The Presidency for Sale: Trump's Blatant Emoluments Violations Are Gutting Our Democracy

Donald Trump is openly auctioning off influence, bending U.S. policy for personal profit, and daring Americans to let him get away with it. Here's why we can't afford to stay silent.

Every kid who studies American history learns that our Founders hated foreign influence. They even wrote it into the Constitution. The Emoluments Clause was meant to be a hard no-brainer: No American president should take money, gifts or titles from foreign kings, princes or governments without Congress’s say-so. It’s a guardrail of our democracy, an ir…