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babylonsister

(171,680 posts) Fri Dec 13, 2024, 09:20 PM Dec 13

Trump Eyes Deal to Buy Back Lease on D.C. Hotel

He wants to cash in again. I hope he legally cannot do this.

https://politicalwire.com/2024/12/13/trump-eyes-deal-to-buy-back-lease-on-d-c-hotel/

Trump Eyes Deal to Buy Back Lease on D.C. Hotel
December 13, 2024 at 9:08 pm EST By Taegan Goddard

“President-elect Donald Trump is weighing a bid to save the failing Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Washington, DC – and rebrand it once more as a Trump International Hotel,” the New York Post reports.

“Three sources familiar with the situation said that the incoming commander-in-chief’s company, the Trump Organization, is weighing options that include a licensing deal or even possibly buying back the lease on the government-owned, 125-year-old Old Post Office building.”

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Trump Eyes Deal to Buy Back Lease on D.C. Hotel (Original Post) babylonsister Dec 13 OP

gotta keep the grift going. Blues Heron Dec 13 #1

YUP the grifting continues vapor2 Dec 13 #3

And he wants to put this deal together while in office? DFW Dec 13 #2

Emoluments clause. TexasTowelie Dec 13 #4

I think he said the last rites for that one during his first term. DFW Dec 14 #8

That hotel was such a great grift. Irish_Dem Dec 13 #5

I was just thinking today, "Where are all the people who come to bribe Donny tanyev Dec 13 #6

And people are coming in droves. Irish_Dem Dec 13 #7

Blues Heron

(6,228 posts)

1. gotta keep the grift going.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 09:28 PM

Dec 13

Cant believe this is happening again, it is surreal

vapor2

(1,632 posts)

3. YUP the grifting continues

Reply to Blues Heron (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 09:34 PM

Dec 13

DFW

(56,891 posts)

2. And he wants to put this deal together while in office?

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 09:32 PM

Dec 13

So much for the laws of the United States. You don't get these things done in five weeks, so he'll have to be involved with this project after his inauguration. I guess being a Republican makes things like that not matter any more.

TexasTowelie

(117,527 posts)

4. Emoluments clause.

Reply to DFW (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 09:49 PM

Dec 13

RIP.

DFW

(56,891 posts)

8. I think he said the last rites for that one during his first term.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #4)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 01:16 AM

Dec 14

His respect for that law does not appear to have revived.

Irish_Dem

(59,687 posts)

5. That hotel was such a great grift.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 09:50 PM

Dec 13

Forcing everyone to stay there at top dollar.

And probably you can get whatever you want there, drugs, sex, whatever.

Possibilities are endless.

tanyev

(44,733 posts)

6. I was just thinking today, "Where are all the people who come to bribe Donny

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:01 PM

Dec 13

going to stay when they’re in DC?”.

Of course he wants to buy it back.

Irish_Dem

(59,687 posts)

7. And people are coming in droves.

Reply to tanyev (Reply #6)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 10:04 PM

Dec 13

To kiss his ~~ass~~ ring.

They need to stay some where.

Bringing bags of bribe money.
Which they can just drop off at the hotel bank vault.
How convenient.

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