REPORT: Trump Could Face Impeachment Over Foreign Diplomats Rushing To Stay At His DC Hotel [VIDEO]

Law Newz reports:



Steven Schooner, a law professor at George Washington University, raised serious legal concerns about Donald Trump and his ongoing interest in Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C., especially after a report in The Washington Post that said foreign diplomats felt pressure to stay there. He’s not the only legal expert to raise constitutional questions.

The Trump Organization entered into a contract with the General Services Administration to lease the Old Post Office pavilion, a 117-year old property, in order to open the hotel. The Office of Government Ethics apparently determined ethic rules preventing other federal employees from making money from their positions do not apply to the president. Schooner disagrees.

“The contract specifically says that no elected official of the United States government can share or benefit from the lease. It’s a 60 year lease with the GSA but the language is unequivocally clear, ” Schooner said, “GSA should end the contract.”

More troubling, Schooner also points to the Constitution’s “Emoluments Clause,” which says that “no person holding any office of profit or trust under” the United States “shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.” He says this could eventually be grounds for an “impeachment issue” for Donald Trump.