Jack Goldsmith
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 10 Sep
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So you asked about the Constitution, and the main provision there is the Foreign Emoluments Clause.
And the Foreign Emoluments Clause says that no person holding an office of profit or trust can, without the consent of Congress, receive an emolument, a transaction involving profit or gain, financial gain, from a foreign state.
That's a paraphrase, but that's basically what it says.
That's
Well, there's no question of intent.
That's not a criminal prohibition.
It's just a constitutional prohibition.
The idea is that we don't want foreign states giving presidents presence, titles, and emoluments without Congress's consent, which would kind of clear the conflict.
And there's no intent requirement.
It's just a matter of whether it happened.
Now, while it seems to me clear that these transactions violate, and I hate to use this word, but I'm going to, the spirit of the Emoluments Clause, the aim of the Emoluments Clause,
There is a legal question about whether a private business receiving private transactions counts as an emolument.
I don't buy that argument, but it's just the point is it's not clear whether he has violated the emoluments clause.
So I think it should all be looked at because these corporations are so closely tied together and connected to Trump.
These are huge amounts of money going to the Trump family or the Trump businesses from a senior official, a national security official in the UAE, who is also running these companies.
And there are benefits going back the other way to the UAE.
I'm not suggesting quid pro quo.
I'm not suggesting a tie.
We don't have enough information yet.
But these all raise suspicions.
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