Bush ethics czar "Trump's goose is cooked It's time for him to work out a plea deal -- and resign"
Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter said President Donald Trump could not survive the legal challenges piling up around him — and he urged him to step down and cut a deal with prosecutors.
Painter appeared Saturday morning on “AM Joy on MSNBC,” where he said Trump had plainly broken the law by continuing to profit from foreign investment into his family’s Washington, D.C. hotel — which the president leased from the federal government.
“Everybody is ignoring the law,” Painter said. “The General Services Administration signed a lease with him that specifically prohibited a United States government official from having an interest in the hotel, but they don’t want to enforce that lease. They came up with a convoluted opinion that explains away the clear terms of the lease.”
“The emoluments from foreign governments going that hotel — illegal,” he added. “Congress won’t enforce the law, that’s been the problem over the past two years.”
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