“This is not a jest: It is blatant and corrupt self-dealing by the president,” it wrote, adding that if hosting the summit at the president’s resort did not violate the Constitution’s emoluments clause “then nothing does.”
“At the start of his term, Mr. Trump promised to insulate himself from the business operations from which he would continue to profit,” the board concluded the piece. “Now he is doing just the opposite: using his office to drive millions of dollars in revenue to a faltering property that is a critical component of his company’s portfolio. Will Congress really tolerate such crude corruption? It shouldn’t.”
