What is the Emoluments Clause? Does it apply to Trump?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

On Monday morning, a liberal watchdog group filed a lawsuit against President Trump, alleging he’d violated a previously obscure provision in the Constitution, the “Emoluments Clause.”

The watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said that the clause prohibits Trump-owned businesses from accepting payments from foreign governments.

They asked a court to stop Trump’s businesses from taking them now.

“This cannot be allowed,” the group wrote in its legal complaint.

Trump called the case “totally without merit” during an event at the White House on Monday.

Even if this case runs aground in court, there could be others. In fact, one of the parties best positioned to sue Trump might be the D.C. government — if D.C. officials decided it was worth the risk to sue the president.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/what-is-the-emoluments-clause-does-it-apply-to-president-trump/2017/01/23/12aa7808-e185-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html?utm_term=.ddbfa6800d83&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

[uponit7771]

1. Yes, emoluments fees ... ANY FEES not just profits etc. Unless the USSC is going to change

... the meaning of emolument the clause is pretty straight forward.

The article is bullshit because it concentrates on ... GIFTS (present)... where GIFTS are already defined in plane English !!!

e·mol·u·ment
əˈmälyəmənt/
nounformal
a salary, fee, or profit from employment or office.
"the directors' emoluments"
synonyms: salary, pay, payment, wage(s), earnings, allowance, stipend, honorarium, reward, premium; More

[SickOfTheOnePct]

2. He claims

that all profits from foreign governments at his hotels will be donated to the U.S. treasury.