Trump Resorts Books Biggest Hotel Package Ever!

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by: Colorado Pols

President Donald Trump.

Former Colorado political reporter Eli Stokols, now of the Los Angeles Times, reports:

President Trump intends to host next year’s G7 conference at his Doral International Resort in Miami in June, the White House confirmed Thursday, a controversial decision certain to raise conflict of interest questions given the financial benefit to Trump’s business…

The idea immediately generated controversy. Trump is already fighting two lawsuits suggesting that he is violating the Constitution’s emoluments clause, which prohibits U.S. office-holders from personally profiting from payments by foreign governments.

But White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told reporters that the decision, which he acknowledged was Trump’s idea, would not represent a conflict.

“The president has pretty much made it clear that he doesn’t profit,” Mulvaney said. The resort would host the foreign delegations for the G-7 conference “at cost,” he said, adding that the Doral was “far and away the best physical facility for this meeting.”

June is awfully hot and sticky in South Florida, being the time of year when President Donald Trump usually heads to his many northward properties like Bedminster, New Jersey instead of his Doral resort or the Mar-a-Lago Club in nearby Palm Beach. Ordinarily, of course, a President would be expected to suggest a venue for an occasion as important as the G-7 Summit free of even the appearance of conflict–but of course there’s nothing ordinary about this President! Even more so than the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. that foreign special interests who want to get something done know to stay at without asking, either this is an illegal steering of official business toward Trump’s personal enrichment or the Emoluments Clause is meaningless.

And depending on what happens in Congress, there’s a possibility this could become very awkward.

5 thoughts on “Trump Resorts Books Biggest Hotel Package Ever!”

MADCO says:

October 17, 2019 at 11:42 am

The attendees should just make it a campaign event for themselves- that way they can stiff the bill … just like Trump

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RepealAndReplace says:

October 17, 2019 at 11:44 am

I wonder what he will put on for entertainment. Vince and Linda McMahon's WWE wrestling? Maybe Clint Eastwood conversing with a chair? Ted Nugent or Kid Rock singing?

And for adult entertainment, well ……… maybe he can book Stormy Daniels to a do a pole dance.

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1. kwtree says:
  
  October 17, 2019 at 4:54 pm
  
  I doubt that Stormy would spit on Donald if he were on fire, much less pole-dance for him.
  
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harrydoby says:

October 17, 2019 at 12:11 pm

As you would expect from a megalomaniacal narcissist like Trump, the operating assumption is "Me = the Nation". Therefore it is easy to confuse personal benefit as a benefit to the entire nation. Mick Mulvaney happily admitted to another perfect example:

Speaking to reporters at the White House, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney acknowledged that the Trump administration held up U.S. military aid to Ukraine in part due to the president’s request for that country to investigate, on the basis of no evidence, that the hacked Democratic National Committee email servers are in Ukrainian custody.

“We do that all the time with foreign policy,” Mulvaney said when asked about criticism that the administration’s actions amounted to a quid pro quo.

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kickshot says:

October 17, 2019 at 8:32 pm

The stupidity in this WH goes off like a flash bang grenade. That seems to be their plan … to just stun everybody into inaction.
I used to think that Mulvaney was one of the brighter ones but it’s a very, very low bar.

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