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 […]
Category: A- Trump Business
2/4/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Trump Organization has fired at least 18 undocumented workers over the past two months, The Washington Post reported Monday. [2-4-19] The purge of workers reported by the Post followed repeated reports about President Donald Trump’s company employing undocumented immigrants despite the President’s near-constant focus on the issue of immigration. Trump’s […]
2/1/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “In 1993, Donald Trump took on the political establishment of Palm Beach, Florida, and took from that experience a blueprint for the future. This formative political campaign started with a business proposition. The town council of Palm Beach had recently turned down Trump’s plan to build eight homes that he planned […]
2/1/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Trump’s family business has employed undocumented workers more broadly than it was previously believed, with multiple workers losing their jobs last month at a Trump golf club in southern New Jersey. The club in Pine Hill, N.J., known as the Trump National Golf Club Philadelphia, was the third Trump property […]
1/31/2019
BRAZIL/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A well-connected businessman in Brazil conceived the idea of a luxurious getaway in Rio de Janeiro bearing a world-famous name: Trump. After work began on the Trump Hotel Rio de Janeiro, the businessman, Paulo Figueiredo Filho, boasted about his access to Donald J. Trump, who was then a candidate for president. Mr. Figueiredo, […]
1/30/2019
CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “An undocumented employee who was recently fired from President Donald Trump’s golf club in New Jersey will attend the State of the Union address next week. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J) invited Victorina Morales, who worked at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., as her guest for the president’s address […]
1/30/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “An undocumented immigrant who worked at one of President Trump’s golf clubs in New Jersey for years and recently spoke out about her experience will attend his State of the Union address after being invited by her Democratic congresswoman, the woman’s lawyer and the congresswoman’s office said Wednesday [1-30-19]. The undocumented […]
1/29/2019
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Trump Organization said late Tuesday [1-29-19] that it was implementing a system to weed out undocumented immigrants who try to get jobs at its properties. The move followed reports in The New York Times last month that the president’s company was employing people at its flagship golf club in New Jersey who […]
1/18/2019
TAXES/TREASURY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Shrugging off the limitations of the partial government shutdown, the Trump administration finalized rules on Friday [1-18-19] governing who can claim a new 20 percent tax deduction for business owners. Officials said the rules would allow millions of businesses to file their 2018 taxes with certainty over whether they qualify for […]
1/17/2019
MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump’s former fixer and personal attorney Michael Cohen paid a technology expert to rig online polls in Trump’s favor, according to The Wall Street Journal. John Gauger, the owner of Red Finch Solutions and chief information officer at Liberty University, said Cohen offered him $50,000 to manipulate two […]
1/17/2019
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY: “You probably think you know who Donald Trump is. Most Americans do. For decades, he’s been in the public eye—first as a flamboyant real estate developer, then a reality TV star, then a political performer—and has been branding himself upon the public imagination throughout that entire time. Who is Donald […]
1/16/2019
TRUMP BUSINESS: “The federal agency that had leased a prime property in Washington to the Trump Organization failed to grapple fully after the 2016 election with the politically fraught question of whether Donald J. Trump’s victory left the deal in violation of the Constitution, according to an inspector general’s report released on Wednesday [1-16-19]. The […]
1/16/2019
TRUMP BUSINESS: “Federal officials who leased the Old Post Office Building to President Donald Trump were aware of constitutional provisions that could breach the lease, but ‘decided not to address those issues,’ according to a government watchdog report Wednesday [1-16-19]. The lease for the Trump International Hotel a few blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue from the […]
1/16/2019
BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A day after telecom giant T-Mobile announced a $26 billion merger with rival Sprint, nine of T-Mobile’s top executives — including its CEO, John Legere — checked into President Donald Trump’s Washington hotel, according to internal VIP arrivals lists obtained by The Washington Post. The merger between the third and fourth […]
1/16/2019
DEMS/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “An internal U.S. government watchdog on Wednesday [1-16-19] found ‘serious shortcomings’ in federal officials’ handling of a lease by President Donald Trump’s company of a historic government building in Washington now home to a Trump International Hotel. Amid intensifying scrutiny of possible conflicts of interest involving Trump’s businesses, the inspector […]
