Businesses saudi arabia, qatar, kuwait and india. >> but defying the constitution, he basically fulfilled the founders' worst fears, which is that the president, in order to line his own pockets, would sell out the american interest in favor of particular foreign governments looking for policy favors from the president. and that's exactly what happened. >> reporter: the emoluments clause forbids the president from accepting any present emolument of any kind from any king, prince, or foreign state. for years democrats have alleged that foreign governments were buying favor with the trump admini...