Domain 04
Emoluments and Constitutional Financial Violations
Foreign and domestic emoluments, constitutional financial conflicts of interest.
19 entries
The $TRUMP Meme Coin Dinner: Selling Presidential Access to Top Cryptocurrency Holders
2025 - 2025
In January 2025, days before his second inauguration, Donald Trump launched the $TRUMP meme coin, a cryptocurrency token from which Trump and his business partners stood to profit directly. In May 202...
Cryptocurrency, Meme Coins, and the Presidency: Trump's World Liberty Financial Venture, the $TRUMP and $MELANIA Tokens, and Second-Term Emoluments Concerns
2024 - 2026
Beginning in September 2024, during his presidential campaign, Donald Trump launched a series of cryptocurrency ventures that continued to generate revenue for his family after he took office for a se...
Rolling Back Crypto Regulation While Holding Crypto Assets: The Trump Family's World Liberty Financial and the SEC's Retreat from Enforcement
2024 - 2026
In September 2024, during his presidential campaign, Donald Trump and his family launched World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency venture in which the Trump family holds a 75 percent share of net pr...
Ivanka Trump China Trademarks: Foreign Government Approvals Coinciding with Diplomatic Engagements
2017 - 2018
While serving as a senior adviser in the White House, Ivanka Trump maintained ownership of her eponymous fashion and lifestyle brand, which held and actively sought trademarks in foreign countries, in...
Promoting Trump-Branded Products from the White House: Goya Beans, Ivanka's Fashion Line, and the Use of Official Office for Commercial Endorsement
2017 - 2020
During Trump's first term, the president, his family members serving as senior advisers, and senior White House officials used official positions and government platforms to promote commercial product...
Emoluments Clause Lawsuits: Three Federal Cases Alleging Constitutional Violations Through Business Profits
2017 - 2021
Three federal lawsuits filed between 2017 and 2018 alleged that Donald Trump violated the Constitution's Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses by continuing to profit from his hotel and business emp...
Trump International Hotel DC: $3.7 Million in Foreign Government Payments and GSA Lease Violations
2017 - 2022
Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., located in the federally owned Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue, operated throughout Donald Trump's first presidential term as a high-profile...
Mar-a-Lago: Pay-for-Access and Security Breaches at the 'Winter White House'
2017 - 2021
Throughout Donald Trump's first term, his private club Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, functioned as an informal seat of government where paying members gained proximity to the president, foreign d...
Doral G7 and Government Spending at Trump Properties: Self-Dealing Through Federal Business
2017 - 2021
Throughout his first term, Trump directed or permitted federal government spending at properties he owned, a pattern that transferred taxpayer and government funds to his private business. The most dr...
Taxpayer Costs of Presidential Golf Trips: Over $150 Million Spent at Trump-Owned Properties During First Term
2017 - 2021
During his first term in office, Donald Trump played golf approximately 293 days at his own properties, generating an estimated $151.5 million in taxpayer-funded costs for travel, security, and suppor...
Trump Organization Foreign Licensing Deals During the Presidency: Ongoing Business Relationships in Countries Where U.S. Foreign Policy Was Active
2017 - 2026
Throughout both of Donald Trump's presidential terms, the Trump Organization has maintained active licensing and management agreements with foreign business partners in countries where U.S. foreign po...
Jared Kushner's Business Conflicts While Serving as Senior White House Adviser: 666 Fifth Avenue Bailout, Foreign Entanglements, and Security Clearance Failures
2017 - 2021
Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, served as a senior adviser to the president throughout the entirety of Trump's first term while maintaining significant financial interests that intersected with his...
3,400 Conflicts of Interest: Trump's Refusal to Divest From His Businesses During the Presidency
2017 - 2021
Donald Trump was the first president in modern American history to maintain ownership of a sprawling private business empire while serving in office. Every president since Jimmy Carter had either dive...
Ghost Bookings at Trump Hotels: Foreign Governments Reserved Rooms They Never Used, Effectively Making Payments to the President's Business
2017 - 2021
During Donald Trump's presidency, House investigators and journalists documented a pattern in which foreign governments and politically connected organizations booked large blocks of rooms at Trump's ...
Trump Tower Moscow: Pursuing a Russian Business Deal During the 2016 Campaign While Publicly Denying Russian Connections
2015 - 2019
While running for president in 2015 and 2016, Donald Trump and the Trump Organization actively pursued a licensing deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, a project that could have generated over $300 ...
The Trump International Hotel Lease Sale: $375 Million Exit After Years of Government Patronage Inflated the Property's Value
2012 - 2022
In May 2022, the Trump Organization completed the sale of its long-term lease on the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. to CGI Merchant Group, a Miami-based investment firm, for $375 millio...
Trump Towers Istanbul: Licensing Fees from Erdogan-Connected Developer While Shaping U.S. Policy Toward Turkey
2012 - 2019
Trump Towers Istanbul consists of two conjoined skyscrapers in the Sisli district of Istanbul, Turkey, containing a residential tower, an office tower, a shopping mall with approximately 80 shops, and...
Trump-Branded Real Estate That Defrauded International Buyers: Failed Licensing Projects in Baja Mexico, Fort Lauderdale, Toronto, Panama, and SoHo
2005 - 2016
Between 2005 and 2016, the Trump Organization licensed the Trump name to real estate developers across multiple countries in a business model that allowed the Trump family to collect licensing fees an...
Foreign Government Spending at Trump Properties: Saudi, Kuwaiti, Qatari, and Other Foreign Government Payments Beyond the Washington Hotel
2001 - 2021
While the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. (documented in EMOL-001) became the most visible venue for foreign government spending at Trump properties, a broader pattern of foreign governm...