1/11/2019
DEMS/ETHICS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Trump Organization has hired a former White House lawyer to handle inquiries from the Democrat-led House, two people familiar with the situation said on Friday [1-11-19], part of the strategy by the White House and the company to counter an expected onslaught of requests and subpoenas. The lawyer, […]
1/8/2019
2016 ELECTION/DONALD JR/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Russian lawyer who attended a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with members of the Trump campaign was charged by federal prosecutors in New York with obstruction of justice in connection with a money-laundering case, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday that highlighted her ties to the Russian government. […]
12/26/2018
COURTS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Lawyers for President Donald Trump are invoking the government shutdown to seek a delay in a court case over claims that Trump is illegally profiting from business his Washington hotel does with foreign countries. Justice Department attorneys representing Trump asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday [12-26-18] to postpone indefinitely […]
12/20/2018
ETHICS/LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The existence of the Donald J. Trump Foundation ended Tuesday [12-18-18] with a whimper, as the much-maligned organization agreed to dissolve itself as part of an important lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood. Citing a ‘shocking pattern of illegality’ stretching back more than a decade, Underwood explained […]
12/20/2018
LAWSUIT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “When four people sued President Trump and the Trump Organization, accusing them of using the Trump name to entice vulnerable investors to enter sham business schemes, the plaintiffs took the highly unusual step of asking a judge for permission to proceed under pseudonyms. Lawyers for the plaintiffs, who are listed in the lawsuit […]
12/20/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LAWSUIT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A federal appeals court temporarily halted on Thursday [12-20-18] a lawsuit that accuses President Trump of illegally benefiting from his family’s business, an interim victory for the Justice Department in its effort to block more than three dozen subpoenas for documents from the Trump Organization, the president’s trust and other entities. A […]
12/19/2018
RUDY GIULIANI/RUSSIA/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump signed a letter of intent in the effort to land a deal for a Trump property in Moscow, according to a document published Tuesday [12-18-18] by CNN, after Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani denied Sunday [12-16-18] that anyone had signed such a document. The agreement – dated Oct. 28, 2015, […]
12/19/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/DEMS/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump ripped New York Democrats and prosecutors Wednesday [12-19-18] over targeting the Trump Foundation a day after it agreed to shut down amid a lawsuit by the state. Taking to Twitter on Wednesday morning, the New York native and Republican president criticized the attacks on the embattled […]
12/19/2018
DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Democrats still have two weeks until they take control of the House, but a top Democratic investigator is already putting President Donald Trump on notice. Incoming House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings on Wednesday [12-19-18] sent more than 50 letters to multiple agencies and departments as […]
12/19/2018
LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump complained Wednesday [12-19-18] about a ‘double standard of ‘justice’’ being applied to him by New York Democrats after his personal charity was shut down this week thanks to a lawsuit initially brought by former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. In a series of tweets, Trump claimed […]
12/19/2018
DEMS/LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday [12-19-18] at New York Democrats over their efforts to shut down his charitable foundation. Trump tweeted that his foundation has ‘done great work and given away lots of money.’ New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood announced Tuesday that the foundation would dissolve while it […]
12/19/2018
DEMS/LAWSUIT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Trump Foundation has done great work and given away lots of money, both mine and others, to great charities over the years – with me taking NO fees, rent, salaries etc. Now, as usual, I am getting slammed by Cuomo and the Dems in a long running civil lawsuit started by…..” -Donald […]
12/18/2018
LAWSUIT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump’s charitable foundation reached a deal Tuesday [12-18-18] to go out of business, even as Trump continues to fight allegations he misused its assets to resolve business disputes and boost his run for the White House. New York’s attorney general and lawyers for the Trump Foundation agreed on a court-supervised process […]
12/18/2018
