A federal judge has allowed a lawsuit against President Trump to proceed, which is accusing him of flouting constitutional safeguards against corruption and illegally accepting gifts from foreign governments without congressional approval. On Wednesday, the Maryland judge ruled against the Justice Department’s request to throw out the case, which centers on the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. In his decision, the judge said the accusation that Trump is illegally accepting gifts from foreign governments is “bolstered by explicit statements from certain foreign government officials indicating that they are clearly choosing to stay at the president’s hotel, because, as one representative of a foreign government has stated, they want him to know ’I love your new hotel.”’
Lawsuit Accusing Trump of Illegally Accepting Gifts from Foreign Gov’ts to Move Forward
HeadlineMar 29, 2018
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