Consultant Jamie Raskin (D-MD) stated Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In” that there was “no query” former President Donald Trump violated the Structure’s international emoluments clause, which prohibits the president from accepting funds or presents from international governments and monarchs until Congress consents.
Host Chris Hayes stated, “We now have concrete proof of Donald Trump obtained hundreds of thousands of {dollars} from international governments whereas he was president of the USA. It comes from a brand new 156-page report from Democrats on the Home Oversight Committee titled White Home for Sale, how princes, prime ministers and premieres paid off President Trump.”
He requested, “Do you assume what you present in these are hundreds of thousands of {dollars} going from governments to the pockets of the president by his companies, all out within the open, do you assume that that may be a violation of the Emoluments Clause?”
Raskin stated, “No query. The Emoluments Clause was acknowledged in an absolute categorical phrases that the president, and no federal official can take any cash of any sort by any means an emolument or an workplace or a gift or a title from the prince, king, or international authorities with out the specific consent of Congress. Each different president in our historical past has scrupulously obeyed that command.”
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