Hardly anyone knows what an emolument is, and few care. It means a salary, fee, or profit from employment, or office. Right there is the truth of the matter, they are calling it something “We the People” aren’t familiar with to make it sound evil and criminal. This is the work of a group called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). You never heard of them? Me neither.

The Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause declares that “no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.” CREW reads this clause very broadly, arguing that it bars the president from receiving any payment from a foreign government.

James Monroe (1817-1825) “grew timber, tobacco, and grain” on his 3,500- acre Highland plantation. “While Madison’s and Monroe’s farm records apparently have not survived, the export of farm products such as tobacco to England and elsewhere had been common since colonial times.”

If the framers had sought to forbid the president from having any interest in any “private commercial transactions” with any “foreign, federal, or state instrumentality, surely someone would have raised concerns about whether foreign governments or government-owned corporations may have been among the customers of the farm and other products regularly exported by early presidents.” This is a Constitutional matter to be decided by the courts. Emotion and ideology are not proof of evil, or criminal, activity.

The Muckster sees two issues here. First, the GOATs, sore losers that they are, are peering down every rabbit hole to find a way to discredit President Trump in hopes they can make him go away. That’s Plan A.

There isn’t a Plan B. The other issue is Donald Trump is the first business guy with a lot of holdings, and money, to be elected in the modern era. The rest of the leeches are all career politicians who steal public money. They say Trump is different because he stole his from the poor. Who knew the poor had that much to steal? Oh, I forgot they got it from the “gummint” and now the GOATs want it back.

Maybe that’s Plan B. I wrote earlier, the choices are between a huge expansion of the welfare state of dependency, or a small, gradual growth of the welfare state of dependency. Either way, “We the People” lose.

One person cannot violate the Constitution, in this short amount of time, as often as we are led to believe Trump has. Likewise, one person cannot purify this hideous immorality of perpetual accusations. It will take a majority of the more than 320 million American citizens to “Drain the American Swamp.”

God Bless us and God Save our Constitution from these corrupt politicians. Our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, our American Flag, our culture, our country, our civilization, our currency, our children, our liberty, our safety and our future need you now more than ever.