President Trump Donald John TrumpFederal prosecutor speaks out, says Barr 'has brought shame' on Justice Dept. Former Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick MORE stepped into another controversy of his own making Monday by suggesting the U.S. could host world leaders at his golf resort outside Miami for next year's Group of Seven (G-7) summit.

If Trump were to make his resort the meeting venue, his critics argue it would be another clear violation of the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause, which prohibits presidents from accepting payments from foreign countries, U.S. states or the federal government.

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“This is a president who has converted the presidency into an instrument of enrichment from day one. There is simply no line between what is official government business and what is a private money-making enterprise — it is all one big venture,” Rep. Jamie Raskin Jamin (Jamie) Ben RaskinOVERNIGHT ENERGY: House passes sweeping clean energy bill | Pebble Mine CEO resigns over secretly recorded comments about government officials | Corporations roll out climate goals amid growing pressure to deliver On The Money: House panel pulls Powell into partisan battles | New York considers hiking taxes on the rich | Treasury: Trump's payroll tax deferral won't hurt Social Security House panel pulls Powell into partisan battles over pandemic MORE (D-Md.), a House Judiciary Committee member and former constitutional law professor, said Monday in a phone interview with The Hill.

“If he decides to hold the G-7 meeting in 2020 at Trump National Doral Golf [Club], this would be a perfect violation of the foreign and domestic emoluments clauses,” Raskin added. “This is precisely what the framers of the Constitution opposed.”

Other legal experts and Democrats also raised objections.

Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law School professor, tweeted that Trump’s pitch was “Emolumentally clear! Trump keeps proving that he is deliberately violating the Constitution’s main safeguard against financial corruption and compromise of presidential decisions by foreign powers.”

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a former state attorney general, called it a “textbook example of putting personal profit over public good.”

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And Sen. Ron Wyden Ronald (Ron) Lee WydenHillicon Valley: Subpoenas for Facebook, Google and Twitter on the cards | Wray rebuffs mail-in voting conspiracies | Reps. raise mass surveillance concerns On The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline Democratic senators ask inspector general to investigate IRS use of location tracking service MORE (Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said Trump holding the G-7 summit at his resort in Doral, Fla., “would be one of the most egregious examples of corruption and self-dealing in a presidency replete with them.”

“Trump is using the office to line his own pockets at the expense of the American people and our standing in the world,” Wyden said in a statement. “Requiring our allies to spend money at the president’s hotel to attend the G7 would be an insult to them and a violation of our Constitution’s emoluments clause.”

Wyden called on the Treasury Department, which helps organize the annual gathering of global leaders, to block the summit from being held at Doral.

Trump kicked off the emoluments flap during a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the final day of the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, telling reporters that administration officials "haven't found anything that's even close to competing with" his Doral resort.

He later defended the suggestion, saying that the presidency has cost him $3 billion to $5 billion in lost revenue — a figure that could not be verified.

Trump said he "couldn't care less" about making money.

"The only thing I care about is this country," he added.

Trump’s proposal to hold the annual event at his 800-acre resort marked the latest skirmish in a long-running political and legal battle between the president and congressional Democrats over whether Trump can conduct official business or have foreign governments spend money at his hotels and golf resorts.

He’s come under fire from Democrats for hosting leaders, including President Xi Jinping of China, at his other Florida property, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. And he has been fending off multiple lawsuits alleging he is illegally making money from his luxury hotel just blocks from the White House.

Trump International Hotel in Washington has received tens of thousands of dollars from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other foreign governments, which have reserved blocks of hotel rooms. The hotel, along Pennsylvania Avenue, also has become a popular venue for GOP fundraisers.

But so far, Democratic efforts to penalize or stop Trump have largely failed. A federal appeals court last month tossed out a lawsuit by attorneys general for Maryland and D.C. challenging Trump’s ownership of the hotel; the court ruled that the attorneys general don’t have standing to bring the case.

A separate suit against Trump by House Democrats is working its way through the courts. But Raskin wants the House to vote this fall on a resolution he authored that disapproves of every foreign emolument Trump has received since taking office. Speaker Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiDemocratic senator to party: 'A little message discipline wouldn't kill us' Overnight Health Care: New wave of COVID-19 cases builds in US | Florida to lift all coronavirus restrictions on restaurants, bars | Trump stirs questions with 0 drug coupon plan Overnight Defense: Appeals court revives House lawsuit against military funding for border wall | Dems push for limits on transferring military gear to police | Lawmakers ask for IG probe into Pentagon's use of COVID-19 funds MORE (D-Calif.) has not committed to bringing Raskin’s resolution to the floor for a vote.

“The entire Democratic Caucus, including the Speaker, is opposed to the lawlessness of the president in taking foreign-government emoluments and not coming to Congress for our approval,” said Raskin, a member of Pelosi’s leadership team. “This is an untenable situation.”

House Democrats have tried other approaches to block Trump. They passed multiple annual spending bills with amendments tacked on to prohibit certain federal agencies from using taxpayer dollars at Trump businesses around the world.

But the authors of the amendments, Raskin and Rep. Steve Cohen Stephen (Steve) Ira CohenTennessee Rep. Steve Cohen wins Democratic primary Democrats exit briefing saying they fear elections under foreign threat Texas Democrat proposes legislation requiring masks in federal facilities MORE (D-Tenn.), are unlikely to get their proposals through the GOP-controlled Senate. House GOP lawmakers opposed to the amendments argue that prohibiting spending at Trump businesses could jeopardize security for officials or dignitaries who attend summits at Trump properties.

Despite the Democratic outrage, there are some observers who believe the site of the 2020 G-7 meeting — in the heat of a presidential campaign — won’t be at the Doral resort.

“I would not bet my house that it’s going to be at that country club,” said Jon B. Alterman, the Zbigniew Brzezinski chair in Global Security and Geostrategy and director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank. “I could see a combination of congressional concern and public criticism leading to a more open process that leads to a different outcome.”

"I would bet that when all the dust clears, people will say that’s just too close," he added.

Cristina Marcos and Brett Samuels contributed.