'I hope we don't normalize that shameful behavior of a president plugging dozens and dozens of times, his properties.' RepDean on why Congress must 'make sure we have a President who is working for the good of the American people, and not himself.'
When Benjamin Franklin, the first US ambassador to France, was given a diamond-encrusted snuff box by the King, he followed the rules against"emoluments" to officials by foreign states and asked Congress if he could keep it. They said sure, and he did.
When President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize and got $1.4 million, he gave the money to charity.Those were official gifts given to officials.Less clear is whether the Trump Organization should have to ask Congress every time a foreign government wants to spend money at President Donald Trump's hotels.
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