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The Daily Mail UK ^ | 20 Mar 2019 | Emily Goodan

[FrdmLvr]

Wow, that’s sick, but it amounts to exactly what they’re saying.

[reformedliberal]

Put up an “Americans only” sign at the hotel. That way, Trump won’t have to worry about making money off of foreigners.
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Didn’t the Trump organization decide to donate all profits from foreign dignitary stays to the Treasury? Memory hazy, but I think this was done at the start of his term or soon thereafter.

Note: profits, not revenue. Business folks will understand the difference.

The real gripe in these cases is claiming that Trump being POTUS gives his name-brand hotels/restaurants an unfair advantage against other eateries/lodgings.

Judge saw right through them. DJT has been wildly successful by his own efforts in all his endeavors and it chafes more than a few backsides. He _is_ his own brand because he applies the principles of marketing so well.

These clowns couldn’t compete before he was POTUS or produced and starred in a long-running successful reality show.

[jz638]

I might be a little more willing to entertain this argument if the people most eager to advance it were even a little interested in what the Clinton Foundation was doing between 2008-2016.

[AndyJackson]

they've suffered injuries from competition when the emoluments clause was meant as a check against government corruption.

The emoluments clause was clearly, on its face, to ensure the President's loyalty to the US, unlike the never and anti-Trumpers whose allegience is entirely to anything but the people and Constitution of the United States. Being a successful US businessman has nothing to do with the kind of undue foreign influence that this crowd have sold out to.

[AndyJackson]

when the emoluments clause was meant as a check against government corruption

This is an idiotic argument and DAG cannot even read the constitution if that is what he said. Here is the emoluments clause in full:

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.

It's purpose is clearly to prevent foreign influence and as well to prevent the importation of social class titles into the US, which chaffes the Kerry/Clinton crowd to no end who see themselves as the US peerage.

[Liz]

MORE REASONS FOR BIDEN TO TAKE A HIKE----(smirk)
Biden said he was consulting with his "family" whether to run. This must be who he meant:

During the Obama Admin, then-VP Joe Biden took his son Hunter on an official trip to China.
China then gave Hunter a billion dollar check....making it likely that Biden sold out the United States to China.

And what was Obama's cut of the deal?

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INSIDE THE SHADY PRIVATE EQUITY FUND OF BIDEN AND KERRY'S KIDS

EXCERPT--Peter Schweizer in his new book, “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,” details a number of ethical violations on both sides of the political aisle. One example: the little-noticed private equity firm run by the sons of Democrats Joe Biden and John Kerry, as detailed in this exclusive first excerpt.

The two men became close while serving for several decades together in the US Senate. The two “often talked on matters of foreign policy,” says Jules Witcover in his Biden biography.So their sons going into business together in June 2009 was not exactly a bolt out of the blue. But with whom their sons cut lucrative deals while the elder two were steering the ship of state is more of a surprise.

What Hunter Biden, the son of America’s vice president, and Christopher Heinz, the stepson of the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (later to be secretary of state), were creating was an international private equity firm. It was anchored by the multi-million Heinz family alternative investment fund, Rosemont Capital. The new firm would be populated by political loyalists and positioned to strike profitable deals overseas with foreign governments and officials with whom the US government was negotiating.

Hunter Biden, Vice President Joe Biden’s youngest son, had gone through a series of jobs since graduating from Yale Law School in 1996, including the hedge-fund business. By the summer of 2009, the 39-year-old Hunter joined forces with the son of another powerful figure in American politics, Chris Heinz. Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania had tragically died in a 1991 airplane crash when Chris was 18. Chris, his brothers, and his mother inherited a large chunk of the family’s vast ketchup fortune, including a network of investment funds and a Pennsylvania estate, among other properties. In May 1995, his mother, Teresa, married Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. That same year, Chris graduated from Yale, and then went on to get his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Joining them in the Rosemont venture was Devon Archer, a longtime Heinz and Kerry friend. The three friends established a series of related LLCs. The trunk of the tree was Rosemont Capital, the alternative investment fund of the Heinz Family Office. Rosemont Farm is the name of the Heinz family’s 90-acre estate outside Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania. The small fund grew quickly. According to an email revealed as part of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, Rosemont described themselves as “a $2.4 billion private equity firm co-owned by Hunter Biden and Chris Heinz,” with Devon Archer as “Managing Partner.”The partners attached several branches to the Rosemont Capital trunk, including Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC, Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners, and Rosemont Realty. Of the various deals in which these Rosemont entities were involved, one of the largest and most troubling concerns was Rosemont Seneca Partners.