LAWSUIT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Donald J. Trump Foundation, once billed as the charitable arm of the president’s financial empire, agreed to dissolve on Tuesday [12-18-18] and give away all its remaining assets under court supervision as part of an ongoing investigation and lawsuit by the New York attorney general. The foundation was accused by the attorney […]
12/17/18
LAWSUITS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Constitution prohibits the president from accepting payments from foreign and domestic governments. President Trump owns hotels and other properties that are frequented by foreign and domestic government officials. These facts, claim plaintiffs in two lawsuits that have cleared several hurdles, add up to repeated and multiple violations of the Constitution by the […]
12/17/2018
COURTS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Monday [12-17-18] to throw out or at least temporarily halt a lawsuit that accuses President Trump of illegally benefiting from his family’s business, seeking to block more than three dozen subpoenas for documents from the Trump Organization, the president’s trust and […]
12/15/2018
TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP TAXES: “They were collateral damage as Donald J. Trump and his siblings dodged inheritance taxes and gained control of their father’s fortune: thousands of renters in an empire of unassuming red-brick buildings scattered across Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. Those buildings have been home to generations of strivers, municipal workers and newly arrived […]
12/14/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump’s personal lawyers are trying to pause evidence collection in a fight over the constitutionality of the revenue of his Washington hotel, according to a new request to a federal court to stay the case. Previously, the DC and Maryland lawsuit alleging the President had received illegal gifts […]
12/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/IVANKA/LAWSUIT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee spent funds on hotel rooms and meals at the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC and also rented space there at rates negotiated partly by Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump, WNYC and ProPublica reported Friday [12-14-18]. Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating the committee for […]
12/14/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A legal effort to force President Donald Trump to clarify how much he personally owes to banks got a highly skeptical reception at a federal appeals court Friday [12-14-18]. Since last year, Washington attorney Jeffrey Lovitky has mounted a one-man battle to get Trump to re-file his financial disclosure forms to […]
12/14/2018
OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Trump was in a Washington food fracas before he was even elected. He landed in the middle of two lawsuits in the summer of 2016 with restaurateurs who had backed out of opening establishments in the Trump International Hotel near the White House, and by 2017 was tangling with the […]
12/7/2018
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Victorina Morales, a housekeeper at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., disclosed in an interview with The New York Times this week that she had been working illegally at the facility for more than five years. Ms. Morales, 45, a Guatemalan immigrant, entered the United States at the California border […]
12/7/2018
IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Two more immigrant women who worked at the Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey said on Friday [12-7-18] that they were undocumented at the time and that golf course management knew it. One of the women said that she was allowed to submit fraudulent documents by the employee who interviewed […]
12/6/2018
IMMIGRATION/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Two women who cleaned rooms set aside for President Donald Trump at one of his golf resorts in New Jersey say they used false papers to get hired, their supervisors knew it and that many employees there also lack legal documents. Anibal Romero, a lawyer representing Victorina Morales and Sandra […]
12/5/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP TAXES: “Subpoenas served on the Trump Organization and a dozen related business entities by the attorneys general of the District of Columbia and Maryland on Wednesday [12-5-18] include demands for tax documents — raising the possibility that President Donald Trump’s corporate returns could eventually be made public. While the subpoenas don’t […]
12/4/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The State of Maryland and the District of Columbia began issuing subpoenas on Tuesday [12-4-18] for records related to President Trump’s hotel in Washington, seeking evidence of conflicts of interest that violate the Constitution’s anti-corruption provision. Their demands for a vast array of documents, including tax records related to the […]
12/4/2018
LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia on Tuesday [12-4-18] formally demanded financial records from U.S. President Donald Trump’s businesses as part of their lawsuit alleging his dealings with foreign governments violate anti-corruption clauses of the U.S. Constitution. The attorneys general issued subpoenas to the Trump Organization Inc, […]
12/4/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The attorneys general of the District of Columbia and Maryland began sending subpoenas to the Trump Organization as well as five federal agencies and the state of Maine for financial records involving payments to President Donald Trump’s businesses. Subpoenas are expected to begin going out as early as Tuesday [12-4-18], with […]
