The emoluments suit by the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia was tossed by a judge, but the House's suit is still, we think, alive. Which is a good thing, since Benedict Donald is agitating for the next G7 to be held at his Doral resort in Florida.
But we're wondering: Even if Drumpf holding a summit at Doral isn't a violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause — and we think it is — why would he insist on holding the G7 there when he could do so much more good for his party by having it in some other red state?
Examples:
Invite world leaders to The Greenbrier in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia, and you inject a ton of money into an ailing state economy that's not benefiting from Trump's tax cut for the 1 percent.
Propose holding the G7 at The Homestead in Virginia, and see if that will help the GOP wrest that purple state from Democratic control.
Have the pooh-bahs gather at The Broadmoor in Colorado, and you might do the endangered Republican Senator Cory Gardner some good. Choosing the Omni Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina, might be a favorable move for the re-election of GOP Senator Thom Tillis.
You get our drift. Of course, Donald Trump is never going to try to hold the G7 at some other billionaire's property (like The Greenbrier) or in a state that might help his party in the 2020 election, because he's a malignant narcissist for whom greed comes first.
Let's just hope that somehow, in some way, the emoluments people catch up with him. Until then, we cats HISS.
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