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"Branding greed" [2019] ELECD 2144; in Torres-Spelliscy, Ciara (ed), "Political Brands" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 243

Book Title: Political Brands

Editor(s): Torres-Spelliscy, Ciara

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 10

Section Title: Branding greed

Number of pages: 24

Abstract/Description:

Greed seems to explain the actions of Donald Trump in two distinct legal spheres: (1) how he ran his now-defunct Donald J. Trump Foundation; and (2) how he is profiting from the Trump Organization while president, despite limitations in the Constitution’s two emoluments clauses. The Trump Foundation was closed after the attorney general of New York investigated it and found that it was used improperly to pay commercial debts of his for-profit business, as well as used illegally to benefit his 2016 presidential campaign. The stuttering of the Trump Foundation was one way that the attorney general prescribed an outer limit for Trump’s greed. Similarly, Trump is being sued in three suits in his official and personal capacity for potentially violating the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses. These cases are ongoing; thus, whether courts will also limit his greed is a known unknown.