DEMS/G7/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “I thought I was doing something very good for our Country by using Trump National Doral, in Miami, for hosting the G-7 Leaders. It is big, grand, on hundreds of acres, next to MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, has tremendous ballrooms & meeting rooms, and each delegation would have…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October […]
Category: A- Trump Business
10/19/2019
CORRUPTION/G7/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned plans late on Saturday [10-19-19] to host next year’s Group of Seven summit at his Florida golf resort, after Democrats and others had decried the selection as evidence of the president misusing his office for personal gain. In a series of tweets, Trump said he would […]
10/18/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), chairman of the House committee that oversees federal buildings, threatened today to subpoena the General Services Administration if the agency does not hand over documents related to the Trump Hotel by next week. DeFazio’s committee, the House Transportation Committee, has been investigating the federal government’s lease of […]
10/17/2019
CONGRESS/CORRUPTION/G7/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Openly rebuffing congressional investigators and dismissing political optics, President Donald Trump will hold the G-7 summit of world leaders at one of his family’s resorts in the middle of an election year — shrugging off a House impeachment inquiry into whether he is illegally making money off the presidency. Trump’s decision […]
10/17/2019
CORRUPTION/DEMS/ETHICS/G7/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “U.S. President Donald Trump will host next year’s Group of Seven economic summit of leaders of developed nations at his Florida golf resort, a move Democrats and others decried as more evidence of the president misusing his office for personal gain. White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Thursday […]
10/11/2019
ETHICS/GOLF/SCOTLAND/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY: “Last month, the Trump family business received approval from a local government in Scotland for a major expansion of its golf resort near Aberdeen, marking the largest real estate development financed by the Trump Organization since the 2016 election. In August, President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Jr., flew to Jakarta to […]
9/26/2019
SCOTLAND/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Despite opposition from many local residents, the Trump Organization on Thursday [9-26-19] received approval in Scotland for what will be the largest new company-financed real estate development project since President Trump was elected: a major expansion of its golf resort near the northeast port city of Aberdeen. The plans call for the construction […]
9/19/2019
DEMS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “RT @Jim_Jordan: Oversight hearing on DC statehood. Dems’ planned map would carve out Trump Hotel. Is it because they want the tax revenue?…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 19, 2019 9:14 pm […]
9/18/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/MILITARY/SPENDING/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Since Donald Trump took office, the U.S. military has spent nearly $200,000 at the president’s luxury Scotland resort, according to figures and documents the Pentagon provided to the House Oversight Committee. The spending, which has all occurred since August 2017, paid for the equivalent of hundreds of nights of rooms at […]
9/17/2019
MILITARY/SCOTLAND/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Air Force officers who have earned medals for their tours of duty can pick up some more brass with a short pit stop in Southwest Scotland. As part of its relationship with the Air Force, the Trump Turnberry resort occasionally gifts high-ranking officers a version of its ‘Pride Pin,’ a lapel pin featuring […]
9/13/2019
EMOLUMENTS/LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A federal appeals court in New York on Friday [9-13-19] revived a lawsuit alleging that President Trump is illegally profiting from his hotels and restaurants in New York and Washington in violation of the Constitution’s anti-corruption, or emoluments, clauses. In a two-to-one decision, a panel of judges for the United States Court […]
9/12/2019
TRUMP BUSINESS: “RT @Trump: Proud to announce that @TrumpNewYork has just been named the #1 ‘Best Hotel in the World!’ Congratulations to our remarkable tea…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 12, 2019 10:36 pm […]
9/12/2019
DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/MILITARY/SCOTLAND/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The U.S. Air Force has lodged crews at President Donald Trump’s Scotland resort up to 40 times since 2015, a figure that is far higher than previously known. The tally represents the preliminary results of an Air Force review launched after POLITICO reported last week that an Air National Guard crew stayed at […]
9/10/2019
MILITARY/SCOTLAND/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday [9-10-19] defended military expenditures at President Donald Trump’s properties, arguing that hotels owned by the president are “just like any other hotel’…McCarthy’s defense comes as the Air Force has launched a global review of its layover policy following a POLITICO report that crews […]
9/9/2019
