog, according to the Chinese Zodiac calendar, a year characterized by “Action,” especially if you are a Twitter follower. You may be suffering from an overdose of adrenaline and dopamine. You might want to take a break during the…

Will the F.B.I. and Congress Now Act to Remove Trump from Power?

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By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Try to imagine the reaction inside the Hoover building at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue as arguably the most corrupt and incompetent president in American history openly committed treason on foreign soil in Helsinki, Finland on Monday. If anyone other than Attorney General Jeff Sessions of Alabama was in charge…