{"id":138027,"date":"2019-03-02T15:35:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T22:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138027"},"modified":"2019-03-02T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T22:35:11","slug":"being-president-for-fun-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/02\/being-president-for-fun-profit.html","title":{"rendered":"Being President for Fun &#038; Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, look &#8212; Donald is trying to use his official position to make money through one of his businesses. Again.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Very proud of perhaps the greatest golf course anywhere in the world. Also, furthers U.K. relationship! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3xTzzJH6Iq\">https:\/\/t.co\/3xTzzJH6Iq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1101837499230498816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Emoluments Clause? What <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/constitution\/#!\/articles\/1\/essays\/68\/emoluments-clause\">Emoluments Clause<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you want to know more?<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/432339-ethics-watchdogs-sound-alarm-over-trump-tweet-on-scotland-golf-course\">The Hill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, look &#8212; Donald is trying to use his official position to make money through one of his businesses. Again. Very proud of perhaps the greatest golf course anywhere in the world. Also, furthers U.K. relationship! https:\/\/t.co\/3xTzzJH6Iq &mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 2, 2019 Emoluments Clause? What Emoluments Clause? Do you want to know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/02\/being-president-for-fun-profit.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Being President for Fun &#038; Profit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[374,1071],"tags":[1765,1764,1077],"class_list":["post-138027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-money-politics","category-trump","tag-corruption","tag-emoluments","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/trumps-scotland-golf-course.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133671,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/13\/trump-has-a-third-emoluments-ethics-law-suit-filed-against-him.html","url_meta":{"origin":138027,"position":0},"title":"Trump has a third emoluments \/ ethics law suit filed against him","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Jun-17 10:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This one is from nearly 200 Democratic congresscritters, arguing that they have been unconstitutionally prevented from ruling whether Trump can accept various economic benefits from foreign governments. 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