38 Reasons to Investigate the Trump Administration
Joe Biden should create a truth commission to get to the bottom of the past four years
Over the past four years, we’ve experienced unprecedented levels of incompetence, graft, and abuse of power in the White House, as well as in nearly every federal department. Each week brought fresh outrage to a dizzying degree. Every time the curtain lifted, often the result of a leak or congressional inquiry, we’d find scandals that would have leveled previous administrations. And that was all before President Trump began pressuring state officials to overturn the election results and incited a mob of supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol.
With Joe Biden set to enter the Oval Office next week, there is still plenty left to investigate. That’s why the president-elect needs to form a truth commission to start the process of figuring out what the heck just happened over the past four years.
Here’s a list of topics meriting a truth commission, or a formal criminal investigation, as we try to understand the scope of the disaster that was the Trump administration:
- Russian influence over the 2016 election.
- The Trump family’s collusion with Russians during the 2016 election.
- Ivanka Trump’s trademarks.
- Ivanka Trump’s use of 2016 inauguration funds.
- The White House’s blatant disregard for the Constitution’s emoluments clause.
- Conflicts of interest posed by foreign officials staying at Trump’s hotels.
- Federal spending at Trump properties, especially the extraction of fees from the Secret Service and room rentals at the Trump hotels.
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s credit cards.
- Justice Kavanaugh’s history of sexual misconduct and potential perjury.
- Payments to the Trump family from election and post-election fundraising efforts.
- Mike Pompeo’s and Jared Kushner’s weapons deals with the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
- Civilians killed by Trump’s drone strikes.
- Violations of the Hatch Act.
