Days before taking office, Donald Trump said his company would donate all profits from foreign governments to the U.S. Treasury, part of an effort to avoid even the appearance of a conflict with the Constitution's emoluments clause.

Now, however, the Trump Organization is telling Congress that determining exactly how much of its profits come from foreign governments is simply more trouble than it's worth.

In response to a document request from the House Oversight Committee, Trump's company sent a copy of an eight-page pamphlet detailing how it plans to track payments it receives from foreign governments at the firm's many hotels, golf courses, and restaurants across the globe. But while the Trump Organization said it would set aside all money it collects from customers that identify themselves as representing a foreign government, it would not undertake a more intensive effort to determine if a payment would violate the Constitution's prohibition on public office holders accepting an "emolument" from a foreign state.

"To fully and completely identify all patronage at our Properties by customer type is impractical in the service industry and putting forth a policy that requires all guests to identify themselves would impede upon personal privacy and diminish the guest experience of our brand," the Trump Organization wrote in its policy pamphlet, which the company's chief compliance officer said had been distributed to general managers and senior officials at all of its properties."

The Atlantic

The President has refused to comply with the constitution.


-------------------------
"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

A restaurant is a foreign state?

-------------------------
Romans 8;18-32 John 3;16-18

Did you hurt your neck overlooking all of the easy examples?

-------------------------

"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

After Flynn is in jail we'll come back to these emoluments issues.

-------------------------
Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".

That pesky ol constitution and emoluments clause aint goin away lil donnie.
The wheels and gears of the American form of democracy are now in gear and grinding away folks, however slowly.
He can dodge and spin and bloviate all he wants. He's offended and made enemies of many of the most powerful and dangerous people in the world. The collective and institutional memory in this case is simply not going away

-------------------------
It's a democratic hoax

Huh, I dunno, they don't seem like criminals to me.

Kleptocracy? Mafia State? What's the right word?

I think it's getting pretty clear that this is going to go down in history as America's darkest era. Or last era. The bad faith just keeps piling up.

Wait till his taxes get leaked and he has to say that he had no loans from Russia because all of his loans were from individuals who may or may not have been Russians.

-------------------------

"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Trump and his team simply don't give a shit.

Fck the Constitution, we are making money.

-------------------------
I was right.

I'd like to point out one thing.

My friend the professor of modern Italian history says Mussolini took autocratic power just as it looked like he was politically ruined. It makes sense if you think about what would cause someone to pull out all the stops. Trump may do the same very soon.

Let's keep the pressure on until Ill Douche is in a million tiny pieces. Hasta la vista baby.