Emoluments Clause.
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution,[1] that prohibits the federal government from granting titles of nobility, and restricts members of the government from receiving gifts, emoluments, offices or titles from foreign states and monarchies without the consent of the United States Congress. Also known as the Emoluments Clause, it was designed to shield the republican character of the United States against so-called "corrupting foreign influences."
This was NOT written for the President. It was written for members of the government.
As for Obama removing a gift, in order to comply with the Clause's prohibition on accepting presents from foreign governments, the President of the United States has traditionally sought permission from Congress to keep the present himself. Absent permission, the President will deposit the present with the Department of State. For example, Andrew Jackson sought permission from Congress to keep a gold medal presented by Simon Bolivar; Congress refused to grant consent, and so Jackson deposited the medal with the Department of State. Martin Van Buren and John Tyler received gifts from the Imam of Muscat, for which they received congressional authorization either to t***sfer them to the United States Government or to auction them with proceeds vesting to the United States Treasury.
A foreign official paying for a hotel room of a hotel owned by a United States President; is NOT a gift! Yet the profits from renting rooms to foreign dignitaries HAVE been donated to the United States
Treasury. So the question of whether or not profits are emoluments or not is moot!
What Obama audits? If you mean all the audits Obama had the IRS do on conservative groups, then are you wanting Trump to usurp the same authority to have left wing groups audited?
As for how much the Obama's spent in travels; they have never been audited for them. In fact the figures were only released after Judicial Watch freedom of information request was granted less than a year ago. His tab came to $99,714,527.82.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/final-obama-travel-tab-100-millionThe MSM usually counted Obama's travel expenses as just the actual costs for the family and leave out security costs, secret service food and rooms, costs of closing landmarks to the public, costs of rerouting traffic, and other peripheral expenses; while including all of the above for Trump.
BTW, Trump has been audited by the IRS several times. Whether his outspoken criticism of the Obama and G W Bush administrations, or his questioning of Obama's birthplace had anything to do with the audits I will leave for others to investigate. But that he WAS audited multiple times is not in question.
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