Congratulations to our extraordinary @TrumpScotland team! Minutes ago, we received full & total approval for a new phase of development to include 500 homes, 50 cottages, sports center, retail & more. We also received approval to build a 2nd golf course! Very proud of them! pic.twitter.com/odVxomGdmf
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) September 26, 2019
Great timing, Eric!
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Time is running out for them to make money…..
Besides their legal defense will cost Millions (and still hopefully fail).
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Based on current events, makes you wonder who Trump pressured to get this deal done.
But doesn’t this fall under the purview of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution?
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RE: “But doesn’t this fall under the purview of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution?”
How would it?
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I posed it as a question. Instead of answering the question with your vast knowledge of the Constitution, you ask another question.
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SOP and tiresome….
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RE: “I posed it as a question.”
In that case, the answer is No. Trump family business interests in Scotland do not violate the Constitution.
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I suggest you try again:
And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Also comments on the Emoluments Clause from Britannica:
“The foreign emoluments clause also broadly encompasses any kind of profit, benefit, advantage, or service, not merely gifts of money or valuable objects. Thus, it would prohibit a federal officeholder from receiving special consideration in business transactions with a foreign state (or with a corporation owned or managed by a foreign state) that gave the officeholder a competitive advantage over other businesses. Arguably, as the legal scholar Laurence Tribe and others have suggested, the clause would forbid even competitively fair transactions with foreign states, because the profit accruing to the officeholder would fall within the ordinary meaning of “emolument,” and because such arrangements would threaten exactly the kind of improper influence that the clause was intended to prevent.”
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The flaw in your theory is that Trump business operations in Scotland do no consititute ” business transactions with a foreign state,” as your Britanica source puts it.
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I guess our military flights to Guam will refuel in Glasgow.
Something about a “Great Circle Route”.
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But, the Ukrainian government hasn’t approved the loan yet. Once the full USAID package arrives, then they can finish the loan.
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