IRELAND/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP BUSINESS: “I had nothing to do with the decision of our great @VP Mike Pence to stay overnight at one of the Trump owned resorts in Doonbeg, Ireland. Mike’s family has lived in Doonbeg for many years, and he thought that during his very busy European visit, he would stop and see his […]
9/9/2019
MILITARY/SCOTLAND/TRUMP BUSINESS: “I know nothing about an Air Force plane landing at an airport (which I do not own and have nothing to do with) near Turnberry Resort (which I do own) in Scotland, and filling up with fuel, with the crew staying overnight at Turnberry (they have good taste!). NOTHING TO DO WITH ME” […]
9/9/2019
MILITARY/SCOTLAND/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Back in 2014, soon after acquiring a golf resort in Scotland, Donald J. Trump entered a partnership with a struggling local airport there to increase air traffic and boost tourism in the region. The next year, as Mr. Trump began running for president, the Pentagon decided to ramp up its use of that […]
9/6/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/MILITARY/SCOTLAND/TRUMP BUSINESS: “In early Spring of this year, an Air National Guard crew made a routine trip from the U.S. to Kuwait to deliver supplies. What wasn’t routine was where the crew stopped along the way: President Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort, about 50 miles outside Glasgow, Scotland. Since April, the House Oversight Committee […]
9/6/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/SPENDING/TRUMP BUSINESS: “House Democrats have taken their first formal steps to probe President Donald Trump’s alleged efforts to steer U.S. and foreign government business to his luxury resorts, part of an expanding roster of inquiries informing them whether to recommend of articles of impeachment. In a series of letters revealed Friday [9-6-19], the […]
8/28/2019
ATTORNEY GENERAL/ETHICS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Attorney General William P. Barr has booked a ballroom in President Trump’s hotel for his annual holiday party, an event that he could spend tens of thousands of dollars on and that drew criticism from ethics experts. Mr. Barr booked the Presidential Ballroom at the Trump International Hotel for […]
8/27/2019
MEDIA/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A made up Radical Left Story about Doral bedbugs, but Bret Stephens is loaded up with them! Been calling me wrong for years, along with the few remaining Never Trumpers – All Losers! https://t.co/KlzzMC40Vt” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 27, 2019 10:23 pm […]
8/27/2019
DEMS/G7/MEDIA/TRUMP BUSINESS: “No bedbugs at Doral. The Radical Left Democrats, upon hearing that the perfectly located (for the next G-7) Doral National MIAMI was under consideration for the next G-7, spread that false and nasty rumor. Not nice!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 27, 2019 9:40 am […]
8/26/2019
FRANCE/G7/GOLF/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Presidents usually use international summits to advance their policy agenda on the world stage. But President Trump turned a public appearance in southern France on Monday [8-26-19] into what sounded like an infomercial for his sagging golf and resort business in southern Florida. In suggesting that the next Group of 7 […]
8/23/2019
COURTS/DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “An appeals court panel hearing one of President Trump’s bids to keep his finances under wraps signaled Friday [8-23-19] that the subpoenas issued by two House committees did not necessarily have to be all or nothing…The arguments concerned subpoenas issued by two Democrat-controlled committees to Deutsche Bank and Capital One for […]
8/13/2019
DONALD JR/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Donald Trump Jr., visiting Indonesia’s capital on Tuesday [8-13-19] to promote two Trump-branded resorts, defended his father, President Trump, and their family’s company against allegations that their global business presented conflicts of interest for the president. The president’s son, an executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said that the company had […]
8/5/2019
TRUMP BUSINESS/VENEZUELA: “Years before President Donald Trump embarked on a campaign to oust Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, the real estate mogul’s business was selling condominiums to the strongman’s supporters. At least half a dozen Venezuelans linked to either Maduro or his predecessor, dictator Hugo Chávez, purchased Trump condos in New York City and South Florida […]
8/1/2019
LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS/WOMEN: “The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office sent subpoenas to the Trump Organization and American Media Inc. on Thursday as part of an investigation into the hush money paid to two women who alleged affairs with President Donald Trump. The subpoena to the Trump Organization is seeking communications between the company and representatives for […]
8/1/2019
LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS/WOMEN: “State prosecutors in Manhattan subpoenaed President Trump’s family business on Thursday [8-1-19], reviving an investigation into the company’s role in hush-money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to people briefed on the matter. The subpoena, issued by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, demanded the Trump Organization provide documents related to […]
7/18/2019
AFRICAN AMERICANS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “In October of 1973, the federal government charged the Trump Management Corporation with discrimination against African Americans seeking apartments in the 39 buildings the firm operated, most of them in Brooklyn and Queens. A short time out of Wharton, the company’s then president, Donald J. Trump, quickly denied the charges […]
