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From ABC News
A government agency “ignored the Constitution” by allowing the Trump Organization to retain a lease of the Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue -- more widely recognized now as the Trump International Hotel -- when Donald Trump was elected president, according to a report issued Wednesday by the agency’s inspector general.
Lawyers with the General Services Administration (GSA) told investigators that “they ignored the emoluments issues” involved in determining whether the president’s election “caused Tenant to be in breach of the lease upon the President’s inauguration,” the report said.
The emoluments clause of the Constitution prohibits any federal office holder, including the president, from accepting any payment or benefit from a state or foreign government. For example, the hotel in Washington is frequently patronized by representatives of foreign governments while in the nation’s capital.
COMMENT:-
"We found no evidence of any impropriety." DOES sound a whole lot better than "We didn't look for any evidence of any impropriety and because we didn't look for any evidence of impropriety we didn't find any evidence of impropriety and because we didn't find any evidence of impropriety then there was no impropriety." doesn't it?
Government agency 'ignored' Constitution in Trump Hotel lease: Federal watchdog
A government agency “ignored the Constitution” by allowing the Trump Organization to retain a lease of the Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue -- more widely recognized now as the Trump International Hotel -- when Donald Trump was elected president, according to a report issued Wednesday by the agency’s inspector general.
Lawyers with the General Services Administration (GSA) told investigators that “they ignored the emoluments issues” involved in determining whether the president’s election “caused Tenant to be in breach of the lease upon the President’s inauguration,” the report said.
The emoluments clause of the Constitution prohibits any federal office holder, including the president, from accepting any payment or benefit from a state or foreign government. For example, the hotel in Washington is frequently patronized by representatives of foreign governments while in the nation’s capital.
COMMENT:-
"We found no evidence of any impropriety." DOES sound a whole lot better than "We didn't look for any evidence of any impropriety and because we didn't look for any evidence of impropriety we didn't find any evidence of impropriety and because we didn't find any evidence of impropriety then there was no impropriety." doesn't it?