12/4/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/IRS/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The attorneys general of the District of Columbia and Maryland plan to file subpoenas Tuesday [12-4-18] seeking records from the Trump Organization, the Internal Revenue Service and dozens of other entities as part of a lawsuit accusing Donald Trump of profiting off the presidency. The flurry of subpoenas came a […]
12/4/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia on Tuesday [12-4-18] formally demanded financial records from U.S. President Donald Trump’s businesses as part of their lawsuit alleging his dealings with foreign governments violate anti-corruption clauses of the U.S. Constitution. The attorneys general issued subpoenas to the Trump Organization […]
12/3/2018
LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A federal judge has finalized the schedule for when state challengers suing President Donald Trump over proceeds from the Trump International Hotel get to seek evidence for their case. Judge Peter Messitte has ordered that the initial disclosure of evidence occur by the end of the month in a lawsuit brought […]
12/3/2018
COURTS/LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A federal judge on Monday [12-3-18] said lawyers for Maryland and Washington, D.C., can begin issuing subpoenas in a lawsuit that accuses President Donald Trump of using his luxury hotel in Washington to unconstitutionally profit from his political office. The attorneys general in Maryland and Washington say they plan to […]
11/30/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Trump woke up in balmy Buenos Aires early Friday [11-30-18], but his mind was back in Washington as he defended his decision to continue pursuing business deals as he ran for president in 2016, including looking ‘lightly’ at constructing a building in Russia. The president’s Twitter defense […]
11/29/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Two senior Democratic investigators in the U.S. Congress said on Thursday [11-29-18] they want to hear testimony from officials of President Donald Trump’s family foundation and a separate nonprofit group that once employed Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker. In a preview of the kinds of inquiries Democrats may launch in January when they […]
11/29/2018
HOUSE OF REPS/MICHAEL COHEN/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday [11-29-18] denied pursuing a Trump Organization real estate project in Moscow, which his former lawyer Michael Cohen said they had continued until June 2016, during the presidential campaign. Cohen pleaded guilty on Thursday to lying to Congress about the project, putting fresh […]
11/29/2018
CONGRESS/DEMS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Two senior Democratic investigators in the U.S. Congress said on Thursday [11-29-18] they want to hear testimony from officials of President Donald Trump’s family foundation and a separate nonprofit group that once employed Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker. In a preview of the kinds of inquiries Democrats may launch in January when they […]
11/29/2018
CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Donald J. Trump was more involved in discussions over a potential Russian business deal during the presidential campaign than previously known, his former lawyer Michael D. Cohen said Thursday [11-29-18] in pleading guilty to lying to Congress. Mr. Trump’s associates pursued the project as the Kremlin was escalating its election […]
11/29/2018
2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “When Donald J. Trump took a run at building a tower in Moscow in the middle of his 2016 presidential campaign, it was the high point of a decades-long effort to plant the ‘Trump’ flag there. The role his former lawyer Michael D. Cohen played in the endeavor entered […]
11/29/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The latest criminal charges against Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime fixer, for lying about a Moscow hotel deal raised questions of whether Mr. Cohen created new legal risks for Mr. Trump or his family members, possibly by contradicting what they told investigators about the same project. The answer, […]
11/26/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump’s company donated more than half a million dollars to the Donald J. Trump Foundation last year, according to a 2017 tax return made available Monday [11-26-18]. The purpose of $502,400 contribution from the Trump Corp. to the foundation was not disclosed in the filings. The New York state […]
11/23/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A state judge ruled on Friday [11-23-18] that a lawsuit by the New York State attorney general could proceed against President Trump and the Trump Foundation over allegations of misused charitable assets, self-dealing and campaign finance violations during the 2016 presidential campaign. Mr. Trump’s lawyers had argued that the court […]
11/23/2018
ATTORNEY GENERAL/LAWSUIT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A state supreme court judge has cleared the way for the New York state attorney general to pursue a civil lawsuit against the Trump Foundation for allegedly abusing its tax-free status and violating campaign laws by operating on behalf of President Donald Trump’s business and political interests. In a ruling […]