7/11/2019
TRUMP BUSINESS: “….And remember, a bank that I did use years ago, the now badly written about and maligned Deutsche Bank, was then one of the largest and most prestigious banks in the world! They wanted my business, and so did many others!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 11, 2019 6:45 am […]
7/10/2019
COURTS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A federal appeals court panel has unanimously thrown out a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of violating the Constitution by continuing to do business with foreign and state governments while serving as president. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia — […]
7/5/2019
CITIZENSHIP/DHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP BUSINESS: “After months of silence, President Trump responded on Friday [7-5-19] to reports that the Trump Organization has employed dozens of undocumented immigrants by saying that he doesn’t know whether the organization does or not…The New York Times first reported in December that Victorina Morales, a Guatemalan undocumented immigrant, and several others living in […]
7/2/2019
CHINA/ECONOMY/JAPAN/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A top Chinese leader made an unusually public effort on Tuesday [7-2-19] to ease trade tensions somewhat with the United States, woo foreign investors and reassure his own country’s citizens that their economy remained on track. In meetings during the World Economic Forum in the Chinese port city of Dalian, Premier […]
7/1/2019
ETHICS/SOUTH KOREA/TRUMP BUSINESS: “While visiting South Korea over the weekend, President Donald Trump tried to strike a deal with President Moon Jae-in to get more companies to invest in the United States. But even as he pushed American interests, a partner of Trump’s namesake company is aggressively expanding plans to build luxury Trump-branded resorts in […]
7/1/2019
LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump on Monday [7-1-19] accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of deploying Attorney General Tish James as a ‘bludgeoning tool’ in a politically motivated legal campaign against Trump-branded businesses in the state…James was elected New York’s top law enforcement official in November 2018 after former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a […]
7/1/2019
INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “That’s right, The Trump Foundation gave away 100% plus, with Zero rent or expenses charged, and has been being sued by Cuomo and New York State for years – another part of the political Witch Hunt. Just in case anyone is interested – Clinton Foundation never even looked at!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July […]
7/1/2019
HILLARY CLINTON/TRUMP BUSINESS: “….more money than it had. Going on for years, originally brought by Crooked Hillary’s Campaign Chair, A.G. Eric Schneiderman, until forced to resign for abuse against women. They never even looked at the disgusting Clinton Foundation. Now Cuomo’s A.G. is harassing all of my….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 1, 2019 11:10 am […]
6/25/2019
BUSINESS/CHILE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A Chilean mining company whose owner has business ties to President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner was able to clear significant ‘roadblocks’ in the early days of the Trump administration in order to reverse Obama-era restrictions that prevented it from mining near protected land in Minnesota, […]
6/25/2019
COURTS/DEMS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A federal judge on Tuesday [6-25-19] refused to put on hold a lawsuit by about 200 Democratic lawmakers accusing President Donald Trump of violating an anti-corruption provision of the U.S. Constitution with his private business dealings, a move that clears the way for them to seek some of his financial records. U.S. District […]
6/25/2019
BUSINESS/CHILE/ENVIRONMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “In the waning months of the Obama administration, a Chilean conglomerate was losing a fight with the United States government over a copper mine that it wanted to build near a pristine wilderness area in Minnesota. The election of President Trump, with his business-friendly bent, turned out to be a game-changer […]
6/21/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Felix H. Sater, a former business associate of President Trump’s, failed to show up on Friday [6-21-19] to an interview with House investigators meant to explore his work on a proposed Trump real estate project in Moscow. He will now face a congressional subpoena. Mr. Sater had voluntarily agreed to […]
6/19/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Felix Sater, the Russian-born business associate of President Donald Trump who worked on the Moscow Trump Tower project, told CNN Wednesday [6-19-19] he will testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Friday [6-21-19]. Sater’s testimony, which will be behind closed doors, is a sign that the House Intelligence Committee is […]
6/14/2019
BUSINESS/IVANKA/JARED KUSHNER/TRUMP BUSINESS: “In their second year of government service, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner reported income from their companies and investments of as much as $135 million, according to their annual financial disclosure reports made public on Friday [6-14-19]. All told, the couple’s real estate holdings and other investments were worth as much as […]
6/14/2019
