8 January 2017 Currents
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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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