A group called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington claims President Trump is violating a little-known constitutional provision called " the Emoluments Clause." Today, 350 years later, the president of the United States is receiving payments from foreign countries. Secret money from foreign countries was a repeat topic, with the framers wary of the “melancholy picture” of foreign intrusions and intrigues. The foreign emoluments clause prohibits federal officers from accepting foreign “gifts,” “emoluments” and “titles of nobility” without congressional consent. [President Trump leases his D.C. hotel from a government agency he’s now in charge of]Even Trump will, on occasion, acknowledge the seeds of a problem.

Source: Washington Post January 26, 2017 11:11 UTC