A top Democrat is welcoming the State Department’s removal of a blog post featuring President Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort but argues there is still much to be done to address the president’s potential conflicts of interest.
“Trump’s not treating @StateDept websites like brouchers anymore,” tweeted, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. “But that doesn’t come close to fixing his flagrant conflicts of interest.”
Trump’s not treating @StateDept websites like brochures anymore, but that doesn’t come close to fixing his flagrant conflicts of interest.
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) April 25, 2017
The State Department has since apologized for using its blog, ShareAmerica, to feature Trump’s Palm Beach, Fla., resort.
President Trump continues to face criticism from Democrats for hosting world leaders at the resort as they continue to press him to make the resort’s visitor’s logs public. A group of House Democrats authored a measure in March called the”Making Access Records Available to Lead American Government Openness Act,” or MAR-A-LAGO Act for short, to require the president to make the visitor logs of his resort public.
For its part, the Trump administration announced early in April it would reverse the Obama-era practice of releasing its visitor logs.
