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Next G7 summit won’t be at Miami golf resort: Trump
WASHINGTON, Oct 20, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – US President Donald Trump said on
Saturday the next G7 summit will not be at one of his own Florida golf clubs,
reversing a decision that had sparked corruption accusations.
“Based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility, we will no
longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami, as the Host Site for the G-7 in
2020,” the president tweeted.
“We will begin the search for another site, including the possibility of
Camp David, immediately.” Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney had
on Thursday announced that the south Florida venue was “the best place” among
a dozen US locations considered for the June 10-12 gathering next year.
Critics said the move would violate both the foreign and domestic
emoluments clauses that are designed to shield a US leader from outside
influence.
On Friday, new legislation to block the plan was introduced by Democrats in
Congress, who have already opened an impeachment investigation into
allegations that the president pressured Ukraine into interfering on his
behalf in the 2020 US election.
The bill, called “Trump’s Heist Undermines the G-7 (THUG) Act,” would have
cut off all federal funding for the move, and require the White House to turn
over all relevant documents that show how administration officials decided on
Doral.
Trump National Doral is vital to his organization’s finances and was once
one of his biggest money-makers — but it has been in steep decline,
according to the Washington Post.
BSS/AFP/SSS/0900 hrs