Democrats probing whether groups booked Trump hotel rooms to earn president's favor: report

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House Democrats are reportedly investigating allegations that groups, including a foreign government, booked rooms at President Trump’s hotels without intending to use them but instead to gain the president’s favor.

Politico reports that the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s probe, which is part of the chamber’s formal impeachment inquiry against the president, aims to see whether Trump violated the law by taking money from U.S. or foreign governments at his properties.
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“Now we’re looking at raw bribery. That was the risk from Day One: foreign governments and others trying to seek favor because we know Trump pays attention to this … It’s an obvious attempt to curry favor with him,” Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), who sits on the panel, told Politico.

“At minimum, this suggests there is a culture of corruption that the administration has created,” House Oversight member Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) told the newspaper. “There’s a sense that to curry favor you have to engage in pay to play. That’s exactly what the American people hate about Washington.” - The Hill

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1. at a minimum we are looking at obvious fucking bribery

it wasnt enhanced interrogation either