Trump Says Obama Is Violating Emoluments Clause Even Though It Doesn't Apply To Private Citizens [View all]
Donald Trump once against demonstrated on Tuesday that he knows very little about the laws of the country he’s supposed to be leading.
During a taxpayer-funded campaign rally in Pennsylvania, Trump whined that people are upset that he’s profiting from the presidency. He deflected the criticism by accusing former President Barack Obama of violating the emoluments clause by signing a $65 million book deal.
“I got sued on a thing called ’emoluments,'” Trump said, according to NBC News. “Now nobody looks at Obama getting $60 million for a book. That’s OK, even though nobody in history ever got that much money for a book. … But with me, it’s everything.”
The only problem, of course, is that Obama signed the book deal after he left office in 2017, when he was no longer president of the United States.
As NBC News pointed out, “Barack Obama and Michelle Obama signed a joint book deal for $65 million in 2017, after Obama had left office. The emoluments clause applies to federal officeholders, not private citizens.”
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