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Trump Caves! Cancels G-7 Meeting At Miami Resort
Donald Trump cancelled his highly touted plan to host the 2020 Group of 7 Meeting at his Doral Golf Resort in Miami less than forty-eight hours after acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney announced that Doral was, “by far and away — far and away — the best physical facility for this meeting. In fact, declared Mulvaney, “it’s almost like they built this facility to host this type of event.”
After coming under withering criticism for this all too brazen display of graft and greed, Trump finally gainsaid his acting chief just last night in the midst of an ever-rising crescendo of criticism. In proposing to host the international summit — at government expense — at his privately owned and operated Miami resort, Trump has been widely accused of a very special and Constitutionally prohibited type of self-dealing: using his high office to enrich himself personally and soliciting and accepting “things” of value from foreign entities — clear violations of both the domestic and foreign “emoluments clauses” of the Constitution. This scale and the frequency of Trump’s and many of his closest advisers’ open and obvious fraud and generalized corruption have not been seen since The Gilded Age of the late 19th century.
‘‘Based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility,” Trump tweeted, “we will no longer consider Trump National Doral…
