Judges And Religious Leaders File To Revoke Liquor License For Trump’s DC Hotel Over “Egregious Conduct”

The BBC reports:

A hotel owned by US President Donald Trump should have its liquor license revoked, a group of religious leaders and judges say. The group filed a complaint to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board (ABC) saying the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC should lose its license due to Mr Trump’s “egregious conduct”.

Local laws say only people “of good character” can hold a liquor licence. The president, the complaint alleges, “is not a person of good character”. Former judges Joan Goldfrank and Henry Kennedy are among the signatories to the complaint, as are rabbis Jack Moline and Aaron Potek, and pastors Timothy Tee Boddie, Jennifer Butler and William Lamar IV.

While the group acknowledges investigations into a holder’s character typically occur before a licence is issued or when it is up for renewal, Mr Trump’s behaviour “necessitate the Board’s issuance of an order to show cause at this time”. “There is no statutory exception for the rich or the powerful,” the complaint reads, arguing that while Mr Trump may be president, “he is subject to the same good character requirement that applies to all other licensees”.

The complaint cites Trump’s “many outright racist comments” and the numerous allegations of sexual assault made against him.