Noah Bookbinder: Why does the House report on the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., matter? It was the epicenter of Trump’s graft. - NBCNewsTHINK
This week, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure issued a report finding that the General Services Administration completely failed.
, which prohibit a president from taking payments or benefits from foreign and domestic governments. It never looked into whether his reimbursements to the government for foreign government expenditures at the hotel were accurate or whether loans for the hotel created conflicts of interest. Trump political appointees at GSA even made decisions affecting the financial interest of Trump’s properties, which was predictable, with Trump essentially serving as landlord and tenant.
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., the committee's chairman, told NBC News the report “brings to light GSA’s flagrant mismanagement of the Old Post Office lease and its attempt to duck its responsibility to support and defend the U.S. Constitution’s emoluments clauses.” Here’s why this matters: The hotel was the epicenter of Trump’s graft. Anyone looking to curry favor with his administration could simply walk over to his namesake hotel a couple blocks from the White House and flash cash.
On issues from taxes to environmental regulation to foreign policy, we never knew whether Trump’s administration was making decisions in the interest of the American people or in the interest of his bottom line. When Trump refused to take any action after Saudi Arabian agents brutally murdered a U.S.-based journalist, did it have anything to do with
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