3 Troubling Stories About Trump's Ability to Be President That You Might've Missed

Donald Trump's tweetstorm demanding an apology from the cast of Hamilton for delivering a message to Mike Pence dominated the news over the weekend, eclipsing three equally significant scandals pertaining to the president-elect. Here are the stories featuring problematic revelations about Trump that you should know about.

In hopes of getting in the new president's good graces, foreign diplomats are reportedly booking rooms in Trump's hotels, particularly his recently opened hotel in Washington DC. A story by The Washington Post says many delegates perceive staying in Trump's hotel as a way of garnering favor, while critics claim doing so is equivalent to buying political access. Even more concerning is the lack of federal law prohibiting the president from profiting from his position. A Congressional Research Service study found that "there is no current legal requirement that would compel the president to relinquish financial interests because of conflict of interest."

The 6,000 students who took sham classes at Trump University and sued the president-elect for fraud in a class-action lawsuit will receive a settlement. In an apparent move to avoid testifying in the two California cases and one New York case, Trump agreed to pay $25 million to the plaintiffs collectively. CNN reports that $21 million will go to settle the California suits and the other $4 million will go to the victims in the case prosecuted by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Despite the disturbing evidence presented by the case about the for-profit university scheme, Trump maintained he would have won in a series of tweets posted on Friday. Trump — who throughout the election maintained he would not settle — also contended that he only did so because "I have to focus on our country."

More drama came when Trump refused to give journalists and photographers access to the face-to-face meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Nov. 17, as is protocol, according to The Washington Post. Trump also drew criticism for allowing his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner to join him in the meeting since neither of them have security clearance.

The incident, coupled with his other conflicts of interest, prompted hundreds of people to call the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to launch an investigation into Trump's activities. On Friday, so many callers were leaving messages that the line was temporarily jammed.