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babylonsister

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Thu Oct 17, 2019, 04:38 PM Oct 2019

Even Fox Admits Trump Is Violating Emoluments Clause By Holding G7 At His Golf Club

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/10/17/trump-emoluments-clause-g7.html


Posted on Thu, Oct 17th, 2019 by Jason Easley
Even Fox Admits Trump Is Violating Emoluments Clause By Holding G7 At His Golf Club


Fox’s Judge Andrew Napolitano said that by awarding himself the G7, Trump has created a direct and profound violation of the emoluments clause.

Napolitano said, “It’s not my notion. It’s the Constitution’s notion. The Constitution does not address profits, it addresses any present, as in a gift, any emolument as in cash of any kind whatever. I’m quoting the emoluments clause, from any king, prince or foreign state, so if this were a meeting of the governors of the United States, there would be no violation of the emoluments clause.”

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Napolitano explained that the emoluments clause is in the constitution to prevent the president from receiving gifts or cash from foreign entities.

The Judge continued, “He has bought himself an enormous headache now with the choice of this. This is about as direct and profound a violation of the emoluments clause as one could create.”

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