Dominican projects: grounds for impeachment?
BY CRISTINA MAZA ON 2/10/18 AT 6:00 AM
... "With any of the ongoing business dealings that exist in at least 19 different countries around the world, any of these represent a potential point of leverage, a point where the president himself could have reason to make decisions that would put his private interests above the nation's," Alexander Howard, deputy director of .. the Sunlight Foundation, told Newsweek ...
... in December, a federal judge dismissed a pair of lawsuits that argued Trump's failure to divest from his real estate empire and other business holdings violated the emoluments clause. The judge said it is up to Congress to decide whether the defendant is breaking the law, and called the cases present "a non-justiciable political question" ...
"The fact that his company is doing business could be an emoluments issue if the foreign government is making accommodations, greasing the wheels for the Trump Company. But even if that's not true, Trump the man is making money," Caroline Fredrickson, president of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, told Newsweek. "It is certainly using public office for private gain, even if you could say the government wasn't involved" ...
Trump is the only modern president who has both refused to release his taxes to the public and to divest from his private businesses while in office. In response, the Sunlight Foundation is compiling a comprehensive list that tracks Trump's conflicts of interest ...
http://www.newsweek.com/if-trump-organization-launches-dominican-republic-projects-it-could-be-grounds-801765
