ARTICLE I, SECTION 9, CLAUSE 8 of the United States Constitution says
“No Person holding
any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the
Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind
whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
This has always been held to
apply to the President of the United States. It means that the President cannot
accept any money, or other things of value, from a foreign power. That means if
the President is found to be profiting off foreign relationships, he is in
violation of this clause in the Constitution of the United States, and is guilty
of high crimes and misdemeanors deserving to be impeached.
If it can be shown that Donald
Trump is profiting from foreign sources, he is guilty of violation of the US
Constitution and deserves and should be impeached. He cannot be allowed to
flout the Constitution for his own personal monetary profit. On March 8, 2017,
the Chinese Communist government granted Trump 38 trademarks for China,
including one for an escort service. This is how he makes a lot of his money,
licensing his name. After constantly, throughout his presidential campaign
declaring China a currency manipulator, and after getting these trademarks, and
a visit by the Chinese president, Trump now declares that China is not a
currency manipulator. His daughter, Ivanka, had a few trademarks thrown in for
herself after dining with the Chinese president during the visit.
Call me old fashioned, but I
resent the high office of the Presidency of the United States being reduced to
a business deal like this, and I believe it to be illegal and worthy of
impeachment under the emoluments clause of the United States Constitution.