LEGAL/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Washington’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board opened the door this week to hearing a challenge to President Donald Trump’s liquor license at his Washington hotel over claims that he doesn’t meet the city’s ‘good character’ requirements. The board on Wednesday issued an order denying the Trump International Hotel’s motion to dismiss a ‘protest’ from a […]
6/6/2019
GOLF/IRELAND/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Donald Trump is on a global tour of his own businesses — and it’s putting more money in his bank account. On Wednesday [6-5-19], the president traveled to his luxury resort on Ireland’s west coast for a visit that will bring world-wide publicity and increased security to the location, and, if past trends […]
5/22/2019
FBI/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer, was in constant contact with — and received thousands of dollars from — a Russia-linked firm starting on Election Day in 2016, newly unsealed court documents show. The transactions soon caught the attention of investigators, as the FBI zeroed in on what […]
5/22/2019
COURTS/DEMS/LEGAL/TRUMP BUSINESS: “For three years, Donald J. Trump has treated the details of his personal and business finances as a closely guarded secret. On Wednesday [5-22-19], those secrets moved two steps closer to becoming public. A federal judge in Manhattan ruled against a request from President Trump to block his longtime lender, Deutsche Bank, from […]
5/21/2019
CONGRESS/COURTS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday [5-21-19] appealed a federal judge’s ruling against his attempt to block a House of Representatives committee from seeking his financial records, according to a court filing. Lawyers for Trump and his company filed the appeal in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia one […]
5/20/2019
COURTS/DEMS/LEGAL/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Trump’s accounting firm must turn over his financial records to Congress, a Federal District Court judge ruled on Monday [5-20-19], rejecting his legal team’s argument that lawmakers had no legitimate power to subpoena the files. But Mr. Trump vowed that his legal team would appeal rather than permit the firm, Mazars USA, […]
5/20/2019
MEDIA/TRUMP BUSINESS: “….fashioned, but true. When you don’t need or want money, you don’t need or want banks. Banks have always been available to me, they want to make money. Fake Media only says this to disparage, and always uses unnamed sources (because their sources don’t even exist)……” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 20, 2019 6:20 […]
5/20/2019
TRUMP BUSINESS: “….Now the new big story is that Trump made a lot of money and buys everything for cash, he doesn’t need banks. But where did he get all of that cash? Could it be Russia? No, I built a great business and don’t need banks, but if I did they would be there…and […]
5/20/2019
TRUMP BUSINESS: “…..was very good and highly professional to deal with – and if for any reason I didn’t like them, I would have gone elsewhere….there was always plenty of money around and banks to choose from. They would be very happy to take my money. Fake News!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 20, 2019 6:20 […]
5/17/2019
TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY: “When Donald J. Trump became president, he left his eldest sons in charge of his company, with a mandate to continue expanding the family’s business and brand — which they said at the time was ‘the hottest it has ever been.’ Now, more than two years into his presidency, there is growing […]
5/16/2019
TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Trump’s family business saw its overall revenues decline modestly in 2018, according to his annual financial report released Thursday [5-16-19], suggesting a disconnect between the Trump brand and the still-growing national economy. The revenue declines were most pronounced at some of Mr. Trump’s best-known properties, including the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, which […]
5/16/2019
LAWSUIT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Assuming that he’s telling the truth — and with this President this may be a leap — Donald Trump made at least $434 million last year before expenses. His newly-released financial disclosure form shows much of this money came in the form of rent payments, asset sales, and golf course operations — with […]
5/14/2019
HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The House Intelligence Committee is investigating whether lawyers tied to President Trump and his family helped obstruct the panel’s inquiry into Russian election interference by shaping false testimony, a series of previously undisclosed letters from its chairman show. The line of inquiry stems from claims made by the president’s […]
5/10/2019
TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP TAXES: “Donald Trump reported more than $1 billion in real estate losses on his tax returns from 1985 to 1994, The New York Times revealed this week. Those losses allowed him to avoid paying any income tax for eight of the 10 years that were reviewed. The Times investigation offered a detailed portrait […]
5/9/2019
DONALD JR/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Donald Trump Jr. is unlikely to comply with a U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee subpoena to testify about his contacts with Russia, two congressional sources said on Thursday [5-9-19] as the president publicly defended his eldest son. The sources said Trump Jr is expected to cite his Fifth Amendment constitutional […]
