Trump announced his decision not to use his financially troubled Trump National Doral resort in a string of tweets, blaming the news media and Democrats. “As usual, the Hostile Media & their Democrat Partners went CRAZY!” Trump wrote. Federal law also prohibits federal “officers” and employees from giving themselves federal contracts. Trump’s staff has continued to repeat that false claim, and in fact used it to argue that Trump really could not benefit from holding the G-7 at Doral. “The president has no involvement in the Trump Organization anymore,” White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham told HuffPost on Friday.

Source: Huffington Post October 20, 2019 02:18 UTC