CONGRESS/DEMS/FBI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Five senior Democratic members of Congress have questioned what they say is a Trump administration plan to build a new headquarters for the Federal Bureau of Investigation across the street from Donald Trump’s downtown Washington hotel. In a letter sent on Thursday [10-18-18] to Emily Murphy, head of the General Services Administration (GSA), which manages government buildings, the Democrats said they had serious concerns about an ‘abrupt decision’ by Trump to abandon an earlier plan to move FBI headquarters out of central Washington to the suburbs. The Democrats, members of House of Representatives investigative panels, said that years ago, before he became president, Trump expressed interest in the FBI moving out of its current headquarters so he could buy the land and redevelop the property. After he was sworn in and became disqualified from buying the land, the Democrats alleged, Trump became ‘dead opposed’ to the government selling the FBI property to other commercial developers who might compete with the Trump International Hotel.”
–Mark Hosenball, “Democrats question plan for new FBI HQ near Trump’s DC hotel,” Reuters, October 18, 2018 10:36 am