Rather than set up shop in New York City, the financial capital of the world, Rosemont Seneca leased space in Washington, DC. They occupied an all-brick building on Wisconsin Avenue, the main thoroughfare of exclusive Georgetown. Their offices would be less than a mile from John and Teresa Kerry’s 23-room Georgetown mansion, and just two miles from both Joe Biden’s office in the White House and his residence at the Naval Observatory. In short, the Chinese government was literally funding a business that it co-owned along with the sons of two of America’s most powerful decision makers.

--SNIP--rest at source

Chris Heinz (left) with John Kerry at a campaign fundraiser,
April 16, 2004./ Dennis Van Tine

Hunter and Dad, Joe Biden.

SOURCE http://nypost.com/2018/03/15/inside-the-shady-private-equity-firm-run-by-kerry-and-bidens-kids/

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Hunter Biden also had connections to jailed hedge fund crook Allen Stanford
WSJ, By Susan Schmidt, Steve Stecklow and John R. Emshwiller, Feb. 24, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET

A fund of hedge funds run by two members of Vice President Joe Biden's family was marketed exclusively by companies controlled by Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, who is facing Securities and Exchange Commission accusations of engaging in an $8 billion fraud.

The $50 million fund was jointly branded between the Bidens' Paradigm Global Advisors LLC and a Stanford Financial Group entity and was known as the Paradigm Stanford Capital Management Core Alternative Fund. Stanford-related companies marketed the fund to investors......--snip--rest at WSJ paywall.

[Sacajaweau]

He saved that building from the wrecking ball.

[AndyJackson]

And if you want to know the mischief this was designed to protect against, look at the life and career of Tallyrand whose closest US imitator seems to be Hillary Clinton and the Clinton foundation.

[Liz]

Theres TWO emoluments clauses----Foreign and Domestic:

<><> The Foreign Emoluments Clause, Article I, Section 9, Clause 8, also called the Title of Nobility Clause.

<><> The Domestic Emoluments Clause, Article II, Section 1, Clause 7, also called the Presidential Emoluments Clause

ALSO: The Ineligibility Clause, Article I, Section 6, Clause 2, is sometimes called the Emoluments Clause

[PUGACHEV]

Judge Shedd is a very sharp man. He’s got a beautifully deep South Carolinian accent with a very dry sense of humor Oral arguments before Shedd are a treat. I’ve been glad every time I find him assigned to one of my cases.

[fuzzylogic]

This is just pure hatred manifesting into a fascistic mentality. The whole “gotcha” attitude is attempting to leverage existing law and contort it to mean things it does not mean.

Of course, if successful, the foolishness of this campaign would result with the collapse of our system. No president would be able to remain in office for five minutes before being found guilty of some bizarre interpretation of the law.

...but they obviously don’t care about consequences, or true justice, this is just another witch hunt.

[wbarmy]

My wife and I were in DC waiting for a reservations at a restaurant downtown and saw the Trump hotel nearby. We walked over and walked around the first floor and hotel restaurant.

Ivanka(?) redesigned the interior of the old post office HQ and it is, with all the dramatism I can muster, Fabulous! The old style functions of the post office were kept intact but polished up to shine amongst the newer appointments. It is well worth the visit.

[NormsRevenge]

a GHWB appointee 1990.

Judge clerked for Strom Thurmond at one time.

https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/shedd-dennis-w

[Wuli]

Didn’t I read recently that the Trump organization has kept track of foreign government officials who have used Trump organization facilities, and they have donated any profits therefrom to the U.S. government, every year so far??

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/377638-trump-org-donated-151470-from-foreign-government-profits-to-us

https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/431436-trump-organization-says-it-donated-nearly-200k-in-foreign-profits-in-2018

In other words, if there ever was any question about the Trump hotel being a violation of the Constitution, Trump’s companies have insured there has been no such benefits obtained by Trump.

[Thank You Rush]

“”Deputy Assistant Attorney General Hashim Mooppan””

What in the devil country do we live in? Pretty soon we’re going to be bewildered when we see names like Smith and Thomas.