The president wants to host the next G-7 meeting at one of his resorts, writes editorial writer Scott Martelle. He also stands to gain from interest rate cuts he's demanding of the Fed. (via latimesopinion)
One of the odder elements of the recently concluded G-7 meetings in France came when the assembled world leaders took up plans for next year’s gathering, to be held in the United States.As in, the Trump National Doral Miami, a prime piece of resort property owned by the Trump Organization, the president’s family business from which, while he has sworn off any decision-making roles, he still profits.
So here we have a sitting president putting forward one of his business entities as the site for an international gathering of heads of state, with the usual entourage of hundreds of aides, journalists and security details.Emoluments violation? Or just basic self-dealing? This is serious stuff. The intersection of the public duties of the president and Trump’s selective blindness to his own conflicts of interest has been a problem from the get-go.
Remember that dog-and-pony show where he trotted out his accountant to talk about the papers Trump said he’d signed turning over control of the Trump Organization to his sons, with an ethics expert to watch over their shoulders? Or the family pledge not to engage in any foreign deals while Trump is president? That didn’t last long.the next G-7 meeting at one of his properties. But in France he was more specific and cited the Doral’s close proximity to the Miami airport as a selling point.But hey, El Segundo is close to an airport, too. It has hotels. How about Santa Ana? It has John Wayne Airport , and there’s a non-Trump hotel nearby on Upper Newport Bay.No bedbugs at Doral.
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