Trump gets millions from golf members. CEOs and lobbyists get access to president

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Source: USA Today





Brad Heath,Fredreka Schouten,Steve Reilly,Nick Penzenstadler and Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY Published 6:03 a.m. ET Sept. 6, 2017 | Updated 11:23 a.m. ET Sept. 6, 2017
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A USA TODAY investigation found that dozens of lobbyists and government contractors are among the members of President Trump's private golf clubs. USA TODAY





Dozens of lobbyists, contractors and others who make their living influencing the government pay President Trump’s companies for membership in his private golf clubs, a status that can put them in close contact with the president, a USA TODAY investigation found.

Members of the clubs Trump has visited most often as president — in Florida, New Jersey and Virginia — include at least 50 executives whose companies hold federal contracts and 21 lobbyists and trade group officials. Two-thirds played on one of the 58 days the president was there, according to scores they posted online.

Because membership lists at Trump’s clubs are secret, the public has until now been unable to assess the conflicts they could create. USA TODAY found the names of 4,500 members by reviewing social media and a public website golfers use to track their handicaps, then researched and contacted hundreds to determine whether they had business with the government.

The review shows that, for the first time in U.S. history, wealthy people with interests before the government have a chance for close and confidential access to the president as a result of payments that enrich him personally. It is a view of the president available to few other Americans.

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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/09/06/trump-gets-millions-golf-members-ceos-and-lobbyists-get-access-president/632505001/

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Damn!. just damn


"Among Trump club members are .........................and the leader of a pesticide trade group that sought successfully to persuade the Trump administration not to ban an insecticide government scientists linked to health risks."

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[shraby]

1. trump should have a jail term for each and every infraction against the emoluments clause.

Congress, we're waiting for you to fix this!

[Stonepounder]

3. Mitch and Paul are almost certainly getting some sort of kickback from Trump.

So they aren't going to do anything. Any impeachment petition will simply be quashed.

Come on Mueller, please work as fast as you can so that we can indict and jail this crook.

[DK504]

2. So when does the Emoluments Clause get thrown down in the Congress.

There is no way this isn't a provable offense.

[Stonepounder]

4. See my response #3. n/t

[keithbvadu2]

5. Trump started his Presidency by lying before God with his hand on the Bible. "I do solemnly swear (

Trump started his Presidency by lying before God with his hand on the Bible.

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Emoluments

[SeattleVet]

6. He found a loophole in the oath...

it states 'to the best of my ability'.

He has absolutely NO ability to do any of those things, so whatever he manages to stumble through is his 'best'.

[FakeNoose]

9. Bingo!

But our boy Bobby Mueller is working on it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. So that is why he golfs every weekend...

high profile meeting with his cronies.

[chelsea0011]

8. MAGA

[stuffmatters]

10. Sign of our (degraded) times: such egregous corruption just another routine news story.

[Sunlei]

11. that man, that Republicans president is number one at pimping himself!