5/8/2019
IRS/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP TAXES: “President Trump on Wednesday [5-8-19] defended the more than $1 billion he reported in business losses between 1985 and 1994, a previously undisclosed amount revealed in a New York Times investigation, as a best practice that other real estate developers had also used. Yet even as he tried to explain in a […]
5/8/2019
TAXES/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP TAXES: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [5-8-19] defended the massive losses he racked up in the 1980s and 1990s, saying the tax write-offs from bad deals were all part of the ‘sport’ of business at the time. The New York Times reported Tuesday [5-7-19] that tax figures it obtained from the years 1985 […]
5/2/2019
2016 ELECTION/FBI/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The conversation at a London bar in September 2016 took a strange turn when the woman sitting across from George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser, asked a direct question: Was the Trump campaign working with Russia? The woman had set up the meeting to discuss foreign policy issues. But she was […]
5/1/2019
DEMS/INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “In 1973, when Donald J. Trump’s real estate firm faced a potentially existential threat from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s accusations of discriminatory practices, his lawyer, Roy Cohn, filed a countersuit against the government, accusing the agency of defamation. The gambit, announced at a news conference, helped Mr. Trump, […]
4/30/2019
LAWSUIT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Over two decades, Deutsche Bank lent Donald J. Trump billions of dollars, even as his tarnished financial record put him off limits for most of Wall Street…Now, Deutsche Bank is putting the president on the defensive. Lawyers for the bank have spent months cooperating with investigators from two Democratic-controlled congressional committees, which issued […]
4/30/2019
DEMS/EMOLUMENTS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Democratic lawmakers scored another victory Tuesday [4-30-19] in their lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of violating the Constitution by doing business with foreign governments. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan rejected the Justice Department’s argument that the term ‘emolument’ in the Constitution should be read narrowly to apply to payments that […]
4/22/2019
CONGRESS/DEMS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump on Monday [4-22-19] filed suit to keep U.S. lawmakers from obtaining his financial records, the first salvo in what promises to be an escalating legal battle with Democrats in Congress. The suit seeks to block a subpoena issued by the Democratic chairman of the U.S. House Oversight Committee […]
4/22/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Trump and his businesses, seeking to brush back congressional investigators, sued the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Monday [4-22-19] to try to quash a congressional subpoena for their financial records. The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court here, argued that the committee’s chairman, Representative […]
4/15/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/LEGAL/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Congressional investigators on Monday [4-15-19] intensified their pursuit of President Trump’s personal and business financial records by issuing a subpoena to his longtime lender, Deutsche Bank. The two committees that issued the subpoena, the House’s Intelligence and Financial Services committees, also demanded documents from numerous other financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, […]
4/12/2019
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS: “House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) is moving to issue a subpoena to obtain 10 years of President Donald Trump’s financial records from accounting firm Mazars USA, the chairman told members of the panel in a memo on Friday [4-12-19]. Cummings plans to issue the subpoena on Monday [4-15-19] […]
4/12/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/LEGAL/TREASURY/TRUMP TAXES/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The chairman of the House oversight committee said Friday [4-12-19] he intends to subpoena President Donald Trump’s accountant for his financial records. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., told committee members in a letter that Mazars USA wouldn’t turn over records for Trump, his company and related entities without a subpoena. Cummings […]
4/10/2019
DEFENSE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Defense Department personnel have charged more than $300,000 at Trump-branded properties since the start of Donald Trump’s presidency through last November, according to internal agency documents obtained by CNN. The transactions range from lodging expenses at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, to restaurant tabs at the Trump International […]
4/10/2019
FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Manhattan, near the southwest corner of Central Park, is a 44-story building with a mix of luxury condominiums and hotel suites that go for more than $2,500 a night. Unit 32G, a two-bedroom, 1,767-square-foot apartment with sweeping views of the park, is owned by an […]
