The President is not in this for money, and the pennies that he makes from the one hotel in DC, is chump change compared to all the rest of his properties.
Lefties have been pushing this emoluments crap for a couple years now. Looks like it’s about to get definitively shut down.
0bungo clearly violated any and all of our constitution and the libs love him
Was Washington violating the emoluments clause when his farms were selling wheat to other countries when he was President?
-PJ
Did the Bushes sell all of their stocks and properties? They put them into a trust and the money kept flowing.
Rich people run for President. Duh.
People who earn their money should be prohibited from holding public office.
Only people collecting government checks can be trusted to treat the government properly.
Suggested remedy I saw in the article comments: Put up an “Americans only” sign at the hotel. That way, Trump won’t have to worry about making money off of foreigners.
I may have to take out a loan and go stay there.
This is nuts.
The irony is that the taxpayers are paying big bucks for this scam.
"Nice comeback, Hashim."
Just how is that different from a president “selling books” which we all know is a long time DC money laundering fraud?
George Washington didn’t suspend his plantation operations while he was freeing this nation either...
I might be a little more willing to entertain this argument if the people most eager to advance it were even a little interested in what the Clinton Foundation was doing between 2008-2016.
The emoluments clause was clearly, on its face, to ensure the President's loyalty to the US, unlike the never and anti-Trumpers whose allegience is entirely to anything but the people and Constitution of the United States. Being a successful US businessman has nothing to do with the kind of undue foreign influence that this crowd have sold out to.
He saved that building from the wrecking ball.
Judge Shedd is a very sharp man. He’s got a beautifully deep South Carolinian accent with a very dry sense of humor Oral arguments before Shedd are a treat. I’ve been glad every time I find him assigned to one of my cases.
This is just pure hatred manifesting into a fascistic mentality. The whole “gotcha” attitude is attempting to leverage existing law and contort it to mean things it does not mean.
Of course, if successful, the foolishness of this campaign would result with the collapse of our system. No president would be able to remain in office for five minutes before being found guilty of some bizarre interpretation of the law.
...but they obviously don’t care about consequences, or true justice, this is just another witch hunt.
a GHWB appointee 1990.
Judge clerked for Strom Thurmond at one time.
https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/shedd-dennis-w
Didn’t I read recently that the Trump organization has kept track of foreign government officials who have used Trump organization facilities, and they have donated any profits therefrom to the U.S. government, every year so far??
In other words, if there ever was any question about the Trump hotel being a violation of the Constitution, Trump’s companies have insured there has been no such benefits obtained by Trump.