{"id":20878,"date":"2017-04-08T14:25:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T14:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20878"},"modified":"2017-04-08T14:26:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T14:26:51","slug":"trump-feathering-his-own-next-as-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20878","title":{"rendered":"Trump feathering his own nest as POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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CNN just ran one of those “crawls” across the screen that noted the following: Donald Trump is spending his 10th consecutive weekend at a property that has his name plastered all over it.<\/p>\n

The president greeted China’s president at Mar-A-Lago in south Florida. He ventured to one of the golf resorts that has the Trump name on it.<\/p>\n

He’s been doing this repeatedly since becoming president of the United States on Jan. 20.<\/p>\n

I know what the emoluments clause in the U.S. Constitution says about how presidents cannot take money from foreign governments. I also know that the president hasn’t divested himself of his many business interests, such as those ritzy resorts, hotels and such.<\/p>\n

My question rests, finally, with this: Is the president fattening his own bank account when he visits these properties while attracting potential business to them?<\/p>\n

Public vs. private interests have this way of conflicting with each other … or so one might believe.<\/p>\n\n

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CNN just ran one of those “crawls” across the screen that noted the following: Donald Trump is spending his 10th consecutive weekend at a property that has his name plastered all over it. The president greeted China’s president at Mar-A-Lago in south Florida. He ventured to one of the golf resorts that has the Trump … Continue reading Trump feathering his own nest as POTUS<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1043,1424,6714,5043],"class_list":["post-20878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-emoluments-clause","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20880,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20878\/revisions\/20880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}