Emoluments? Moi?

According to Chris Hayes on MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes, Trump's flagship Palm Beach resort, Mar-A-Lago, has doubled its initiation fee, from $100,000 to $200,000. The managing director of the club said that an increase had been planned since before the election, but that "We have had a sudden surge in requests."

Surprise, surprise. Now that members may be rubbing shoulders at the club with the President of the United States, the price has gone up -- and straight into the pockets of one Donald J. Trump.



Norm Eisen, a former Obama ethics lawyer, said:

This type of naked profiteering off of a government office is what I would expect from King Louis XVI or his modern kleptocratic equivalents, not an American president.

What are these "emoluments" of which you speak?