Foreign government leases at Trump World Tower stir more emoluments concerns
WASHINGTON - The U.S. State Department allowed seven foreign governments to rent luxury condominiums in New York's Trump World Tower in 2017 without approval from Congress, according to documents and people familiar with the leases, in what some experts say could be a potential violation of the U.S. Constitution's emoluments clause.
"This new information raises serious questions about the President and his businesses' potential receipt of payments from foreign governments," Cummings said in a statement to Reuters."The American public deserves full transparency." The 1982 Foreign Missions Act requires foreign governments to get State Department clearance for any purchase, lease, sale, or other use of a property in the United States. Through the Freedom of Information Act, Reuters obtained diplomatic notes sent to the agency under this requirement from early 2015 until late 2017.
"Letting this go without Congress knowing about it condones the creation of a second, opaque track of foreign policy," said Harold Hongju Koh, a professor at Yale Law School and former legal adviser at the State Department."What it might lead to is a group of countries enriching the people in power on the mistaken belief that it's going to improve their access.
Reuters was unable to determine exactly how the owners who leased the units to the foreign governments paid their fees. However, South Texas College of Law professor Josh Blackman said that foreign government payments that enrich a U.S. official should only constitute emoluments if they are"tied to the discharge of official duties." He has filed briefs in each emoluments lawsuit against Trump endorsing this view.
On Tuesday, a U.S. federal judge denied Trump's motion to dismiss one of the emoluments lawsuits against him, saying Trump's narrow definition of emoluments was"unpersuasive and inconsistent". Courts may ultimately decide whether some of Trump's business dealings violate the Constitution. In 2017, the median monthly asking rent for units in Trump World Tower was $8,500, according to real estate website StreetEasy. That was more than 2.5 times the median in the surrounding neighborhood, known as Turtle Bay.
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