Emoluments - Schemoluments.....



William Barr Books $30,000 Party At Trump Hotel: Report

U.S. Attorney General William Barr has reportedly booked President Donald Trump’s hotel in Washington, D.C., for a winter holiday party that a Washington Post report says will likely bring the hotel more than $30,000 in revenue.

The Post said Tuesday that it obtained a copy of the contract Barr signed for a private 200-person “Family Holiday Party” at the Trump International Hotel’s Presidential Ballroom on Dec. 8.

The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A department official told the Post that Barr is paying for the party himself and only chose the Trump hotel after finding out other venues were booked.

According to the newspaper, its copy of Barr’s contract requires a minimum of $100 per person for food and drink before an additional 35% for taxes and tip, and calls for the attorney general to pay at least $31,500 even if the event gets canceled.

“He’s the owner of the thing …. It at least creates the appearance of corruption,” former Office of Government Ethics Director Walter Shaub previously told HuffPost.

In announcing the possibility of his Doral resort as the next G-7 site, Trump said, “I’m not going to make any money.”

But as previously reported by HuffPost, Trump directly receives any money spent on his properties ― including hotels and golf courses ― because he is the sole beneficiary of a trust that owns his family business, the Trump Organization.

The president’s many properties frequently host lobbyists trying to influence his policies, foreign governments and politicians, opening Trump to conflicts of interest. The Justice Department is currently defending the president’s Washington hotel against a lawsuit filed by nearly 200 members of Congress accusing Trump of violating the Constitution’s emoluments clause ― a provision to prevent corruption ― by continuing to profit from his businesses.

Though the Justice Department told the Post that Barr did not book the party out of loyalty to the president, the top U.S. law enforcement official’s independence from Trump has been questioned before. Barr was criticized earlier this year for making misleading remarks about then-special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, echoing the false “no collusion” narrative that Trump has been repeating for years.

Shaub, who has been a vocal critic of Trump’s ethics decisions, told the Post that, although Barr’s decision to book a party at Trump’s hotel does not violate the rules, the attorney general “keeps sending signals that his loyalty is to a politician and not to the country.”

WebsterMark wrote on 08/28/19 at 04:17:13:



Why waste all the keystrokes, mark?

All you needed to type is "I don't give a $hit"

WebsterMark wrote on 08/28/19 at 07:28:58:



Of course you are.

Now... had Obama (or any dem ever) done such a thing.... well... that would have been a different story.

You're so transparent, no one can see you.  A typical conservative servile man to donnie.

To be fair, no one from Obama's administration could have purchased goods or services from Obama because..... he never actually did anything in the private sector beforehand!....

But setting that aside, if that would have happened, why would I care? I don't care Obama has capitalized on his Presidency and made himself wealthy afterwards. My point about the house purchase was the hypocrisy and obvious admission he doesn't believe global warming is of any real significance.

Back to Barr; what's the difference in what he's doing and someone who works at a Ford car dealer buying a Ford from that same dealer? None that I can see. This is a manufactured 'fake news' controversy that isn't one.

Try again snowflakes.

I don't care about using the Doral property because I believe it gives Trump a leg up.

WebsterMark wrote on 08/28/19 at 11:59:37:


You don't care, we get it.  You're a servile man for trump.

T And T Garage wrote on 08/28/19 at 09:35:54:


T And T Garage wrote on 08/28/19 at 12:45:08:


Use of that word in reference to a site member is a personal attack.
Not allowed,.... Please stop.

Sero

it's a slippery slope, once you get used to it, no matter how well disguised, it's a problem.