DC Group Trying To Revoke Trump Hotel's Liquor License: Report

WASHINGTON, DC -- The Trump International Hotel should lose its liquor license because its namesake, President Trump, lacks "good moral character" -- that's what a D.C. Advisory Neighborhood Commission is arguing, according to a report.

Fox 5 reports that commissioners in ANC 4C have unanimously voted to support a petition to revoke the license on those grounds.

"What the complaint says is that the owner of the Trump International Hotel doesn't meet that definition and so ABRA, the Alcohol Beverage Regulation Administration, should take action,” Zach Teutsch, ANC Commissioner 4C, said according to the report.

The problem is that the hotel is not in ANC 4C's jurisdiction. However, D.C.'s Alcoholic Beverage Regulatory Administration says that any civic group can file a complaint against any business that has a liquor license in the city, Fox 5 reports.

Critics argue the move will only hurt workers at the hotel who depend on alcohol revenues and tips, and is little more than a symbolic jab at Trump.

It's not the first time the hotel has been targeted. Ever since Trump was inaugurated in January 2017, his opponents have argued that the hotel violates the Constitution's emoluments clause because foreign governments are staying at his hotel allegedly to curry favor with the president.

A group of legal ethics experts filed a lawsuit against Trump a few days after his inauguration, saying payments that foreign governments make to properties he owns puts him in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, asked the court to stop Trump from taking the payments, which they say include hotel room stays, loans from some international banks and even foreign government-owned television stations broadcasting "The Apprentice."

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