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@CREWcrew
Nov 22, 2024 • 16 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Let’s talk about Donald Trump and his new Attorney General pick Pam Bondi, because boy do we have a story to tell
From February 2008-May 2011, the Florida Attorney General’s office received at least 22 complaints regarding Trump University, the Trump Institute, and related entities
Jump ahead to 2013, the New York Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Trump University  for “engaging in persistent fraudulent, illegal and deceptive conduct,” and then-Florida Attorney General Bondi’s office told multiple publications they were reviewing the suit and considering joining
A couple days later, the Donald J. Trump Foundation makes a $25,000 contribution to And Justice for All, a political group backing Bondi. The donation, illegal for a 501(c)(3) private foundation to give, was personally solicited by Bondi from Trump.
Despite previously acknowledging the 22 complaints to reporters, internal emails show that between October 17-18, 2013, Bondi’s employees weeded out any complaint about Trump Institute and related entities to claim there was only one complaint against Trump University.
In its 2013 taxes, the Trump Foundation claims it made no donations to political entities and replaces And Justice for All with a different, similarly named group in Kansas to which they would legally be allowed to donate.
We filed a complaint. Because this is clearly illegal. citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…
Trump representatives admitted to the illegal donation, blaming an increasing series of clerical errors. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…
We then filed complaints against Bondi with the Inspector General for Florida’s Office of the Attorney General and the state’s Commission on Ethics for potentially violating the law citizensforethics.org/legal-action/l…
We then filed a series of IRS complaints against Trump and the Trump Foundation citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…
And another citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…
Following CREW’s discovery that the Trump Foundation did not file an updated 990 tax form, the Washington Post discovered a $2,500 IRS penalty paid by the Foundation for the illegal donation, kicking off one of the biggest stories of the year.
washingtonpost.com/news/post-poli…
We then filed criminal bribery complaints against Trump and Bondi with the Department of Justice and called for a criminal investigation into whether the Trump Foundation broke federal criminal law by making numerous false reports to the IRS on its tax forms.
citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…
Following CREW’s investigation, Trump announces he’s closing the Trump Foundation citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…
And now Bondi gets her reward: the top law enforcement job in the country. The Senate Judiciary Committee needs to thoroughly investigate the Trump-Bondi scandal.
And if you want all the Trump-Bondi lore in one place: citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…

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Here’s what you should know.
In November, the Office of Strategic Capital announced a joint $700 million loan to two small rare earth companies. But the loan given to Vulcan Elements in particular stood out due to its ties to Trump Jr.
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President Trump recently pardoned Stephen Buyer, a former member of Congress convicted of insider trading. For those keeping track at home, this makes *22* politicians convicted of corruption charges granted clemency by President Trump.
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Trump’s pardon of him says everything about how he feels about corruption: It deserves a free pass!
This pardon also brings Trump’s count of second term acts of clemency for corrupt politicians to a dozen.

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Back in March, we reported that an Indian conglomerate called Reliance Industries—owned by the richest person in Asia—paid Trump $10 million before he took office, and kept getting wins from the Trump admin this year. Well…the plot thickens 🧵
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citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…
New reporting from @ProPublica shows how it’s even more corrupt than we knew.

Don Jr., President Trump’s son, reportedly secretly became an investor in America First Mining, alongside Reliance: propublica.org/article/trump-…
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May 6
On Monday, we released a piece about Trump's new Billionaires Club game, calling attention to the irony of the branding.

On Tuesday, the game was supposed to launch.

Today, the app store page for the game is gone. Why did they pull the plug? 🧵 Image
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The game appears to be another vehicle to gin up trading for $TRUMP, Trump’s memecoin, of which he takes a cut of every trade.

He could also profit from a licensing agreement with Freedom45Games to use the Trump name for the game. citizensforethics.org/reports-invest…
It’s not like Trump needed another vehicle for presidential profiteering.

He’s made at least $4 billion during his first year back in office through his merch store, foreign real estate deals, media company and—most of all—crypto. newyorker.com/news/a-reporte…
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This is a big deal and it’s flying below the radar—Trump’s DOJ just gave him a huge gift in the form of a legal opinion declaring that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional.

Let’s be clear: that’s nonsense. We’ll break it down 🧵 Image
Congress passed the Presidential Records Act of 1978 after Watergate to establish that presidential records are the property of the American people, not individual presidents.

In nearly 50 years, no president has claimed that it is unconstitutional.
Trump has a long history with the PRA, including multiple warnings from the National Archives that he was violating the law during his first term.

And his handling of classified documents was so egregious that he was charged with several crimes. citizensforethics.org/news/analysis/…
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A month ago, we noted that Jared Kushner’s appointment as special envoy for peace meant he would need to file a financial disclosure so that he could resolve potential conflicts of interest and called on him to proactively divest from Affinity Partners.

He hasn’t.🧵
We also sent a letter to the White House counsel demanding that Kushner comply with the law by filing the mandated disclosures within 30 days of his appointment—which passed on March 21st. citizensforethics.org/legal-action/l…
Since then, Kushner appears not to have done so.

Unless he got an extension from the White House ethics official, that would put him in violation of the Ethics in Government Act. citizensforethics.org/news/press-rel…
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