Isn't Some of the Trump Hotel Profit Ours? - NYT Editorial Board
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD MAY 29, 2017
When President Trump took office, his lawyers said they had an easy way to solve the legal questions posed by his ownership of a Washington hotel. Since the Constitution’s emoluments clause bans government officials from accepting payments from foreign governments, Sheri Dillon of Morgan Lewis, standing with Mr. Trump next to a mound of files at a made-for-television news conference, said her client would “voluntarily donate all profits from foreign government payments made to his hotel to the United States Treasury.”
You didn’t believe that, did you?
Early on, anyone who asked the hotel for proof that it was earmarking foreign government profits for taxpayers was told to wait until the end of the year.
Meanwhile, Trump International Hotel continued accepting foreign payments in Washington, where every diplomatically recognized nation has an embassy and where foreigners account for 27 percent of visitor spending, according to the local tourism authorities. Since Mr. Trump won the election, the hotel has been booked for parties thrown by the governments of Azerbaijan, Bahrain and Kuwait, which moved their events from other hotels to Mr. Trump’s.
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