.MaddowBlog: House Minority Leader McCarthy tries, fails to defend Pres. Trump profiting from presidency.
It’s been a rough couple of weeks for those concerned with Donald Trump trying to profit from his own presidency. Between the Republican’s efforts to bring a G-7 summit to his struggling business in Miami, Trump’s “suggestion” that Vice President Mike Pence stay at his struggling business in Ireland, and the controversy surrounding military support for his struggling business in Scotland, the circumstances look like an ethics lawyer’s nightmare.
At a Capitol Hill press conference yesterday, a reporter asked House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy , a close White House ally, if “the federal government should be spending money at the president’s resorts, especially when he is not staying at them.” According to CQ Newsmaker Transcripts, this was the GOP leader’s response:
“Is it different than if I go and stay or eat at a Marriott here or eat at the Trump? The president isn’t asking me to. He’s competing in a private enterprise. It’s nothing, something that he controls in that process.” It invites corruption when anyone – from foreign officials to domestic lobbyists to domestic elected officials – can try to curry favor with a sitting president by opening their wallets at a property he owns.
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