{"id":390348,"date":"2018-12-24T09:32:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T08:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/should-we-rethink-presidential-powers\/"},"modified":"2018-12-24T09:32:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T08:32:34","slug":"should-we-rethink-presidential-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/should-we-rethink-presidential-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"Should We Rethink Presidential Powers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>On Dec. 18thit was agreed that Donald Trump\u2019s charitable foundation would be dissolved. The decision was reached as a result of findings that Donald Trump and his family abused the tax exempt status and abused campaign finance laws.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit is not over; a decision on $2.8 million in restitution and penalties as well as possible permanent ban against Trump and three of his children serving on nonprofits in New York still needs to be reached.<\/p>\n<p>Given what was described by the State\u2019s Attorney General office as:<\/p>\n<p>\u201ca shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation \u2014 including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful self-dealing, and much more. This amounted to the Trump Foundation functioning as little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump\u2019s business and political interests,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>one hopes they are prevented from betraying the public\u2019s trust in the future. One might ask, \u201cwhat does this mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump is selfish and willing do whatever it takes to get what he wants for himself. His favorite tool is dishonesty\u2014it is all purpose, he lies all the time. In his version of winning the public\u2019s loss is his gain, and we\u2019ve been \u201cbig league\u201d losing. Reflecting on the dissolution of his corrupt Trump Foundation, as with so much of his storied career of dishonesty, reveals an ingenious ability to deceive unfettered by any moral decorum\u2014his absolute willingness to betray. He is proof, in financial terms,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/12\/24\/should-we-rethink-presidential-powers\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Dec. 18thit was agreed that Donald Trump\u2019s charitable foundation would be dissolved. The decision was reached as a result of findings that Donald Trump and his family abused the tax exempt status and abused campaign finance laws. The lawsuit is not over; a decision on $2.8 million in restitution and penalties as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}