How Supreme Court Ruling On Presidential Immunity Could Help Trump's NJ Golf Courses

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The New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control decided against renewing liquor licenses at two of Donald Trump’s golf clubs in the state, following his conviction on 34 felony charges in May. Forbes staff writer Zach Everson joins "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss.

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00:00Well, when you reached out to the New Jersey attorney general, what did that office say to you?

00:05Uh, I mean, at first they said, hey, we're we're looking into it. We're looking into it. We're

00:09looking into it. And then they did say, you know, they came back and said, all right, we are going

00:14to not renew these and instead hold the investigation. The latest update, though,

00:19is that so the hearing was set for July 19th on the liquor licenses. And that was so it would

00:25take place after Trump was sentenced, because that would give the final verdict, I guess, on

00:30whether or not on his guilt. So they were going to wait till after July 11th to do that.

00:35Now, as we both know, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump might Trump has immunity in some

00:40circumstances. New York has postponed the sentencing date. So when I reached out to

00:46New Jersey yesterday, they did confirm that, yes, they are going to postpone it as well,

00:51since it is contingent on him being sentenced. They don't have a date yet. They will get that

00:56ironed out at some point. So it has, as Trump does, he has managed to

01:00kick the can down the road a few months. Let's talk about that a little bit. We

01:03talked about some Trump loopholes a few weeks ago. Now, does it look like he has

01:08a few more workarounds in light of that Supreme Court immunity ruling?

01:12Well, in this case, he gets a delay. You know, in the other states, he does seem to have a better

01:16workaround. He has a golf club in Los Angeles. And when I spoke to a representative there at the

01:22California ABC, he said that Trump is fine. The fact that it is Donald Trump Jr.'s name on the

01:28license and that the company is owned by a trust of which Trump is not a trustee takes care of any

01:35of California's requirements. The other states we reached out to, including Virginia, Illinois,

01:41they at first said he's not on there. I pointed out that, you know, the string of companies does

01:46lead back to him and we haven't heard back from a lot of those states. So still up in the air what

01:50those other states are going to do. So as we know, as you just mentioned,

01:54he does have other businesses in other states, other liquor licenses. Is New Jersey being the

02:00strictest here or does Jersey just operate on a different set of rules from these other states?

02:06The rules seem to be somewhat similar. I mean, yes, each state writes its own liquor laws.

02:12But moral turpitude is a phrase that showed up in several of them. But a lot of this with New

02:18Jersey, they say specifically that a lot of it comes down to the discretion of the head of the

02:22ABC. And that's one thing that we are seeing is that it really comes down to the discretion of

02:27local officials. That was the case in D.C. when he had the hotel here a few years ago,

02:32and it was pre felony conviction. But there was a group that came after his liquor license of the

02:36hotel here. And at first, I mean, the D.C. obviously very, very liberal. But the ABC wanted

02:42nothing to do with it. At first, they dismissed it, saying it wasn't the appropriate time. You

02:46could only contest it when it was coming up for renewal. Then when it was coming up for renewal,

02:52the D.C. ABC threw it out again, saying that the people who brought the complaint,

02:58enough of them were not from D.C. for them to consider. So you could certainly see local

03:02officials having some leeway here. And, you know, that's what we're seeing from New Jersey. I mean,

03:06they've decided that they do, in fact, want to pursue this. They could have possibly said

03:10something similar to what California said or what some of these other states have done,

03:13which is just not even respond.

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