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Donald J. Trump

 
Named in his honor
Based upon his example during the two terms of his presidency
This is a proposal for an Act of Congress to prevent or remedy Presidential Corruption
By all Presidents

 
The free use of its text or substance is fully authorized by any person or entity

Title. This act shall be known as The Donald J Trump Presidential Anti-Corruption Act.
 
Section 1. Prohibited Acts. No person or entity, domestic or foreign, including foreign states, governments, or officials, shall pay, donate, give, transfer, or cause to be paid, donated, given or transferred, any money or thing of value to any President of the United States or to his or her benefit, or aid, abet, or conspire to commit, such acts, from the date of his or her entry into office, or do such an act with respect to any relative thereof of the first or second degree, or to spouses thereof, or to any descendants of any of them by birth or adoption, or to any entity in which any such President or person has any interest whatsoever, including a beneficial interest, or to any official or employee of such entity. And no such person, or entity, or official or employee, shall knowingly receive such.
 
Section 2. Criminal Actions. Violations of Section 1 by a natural person shall be punishable by imprisonment for a minimum of one year, up to and including a maximum of ten years, and must include a fine of at least the amount of or value of the thing in question, up to a maximum of ten times thereof. Violations by any entity not a natural person, including corporations and foreign governments, shall be punishable by fine in the amount previously stated, and the disqualification from doing new business with, or entering into new contracts with, the United States or any State or Territory thereof, or receiving anything of value from any of them, for a period of five years from the date of conviction.
 
Section 3. Presumptions and Exceptions. All transactions described in Section 1 and all contracts for such shall be presumed to have been corruptly made or done, and to be a violation of Section 1, unless the Affirmative Defense provided in Section 4 shall have been established by clear and convincing evidence.
 
Section 4. Affirmative Defense. It shall be an affirmative defense, if proved by clear and convincing evidence, that such an act as described in Section 1 was a fair and reasonable business transaction, shown by proof of a bona fide quid pro quo of equal value, and also showing that it was not made with corrupt intent to influence the person or entity receiving it with respect to any official act of the President of the United States or any official or agent or employee of the United States under his or her authority.
 
Section 5. Campaign Contributions. Nothing in this Act shall prevent or infringe the making of bona fide campaign contributions that do not personally benefit such persons named in Section 1, when made in accordance with the rights recognized by the United States Constitution and done in accordance with and within the limits of the Statutes of the United States.
 
Section 6. Civil Actions. The United States shall have a right to, and shall bring a civil action against the recipient of anything described in Section 1, to recover and disgorge the amount of the violation that would effectively nullify it, and to impose, in addition, as civil punitive damages and notwithstanding any criminal fine, an amount triple the amount recoverable or to be disgorged. The United States shall also have a right to, and shall bring a civil action against the recipient of any such amount bestowed during a period of one year before the entry of such President into office, for recovery and disgorgement of a like amount, and like civil punitive damages. The United States shall also bring a civil action to enforce the fines and disqualifications of Section 2.
 
Section 7. Private Right of Action. Any citizen of the United States or entity established under the laws of the United States or any State or Territory thereof, shall have a right to bring the same action as described in Section 6 after advising the Attorney General of the United States of the violation of Section 1, or of the payment in the year prior to entry into office, if the United States shall not have brought any action pursuant to Section 6 within six calendar months of the date of such advice. Provided, that during the term of the President in question a private action may be brought without notice to the Attorney General or such consequent delay. In any action brought under this Section, the party bringing the action shall, if successful, be entitled to and awarded an amount equal to not more than one third of the amount in question, the actual amount to be set by the judge presiding in the Court where brought in accordance with the established principles governing existing like private rights of action.
 
Section 8. Settlements. No settlement of a claim or potential claim under Sections 6 or 7 shall be effective or enforceable unless previously approved by a judge of a United States District Court, after full and fair and public hearing before the Court pursuant to motion, and a determination by the judge that the settlement is reasonable and fair, and not corruptly entered into. And all court records related to such a determination shall be open and forever unsealed and open to public view. And no purported settlement that is not so approved, shall be valid or given any effect in any court of the United States, or any State or Territory thereof.
  
Section 9. Venue. The place for all actions and other proceedings under this Act, criminal and civil, if based on acts within the United States or a Territory, shall be in the District Court where any such act occurred; and if all such acts occurred outside the United States and its Territories, in any District Court of the United States.
 
Section 10. Limitations. All actions, criminal or civil, brought pursuant to this act shall be brought within ten years of the termination of office of the President in question.

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