Adam Schiff: “It would viol. The emoluments clause would be…”

“And apparently, even if you accept the administration's own account of this, it was offered directly to the Trump Foundation. They checked with their own counsel, and that would be illegal. It would viol. The emoluments clause would be unconstitutional. So, basically, they decided to launder it through the Defense Department to see if they could use the Defense Department, the Air Force, as an intermediary and launder this deal to see if they could somehow make something unlawful, unconstitutional, now, somehow copacetic.” (00:59–01:02)

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