4/9/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Behind the clipped hedges of President Trump’s sumptuous private clubs in South Florida, including his Mar-a-Lago estate where he has spent many getaway weekends, there has long been a built-in contradiction to the policy the president has repeatedly described as ‘America First.’ Many of his employees have foreign passports. Romanians serve […]
4/9/2019
CONGRESS/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump revived a decades-old real estate battle with House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler on Tuesday [4-9-19], casting himself as a blameless victim of the New York congressman who prevailed in spite of Nadler’s opposition…The Washington Post reported on Monday [4-8-19] that Trump went on a tirade last month […]
4/4/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Three powerful House committee chairs asked Capital One for documents last month related to President Donald Trump’s business empire — and the financial giant said it was already preserving documents but needs a subpoena in order to comply, according to letters obtained by POLITICO. The March 11 request from House Oversight and […]
3/27/2019
DEMS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A request by a leading Democrat for records of Donald Trump’s financial dealings before he became president set off a partisan squabble in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday [3-27-19]. In a letter to the chairman and chief executive officer of Mazars USA LLP, an audit and accounting firm, Elijah Cummings, chairman of […]
3/12/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “House Democrats grilled T-Mobile CEO John Legere on Tuesday [3-12-19] for staying at the Trump International Hotel while his company seeks government approval for a merger with Sprint. Legere and Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law to answer questions […]
3/12/2019
ATTORNEY GENERAL/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The New York attorney general’s office issued subpoenas on Monday [3-11-19] to two banks for records relating to the funding of several Trump Organization projects, The New York Times reported. Citing an unnamed source briefed on the subpoenas, the Times reported that the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James […]
3/7/2019
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer of U.S. President Donald Trump, on Thursday [3-7-19] sued the Trump Organization, saying it reneged on its obligation to reimburse him for millions of dollars of legal fees and costs related to his work. In a complaint filed in the New York state supreme […]
3/7/2019
LAWSUIT/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Michael D. Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for President Trump, sued the Trump Organization on Thursday [2-7-19]. He accused the company of breaking a contract when it refused to pay about $1.9 million in legal costs after he began cooperating with federal prosecutors. The lawsuit, filed in State Supreme Court in […]
3/7/2019
LAWSUIT/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney and fixer for President Donald Trump, filed a lawsuit against the Trump Organization on Thursday, claiming his former employer owes him millions of dollars in unpaid legal and court fees related to federal investigations that stem from Cohen’s work on the president’s behalf. In a lawsuit […]
3/6/2019
IVANKA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Ivanka Trump became a full-time adviser to the President in March 2017 after informally advising her father, Donald Trump, during the first two months of his administration. Critics point out her lack of government experience, but defenders note her father ran a campaign explicitly on his record as a businessman and […]
3/6/2019
CONGRESS/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Michael Cohen on Wednesday [3-6-19] provided the House Intelligence Committee with new documents showing edits to the false written statement he delivered to Congress in 2017 about the Trump Organization’s pursuit of the Trump Tower Moscow project into the 2016 campaign season, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. […]
3/6/2019
NEW YORK/REGULATIONS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A state regulator has subpoenaed an insurance provider for The Trump Organization, opening a new front in the widening investigations focused on President Donald Trump, his business, family, and White House administration. Aon, a London-headquartered financial services company that is one of the world’s largest insurance brokerages, said it was served a subpoena on Monday […]
3/5/2019
INVESTIGATIONS/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “New York State regulators have issued an expansive subpoena to the Trump Organization’s longtime insurance broker, the first step in an investigation of insurance policies and claims involving President Trump’s family business, according to the company and a person briefed on the matter. The subpoena was served late Monday on […]
3/5/2019
INVESTIGATIONS/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS: “New York State’s financial regulator has subpoenaed the insurance broker for President Donald Trump’s family business, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday [3-5-19], after former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen told Congress the president inflated the value of assets to insurers. The New York State Department of Financial Services issued […]
3/5/2019
INVESTIGATIONS/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “New York regulators have sent a subpoena to the Trump Organization’s longtime insurance broker, a request that comes days after President Donald Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, told Congress the president had misled insurers about the value of his assets. The brokerage, Aon, told The Associated Press on Tuesday […]
