Trump Intervened In FBI HQ Project To Protect His Hotel, Democrats Allege

[Julian Englis]

Source: NPR

President Trump intervened in a big federal building project to help protect business for his hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, a group of House Democrats alleged on Thursday.

Trump wants to demolish and rebuild the FBI's headquarters, the Democrats say, to preserve the site's government ownership and deny any potential competitors to the Trump International Hotel at the Old Post Office Pavilion up the street.

The Democrats called that an abuse of power and a violation of the regulations that are supposed to protect such arrangements from political influence.

Before Trump was elected, he expressed interest in an earlier project that would have involved moving the FBI to a new site in suburban Maryland and selling its Pennsylvania Avenue location to a private developer. That prospective move-and-sale deal was scrapped last year.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/18/658509261/trump-intervened-in-fbi-hq-project-to-protect-his-hotel-democrats-allege

[AllaN01Bear]

1. im so sick of hearing about his !@#$%&*()_ hotels , i want to barf.

[Kajun Gal]

2. He only cares about his money, not the country.

[onethatcares]

3. In my lifetime, 70 years old

I've never seen this type of corruption. I've never seen the Senate and the HOR sit back and allow profit taking by the executive branch.

It's time to have a real march on the Mall, totally spontaneous of course, to show how many people reject this asshole and his administration.

How can that be done? When it came to the Million Man march, it happened. We have better transportation now, why can't it happen?

[YOHABLO]

4. Isn't the Trump Hotel on Penn. a leased property from the U.S.gov't?

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[madville]

5. I found it interesting that the President and VP are exempt from ethics laws

Didn't know that:

Kathleen Clark, a professor of government ethics law at Washington University in St. Louis, said Trump faces a potential ethics problem "because Trump's intervention may well have been motivated by his personal financial concerns with his own hotel," but she noted the president and vice president are exempt from the federal ethics laws, including the conflicts-of-interest provisions.

[Julian Englis]

6. This goes to separation of power

The idea is impeachment would the tool to deal with their actions.