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160 days into office, and he's already holding a fundraiser that costs $35,000 per ticket at his DC hotel to raise money for his 2020 run.
How about he actually do something like Govern? This is as unethical and swampy as you can get.
Let's be honest, this behavior 100% proves that people's hatred of Clinton is entirely irrational. It wasn't because she was corrupt or lies too much.
Because if those things matter to the people that voted against her, they would condemn the astronomically more corrupt and lying behavior that Trump is engaged in.
What are you going to do when Trump wins re-election in 2020?
Not to mention the more important point that what he's doing is actually illegal, since it's being held at his own property that he's leasing from the government and thus violating the emoluments clause.
But it's obvious no one follows the Constitution anymore.
Re the bolded, it's obvious you haven't read the Emoluments Clause, and when your masters gave you your talking points, all you heard was 'Trump International Hotel DC", "Emoluments Clause","activities", and "Trump not allowed to profit"......and one your masters is getting his or her concrete issues and documents mixed up. The Emoluments Clause deals with gifts from foreign governments. More than any other constitutional provision, the Emoluments Clause reflects the determined effort of the framers to ensure that no federal officeholder in the United States Could ever be influenced by gifts of any kind from a foreign government. One of the most noted drivers of this at the Constitutional Convention was that King Louis XVI of France had given Benjamin Franklin a box with hundreds of diamonds on it. Some have argued that Trump could violate the Emoluments Clause by foreign heads of state and underlings staying at the hotel and then meeting with Trump and having 'undue influence over him' because they stayed at the hotel. That isn't concrete/would be very hard to prove, at least in the opinion of a few of the attorneys in my family. There is a concrete, EASILY identifiable issue that has to with Trump having that particular hotel/situation and being POTUS...but it isn't directly related to the Emoluments Clause. It is rather that the lease that Trump signed with General Services Administration 'arm' of the US Government bars any elected officials from sharing in any benefit from the lease. In an attempt to address that, Trump made a statement about donating all of his share of any profits while he is POTUS. People have differing opinions about whether or not that statement and following through on it would be good enough. You might want to do your own reading so you can keep the different documents straight, rather than learning second or third hand.
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Its all a scam to help fund the Hotel. He will double dip, take 10 mil. and then write outlandish bills to the campaign to get at least half for his own pocket.
Trump raised 7 million from the MAGA merchandise. He's hosting one fund raiser at the DC hotel that he put in trust but is still the sole beneficiary of. Who knows what he did at Mar-A-Lago every weekend all winter while he traveled on our tax payer dollars. The dues doubled for joining after he became president.
Yep agent orange is doing a real good job at self promoting at our expense. Brilliant. Sleazy, but brilliant.
160 days into office, and he's already holding a fundraiser that costs $35,000 per ticket at his DC hotel to raise money for his 2020 run.
How about he actually do something like Govern? This is as unethical and swampy as you can get.
Let's be honest, this behavior 100% proves that people's hatred of Clinton is entirely irrational. It wasn't because she was corrupt or lies too much.
Because if those things matter to the people that voted against her, they would condemn the astronomically more corrupt and lying behavior that Trump is engaged in.
Wasn't a Re-election campaign, should have been called a Re-selection campaign.
Gee I remember when Conservatives on here bashed Obama for constantly holding fundraisers and events for reelection in 2011 but here they are quiet when Trump does it 160 days into his 1st and only term.
Nah. I think Trump supporters are tired of whining, crying Liberals who LOST and can't get over it.
I didn't vote for any republican for president but I respected them all. I don't respect Trump at all.
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