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A year into his presidency, Trump is breaking one of his big ethics pledges

The following article by Melanie Schmitz was posted on the ThinkProgress website January 22, 2018:

A year into his presidency, no payments have been made.

WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 10: The Trump International Hotel is shown on August 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. The hotel, located blocks from the White House, has become both a tourist attraction in the nation’s capital and also a symbol of President Trump’s intermingling of business and politics. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

An Associated Press report on Monday showed that despite President Trump’s pledge to donate all profits his hotels received from foreign governments, his business has not yet made a single payment to the U.S. Treasury.

In 2017, the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. hosted several events entertaining groups from Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and Kuwait, as well as another promoting business between the United States and Turkey. The initial deadline to make a donation of those profits was set for the end of last year, but the deadline came and went with no payout. Continue reading “A year into his presidency, Trump is breaking one of his big ethics pledges”

Trump gala at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday night again rents a ballroom from Trump

The following article by David A. Fahrenthold was posted on the Washington Post website January 20, 2018:

Mar-a-Lago isn’t just Trump’s vacation spot; it’s his second White House (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post)

PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump’s posh Mar-a-Lago Club was set to host a high-priced gala on Saturday night intended to celebrate Trump’s first year in office and raise money for his reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee.

Tickets started at $100,000 per couple, Bloomberg News reported. Continue reading “Trump gala at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday night again rents a ballroom from Trump”

Trump Declines to Release List of His Mar-a-Lago Visitors

The following article by Eric Lipton was posted on the New York Times website September 15, 2017:

President Trump visited his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida for 25 days between his inauguration and the middle of May. Credit: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday escalated a battle with government ethics groups by declining to release the identities of individuals visiting with President Trump at his family’s Mar-a-Lago resort during the days he has spent at the private club in Palm Beach, Fla., this year.

The surprising move by the Department of Justice, which had been ordered in July by a federal court to complete its review of Mar-a-Lago visitor records, came after weeks of promotion by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the liberal nonprofit group known as CREW, that it would soon be getting the Mar-a-Lago visitors logs.

Instead, on Friday the Justice Department released a State Department list of just 22 names — all of them members of the delegation of the Japanese prime minister — who visited the club in February for a meeting with President Trump. Continue reading “Trump Declines to Release List of His Mar-a-Lago Visitors”