InstaPundit
Glenn Reynolds
May 15, 2018
Obama ethics chief accuses Trump of violating emoluments clause: ‘See you in court Mr. Trump.’
Leaving aside the standing issue, there’s a strong argument that the emoluments clause doesn’t cover the President, and also no reason to think that business income is an “emolument†anyway.
None of which is to say that the Indonesia deal isn’t sleazy — it might be, or it might not be, but it’s not an emoluments clause violation, and that fact that Trump critics are focusing on the emoluments issue suggests to me that there’s not much else there. According to the NYT story, the scandal is that a Chinese concern is building a theme park next door to a “Trump-branded hotel†that isn’t actually owned by Trump:
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