I’m going to make this short. Why isn’t Donald Trump’s admission that he illegally used his nonprofit “Trump Foundation” as a slush fund an Article of Impeachment?
Based on a suit filed by the State of NY in June of 2018, Donald Trump admitted to wrongdoing in that he had used the Trump Foundation, a nonprofit registered in New York. Under the terms of the settlement, Trump was ordered to accept fault for corruptly using the charity as a slush fund to pay legal obligations, purchase pictures of himself, and pay his son Barron’s Boy Scout dues. In addition, he agreed to dissolve the charity, and divest the remaining proceeds. In addition, the officers of the Trump Foundation, Don Jr, Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump were to undergo remedial training on not breaking the law.
In the last few days, Trump paid a $2 million dollar settlement to eight different charities. Now while the actual evidence that Trump was using his charity as a slush fund came out during the 2016 Presidential Campaign, largely due to the work of David Farenthold at the Washington Post, this admission of guilt occurred in 2018. In other words, this is new information that voters could not reliably and completely judge before voting.
Given that this ruling, and most importantly Trump’s admission of his shocking corruption, occurred during his presidency, it should be considered and investigated by Congress as an Impeachable Act. Further, it totally counteracts his claims that he is worried about “corruption”.