A group of House Democrats allege that former President Donald Trump unconstitutionally enriched himself by charging inflated room rates at his Washington hotel to government officials and visitors, violating the emoluments clause.
Donald Trump leveraged the then-Trump International Hotel in Washington to unconstitutionally add to his $400,000 a year salary during his term as president, according to a group of House Democrats., Democrats on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee said Trump had likely violated the U.S. Constitution’s ban on emoluments, compensation outside of the president’s ordinary pay and benefits.
Trump’s company later sold the hotel, which became the Waldorf Astoria Washington, D.C., part of the Hilton group of hotels. The U.S. Supreme Court declared court cases about whether Trump had accepted foreign emoluments moot after Trump left the White House in 2021. The report said the Trump hotel charged the Secret Service well above the government-mandated maximums often when its personnel stayed there to protect Trump, his family or foreign dignitaries. The Secret Service was treated like “a fabulously wealthy sucker for whom price was no object, and an ATM to fill empty rooms,” the report said.
The rooms were also sometimes rented out at rates well above those paid by foreign leaders. That same night, the hotel charged rooms to members of the entourage of the royal family of Qatar at rates between $280 and $490, while it was charging the Secret Service $895.“In such instances, President Trump was fleecing the U.S.
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