Watchdog: GSA ignored clause of Constitution on gifts with Trump hotel lease

WASHINGTON — The General Services Administration improperly "ignored" the U.S. Constitution's emoluments provision outlawing foreign gifts when it green-lit President Donald Trump's management of his Washington, D.C., hotel after his 2016 election, the agency's inspector general said Wednesday.

In a 47-page report, GSA watchdog Carol F. Ochoa concluded that the "president's business interest" in the Trump International Hotel at the Old Post Office building site in Washington raised emoluments issues that "might cause a breach of lease."

http://www.startribune.com/watchdog-gsa-ignored-emoluments-in-oking-trump-hotel-lease/504446522/