Hôtel Trump de Washington D.C.: ça se complique devant les tribunaux

On avait un peu oublié cette poursuite, mais l'État du Maryland et le District of Columbia poursuivent toujours la propriété de Donald Trump parce qu'elle contrevient à leurs yeux à la clause des émoluments. Les procureurs demandent maintenant des informations sur d'autres entités de la Trump Organization. Qui verse de l'argent? Pour quels motifs? Parions que le clan Trump n'apprécie guère mais que l'équipe d'enquêteurs de Robert Mueller n'est pas très loin... Les procédures pourraient être encore très longues, mais j'ai hâte de voir comment on tranchera à la fin. Il me semble que ce cas correspond à ce que les rédacteurs de la constitution avaient en tête en inscrivant la clause des émoluments.

 "Since Trump won the 2016 election, his hotel in Washington has hosted events put on by the embassies of Kuwait, Bahrain and the Phillippines – all U.S. allies. The Saudi government spent at least $270,000 to reserve hotel rooms and banquet rooms at the D.C. hotel, according to foreign lobbying records. And at Trump’s hotel in New York, the general manager credited travelers accompanying the Saudi Crown prince for spending so much money this spring, they helped the whole hotel turn a profit for the quarter.

But those transactions, which were discovered by reporters, may not be the only ones. Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump White House have provided any comprehensive accounting of which foreign governments have paid money to the president’s businesses – and, by extension, to the president who still owns them. Nor have they said what these countries paid for, which might address concerns that they might be over-paying for services to curry favor with Trump.

Now, after nearly two years of litigating, the attorneys general have filed formal requests for this data. Their argument: The Constitution’s emoluments clause was designed to prevent the public from being left to wonder if the president had unseen business relationships with foreign powers."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/attorneys-general-issue-subpoenas-to-trump-entities-in-dc-hotel-case/2018/12/04/29e13dc0-f4db-11e8-bc79-68604ed88993_story.html?utm_term=.1721b70831af