Two former government ethics experts have strongly condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to host the 2020 G-7 summit of world leaders at his own golf resort in Miami.
Richard Painter, the former chief ethics attorney for President George W. Bush, described Thursday’s announcement by acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney as “unacceptable.” Walter Shaub, the former head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, called it “the most overt corruption to date.”
“This is not only self-dealing, this is a violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution, which specifically provides that a person holding a position of trust with the U.S. government cannot accept any profits or benefits from foreign governments,” Painter told CNN’s Don Lemon on Thursday night.
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