Profiting from the Presidency? Investigation into foreign payments demanded
BY LEAH THOMAS ON 1/11/18 AT 4:53 PM
... In a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, the group of 17 Democrats said that the Trump Organization has failed to turn over documents relating to his foreign business deals — and demanded that the committee use its subpoena power and conduct a "serious investigation" of Trump’s possible violations of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.
"Over the past year, President Trump and his attorneys have stalled virtually any credible oversight, and unfortunately our Committee has done nothing to push back on these efforts," the letter stated.
The Emoluments Clause bars federal officials from accepting a payment or gift from a foreign government. Just before taking office, then President-elect Trump had promised to cede control of the Trump Organization to his sons Eric and Donald Jr., but the company continues to profit from foreign business. He also promised to donate any foreign profits from his Washington, D.C. hotel to the public — but the Trump Organization later said that it would not ask guests at the Trump International Hotel if they are using money from foreign governments.
It is unclear if the president is making the promised donations, Democrats said in the letter, which called on Gowdy to subpoena the Trump Organization to hand over all documents "referring or related to" the empire's financial transactions with foreign governments ...
http://www.newsweek.com/serious-investigation-trump-profiting-presidency-778719
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