>> In yet another example of violations of the Emoluments Clause, Donald Trump has announced
that the next G7 summit will take place at one of his resorts.
It'll take place at the Doral Golf Resort, which has faced some financial issues recently.
Now, several on air hosts over at Fox were not too happy about this, so they've spoken
out against it.
But first, I wanna go to Mick Mulvaney, who recently had a press conference and admitted
that Donald Trump's phone conversation with Ukrainian president did involve quid pro quo.
He later walked that back when he realized it was probably a bad idea to admit that the
president's a criminal.
But nonetheless, let's focus on Doral.
Here he is responding to a question about it, take a look.
>> Can you at least understand and acknowledge that the just the appearance of impropriety
makes this wince inducing and maybe this is something that you wanna reconsider how that
conversation got on the wrong.
>> Yeah, but the president knows that.
Listen, the president, we know the environment we live in, you all know the environment that
we live in, and he knows exactly that he's gonna get these questions and exactly get
that reaction from a lot of people.
And he's simply saying, okay, that's fine, I'm willing to take that.
The same way he takes it when he goes to Trump's Mar-a-Lago, the same place where he goes to
play Trump Bedminster.
He got over that a long time ago.
We absolutely believe this is the best place to have it.
We're gonna have it there.
And there's gonna be folks who will never get over the fact that it's a Trump property.
We get that, but we're still gonna go there.
>> Unreal.
>> Yeah, it's just, this is, look, you're talking about foreign leaders coming to a
Trump property that he's making money off of, and they're gonna spend money, their governments
are gonna spend money on that property.
I mean, this is a clear violation of the Emoluments Clause.
And this isn't just me someone on the left making this argument, you have people on the
right including people at Fox News of all places, multiple people at Fox News are like,
what are you doing, bro?
This is a bad idea.
>> So we're gonna get to those, there's three different hosts of Fox News going, what?
Okay, but look, this is another level.
So Trump encourages people to go stay in his properties inside the country, that's already
bad.
That's like a giant conflict of interest.
And then foreign governments will come and stay at his hotel to curry favor with him.
Sometimes they'll take a huge number of rooms and not even use them.
Okay, that's already horrible and a potential violation of the Emoluments Clause.
But this where he says, no foreign leaders must stay at my properties and pay me money,
it's literally in the Constitution.
There's not a lot of things in the Constitution that says the president cannot do this, right?
This is one of them.
It says the president cannot ask for gifts from a foreign government or any kind of compensation
from a foreign government.
That's exactly what he's doing here.
It's the most brazen violation of the Constitution I have ever seen.
Cuz this part is so specific, it is so clear, and he's clearly violating it.
In a little bit I'll get to why it's insane to have it at Doral in the first place.
>> I sometimes wonder why I'm here on the panel because literally everything Cenk said
I was all stoked to tell you.
First of which is, this isn't the optional money of Trump.
This is the forcing of revenue toward Trump.
This is saying no, this is where the G7 is meeting, you guys are gonna spend money here.
So again, as Cenk just pointed out, and look, Trump is all about money in himself.
He does everything but wear like one of those NASCAR jackets with endorsement stuff on it.
He is unbelievable when it comes to perpetuating the Trump brand worldwide.
And also the point I was gonna make is that we've learned that many stay at the Trump
properties or buy out a bunch of rooms and then only a small percentage of the rooms
are used.
So yeah, everybody worldwide is hipped to the fact that this is the way you curry favor
with Donald Trump.
But this is another level I would add one other thing that hasn't been said and that's
this, Mulvaney you see there doing something that this administration and the GOP do so
well.
And that is, yeah, so what?
Yeah, they lean in.
And this is a remarkable fact, this is clearly an Emoluments violation.
It's self-dealing, it's reprehensible just even if there weren't an Emoluments Clause,
it's just what are you doing?
Even the appearance gives you the creeps that said, they lean into it, and that's what the
GOP does.
>> Of course, yeah, who has really held him accountable specifically for these types of
violations, right?
Violations where he is enriching himself, no one, no one.
So every single time Democrats want to do an investigation into Donald Trump's behavior,
it's not about financial crimes.
It's not about his abuse of power to enrich himself or the corruption.
It's usually about conversations he's had with foreign governments.
Now, I think those investigations are important, and I'm glad that they're moving forward with
this impeachment investigation in regard to his demands that both Ukraine and China look
into his political rivals.
But they should also look into how he's used his position of power to enrich himself.
How he's violated our Constitution.
The GOP, I have no hope for the GOP, the only time the GOP is gonna do something is if it's
actually gonna benefit their political careers, right?
>> Yeah, they have to be on the precipice of losing a significant number of seats in
the Senate before they actually act against Donald Trump.
So even when they do, you should give them no credit whatsoever.
>> Exactly.
>> Because that just means they thought, I'm about to lose, and that's why I'm acting.
Here it's brazen, is violations of a kind, I've never seen anything like this.
And they know what Mitch McConnell and every Republican senator knows, this is clearly
unconstitutional.
These are the guys who claim they care about the Constitution.
A lot of them like Ted Cruz calls themselves constitutionalists.
You don't have to be a constitutionalist to know that this is deeply unconstitutional.
And yet, where are you, Ted?
Where are you?
Nowhere, so it's not just Donald Trump breaking the law and violating the Constitution.
It's the entire Republican Party that is backing him up that is responsible for this.
>> Yes.
>> Now, I gotta tell you two more things about that.
One, I actually had a debate on the conversation with a writer for the Nation.
Cuz he thought one of the things they should emphasize in impeachment was Emoluments Clause.
And I said, look, I hear you, he's definitely violated it, but it's gonna be a little hard
to prove, because the Saudis could say, no, I just wanted to get 100 rooms and then I
changed my mind and only used two, right?
And so it's a little hard to prove.
Well, he was right, because now it's over.
It's not hard to prove it all.
He just made foreign governments give him money at his properties.
I mean it's textbook, you're literally, if you're a prosecutor and you got this, you're
like, how did I get so lucky?
This is the easiest case in the world.
There's no question about it, zero percent uncertainty.
So now Emoluments Clause should definitely be a part of impeachment.
And then he says no, no, I picked it cuz it was the perfect place.
It's June in Miami.
>> And it's had financial issues, he chose it cuz it has financial issues.
>> No question.
>> Yeah.
>> It's gotta help, it's been health code violations, it's been cited a bunch of times
by various regulators.
The places is a hornet's nest of trouble.
But yeah, he needs the money, that's what's going on.
And just the last thing, he's forced, but these are not foreign governments, which is
why technically may not be an emoluments, like it's just a self enrichment thing.
He's forced, as you know the American military to stay at his places overseas.
And he's forced that whole Pinson crew to stay at his place, I think was over 100 miles
from where the actual meeting was going on.
So, look, he's forcing a lot of taxpayer money into Trump pockets.
But yeah, this is the emoluments violation in spades.
>> Yeah.
>> In June Doral only has an accuracy rate of 38%, you know why?
Cuz it's June in Miami, nobody wants to go to Miami and deal with the heat and humidity
in June.
That's why he's desperate to get people to go there.
And yes, you're right Mark, it had bedbugs, it's had health problems.
Some of the foreign governments, is such a poor location they might not even show up.
They gotta go to G7, but they might be like, you picked Miami in a place with bedbugs,
and now I gotta go there?
So my point there is, instead of being the perfect place, it's actually the worst place
to hold the G7 meeting.
And he did it anyway, just to enrich himself.