1/ Absolutely not a dumb Q, at all! You’re correct in that he shouldn’t be able to, as the WH is a national historic landmark, but we’ve all had front row seats as to how norms and laws are being broken and loopholed out of existence.
2/ Citizens United paved the path for this type of private influence to override public interest, where oligarchs can flood our political system w/ dark money, shape policy, & corrupt the very core of our democratic institutions.
The ballroom is just another glaring symptom of that systemic rot.
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3/ I’ve added a clarification to the thread addressing this nuance.
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