VEDOMOSTI-next year, a summit of the leaders of the “Big seven”will be held in one of the hotels of us President Donald trump in Florida.

Making the announcement Thursday, acting White house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney defended the site’s selection process from immediate criticism that trump would personally benefit from hosting a major event at one of his resorts.

“How is this not a violation of the reward?”He said, waiting for questions from journalists. “They do it at cost,” Mulvaney explained, making it “dramatically cheaper” to be held at Doral rather than at any of the other finalist sites, including two in Utah and one in Hawaii, that senior officials visited to determine the best.

The 320-hectare resort is 13 kilometres from Miami international airport and has nearly 643 rooms.

The Doral, built in the early 1960s, was acquired by the trump company in 2012.

“Donald trump’s brand is probably strong enough and he doesn’t need any more help with that. It’s the most recognizable name in the English language and probably worldwide right now, ” according to Mulvaney. “There’s no question here on him profiting from this.”

“It’s corruption, plain and simple,” responded one of the leading Democratic presidential candidates, Senator Elizabeth Warren.

House judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler calls trump’s choice of personal property for the meeting “one of the President’s most brazen examples of corruption. He uses his office and makes official decisions of the US government for his personal financial gain. The emoluments clause of the Constitution exists to prevent precisely this kind of corruption.”

Nadler adds that his Committee will ” continue to investigate, prosecute and legislate these matters, including seeking answers to our previous inquiries about the G-7 selection process.”

Asked by ” VOA News, “Mulvaney chastised Democrats for not focusing on what he called the more important issues facing the country, but said,”We’d be happy to get involved.”

Mulvaney, responding to another question, said trump could invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the summit next year, as is the privilege of the host leader, but there is no discussion yet on whether the G-7 should return to the G-7 and re-include Russia as a full member in the exclusive circle.