Media uses Trump hotel as diversion from Biden's chaos

Biden ended the week with a disappointing jobs report, rising inflation, Red China rattling sabers at Taiwan, vaccine mandate protests, and his poll numbers are tanking. CNN and the rest of the losers on media row needed a squirrel to run on the field and distract attention.

House Democrats gave them one: Trump International Hotel.

Long before he ran for president Donald John Trump won a bid to transform the Old Post Office in Washington into a luxury hotel. The Government Services Administration leased the property to him rather than selling it. This gave GSA some control over it.

Being an international hotel, people from other countries rented rooms when they visited the capital. Democrats have tried to use that to trigger the emoluments clause by portraying spending a night in a hotel as a foreign bribe. The courts have laughed off this nonsense. Even Obama judges know better. But the press is run by dumbbells.

House Democrats slipped the media a story on how much money he lost on the hotel.

CNN reported, "Former President Donald Trump racked up more than $70 million in losses over a four-year period from his Washington, DC, hotel, while publicly claiming that the hotel was making more than tens of millions of dollars, according to documents released by the House Oversight Committee."

Well, he was too busy being president to run the hotel. Duh.

But while he lost money on the hotel, Democrats claim he took foreign bribes by allowing foreigners to book rooms at the hotel.

International hotel, that is.

You would think that Democrats -- of all people -- would know the difference between a bribe and an actual business transaction. It is not like he was selling paintings or using Air Force One to fly to Beijing so his son could pick up a billion-dollar "investment."

But no, reporters are acting ignorant.

After going through the hotel's losses, NBC hysterically said, "The committee also said the newly obtained documents show that from 2017 through 2020, the Trump International Hotel in D.C. received about $3.7 million in payments from foreign governments, which it said raises 'concerns about possible violations of the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause.'"

The courts already decided the hotel does not violate the emoluments clause.

But the media acts like it hires only from the bottom half of the class.

The story does not add up. On the one hand, the media tells you he lost a lot of money -- $70 million -- on the hotel. On the other hand, the media tells you he accepted "$3.7 million in payments from foreign governments" -- hotel bills for overnight stays and the like. The $70 million in losses wipes out any foreign payment.

But these stories are not supposed to make sense. They are merely to divert attention from Biden's surrender of Afghanistan, rising inflation, pathetic jobs report, rise of Red China's military, and the covid catastrophe (more people have died from covid this year than last despite vaccinating more than half the population).