Norm Eisen

Eisen is optimistic litigation will limit the fund or produce an injunction stopping it.

“I'm optimistic that the litigation front is going to result in putting some limits and even an injunction stopping the implementation of the fund”

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Eisen expects substantial court challenges before any money leaves the fund.

“there's going to be a very substantial court pushback on the first dollar ever going out the door at the fund because it's so blatantly illegal”

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Eisen argues the fund lacks both constitutional and statutory authority and raises an emoluments issue.

“There's no constitutional authority to do this, including because it creates an emoluments issue. There's no statutory authority”

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Eisen says his group filed the first legal objection to the fund on behalf of 93 members of Congress.

“We filed an immediate legal objection on behalf of 93 members of Congress, the very first”

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Eisen predicts Republicans will pay a serious electoral price for the corruption scandals in November.

“And I think there's going to be a very serious price to pay come November”

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Eisen says, based on his groups' litigation record, voters can be confident the elections will be free and fair.

“I think voters can be confident that there will be free and fair voting no matter what he tries”

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Eisen praises the Senate parliamentarian for ruling that ballroom funding could not go into reconciliation.

“And the parliamentarian, she's a hero. She said, no, the Senate parliamentarian, no, I'm not going to let this through”

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Eisen explains that reconciliation lets a simple majority include anything relating to federal spending, which let Republican dissenters threaten the fund.

“you can put anything into that reconciliation package relating to how the federal government spends its money”

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Eisen argues presidential immunity does not cover personal stock trades and the matter should be investigated.

“There's no official immunity for doing personal stock trades to the benefit of a president's account”

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Eisen notes that traded equities include companies like Nvidia and Intel whose fortunes the president influences.

“many of the equities being traded are companies like Nvidia or Intel, where the president is involved in decision-making”

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Eisen calls the Iran war the biggest fiasco in American war-making history, worse than Vietnam or Iraq.

“There has never been a bigger fiasco in the history of American war making”

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Eisen cites Hungary's ouster of Viktor Orbán as a model for rebuilding after authoritarian rule.

“In Hungary, you just had a supermajority coalition oust a far more entrenched autocrat than Donald Trump in the form of Viktor Orban”

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Eisen predicts the proposed arch will not be built because of litigation.

“I don't think the arch is going to be built. That is being litigated”

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Eisen says documents obtained via a restraining order showed the promised one-year Kennedy Center review never occurred.

“it turned out there had been no one-year review of the kind that was promised”

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Eisen says debris from the East Wing demolition dumped on a D.C. public golf course contains toxic substances, which his groups are litigating.

“Alex, it's full of toxins, lead, chromium, asbestos, carcinogens, pardon me, arsenic, carcinogenic substances”

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Eisen argues the IRS immunity provision is akin to a preemptive pardon and will not survive in court.

“It's like a... preemptive pardon, it won't hold up in court. The whole sick shebang is going to be flushed”

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Eisen argues payouts from the Judgment Fund would be illegal and recipients risk having money clawed back.

“This would be an illegal disbursement of money. Anybody who took the money would be at risk of having it clawed back”

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Eisen calls the fund the worst corruption scandal in the history of the presidency.

“So it's the worst corruption scandal in the history of the presidency”

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