All you maga(ts) - this is OK with you?

Exclusive: Foreign government leases at trump world tower stir more emoluments concerns

The U.S. State Department allowed at least seven foreign governments to rent luxury condominiums in New York's Trump World Tower in 2017 without approval from Congress, according to documents and people familiar with the leases, a potential violation of the U.S. Constitution's emoluments clause.

The 90-story Manhattan building, part of the real estate empire of Donald Trump, had housed diplomats and foreign officials before the property developer became president. But now that he is in the White House, such transactions must pass muster with federal lawmakers, some legal experts say. The emoluments clause bans U.S. officials from accepting gifts or payments from foreign governments without congressional consent.

The rental transactions, dating from the early months of Trump's presidency and first revealed by Reuters, could add to mounting scrutiny of his business dealings with foreign governments, which are now the subject of multiple lawsuits.



Oh, I can't wait to get a democrat in office that does exactly the same things that trump does.!!!  It's gonna make you trumpettes go nutz!!

(actually, that's not true - I would protest a dem that did the same thing as trump - you see, that's called 'integrity')

MnSpring wrote on 05/02/19 at 13:43:12:


I don't care if you believe it or not.  It's a fact - and facts don't need your belief.