D.C. Restaurant Sues Trump, Claiming 'Unfair' Competition

[struggle4progress]

March 9, 20176:03 PM ET
PETER OVERBY

... Gross and Pitts say that their restaurant is losing business to the hotel restaurant run by the Trump Organization, which is owned by President Trump. So they're suing him and his hotel ...

Pitts and Gross were joined by a platoon of lawyers to announce the lawsuit filed in D.C. Superior Court.

The case involves Trump's hotel located in a taxpayer-owned building, known as the Old Post Office Building. In 2013, the federal General Services Administration leased the historic building to the Trump Organization, which opened the hotel in the fall of 2016.

Here's the issue: A provision in the lease says no federal elected official can be on the lease or benefit from it ...

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/03/09/519515358/d-c-restaurant-sues-trump-claiming-unfair-competition

[Hekate]

1. Good. It was only a matter of time. DTs was in violation of that lease on Day One...

Best of luck to Pitts and Gross.

[Kittycow]

3. I echo that sentiment since Congress won't act on it.

[napi21]

2. Gross & Pitts stand a good chance with this suit. The Con is violating at least two laws:

the emoluments clause, and a President is not permitted to use his office to gain unfair advantage. Since the Con has won the election, the business at his hotel has gone up dramatically while business at the restaurant has dropped, mainly because people want to "kiss the President's a**" because he's POTUS!

The con appears to have 2 options. One is to sell the hotel. The other is to let the gov't dissolve the lease because of the emoluments clause.

Ha! Every day the Con finds another reason he really doesn't like this POTUS thing! kGod I hope he just resigns!