15 November—You’ve got to hand it to Donald Trump. It’s not that other presidents haven’t accepted bribes and committed all manner of unprincipled, unethical, unlawful crap. But if indeed other presidents have done the dirty—accepted bribes, anyway— they’ve done it discreetly, keeping their malfeasance under the table. Because there’s no record of any American president ever having accepted a bribe. Ever. No record, at least.

But Trump comes along and not only does he not try to conceal his self-dealing, but boasts about it. Some of it, anyway. (We don’t know what we don’t know.) Like the garish Bribing 747 the scumbag-in-chief gleefully accepted in May from the terrorist-supporting royal family and authoritarian government of Qatar that’s being converted—“modified for executive airlift support,” as Trump’s lie-spreaders put it—at a probable cost to taxpayers of a billion dollars.

More than a few of Trump’s supporters and enablers were and are critical of that bribe, which primarily enabled lucrative deals for the Trump Organization in Qatar and incidentally enabled Qatar to build what’s being rationalized by Trump’s lie-spreaders as a training facility at an Idaho airbase but is likely to be a base for Hamas, Taliban, and Al-Qaeda terrorists to invade and commit genocide in North America. Thanks to Donald Trump.

Compared to the Qatari bribe, the just-reported Swiss bribe to Trump is bupkes, chicken feed: Rolex tchotchkes, including a one-off desk clock, and a one-kilogram—two-and-a-half Troy pound—engraved fine—24 karat, 99.9 percent pure—gold bar worth about $130,000. And lots of de rigueur ass licking.

And wouldn’t you know it: Yesterday, Trump lowered the 39 percent tariff he’d imposed on Swiss imports to 15 percent. We don’t know about the bribes that motivated him to lower the several other tariffs that he didn’t have the constitutional authority to raise or impose in the first place but was allowed to get away with by his congressional enablers. It’s hoped—but not necessarily expected—that his normally cooperative Supremes will nevertheless correct that clearly unlawful usurpation of congressional authority.

Not that the law matters to Donald Trump—or to the Qataris or Swiss, to be sure—but according to the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause federal officials, including the president, generally cannot accept personal gifts from foreign countries or potentates without the express consent of Congress. Not that Trump’s Congress would ever deny him express consent. Gifts above a minimal value—currently about $500—are considered gifts to the government, not the individual. And if a president keeps a high-value gift, he must reimburse the government for its fair market value. Can you see Trump ever doing that? Seriously.

Of course, there are all sorts of clever end runs around the Foreign Emoluments Clause as well as everything else in the Constitution. One of them is that bribes may be officially tendered to the U.S. government rather than individuals, including the president. Like the Bribing 747 that was officially given to Trump’s criminal war department. Another end run is that bribes may be ultimately destined for a presidential library. Like the Bribing 747 and the Rolex tchotchkes. But we don’t know what we don’t know . . .