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The Chamber's judicial democrats sent a letter to the Attorney General Pam Bondi and to the White House Council requesting documents and information related to Trump's decision to accept an Qatar plane.
Democrats wrote:
It seems that your two offices help the determination of President Trump to display this blatant violation of the Constitution by burying his corrupt acceptance of this unprecedented “gift” in a fog of verbiage. According to a media report, the office of the White House Council and the Ministry of Justice (MJ) “wrote an analysis by the defense secretary Pete Hegseth concluding that [it] is legal for the Ministry of Defense to accept the plane as a gift and transmit it later to the Trump Library, and that it does not violate the laws against corruption or the prohibition of the Constitution (the emoluments clause) of any American civil servant accepting the gifts of all `King, Prince or Foreign State. ''.
This same report also said: “That the Attorney General Pam Bondi and Trump's best White House, 1awyer David Warrington, concluded that he would be legally authorized '' so that the donation of the plane was conditioned on the transfer of his property to the Trump's presidential library before the end of his mandate, according to familiar sources with their determination.”
The Constitution is clear: Congress – not the Attorney General or the White House Council – has the exclusive authority to approve or reject a “of all kind” gift to the president by a foreign government. We would also notice that, even if the Attorney General had a constitutional role to play here, the Attorney General Bondi has a significant and obvious conflict of interest given his preliminary registration as an official agent of the Qatari government and won no less than $ 115,000 per month by pressure on his behalf.
The clause of foreign emoluments guarantees that when the president and other representatives of the government take measures, it is because they believe that it is in the best interests of the United States and not that of a foreign government. President George Washington eloquence this concern in his farewell speech of 1796, writing that “[a]Win the insidious tricks of foreign influence (I talk to you to believe me, in his colleagues-citizens) the jealousy of a free people should be constantly awake, since the history and the experience of foreign influence is one of the most dazzling enemies of the republican government. “”