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(CNN) - President Donald Trump abruptly reversed his course on Saturday night and said that the economic summit of the G7 world powers next year will not take place at Trump National in Doral, Florida, after facing a reaction bipartisan.
The president tweeted: "We will no longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami, as the host site of the G-7 in 2020. We will begin the search for another site, including the possibility of Camp David, immediately."
In another tweet, Trump said: "I thought I was doing something very good for our country by using Trump National Doral, in Miami, to receive the G-7 leaders."
- Trump would conduct the G7 at his own Florida resort
The White House had defended its decision to use Trump's property as the site for the G7 amid growing criticism, and White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham told CNN that the Doral's site would be " significantly cheaper ”than other options.
The administration had argued that the event would be organized "at cost", or not for profit, on Trump National property due to the Constitution's emoluments clause, which largely prohibits the president from accepting gifts and money from foreign governments. .
But it is not clear that simply avoiding profit would prevent the administration from conflict with the emoluments clause.
The House of Representatives president, Nancy Pelosi, told CNN on Friday that keeping the G7 on Trump's property was "completely out of the question."
Several of Trump's strongest advocates in the Capitol said the situation didn't worry them. Republican representative Jim Jordan told CNN that "the American people are much more concerned not with where it happens, but what happens in the event."
But some members of the president's party suggested otherwise. Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois said he "was not happy with that."
"Yesterday I read the emoluments clause," Kinzinger said Friday, "and talks about titles and nobility and all this. I don't know if it's a direct violation, but I don't understand why he had to do it right now. ”
- CNN's Kevin Bohn, Jess Durando, Nikki Carvajal, Pamela Brown, Manu Raju and Ted Barrett contributed to this report.
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