North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer excused Trump’s profiteering from the Oval Office, claiming it would be rude to be angry at him since he’s been successful in business.
Constitution’s Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses be damned.
The office of the presidency was not meant for profiteering.
Trump was a real estate developer, not a crypto billionaire, before he took office. He’s made billions off this new venture while holding the presidency, and everyone else who’s invested has lost money.
CRAMER: Because the Clarity Act is a little, you know, we did pass it out of the committee, as you know, out of the Banking Committee with Democratic votes. But even the Democrats that voted for it in committee won’t vote for it on the floor unless a couple things are straightened out.
One of them being some of the ethics language, which I think, by the way, Democrats are insisting on because, simply because Donald Trump’s the President.
Right.
And because he’s successful at business, which is bizarre to me.
I mean, if we punished every President who was successful at something and said they can’t legislate, if they’re a farmer like Jimmy Carter, they can’t sign a farm bill.
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