Posted on 11/29/2016 1:50:29 PM PST by Theoria
After Donald Trump is sworn in as president on Jan. 20, he will follow a time-honored tradition and make his way from the U.S. Capitol down Pennsylvania Avenue.
Along the way, just a few blocks before he reaches the White House, he'll pass the Trump International Hotel. The 263-room luxury hotel is becoming the focus of a debate over conflict of interest between Trump and his business dealings.
Trump doesn't actually own the landmark building, which was once the headquarters of the U.S. Post Office. In 2013, he signed a 60-year lease for the building with the General Services Administration, which helps manage and support federal agencies. The Trump Organization spent upwards of $200 million on renovations and reopened it as a hotel about a month before the Nov. 8 presidential election.
But there's a hitch, according to Steven Schooner, a government procurement expert who is also a law professor at the George Washington University School of Law. Schooner has studied the 100-plus-page contract and says there's a clause that clearly states elected officials should have no role in the lease.
"The contract between GSA and the Trump Organization specifically says that no elected official of the United States government shall be party to, share in, or benefit from the contract," he says, citing clause 37.19 of the contract.
Schooner says the GSA should terminate the lease before Trump becomes president.
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Whatever idiot that wrote this hit piece has no idea how corporations work.
There’s no chance that means what the libtard says it means. Waiving the right to participate in elections wouldn’t be Constitutional nor enforcesble.
If he wanted, those two lawyers could delay any action for the next 8 years.
The lease isn’t with Trump personally... he can divest to his family trust on Jan. 19.
The now Trump Hotel was also a largely failed tourist Pavillion and office build, a US Post Office, and unknown to NPR and most of the world, once the DC office of the FBI.
How do I know? The “Shadow knows” a lot. It was very spacious inside and full of files. The photos of two slain FBI agents greeted everyone who entered to remind them of the cost of defending America from enemies, domestic and foreign. Something NPR and this professor would never tell you even if they knew it.
I wonder what they would say if Obama held the lease? Oh thats right, he never created anything of value in his life.
NPR = Fake News!
Yes the lease holder is Trump Old Post Office LLC. The clause seems to say no one can be added later that is an elected official. It doesn’t say anything about someone becoming an elected official. However, Trump can just divest himself of any ownership in the LLC. He may in fact have no ownership, given his very early thoughts about running for President.
“find two lawyers who say that say he can.”
Then call it settled law.
The exclusions are the President and V.P.
Besides, if he steps down from Trump Enterprises the point becomes moot.
Yep - he may take political flak - which is gonna happen anyway - but there's nothing illegal about it.
This guy is a law professor like Obama was a Constitutional professor...
Everyone is going to try to nail this guy on the emollient clause but, he’ll get it taken care of before 1-20-16
Yep - too many who watched Trump do his thing all the way to victory seem to ignore the bullet he helped us dodge and all of a sudden worry he’s really a naif.
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