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Robert Reich: “We have in the Constitution an emoluments clause. Remember…”

Featuring: Robert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor | National

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Trump's Forever War Is Here | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

Published | Video Starts at 12:27

Well, that delicious, I think, really, truly algae water. There's. I mean, what Trump has done and the number of times that he has stepped over whatever line. But tell me why. I mean, We have in the Constitution an emoluments clause. Remember that? It says no gifts to presidents of the United States from foreign powers. And yet you have this jet, this gigantic $400 million gift, gift from Qatar, and it goes to Trump. And he is not going to. (12:27–12:38)

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Asserts that the U.S. Constitution's emoluments clause prohibits gifts to presidents from foreign powers.

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