On November 12th, 2019 – I posted the letter that I physically sent to all 435 members of the United States House of Representatives. In that letter, I urged the members of Congress to include President Trump’s violation of the constitution under both emoluments clauses in the artlcles of impeachment. ( First Impeachment )

This month on January the 4th, the Democratic party members of the Congressional Committee on Oversight and Accountability released the report – White House for Sale: How Princes, Prime Ministers, and Premiers Paid Off President Trump. Although the Republican representatives did their best to derail this investigation, this report documents the at least 7.8 million dollars that President Trump received while in the office of President of the United States. According to the Consititution of our United States – all that has to be proven in violating the emoluments clauses is the receipt of monies from organizations, public or private, foreign or domestic.

My letter to the members of the United States House of Representative in November 2019 follows.

Honorable Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have been following closely your progress in investigating and drafting articles of impeachment for President Donald John Trump with considerable frustration. From his first months in office, President Trump has accepted payments (emoluments) to his businesses (from which he has divested in name only) from domestic and foreign organizations and governments in direct contravention to the United States Constitution Article 1, Section 9, Paragraph 8:

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And 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.

and Article 2, Section 1, Paragraph 7:

The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.

The meaning of these clauses that no federally elected official is to receive any gift, payment, or payment in kind; is so clear that no president before now has even sought to challenge them.

A further charge of obstruction of justice suggests itself from President Trump’s repeated successful attempts thus far to block the release of his tax returns. The lengths of litigation to which President Trump is willing to commit would make any reasonable person wonder at the perversities he has indulged in his tax filings.

Please include in your articles of impeachment the charges of receiving emoluments from organizations and governments both foreign and domestic. We need to set a strong precedent that our federal officials cannot accept payments of any kind from any source.