Four years ago I would have told you that presidential corruption on the scale of Ulysses S. Grant and Warren Harding was impossible and those dudes would hold the title forever.
Trump, it’s not even close. And we haven’t even hit the Teapot Dome phase of this.
By legit, it was based on “credible accusations”. or “articulable allegations”. Horowitz simply stated that since the standard is so low, he could not say it was inappropriate to start.
So while your statement is 'articulable" lets not pretend it was anything like probable cause.
Trump and McEnany’s statements belie claims by former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the general counsel of We Build The Wall, in January 2019 that Trump gave the project his “blessing,” as well as Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr.’s public praise of the project as a “pretty amazing” effort for an “important grassroots issue” at a 2018 fundraiser, according to video unearthed by CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski.
Trump also “personally and repeatedly” lobbied for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to award a $1.28 billion wall-building contract to Fisher Industries, a politically-connected firm that was also helping We Build The Wall build a private portion of the wall, according to the Washington Post.
Dammit, I don’t know if it was this organization or something similar, but I predicted a long time ago that some organization collecting money to build the wall would use a little for actual wall building and a large majority of the money would go towards “administrative expenses”.