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The Federal Law Basis for Trump's Corruption EO:
50 U.S. Code Chapter 35 - INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY ECONOMIC POWERS
https:// www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/chapter-35
Presidential Powers After National Emergency:
50 U.S. Code ยง 1702 - Presidential authorities
https:// www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1702
Theory on EO Language:
(B) to be a current or former government official, or a person acting for or on behalf of such an official, who is responsible for or complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged in:
(1) corruption, including the misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, corruption related to government contracts or the extraction of natural resources, or bribery; or
(2) the transfer or the facilitation of the transfer of the proceeds of corruption;
This targets URANIUM ONE. Bribery, misappropriating state assets (Uranium). Government contracts. Government officials.
Trump can force testimony UNDER OATH
(2) In exercising the authorities granted by paragraph (1), the President may require any person to keep a full record of, and to furnish under oath, in the form of reports or otherwise, complete information relative to any act or transaction referred to in paragraph (1) either before, during, or after the completion thereof, or relative to any interest in foreign property, or relative to any property in which any foreign country or any national thereof has or has had any interest, or as may be otherwise necessary to enforce the provisions of such paragraph. In any case in which a report by a person could be required under this paragraph, the President may require the production of any books of account, records, contracts, letters, memoranda, or other papers, in the custody or control of such person.