Presidential Conflicts of Interest

[Benton]

(11-29-2016, 06:22 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I forgot to add, that if a foreign government pays for the use of one of his properties, it could also be potentially unconstitutional thanks to Article 1, Section 9, which prevents foreign emoluments for all elected officials. Congress can provide permission for those, however. But there is no such stipulation for Congress to approve the emoluments from the federal or state governments.

I thought that pertained to granting of titles or gifts from foreign countries?

It may be in there, but it's one of those things that hasn't been practiced in a while. Presidents (or other federal agents) weren't supposed to accept gifts from other countries, but it's happened going back to at least the 1800s. Gift giving, I'm not so sure how our presidents stack up. Trump will probably be the first president to give Russia anything, like, say, America.