Does Trump have enough power to order an audit of the gold in Fort Knox or will a federal judge block his attempt?

[Kelley1]

[Lliam]

Congresses job is to legislate. A judge's job is to determine legality. That leaves the executive branch with the power to request audits. So Trump does have that authority unless a federal judge determines that audits are unconstitutional. And where in the constitution does it say that government agencies are exempt from being audited? How would that even make sense?

[Jersey2]

Exactly. Sometimes the courts forget their place.

[Lliam]

Thanks for the MHO, Kelley.

[Ladsin2]

It's on a military base and he's the commander in chief. It's an executive agency and he's the head executive. Will a democrat judge try to block him? Why not. They do it for everything else.

[BCA6010]

The president (and his relevant appointed personnel) absolutely have that power, and always have. The president presides over the Department of the Treasury.

Every president who hasn't done this is technically being negligent in their duties, but since the US left the gold standard, it hasn't been considered important for some reason... Which is part of why there's a lot of speculation that much of it might be missing. Something that is undeniable however is that we lent tons of gold out to our allies after WW2 during the reconstruction, and supposedly not all of it is accounted for. There are claims that we also divided that gold across multiple other locations that each have completely different personnel supervising them, etc. Personally, I will not be surprised if it turns out that over half of our reserves are missing for one reason or another...

[exitseven]

He has the authority. I am actually a little afraid of what he will find. It would not surprise me that somebody stole all the gold bricks and went to Home Depot and bought a pile of pavers and painted them gold and substituted the gold bars with these fakes.

[Red_Arrow]

I guess he believes that trucks have been seen leaving Fort Know marked "Gold from Fort Knox". Or he is simply getting his criminal followers to go in and take gold from there to go through another country to hide where it came from and end up in his accounts.

[Red_Arrow]

And since when has Trump obeyed a judge he did not pay off?

[jamesgoldman]

Yes but I suspect there's nothing left so he'll be told no and if he pushes it. . well you saw what happened when JFK tried to push the federal government

[Kelley1]

You may be right. It would not surprise me if you are.

[DryGermanGuy]

I mean... nothing against audits, I'm sure they can be useful, but what exactly does one audit in a building full of gold bars? That no gay or trans gold is sitting around? That no Mexican gold is stealing the work from American gold? That no gold bars are distributing communist propaganda?

[Jersey2]

It seems like “good housekeeping” as they would say in business. It hasn’t been audited since 1974. There have been quiet or ours for decades that the gold has been taken or spent. No matter, it is just common sense to take an inventory once in a while, like the 50 years it has been since the last one.

[Jersey2]

Quiet rumors*

[Nice222]

Like Hillary Clinton said. “ At this point what difference does it make “. At its best the estimated gold was valued at 400 Billion. The United States each year passes spending bills in the trillions And we are almost 40 trillion in debt. So gold and silver really doesn’t matter.

[MicahRaine]

Of course he can. It is one of the most BASIC responsibilities of any country's leader to check on the financial status of his or her country.

[Surely]

I would hope that he would have the power to make that order!
Maybe there isn’t any gold there!

[Kelley1]

FDR was the last president with enough power to inspect the gold at Fort Knox and Trump has far less power than FDR did.

[Surely]

@Kelley1. That gold used to back up the dollar until taken off of the Gold Standard.
As I said. Maybe there isn’t any gold there!

[seeyounexttuesday]

Any one who is against auditing a department or government assets is committing treason.

[Jersey2]

Exactly! It’s stupid.

[SixFootSexy]

Do you really think they're going to find anything but cobwebs and an empty vault?

[Fireguy17]

It is probably in the scope of his power.
I would be willing to bet a dollar on that it comes out correctly.
That is all they do is audit themselves.

[Anonymous]

Under the Constitution the president is the head of the executive branch which means technically he should be auditing Fort Knox every day.

[Paige90]

Of course he can order it! He runs the country and that's one of his responsibilities!

[LiamS95]

Why would anyone be against an audit of the gold reserves?

[SofaKingsMart]

Will he treat those bricks of gold like he did the classified files on his last run?

My only question is, how many of his sycophants would defend his right to take gold.
Quite a few would be my guess.

[MrTaboo]

Yes. He is the CEO of the Executive branch. And as such can audit any office under him.

[goaded]

Yes, no, and I don't think he knows what an audit means (it's basically counting what's there, not affecting anything).

[Shiprex]

It's probably so he can see how much of it he can give to his hero in Moscow

[Dargil]

Yes, he does. If you want an explanation, do your homework.

[Manuelwe]

If he is allowed to bless your pussy and Elon Musk is allowed to sell his sperm to loser women.
He is your Messiah is he not

[shortster]

As the commander and chief of the military he can inspect any US base he wants to.

[TallAnon]

Nothing wrong with an audit?

[Kelly6]

@Kelley1 Nope Trump has no power to do that

[seeyounexttuesday]

Where do you get this opinion from?

[dustybiker2]

Who is paying for all of this bs?

[Thecubs22]

I would say so.