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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) announced Wednesday his panel will broaden its investigation into President Trump to include his proposal to hold the 2020 Group of Seven (G-7) summit at one of his family-owned properties in Florida.
Nadler said the president's pitch to host next year's meeting of world leaders at Trump National Doral Miami is "only the latest in a troubling pattern of corruption and self-dealing by the President" and may violate both the foreign and domestic Emoluments Clauses.
"The President's personal financial interests are clearly shaping decisions about official U.S. government activities, and this is precisely the type of risk that the Constitution's Emoluments Clauses were intended to prevent," Nadler said in a statement.
"More importantly, the Doral decision reflects perhaps the first publicly known instance in which foreign governments would be required to pay President Trump's private businesses in order to conduct business with the United States," Nadler added.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nadler-to-probe-trumps-g-7-resort-pitch/ar-AAGsVvg
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(8,090 posts)mcar
(42,334 posts)sprinkleeninow
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(20,252 posts)Anon-C
(3,430 posts)I feel better now.
dchill
(38,505 posts)But stay on those tax returns, Jerry!
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)but he popped up today and was very clear that this alone is an impeachable offense and we must impeach him now. What the Hell are we waiting for?
dem4decades
(11,296 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)by the rules and neither does anyone in his party, but would we really feel any better if the Dems in power just sat back and did nothing? At least this will go down on the record for future possible lawsuits once Trump is out of office.