Trump’s Business Empire Sends Court Into Uncharted Legal Terrain

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What’s an Emolument and Should Trump Be Worried?

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Three well-dressed young men sat nervously across the boardroom table from Lord Alan Sugar, billionaire founder of the Amstrad electronics company. They’d made a hash of their assigned task: selling burgers on the street in London’s Brixton neighborhood.

Lord Sugar pointed his index finger accusingly at the man in the center.