Donald Trump using government as his own personal piggy bank. Whether it’s costing taxpayers millions to golf or having his own State Department promote Mar-a-Lago for financial gain, this is how this corrupt administration functions.
Here’s the blog post by State Department: uk.usembassy.gov/…
Here’s the link they point to, for even more promotion: share.america.gov/…
www.cnn.com/…
President Donald Trump personally owns Mar-a-Lago, his private club on Florida's eastern coast. But that didn't stop the State Department, in a blog post on the United States Embassy in London's website, from touting the property.
In a markedly promotional blog post from April 5 that could eventually benefit the President's bottom line, should it spur membership or foreign visits, the embassy writes that the property has "become well known as the President frequently travels there to work or host foreign leaders."
Ethic watchdogs have a huge problem with this clear conflict of interest, because obviously it violates the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
Just another day of violating the Constitution. Republicans are silent and complicit.
The Mar-a-Lago Club has already seemingly benefited from Trump's presidency. The club raised its initiation fee from $100,000 to $200,000 after Trump was elected and members and former members around Mar-a-Lago have said there is now an added cachet with frequently visiting the President's club.
"Aggressively begging foreign countries to funnel money straight into Trump's pocket is a clear violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause, but that's precisely what the State Department is doing by openly promoting one of the Trumps' private businesses," Shripal Shah, vice president of American Bridge, a Democratic firm, said Monday. "It's a gross abuse of taxpayer resources and flagrant violation of the law from an administration that thinks rules don't apply to them."
Update: ShareAmerica has updated and removed the promotion from their page.
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The blog post was still live on the site for the State Department's embassy and consulates in the United Kingdom as of Mondayevening.
CREW is suing Trump for violation of the emoluments clause.
www.citizensforethics.org/…
An association of more than 200 restaurants and thousands of restaurant workers is joining Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s (CREW) landmark emoluments lawsuit against President Trump along with and a luxury hotel event booker.
The lawsuit, first filed by CREW in January, seeks to find the president in violation of the emoluments clauses of the Constitution, which prohibit Trump from receiving anything of value from foreign governments, including foreign government-owned businesses, without the approval of Congress, and prohibit him from receiving benefits from the federal and state governments apart from his congressionally approved compensation.
CREW, ROC and Phaneuf are represented in the case by an all-star team of top constitutional scholars, ethics experts and litigators who have combined to argue 45 cases before the Supreme Court. The lawyers on the case include CREW’s board chair and vice-chair Norman Eisen and Richard Painter, the top ethics lawyers for the last two presidents, constitutional law scholars Erwin Chemerinsky, Laurence H. Tribe and Zephyr Teachout, Deepak Gupta of Gupta Wessler PLLC and Joseph Sellers of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC.