Sunday, January 7, 2024

GOP hypocrisy: Trump personal enrichment/Biden impeachment edition

 
Headline and subNew York Times, 1/4/2024 (highlight added)
Using documents produced through a court fight, the report describes how foreign governments and their controlled entities, including a top U.S. adversary, interacted with Trump businesses while he was president. They paid millions to the 
  • Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.; 
  • Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas; 
  • Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York; and 
  • Trump World Tower at 845 United Nations Plaza in New York. 
The Constitution prohibits federal officeholders from accepting money, payments or gifts “of any kind whatever” from foreign governments and monarchs unless they obtain “the consent of the Congress” to do so. The report notes that Mr. Trump never went to Congress to seek consent. 
House Democrats highlighted the transactions on Thursday as a counterweight to Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into Mr. Biden, which has sought to tie him to international business deals by his son Hunter Biden before his father became president in a bid to prove corruption or influence peddling. They have so far failed to show that President Biden was enriched in any way by any of those transactions.  [emphasis added]

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