11/21/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “In the days after the midterm elections, executives at President Donald Trump’s family business, the Trump Organization, huddled on calls to discuss the possible implications of Democrats winning back the House of Representatives and the potential risk that poses to the company. While the Trump Organization has a long history of […]
11/19/2018
FTC/LEGAL/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A liberal watchdog group on Monday [11-19-18] asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate President Donald Trump’s involvement with a company that he has been accused of promoting to investors in unfair get-rich-quick schemes. Public Citizen, a consumer group that has often criticized the president, said in a letter to FTC Chairman Joseph […]
11/2/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LAWSUIT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A federal judge in Maryland on Friday [11-2-18] ordered evidence-gathering to begin in a lawsuit accusing President Trump of violating the Constitution by maintaining a financial interest in his company’s Washington hotel. The plaintiffs are seeking records that could illuminate potential conflicts of interest between Mr. Trump and foreign leaders or state […]
10/29/2018
LAWSUIT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump was accused in a lawsuit Monday [10-29-18] of misleading salespeople who lost money in a multi-level marketing company that he endorsed in speeches and on ‘The Celebrity Apprentice.’ The suit filed in Manhattan federal court alleged Trump received millions of dollars in exchange for reassuring potential salespeople for telephone company […]
10/23/2018
DEMS/ELECTION/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA/TRUMP BUSINESS: “If Democrats take back the House, the Intelligence Committee will investigate questions involving Russian money laundering and President Donald Trump’s businesses, Rep. Adam Schiff of California said on Tuesday [10-23-18]. Schiff, the top Democrat on the intelligence panel, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on ‘The Situation Room’ that Russian money laundering is one area […]
10/18/2018
FBI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Nearly two years before he would begin his presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump arrived in Washington to show off his plans for a luxury hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue under a deal he had reached to lease the site from the General Services Administration. But on that day in September 2013, he […]
10/18/2018
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 […]
10/16/2018
RUSSIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia (or Russia, for that matter). Any suggestion that I have is just more FAKE NEWS (of which there is plenty)!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 16, 2018 8:15 am […]
10/6/2018
RUSSIA/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP TAXES: “The mystery of where Donald Trump found oodles of cash to buy property after property in the nine years before his campaign for president was solved in part this week by the New York Times, whose investigative reporters have for the moment seized from the special counsel the title of most applauded […]
10/5/2018
GOLF/SCOTLAND/TRUMP BUSINESS: “The Turnberry golf resort owned by US president Donald Trump has racked up millions of pounds of losses for the fourth year in a row. According to Companies House filings, SLC Turnberry’s parent company Golf Recreation Scotland was in the red by almost £3.4m in 2017. In the previous year, it posted losses […]
10/4/2018
GOLF/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “President Donald Trump’s flagship golf resort in Scotland has lost millions of dollars for a fourth year in a row. His Turnberry resort on the Irish Sea lost 3.4 million pounds ($4.4 million dollars at current exchange rates) in 2017, despite opening a new course and refurbished hotel, according to a […]
10/4/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP TAXES: “Though President Donald Trump insists he did nothing wrong on his taxes, experts say he could be on the hook for tens of millions of dollars in civil fines if state and federal authorities substantiate a New York Times report that found he and his family cheated the IRS for […]
10/2/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP TAXES: “President Trump on Wednesday [10-3-18] criticized a New York Times investigation into his and his family’s use of dubious tax schemes over the years and the origins of his own wealth, calling the article an ‘old, boring and often told hit piece.’ Referring to The Times as the ‘Failing New […]
10/3/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP NETWORTH/TRUMP TAXES: “The president claims that his company was built solely through hard work. A 14,000-word investigation by the NYT begs to differ. It found that the Trump Organization owes its success to multimillion-dollar gifts from Fred C. Trump, President Trump’s father, and tax schemes that some experts say may have […]
10/3/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP TAXES: “President Donald Trump has badmouthed his hometown newspaper’s reporting as ‘sick,’ ‘weak,’ and ‘nasty.’ He even tells its reporters they work for the ‘failing New York Times.’ But in moments of reflection, he’s allowed that it’s a ‘great, great American jewel.’ The Grey Lady has long occupied space in Trump’s […]
