Tag: Trump business

Trump reveals a motivation for his anti-homelessness push: Foreign real estate tenants

Washington Post logoOne bit of rhetoric that has been central to President Trump’s political career is the primacy of Americans above everyone else. His “America First” mantra has been used to isolate the United States internationally and to defend his dramatic immigration policies.

“Republicans believe that we must take care of our own citizens first,” he said at a rally on Monday night in New Mexico — in contrast to immigrants who enter the country illegally. He’d just made that point, reading from the teleprompter: “Our scarce resources are in danger of being rapidly depleted to the point that we will be unable to effectively care for our own citizens,” he said, “you and our existing homeless populations, many of whom are American veterans, right?”

That is indeed true. One estimate indicates 9 percent of those experiencing homelessness are veterans, nearly 38,000 individuals in total.

View the complete September 17 article by Philip Bump on The Washington Post website here.

Trump’s company had more contact with Russia during campaign, according to documents turned over to investigators

The following article by Tom Hamburger, Rosalind S. Helderman and Adam Entous was posted on the Washington Post website October 2, 2017:

Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal attorney leaves Capitol Hill on Sept. 19. Cohen was there to appear privately before the Senate Intelligence Committee. (Susan Walsh/AP)

Associates of President Trump and his company have turned over documents to federal investigators that reveal two previously unreported contacts from Russia during the 2016 campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.

In one case, Trump’s personal attorney and a business associate exchanged emails weeks before the Republican National Convention about the lawyer traveling to an economic conference in Russia that would be attended by top Russian financial and government leaders, including President Vladi­mir Putin, according to people familiar with the correspondence.

In the other case, the same Trump attorney, Michael Cohen, received a proposal in late 2015 for a Moscow residential project from a company founded by a billionaire who once served in the Russian Senate, these people said. The previously unreported inquiry marks the second proposal for a Trump-branded Moscow project that was delivered to the company during the presidential campaign and has since come to light. Continue reading “Trump’s company had more contact with Russia during campaign, according to documents turned over to investigators”

Secret Service vacates Trump Tower command post in lease dispute with president’s company

The following article by Carol D. Leonnig, David A. Fahrenthold and Jonathan O’Connell was posted on the Washington Post website August 3, 2017:

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The Secret Service has vacated its command post inside Trump Tower in Manhattan following a dispute between the government and President Trump’s company over the terms of a lease for the space, according to two people familiar with the discussions.

Previously, the Secret Service had stationed its command post — which houses supervisors and backup agents on standby in case of an emergency — in a Trump Tower unit one floor below the president’s apartment.

But in early July, the post was relocated to a trailer on the sidewalk, more than 50 floors below, a distance that some security experts worry could hamper the agency that protects the president’s home and family.

The command post appears unlikely to move anytime soon back inside Trump Tower, where the president and his family have rarely gone since moving to the White House. Continue reading “Secret Service vacates Trump Tower command post in lease dispute with president’s company”