The One Sentence You Need to Read from the Brookings Institution’s Paper on Trump and the Emoluments Clause

The paper’s authors: Laurence Tribe (professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School), Norman L. Eisen (former United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic), and Richard Painter (chief White House ethics lawyer from 2005 to 2007 under George W. Bush.)

And here is the single sentence from their paper that sums up the Constitutional disaster we face if Donald Trump takes office as president.

Applied to Mr. Trump’s diverse dealings, the text and purpose of the Emoluments Clause speak as one: this cannot be allowed.

Once more for emphasis:

The one sentence you need to know.

The paper’s full text can be found here.

And here is the text of the Emoluments Clause itself. Members of Congress and the President must swear to uphold it (and every other element of the US Constitution) in order to take office.