10/3/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP NETWORTH/TRUMP TAXES: “U.S. President Donald Trump engaged in tax schemes that included cases of fraud in which he and his siblings helped their parents dodge millions of dollars in taxes, the New York Times reported on Tuesday [10-2-18]. The Times investigation, which the White House said was ‘misleading,’ showed Trump received […]
10/3/2018
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP TAXES: “President Donald Trump’s older sister, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, has kept a very low profile since he ran for office. But it appears as though she inadvertently had a central role in The New York Times blockbuster report on her brother’s alleged tax schemes. According to the Times, one […]
10/3/2018
TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP TAXES/MEDIA: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [10-3-18] criticized a New York Times investigation that alleged the president perpetuated a number of tax schemes and fraud during the 1990s to bolster the inheritance he received from his parents…The concept of time value of money is that money in the present time is […]
10/3/2018
MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP TAXES: “The Failing New York Times did something I have never seen done before. They used the concept of ‘time value of money’ in doing a very old, boring and often told hit piece on me. Added up, this means that 97% of their stories on me are bad. Never recovered […]
9/18/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Nearly a dozen lawyers now assist President Trump in contending with two federal investigations, one in Washington and one in New York, that could pose serious threats to his presidency and his businesses. But the expanding legal team is struggling to understand where the investigations could be headed and […]
9/12/2018
ELECTION/GOP/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump is raising money for his re-election campaign and the Republican Party at his Washington hotel. The Republican National Committee says about 175 people are attending the event Wednesday [9-12-18] at Trump’s hotel, raising at least $3 million for the joint ‘Trump Victory’ effort. Trump’s D.C. property has become a […]
9/12/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Central Park Tours leads groups to the ice skating rink on the south side of Central Park, they reach a point where big red letters spell out the name of the facility’s operator: ‘Trump.’ ‘We say, ‘Hey guys, you want to stop for pictures?’ And they are like, […]
8/31/2018
LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “U.S. President Donald Trump and his namesake foundation asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general over the nonprofit’s activities, including in the 2016 presidential campaign, calling it a politically motivated attack. In Thursday [8-30-28] night court filings, a lawyer for Trump said Attorney General Barbara […]
8/31/2018
LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Lawyers for President Trump’s charitable foundation pushed back aggressively against the New York State attorney general’s office in court papers on Thursday [8-30-18], calling a lawsuit against the charity a political attack motivated by the former attorney general’s ‘record of antipathy’ against Mr. Trump. The court papers, filed in State […]
8/30/2018
LAWSUIT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A lawsuit by a former personal driver for U.S. President Donald Trump who has claimed that Trump’s company failed to pay him for thousands of hours of overtime has been moved from federal court to private arbitration, the man’s lawyer said on Thursday [8-30-18]. The man, Noel Cintron, claimed in his lawsuit […]
8/25/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/PAUL MANAFORT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “A week that began with bad news closed with worse news for President Donald Trump. According to the New York Times, the Manhattan district attorney’s office is currently investigating the Trump Organization. In particular, they are examining the source of the payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, and […]
8/24/2018
LEGAL/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “He’s one of the longest-serving employees in Donald Trump’s family real estate business. Through triumphs, scandals and bankruptcies, he was there. Allen Weisselberg was handling the books when Fred Trump ran the company in the early 1970s. He was handling them when his son Donald made his mark with Trump Tower in […]
8/24/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Federal prosecutors have granted immunity to Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg in a probe involving President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday [8-24-18]. Weisselberg was called to testify before a federal grand jury earlier this year, the Journal said. Cohen, who arranged […]
8/23/2018
MICHAEL COHEN/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS/WOMEN: “The Manhattan district attorney’s office in New York City may push for criminal charges against the Trump Organization and two senior officials at the company over hush money that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen paid to an adult-film actress, according to a report. Investigators led by District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance […]
