In three years in the White House, Donald Trump has accomplished something no president before him has done: fusing his private business interests with America’s highest public office
He has spent one out of every three days as president visiting one of his luxury resorts, hotels or golf courses. He has leveraged his powerful international platform to promote his developments dozens of times. And he has directed millions of dollars from U.S. taxpayers to his businesses around the globe.
"This president has a habit of doing things out in the open, which are completely improper or even illegal and somehow ... the average person thinks, ‘Well, if he’s doing it out in the open it must be OK.'"The White House and the Trump Organization didn’t respond to requests for comment. “President Trump is openly enriching himself by encouraging government entities to spend money at his businesses, and foreign entities appear to frequent his business to curry favor with this administration,” said House Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney . “President Trump must be held accountable for his blatant disregard for the Constitution.”
Trump has responded to repeated criticism by denying he is using the presidency to boost spending at his resorts, insisting people frequent them because “they’re the best” and calling the emoluments clause ““It’s not a big deal — you people are making it a big deal,” he told reporters in December 2016. Trump joined others in his administration who argued that voters don’t care. “They all knew I had big business all over the place.
He regularly visits his golf course in Sterling, Va., just outside Washington, and also travels to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., in the winter and to Bedminster, N.J., in the summer. On Friday, Trump left for Mar-a-Lago, where he held a closed Republican fundraiser, and returned to Washington on Sunday night.at some of the resorts he visited in 2018, according to his most recent personal financial disclosure forms.
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