3/7/2019
LAWSUIT/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen filed a lawsuit against Trump Organization on Thursday [3-7-19] alleging that he was not paid for legal fees he incurred after turning on the president. Cohen, in the lawsuit filed in New York, says he was part of an agreement with the […]
2/28/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “As Michael Cohen shed new light on the inner workings of President Donald Trump’s family business Wednesday [2-27-19], he rattled off a list of Trump Organization officials who are now likely to face congressional scrutiny of their own. Under questioning by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, Trump’s former personal […]
2/28/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/WOMEN: “Yesterday’s testimony by Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, before the House Oversight Committee was full of theatrics. But between allegations of presidential lawbreaking and racism were revelations about how the Trump Organization operated. They weren’t flattering. Mr. Trump inflated his net worth to apply for bank loans, according […]
2/27/2019
2016 ELECTION/CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In the high-stakes battle between President Donald Trump and Michael Cohen, some of the people in their immediate orbit are ending up as collateral hits. Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer dropped several names of people in Trump’s inner circle Wednesday during his nationally televised testimony before the […]
2/27/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “In early 2014, Donald J. Trump approached his personal bankers at Deutsche Bank to sound them out about potentially lending him money to buy the Buffalo Bills. He provided the bankers with a collection of bare-bones personal financial statements. The documents were provided so that Deutsche Bank — the only […]
2/27/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Trump’s longtime lawyer and fixer accused him on Wednesday [2-27-19] of an expansive pattern of lies and criminality, offering a damning portrayal of life inside the president’s orbit where he said advisers sacrificed integrity for proximity to power. Michael D. Cohen, who represented Mr. Trump for a decade, laid […]
2/27/2019
ATTORNEY GENERAL/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The attorney general for the District of Columbia has subpoenaed documents from President Trump’s inaugural committee, the third governmental body to delve into how the fund raised $107 million and spent it to celebrate Mr. Trump’s swearing-in. The latest subpoena follows similar demands for documents by federal prosecutors in Manhattan […]
2/27/2019
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/WOMEN: “President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen testified to Congress on Wednesday [2-27-19] that some reimbursement checks issued to him for hush-money payments to an adult film star were signed by Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer. Cohen said Donald Trump himself, while president, signed a […]
2/25/2019
DONALD JR/HOUSE OF REPS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Trump Organization fired back at investigations into its business Monday [2-25-19], demanding a House panel end its probe because of ethical conflicts. Separately, President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., accused federal prosecutors in a ‘Fox & Friends’ interview of resorting to ‘Stalinist’ tactics as they investigate the […]
2/25/2019
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP BUSINESS: “House Democrats are planning to cross one of President Donald Trump’s red lines: investigating his personal finances. With special counsel Robert Mueller expected to wind up his probe soon, Democrats are launching an investigation to discover why Deutsche Bank was willing to lend The Trump Organization money when other banks […]
2/22/2019
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSNIESS/TRUMP FAMILY: “Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, met last month with federal prosecutors in Manhattan, offering information about possible irregularities within the president’s family business and about a donor to the inaugural committee, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Cohen, who worked at the Trump Organization for […]
2/22/2019
NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS: “When Donald J. Trump purchased the muddy stretch of abandoned rail yards alongside the Hudson River in 1985, he envisioned building a complex called ‘Trump City’ on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The deal didn’t quite come together, but nevertheless, in the scaled-back version that rose between West 72nd and West 59th streets, […]
2/7/2019
TRUMP BUSINESS: “The building that helped Donald Trump make a name for himself in his first big deal in Manhattan is being sold to developers who plan to tear it down. Developer TF Cornerstone said Thursday [2-7-19] that it and a group managing billionaire Michael Dell’s money have agreed to buy the Grand Hyatt New […]
2/5/2019
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A federal subpoena seeking documents from Donald Trump’s inaugural committee is part of ‘a hysteria’ over the fact that he’s president, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Tuesday [2-5-19]. Federal prosecutors in New York issued the wide-ranging subpoena Monday [2-4-19], furthering a federal inquiry into a fund that has […]