No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, 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.
Trump’s hotel doesn’t pay local taxes, hire locals, and help local businesses? This is all orange man bad, nothing more.
Meanwhile the Clinton Foundation’s millions of dollars from foreign countries while HRC was SOS was ok....
Upside down world.
They may have a point. The trick is to avoid the APPEARANCE of impropriety. There’s money involved here, lots of it. Legal defenses and challenges are just a cost of doing business. The Clintons were notorious.
It’s very specific to Nobility.
So they rooms were never rented before Trump became president???
Amazing.0
Contrary to popular belief, the 4th Circuit, not the Ninth Circuit is the most radically left court in the country. The Obama judges that were appointed to the court are among the most activist/communist in the nation. For instance Stephanie Thacker makes RBG look like Scalia.
The only difference between the 9th Circuit and the 4th is that the later is smaller so when President Trump made his three appointments, he was able to close the gap so that panel decisions might turn out conservative.
En Banc, the Court is going to side with the Democrat/Left position each and every time.
As long as his hotel charges the normal rates to the foreign govt there is no gift.
We have to make certain that no successful businessman ever dares try to assume high office and start running the country efficiently again. Only community organizers like Hussein and grifters like Bernie Sanders, people who have never earned an honest dime in their lives need apply.
How does one bribe a successful billionaire anyway?
Judicial Witch Hunt.
This is total BS. The courts in our day and age have become an extra-legislative body and have strayed far from their legitimate function and place.
One important ethics consideration that government employees are trained on annually is that an employee of the federal government (members of the military especially) may not accept a benefit if it is not offered to the general public, or to all members of the group. So, I can accept free tickets if they are offered to all government employees equally. I can accept free tickets if I am one of the first 500 to show up for a special promotion. But I cannot accept them if they are given because, for example, a business is hoping I will decide in their favor on a contract award.
The President, through his hotels, does not target members of foreign governments to stay in his hotels. He does not give them special rates that he does not offer to ordinary members of the public. He rents them rooms in a manner consistent with the business model he has used for the past several decades. Thus, there is no appearance of impropriety and no violation of ethics rules.
This is a stark contrast to most (liberal) politicians who use their power and influence for personal gain all the time. They atone for it by imposing strict ethical rules on those of us who work for the government. Sorry, libs, you cannot erase bad karma by forcing others to act more ethically than the general public. That isn’t how karma works.
Nobody is buying influence with Trump. Even though he doesn’t have to; I believe he gives all profits from foreigners using his facilities to the government.
When NBC reported this did they mention Trump donates his presidential salary or that this high secure location might be offered at cost ?
Here’s the question.
Is Trump’s hotel being run any different now than it was when Obama was president? (opened for business as Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., on 09/16/2016)
Would it have been run any differently if he were not president?
Trump has not sought to capitalize on his office, to make money in this hotel. It’s business as usual.
I would consider it a breach of his Constitutional rights to deny him profits from any of this holdings.
It is absurd to think a man has to be a pauper on paper, to be President of the United States.
Put up proof he is somehow doing something illegal. Otherwise shut up.
Because the case is now going to be heard en banc, it’s a sure thing that the decision will be reversed else the court wouldn’t have picked it up. It’s majority Obama/Clinton judges.