Posted on 10/17/2019 8:03:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I heard the president has seen his net worth decrease by $400 million since he took the oath of office.
As Kickass Conservative mentioned in post # 34, the resort is being offered at cost. So there is no profit going to the president, a point the liberals conveniently ignore.
LOL There it is.
True, I wish the government would reimburse Trump for all of his legal expenses associated with the Russian Hoax and the Ukraine Hoax and any other Hoax that the democrats think up.
A$$wipe.
Nap has a dead girl or live boy problem.
emollient
We see what you did there.
I saw what you did there...
Where was Napolitano when Obama was wiping his a$$ with the Constitution? Now he has the gall to complain about Trump’s questionable infractions??
The reality, always escaping the idiot left, is Trump will likely lose money of the event. His self sacrificing generosity is well known among honest observers. He will probably provide certain services such as facility fees at no charge. That is his traditional approach. As to profiteering it would be laughable as the punch line by a stand up comedienne. Coming from a TDS critic it is merely sad.
The site, chosen by President Gerald Ford, was the Dorado Beach Hotel and Country Club, which was owned by Nelson Rockefeller's brother Laurance's company RockResorts.
In other words, the second G7 Summit was held at the family-owned resort of the Vice-President of the United States.
Precedence or emoluments?
-PJ
The useless one
This idiot has zero idea what he’s yapping about
Exactly.
One set of rules for Progressives.
Another set for Conservatives.
This nappy nitwit sure is a woman scorned.
PDJT’s not involved in his businesses anymore.
I guess this means Carter didn’t sell peanuts then during his term.
What “impeachment”? Are you referring to the unconstitutional star chamber that the seditious LIB lunatics and losers are doing? I hope President Trump Trump gives them a goodie bag of MAGA swag. Screw the seditious amongst us.
I heard Rush talking about it...
The way to look at the emoluments clause is to ask a question. Is Trump being given a present by hosting the G7 at his Doral resort in Miami? A present. Think of a gift as a substitute word for emolument, an office or a title from any king or prince or foreign state. No. He’s not being given a present. He’s not getting any kind of a gift by hosting the G7 at his golf club. Nobody’s trying to bribe him by coming to Doral or any of his other properties. That’s not what’s going here.
“But but but but he’s profiting, he’s personally profiting, it’s his own place.” No. He’s announced that everything is going to be at cost. The government will pay only what it costs to put the event on. There will not be any evil profit. Now, as is always the case, go back to the original intent. Go back to the framers, go back to the early days of the country and ask why was this clause even put in there? Why was the emoluments clause even included?
And if you go back to the founding of the country, it makes perfect sense. Let’s say that the king of England had offered George Washington a dukedom, you know, make him duke of the new world, give him a bunch of land, a bunch of real estate, do with it what he wants, and he and his family would have been wealthy forever. It would have been a bribe.
Instead of doing the revolution, instead of going to war against the king, the king says, “I’ll buy you off here. I’ll give you the dukedom. We’ll call you the duke of Washington.” The framers wanted to prevent that kind of thing. And it has no application. The media and the Democrats are running with it to include anything that might be configurable in people’s minds as Trump engineering profit based on his presidency.
Napolitano hasn’t been a judge for 25 years. Why should his opinion now matter?
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