Lawsuit filed against Trump over foreign business payments
A group of prominent legal experts is suing US President Donald Trump, alleging that he is in violation of the US constitution because he continues to own hotels and companies that do business with foreign governments.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a liberal watchdog group, filed a lawsuit against Mr Trump in New York on Monday citing the so-called foreign emoluments provision of the US constitution, which bans payments to the president from foreign powers.
The group said that by refusing to divest his businesses, the new president is “getting cash and favours from foreign governments, through guests and events at his hotels, leases in his buildings and valuable real estate deals abroad”.
The organisation is run by a group of lawyers including Norman Eisen, who was an ethics lawyer in the Obama administration, and Richard Painter, a former ethics lawyer for President George W Bush. However, it was previously headed by David Brock, a colourful Democratic party activist and staunch supporter of Hillary Clinton.
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