The Truman Show: The Fraudulent Origins of the Former Presidents Act
@article{Campos2021TheTS, title={The Truman Show: The Fraudulent Origins of the Former Presidents Act}, author={Paul F. Campos}, journal={SSRN Electronic Journal}, year={2021} }
When President Donald Trump was impeached for a second time, many commenters pointed out that, if Trump were to be convicted by the Senate, he would likely lose millions of dollars in future taxpayer-funded benefits. These benefits are provided to ex-presidents by the Former Presidents Act, a 1958 statute of considerable political significance and ongoing controversy, that nevertheless has to this point been ignored completely by the legal academic literature.
This Article represents the…