Chaffetz, Cummings Ask Trump Org. For More Details On Plan To Donate Profits
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ESME CRIBB Published APRIL 22, 2017, 3:21 PM EDT
The chair and ranking member of the House Oversight Committee on Friday asked the Trump Organization to explain its plans to donate profits from payments made by officials of foreign governments.
In a joint letter to Trumps attorneys, Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Elijah Cummings (D-MD) asked for additional details of the plan to donate profits derived from foreign government payments.
Chaffetz in January seemed unconcerned with the possibility that Trump might run afoul of the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, under which no person holding any office of profit or trust may accept of any present, emolument, office, or title from a foreign leader or government without the consent of Congress. Im not going to go on this fishing expedition that they want me to, that the Democrats want me to, he said.
In their letter Friday, Chaffetz and Cummings asked the Trump Organization to provide further documents by May 12 and schedule a briefing with the committee a week later.
Read the letter:
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chaffetz-cummings-ask-trump-organization-details-plans-donating-profits
JudyM
(29,271 posts)They'll be looking at him and Ivanka next.
I wonder if her competitors for the Chinese retail market have standing in the US to bring a suit against her company...
duncang
(1,907 posts)Not going on a "fishing expedition" unless its a democrat. Spent how much time deep sea fishing with Hillary? But a Repub can't do wrong.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)January and April 22 that convinced him to get out his pole and tackle box and "go on this fishing expedition that they want me to, that the Democrats want me to,? - very interesting, the timing of this expedition, sez I -
Thanks for posting!
alwaysinflux
(149 posts)...he's leaving soon ... he wants to go out in a blaze of glory by holding the Trump team accountable just before they get indicted... wishful thinking.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)of his not running again, and maybe this
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028962875#post72
...but as usual, I know nothing, really, and will stay tuned, along with the rest of us!
But hey, you know, if he wants to give team trump traitors a hard time before the indictments start flowing, well then, blaze on, bro Jason!
Snarkoleptic
(6,001 posts)The biggest donor by far to Trump's inauguration was Sheldon Adelson, casino magnate and founder of Las Vegas Sands (lvs, -0.68%). He gave $5 million, according to the 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee's filing with the Federal Election Commission. Adelson declined comment.
Many of the companies that donated to Trump, a Republican, have significant matters pending before the U.S. government or have been invited to White House events.
red dog 1
(27,845 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)and less than half the crowd
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I'd like to see Chaffetz go on a real "fishing expedition" and fall overboard.
(and then be rescued by a passing boat full of Democrats)
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)Don't people usually lose their jobs for that?
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)If we paid Congressmen on a piecework basis, we'd get a hell of a lot more out of them. There'd have to be a scale - post office naming bills pay $25, tax-cut and anti-abortion bills are classified as hobby work and don't pay anything, sponsorship of bills pays more than cosponsorship, presiding over judge appointment hearings pays the same as sponsorship, and the member has to turn the money back in if one of his bills was overturned by the Supreme Court within five years of its passage.