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> continued from page 7 he is not an officer under the United States. Thus, the Foreign Gifts Clause, and its operative office under the United States language, does not apply to the presidency.
Again, as a matter of constitutional law, Mr. Trump is not obligated to divest himself of his foreign business interests. Still, his coming up right smack against the ill-defined boundary of constitutional propriety, and perhaps going over that line, as arguably the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation did, will not endear Trump to his voters. Millions of voters took a chance on Trump on election day. What Trump does here will be a good first test to determine if those voters were right to take that chance.
By: Seth Barrett Tillman is a lecturer at the Maynooth University Department of Law in Ireland ❏
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