{"id":42571,"date":"2019-08-27T11:57:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T18:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42571"},"modified":"2019-08-27T12:20:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T19:20:02","slug":"trump-fluffing-on-fox-news-hosts-promotes-bed-buggy-doral-resort-for-the-2020-g7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42571","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Fluffing on Fox News: Hosts Promote Bed-Buggy Doral Resort for the 2020 G7"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his closing remarks at the G7 summit in France, Donald Trump managed to deliver an infomercial for his Doral Miami Golf Resort to host the next G7 summit in 2020. It was a painfully self-serving spectacle that is also a likely violation of the Constitution. At the very least it’s a predictably Trumpy exhibit of greed and an utter lack of ethics.<\/p>\n

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Not surprisingly, Fox News weighed in on the idea the following morning. On Fox and Friends the “Curvy Couch”<\/em> potatoes did a segment (video below)<\/em> agreeing with Trump that Doral would be the perfect place for the summit. Even though there are thousands of hotels and conference centers across America that would be ideal for such an event. It’s just a weird coincidence that the site owned by Trump happens to be the best place of all. Who would have thought?<\/p>\n

The segment began with Steve Doocy introducing Trump’s sales pitch from France. And it was all downhill from there. Brian Kilmeade jumped in to insist that there was no favoritism involved because Trump “would want to do it there anyway. It’s just the perfect site … Trump Tower is not available.”<\/em> Then Doocy acknowledged the potential legal problems, but also provided an excuse:<\/p>\n

“Critics say the use of his property for official business violates the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. I’m sure the president has asked the lawyers, ‘Hey, how can I donate this, how can we possibly work around it?”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Emoluments Clause prohibits the President from accepting money, or anything of value, from foreign governments or persons. So if the representatives of the G7 had to actually pay Trump in order to attend the next summit, that’s a pretty obvious violation. Even if the site was donated, the publicity would have to be considered something of enormous value and, therefore, illegal. What’s more, Doocy is playing clairvoyant by surmising with certainty that Trump would have consulted his lawyers. You know, geniuses like Rudy Giuliani. But based on his past, that actually seems like the last thing Trump would do.<\/p>\n

Ainsley Earhardt also contributed to the unpaid advertisement by remarking that “It would be a beautiful place, though, for world leaders to go and see what our country looks like.”<\/em> Because all of America looks exactly like an elite golf spa in Miami? She then declared that Doral was “representative”<\/em> of the country, before adding that “I’ve never been to Doral.”<\/em> So in other words, she’s an expert, by Fox News standards.<\/p>\n

None of the Fox friends bothered to mention that Doral had a serious problem with bed bugs<\/a><\/strong> a couple of years ago. But Trump couldn’t resist bringing it up:<\/p>\n

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No bedbugs at Doral. The Radical Left Democrats, upon hearing that the perfectly located (for the next G-7) Doral National MIAMI was under consideration for the next G-7, spread that false and nasty rumor. Not nice!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n