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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,135 posts)
Mon Dec 7, 2020, 09:29 PM Dec 2020

As His Term Ends, Trump Faces More Questions on Payments to His Hotel

WASHINGTON — It was a month before Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, and one of his aides had a delicate question: Wasn’t there going to be a backlash when it became known that the inauguration had spent donors’ money at Mr. Trump’s hotel in Washington, even though other places would cost much less or even be free?

“These are events in P.E.’s honor at his hotel, and one of them is with and for family and close friends,” Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, then an event planner for Mr. Trump, wrote in an email to a colleague in December 2016, referring to Mr. Trump as the president-elect and saying she raised the issue to “express my concern.”

As Mr. Trump’s presidency comes to a close, expenditures like those are receiving renewed legal scrutiny in the form of a civil case being pursued by the attorney general for the District of Columbia.

At the heart of the case is a question — whether Mr. Trump and his family have profited from his public role, sometimes at the expense of taxpayers, competitors and donors — that has been a persistent theme of his tenure in the White House.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/as-his-term-ends-trump-faces-more-questions-on-payments-to-his-hotel/ar-BB1bHWVE?li=BBnb7Kz

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As His Term Ends, Trump Faces More Questions on Payments to His Hotel (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2020 OP
So many things to investigate Andy823 Dec 2020 #1
Two words: asset forfeiture. Revoke his lease, seize his accounts and properties. Nt Fiendish Thingy Dec 2020 #2

Andy823

(11,495 posts)
1. So many things to investigate
Mon Dec 7, 2020, 09:33 PM
Dec 2020

even if trump pardons himself, or has Pence do it, the investigations into all the illegal acts will be "huge"!

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