More manufactured outrage from right wingnuts. Even if Obama knew the actual email address - you know, because all presidents personally configure their own email applications but never know when their attorney pays $130K in hush money just before an election – there's absolutely nothing illegal about sending unclassified emails to a non .gov domain (or any domain). And, of course, Clinton’s email server was
perfectly legal, though ill advised.
Meanwhile GumpScandals (
TM) continue unabated:
Five things to know about the lawsuit against the Trump Foundation
New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood's (D) lawsuit against President Trump and the Donald J. Trump Foundation landed Thursday after a lengthy investigation into the charity, alleging that Trump violated both federal and state law and setting up another legal battle for the president.
The 41-page petition includes allegations that Trump illegally used the foundation to support his presidential campaign. The charges of improper use go back to Trump's conduct as a private citizen. Three of Trump's adult children, who serve on the board of the foundation, were also named in the lawsuit.
Trump quickly fired back at the legal challenge when it was filed Thursday, vowing to not settle the case.
Here are five things to know from the lawsuit.
Trump's children are involved
The lawsuit doesn’t just target Trump — three of his children, Ivanka, Eric and Donald Trump Jr., who make up the three other members of the Trump Foundation’s board of directors — also face allegations of wrongdoing.
Notable is what the lawsuit alleges they didn’t do: The complaint states that the board didn’t hold a formal meeting for at least 18 years, from 1999 until 2017, in violation of state law.
The complaint also argues that the Trumps didn’t fulfill their fiduciary and legal responsibilities as members of the board by failing to rein in the foundation's founder — their father.
The inclusion of his children escalates the lawsuit from a legal battle for Trump to a more personal one. A clearly irritated Trump lashed out at the attorney general’s office on Twitter shortly after the lawsuit was filed, calling the office “sleazy New York Democrats” and vowing not to settle the case.