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What You Need to Know About the Emoluments Clause
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-17/trump-s-business-ties-and-that-emoluments-issue-quicktake-q-a
Americas founding fathers probably didnt envision Donald Trump. They did, however, think to include a sentence in the U.S. Constitution that could curb the activities of a businessman-president. Trumps decision to keep his stakes in his global business, the Trump Organization, raised the question of whether he is continually violating whats known as the "emoluments clause." Critics of the president have filed lawsuits pressing the case. And hes not the only Trump raising emoluments questions.
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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, filed a federal lawsuit in Manhattan seeking to stop Trumps business ventures. Its working with a Washington-area restaurant association and luxury hotel event booker that say Trumps businesses pose unfair competition.
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,610 posts)through lawsuits. They have been doing it for years and years. Being the first family hasn't and won't change their behavior. They thumb their noses at the lawyers and judges as they continue to lie, cheat and steal.
ancianita
(36,095 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,610 posts)are living under a freeway in a cardboard box instead of the "dumpy White House" or the tacky tRump Tower.
malaise
(269,054 posts)K & R
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,734 posts)Better get his base to contribute more to his defen....I mean campaign fund.
ancianita
(36,095 posts)ffr
(22,670 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Trump started his Presidency by lying before God with his hand on the Bible.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Emoluments
ancianita
(36,095 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)Owens
(197 posts)Can you imagine what the GOP would be doing if this was Hillary Clinton? Yet when it comes to Trump, they look the other way and will deny anything is wrong because there are "exceptions" to Trump and his wealth.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,489 posts)Retweeted by David Fahrenthold: https://twitter.com/fahrenthold
U.S. judge pushes back against Trump administrations view of emoluments clause in lawsuit by watchdog group
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