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WHEN it comes to violations of the emoluments clause, Donald Trump abides by a simple rule: go big or go home. This part of the US constitution declares that federal officials cannot accept any “present, emolument, office or title” from a “king, prince or foreign state”.
Square that with Donald Trump’s announcement on 11 May that he was minded to accept a Boeing 747 “FREE OF CHARGE” from Qatar, a country whose head of state is also its monarch. The gift, he added, “so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane. Anybody can do that!”