President Trump reverses course amidst bipartisan criticism and announces the US will 'no longer consider' his Doral resort for next year's G7 summit.
Following widespread bipartisan criticism, President Donald Trump said Saturday his Doral resort in Florida would not host next year's Group of Seven summit of world leaders after all.
"Based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility, we will no longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami, as the Host Site for the G-7 in 2020," heThe president had been under fire for the choice,, because it could ultimately benefit him financially. Mulvaney said world leaders would be able to stay at his resort at cost.
But even pundits on Fox News, Trump's favored news outlet, criticized the move as a violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause, which forbids gifts of any kind to a president from foreign leaders. On Thursday former Judge Andrew Napolitano said on Fox News that the choice would entail"about as direct and profound a violation of the emoluments clause as one could create."Sign Up
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