Trump’s impeachment trial will begin on Tuesday in the senate. Although Republicans continue to lie and claim that there was no basis for impeachment in the House, any American with average intelligence, who has read the testimony offered by current and former officials with firsthand knowledge of the events in Ukraine, is aware that Trump is guilty of abusing his power and violating the Constitution.

Removal from office is not the only punishment Trump is facing. He remains the focus of multiple investigations into his financial history.

Trump has attempted to hide all documents related to his finances. Everything from his tax returns to his accounting services have been closely guarded by Trump and his circle of sinners. The question in everyone’s mind is “what is Trump hiding?” Like others I have my own assumptions based on past events.

I know that Trump made his first visit to Moscow in 1987 at the request of the KGB. As you might expect, there are no records of the events in the Russian capital. However, in that time period Vladimir Putin was a high-ranking member of the KGB; the spy agency of the then USSR; United Soviet Socialist Republic.

I know that in 1999 Trump experienced the loss of a 413-million-dollar gift from his father. To save his business “empire,” the Saudi Royal Family invested hundreds of millions of dollars into his business ventures.

I know that in 2005 Trump was once again facing financial ruin. After he returned from the Miss Universe Pageant, held in Moscow, his real estate business began to flourish.

I also know that the Christopher Steele dossier, which has never been proven to be false, described the events in 2013 after the second time the Miss Universe Pageant was held in Moscow. The former MI6 agent claimed that it was during this visit when Putin and Trump created a plan to steal the 2016 election.

The state and city of New York are at the center of investigations into Trump’s finances. Earlier this year Trump was forced to pay fines and make restitution for stealing funds from the ‘Trump Foundation;’ his fraudulent charity.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is focused on determining if Trump violated state law by paying ‘hush money’ to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. Subpoenas have been issued to Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA and banks Deutsche Bank and Capitol One. The issue has been presented to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Another investigation by the New York State’s Attorney General’s Office is focused on business dealings in New York State. Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, has already testified before Congress that Trump did indeed inflate the value of his assets to receive loans from Deutsche Bank; which has agreed to comply with the subpoenas. Deutsche Bank is on record for lending more than 300 million dollars to the Trump organization. This case too will be heard by the SCOTUS.

A final fact; no single businessman has faced such a large number of lawsuits; many of which were settled out of court. Just months after Trump’s inauguration he was forced to pay tens of millions of dollars in damages to men and women who paid for fraudulent information from “Trump University.”

Richard Nixon said: “the people have a right to know if their president is a crook.” Trump is a crook.

“The Truth Lives Here”

Op-ed by James Turnage

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