Discussion: Trump’s DC Hotel Is Weeks Away From Violating Its Government Lease

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Obviously the quickest way to end this conflict of interest is to just give the property to the current lessee, but first make it tax exempt LOL!

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Some fig leaf will be concocted to justify Trump’s connection to the hotel. He’ll not be forced to change a damn thing. He’ll get the revenue. His name will stay on all the stationary. He’ll continue to use it for whatever purpose he pleases. Trump is King, and we all are merely allowed to exist in his world, at his behest. The government will fold up like a cheap suit.

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The obvious question is: “what if Trump ignores the problem?” Sure, GSA could break the contract and lease the hotel to someone else not associated with Trump. But, as the article points out, if that isn’t done before Inauguration it’s not clear it will be done at all. It’s also not clear that ignoring the contract is an impeachable offense (is it a high crime or misdemeanor?). Of course, that criterion didn’t stop the Repubs for impeaching Clinton, though (and also of course) he wasn’t convicted almost precisely on that ground.

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You think anything is going to derail Trump’s sweetheart deal?

Not. Gonna. Happen.

IOKIYAR is back in full force. Trump will still continue to make a mint from his hotel, they will just ignore that little clause in the contract and there is nobody in DC who will enforce it.

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So. Effing. What? Why thinks Trump (or his soon-to-be-appointed GSA head) is going to pay any attention to a lease with the Effing District of Columbia?

Y’all need to get over the old fashioned notion that laws and regulations and stuff like that matter any more. Trump will do as he pleases, and who the hell is there to say nay?

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The PresidenT cannoT be held to The terMs oF any LeaSe thaT he doesn’t Read. It is in the Constitution.

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He’ll just sell it (the lease) outright to Ivanka and Jared. Once HO’s finished trashing the White House–and the country–they’ll “sell it back.”

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It’s not the hotel that will be violating the conflict-of-interest law, it’s Drumpf himself.

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy.

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I don’t think so—not because such a strategy might work, or on the contrary that people would find it objectionable—but because Trump doesn’t admit error. He bulls his way through everything.

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Sshhh … he hasn’t read the Constitution either, so he doesn’t know it’s in there.

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So Trump went on an overnight tweet storm on CNN and then says people that burn the flag should lose their citizenship. Then I’m watching MSNBC and Kevin McCarthy is on saying words. Is he retarded?

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I wish everyone would get this right…Trump is not about to violate the conflict of interest law- he’s about to violate the United States Constitution. The conflict of interest that everyone talks about is actually embedded in the Constitution and not the law. The second a foreign diplomat or someone with connections to a foreign business or government (even if they are domestic) stays at one of his buildings, he violates the Constitution.

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I guess you’re not joking… but if you are, that’s bad!!!

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Good luck with that.

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Either way, I hope the press hounds him and his people – and I hope the government’s career attorneys in the GSA (or whichever department would/could handle it) doesn’t rest until the matter is resolved according to the contract he signed.

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Wait until his plans for remaking DC are revealed

http://cdn29.elitedaily.com/content/uploads/2015/07/28115530/trump-dick-monument.jpg

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“ACCURATE SCALE REPLICA. THE ORIGINAL is 10X”
will go on the plaque.

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I wonder about that. Certainly there are many legal maneuvers to get around technically violating the various laws and Constitutional bans on benefiting personally from outside interests while in office. Why couldn’t the businesses that Trump has an interest in place whatever revenues were due to flow to him personally in the form of wages, bonuses, etc. after expenses and taxes into an escrow account, sealed and held, unavailable to him until after he left office? Until funds are disbursed to him he hasn’t realized the income. Trump could even go the extra mile and have the fund put in a blind trust. Only that fund, not all his business operations. That way he could claim to not personally know to what extent he was profiting from his enterprises, nor have access to his personal share of the fruits of his non-governmental labor.

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Too big.

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