Lawmakers, and even Trump’s own staff, are questioning whether his business deals are influencing U.S. foreign policy.
President Donald Trump was sitting beside Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in the Oval Office in March when he fondly recalled his luxury golf resort on Ireland’s west coast.
He gushed about his two tony Scottish resorts months later while standing next to French President Emmanuel Macron in France.
And in August, while meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, he first suggested that he just might bring the G-7 summit of world leaders to one of his Florida resorts in 2020. “We haven’t found anything that could even come close to competing with it,” he said.
View the complete October 20 article by Anita Kumar on the Politico website here.