Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series Real Time with Bill Maw.

Richard Painter, my surprise comedian.

Oh, really?

Showing it off.

What's the basis of your group's lawsuit against President Trump?

You're going to lawsuit, too.

It's a lawsuit side of the table.

Yeah, which lawsuit against President Trump?

There's so many.

This lawsuit brought by citizens for responsibility and ethics in Washington is about the money the president is getting from foreign governments.

And, um, yeah, that's actually illegal.

The founders of our country figured that out.

That foreign governments would like to bribe other country's political leaders because they were doing it all over there in England.

And the parliament was getting bought off by not only the king of Great Britain, but the English parliament is being bought off by the king of France.

And so they figured, you know, we don't want that going on here.

So they have this provision in the Constitution called the Amoluments Clause.

If they drafted it in the 1970s when I was growing up, they would have called it Payola Clause, but it's the same idea.

That nobody holding a position of trust with the United States government can receive profits or benefits, gifts, any of that from foreign governments.

And that includes companies controlled by foreign governments, including the Bank of China, which is apparently lo and the Trump organization is some money.

And I know a lot of people say it's about the hotel rooms and that's part of it.

We talk about the hotel rooms, the diplomats run them out, and then they rent the ballroom.

They have a big party and all the middle eastern countries want a party at the Trump hotel.

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