The Emoluments Clause is all very well, but it's hard to enforce. A clearly written statute is much cleaner.
Later someone said that this law applied only to employees and officers, and not to the President. I feel there is a valid argument that the President is an officer of the government (after all, Chief Executives are generally regarded as a Corporate Officer) but it's a pretty moot point since he'll never allow prosecution of himself. Read the law for yourself: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/208
Later, "AboveTheLaw" posted a quick rundown of the likely federal procurement law violations. Somewhere someone would go to jail for this, if not Trump himself (again, the AG is his poodle)
President Trump Is Violating More Than The Emoluments Clause With His Doral Summit
I did a little research on the Doral and Miami International Airport. Just looking at the map it would seem to be a major disruption which of course Trump would not care about but Floridians and travelers just might remember at election time:
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