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Imagine if he wins the election and is flat broke. He'll auction off everything the US owns in exchange for a cut or finder's fee. And let's not pretend that the emoluments clause actually applies to any of elected leaders.
We don't have to imagine too hard here. The fact that he's even able to run for president again is a travesty of justice.
What makes it worst is that he'll get millions of people to vote for him
Tens of millions, even.
I think the reason it was such an issue with Trump is I can't think of another president that had the infrastructure (i.e. his hotels) to make revenue via emoluments.
Carter was a peanut farmer and those peanuts were sold internationally. He sold the farm before being elected so as not to be in violation of the emoluments clause.
Just setting the record straight. Carter put his farm in a blind trust. And I agree that Trump isn't fit to clean Carter's outhouse
Didn't W divest a bunch of stuff and setup a blind trust for the same reason. And if I'm remembering correctly didn't the peanut farm had been Carter's family for a while so he gave up something that meant something more than money.
Every president save Trump in modern times has had various assets and investments, and they have all put them in blind trusts during their terms.