Trump, With Oath, in Violation of D.C. Hotel Lease, Group Says
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Donald Trump, in being inaugurated as the 45th U.S. president, is violating terms of the lease for the Trump International Hotel Washington D.C. that bar elected officials from benefiting from the agreement, a public-interest group said Friday.
The General Services Administration should “immediately initiate the process for establishing” that Trump’s company “is in violation of the lease’s conflict-of-interest provision,” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington wrote in a letter to GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth. The 263-room hotel, which opened last year, is near the White House in the Old Post Office Building, leased from the GSA.