Former Mexican ambassador says State Department is telling world leaders to stay at Trump hotels

[highplainsdem]

Source: ThinkProgress

A former top Mexican diplomat accused the Trump administration this week of using official diplomatic channels to funnel business to Donald Trump’s hotels.

Arturo Sarukhan, who served as Mexico’s ambassador to the United States from 2007 to 2013, tweeted on Tuesday that a former U.S. diplomat told him the U.S. State Department’s protocol emphasizes to world leaders that they should use Trump’s D.C. hotel for official visits.

Sarukhan’s tweet also uses the term “kakistocracy,” which means government by the worst people.

If the State Department is, in fact, helping Trump drive foreign governments’ business to his hotels, then it is complicit in a violation of the Constitution. The Constitution provides that no “person holding any office of profit or trust” under the United States may “without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.”

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Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/former-mexican-ambassador-trump-hotels-6fc52c7ce8f5/

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Sarukhan's tweet:

Link to tweet

[stopbush]

1. The problem is that this Congress would retroactively consent

to anything done by tRump that smacks of being illegal or unethical. They’ll just change the laws to accommodate his criminality.

[Stonepounder]

11. They can't 'just change the law'

You can't change a law to make something that is prima facie unconstitutional somehow legal.

However, the Congress can simply ignore the fact that Trump violates the Constitution. There is, however, a suit by a number of hoteliers and restaurateurs that is slowly trying to make its way through the federal court system. Their argument is that they do have standing, because Trump is using the Office of the President to promote his businesses at the expense of their businesses.

The whole country is totally f**ked up!

[stopbush]

12. The wording of the Constitution

allows that Congress can consent to the president receiving gifts, etc.

[Stonepounder]

18. That isn't 'changing the law' it is just 'giving consent'

which, I might note, they haven't done either. They are just ignoring the Constitution.

[lark]

2. Of course he does.

All he is at the base of it all is an insecure, chickenshit, bully, criminal fraud and grifter.

[More_Cowbell]

3. Every day, I think I can't get more infuriated

And then another day comes.

[iluvtennis]

9. Ditto

[lindysalsagal]

4. Unbelievable.

[Achilleaze]

5. republican grifters suck cesspool scum

low low low republicans. They are so very low, grifty, greedy, and immoral, and unethical.

Setting a shameful example for children.

[left-of-center2012]

6. Can you say "Trump crime family" ?

[onetexan]

13. they sure have the look of mafia thugs don't they

DOTUS 45 is the godfather and his spawn are themselves modern mobsters

[pandr32]

17. They sure do!

[PatSeg]

21. They look so smug and stupid at the same time

[brush]

26. Grifters all. Hope Mueller knows about the steering of guests to trump hotels.

[lagomorph777]

7. How massive is his debt to Putin, that he has to hawk hotel rooms

and MAGGOT hats?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

8. Our administration is a sleazocracy. Kick, Rec. n/t

[riversedge]

10. Didn't the State dept have an announcement about Trump hotels posted on their webste

earlier?? and when it was discovered by the media, they took it down. I vaguely remember something about this.

[highplainsdem]

15. It was a page about Mar-a-Lago. Link to article:

http://www.npr.org/2017/04/24/525444099/state-department-website-features-trumps-for-profit-club-mar-a-lago

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Kleptocracy. Corrupt usurpation of government for family financial gain. See also tax heist. . nt

[safeinOhio]

16. What about all those

Bed bugs?

[Blue_Tires]

19. Gangster presidency...

[0rganism]

20. emoluments clause? wtf is that?

does it leave a rash?

[BigmanPigman]

22. They have been trying to use that for 10 months

and can not enforce it. How and why is he able to not get charged for this?!?! Is Congress enabling him in breaking just about every law? If Obama or Hillary did 1/100th of what the fucking moron and his offspring have done they would've been in jail within a month of the issue being raised.

[Blue Owl]

23. Urine for a great night's rest

n/t

[sellitman]

24. Who will enforce this law?

Certainly not the worms occupying Congress.

[babylonsister]

25. Thoroughly disgusting, but that's what we now expect. nt

[burrowowl]

27. Everybody gets it except for Repukes!