8/19/2018
DEMS/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….and have demanded transparency so that this Rigged and Disgusting Witch Hunt can come to a close. So many lives have been ruined over nothing – McCarthyism at its WORST! Yet Mueller & his gang of Dems refuse to look at the real crimes on the other side – Media is […]
7/26/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Allen Weisselberg, a longtime financial gatekeeper for President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in the criminal probe of Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, according to people familiar with the investigation. Mr. Weisselberg is considered a witness in the investigation, the people said. It […]
7/26/2018
LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Allen Weisselberg, a longtime financial gatekeeper for President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in the criminal probe of Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, according to people familiar with the investigation. Mr. Weisselberg is considered a witness in the investigation, the people said. It […]
7/25/2018
LAWSUIT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday [7-25-18] ruled that a lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump, the Trump International Hotel, and the Trump Organization violated the Constitution’s emoluments clause through gifts or payments from foreign and domestic governments can proceed. In his opinion, Judge Peter Messitte of the US District Court of […]
7/25/2018
LAWSUIT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “A federal judge on Wednesday [7-25-18] rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest effort to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of unconstitutionally doing business with foreign governments while occupying the White House. U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte in Greenbelt, Maryland said the attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia, Brian Frosh and […]
7/18/2018
2016 ELECTION/LEGAL/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS: “New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday [7-18-18] opened the door to a possible criminal case against the Donald J. Trump Foundation with a statement from his counsel that Cuomo was prepared to provide a criminal referral if asked. ‘At Governor Cuomo’s direction, the state stands ready to provide the Attorney […]
7/2/2018
ICE/IMMIGRATION/PRISONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration’s new push for more federal detention facilities for immigrants awaiting asylum hearings or deportation has brightened the outlook for the country’s two largest private prison operators. Tennessee-based CoreCivic Inc. and Florida-based Geo Group had already been helped by higher federal spending on Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Now, the Trump […]
6/14/2018
LAWSUIT/NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS: “On Thursday [6-14-18], the New York State attorney general sued the Donald J. Trump Foundation, charging it with ‘improper and extensive political activity, repeated and willful self-dealing transactions, and failure to follow basic fiduciary obligations or to implement even elementary corporate formalities required by law.’ The lawsuit follows years of scrutiny of […]
6/14/2018
2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The former F.B.I. director James B. Comey was ‘insubordinate’ in his handling of the investigation of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election, a critical Justice Department report has concluded, according to officials and others who saw or were briefed on it. But the report, by the department’s inspector […]
5/17/2018
DREAMERS/GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On Wednesday [5-16-18], two more Republicans signed on to a petition that would force an open-ended and unpredictable immigration debate onto the House floor — a nightmare scenario that the White House and GOP leaders seem, at least at the moment, unable to stop. The decisions by Republican Reps. John Katko of […]
5/17/2018
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Congratulations America, we are now into the second year of the greatest Witch Hunt in American History…and there is still No Collusion and No Obstruction. The only Collusion was that done by Democrats who were unable to win an Election despite the spending of far more money!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May […]
4/12/2018
NEW YORK/TRUMP BUSINESS: “For Todd Brassner, an art dealer who died in a fire that ripped through his Trump Tower apartment last weekend, the New York high-rise he lived in for two decades became unbearable after Donald Trump announced he was running for president. Brassner’s experience trying to sell his 50th-floor condominium in the building […]
4/11/2018
LEGAL/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump has long had ties to the nation’s major media players. But his connections with the country’s largest tabloid publisher, American Media Inc., run deeper than most. A former top executive of Mr. Trump’s casino business sits on A.M.I.’s four-member board of directors, and an adviser joined the media company […]
4/10/2018
FBI/LEGAL/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WOMEN: “Federal prosecutors in New York asked the Trump Organization, President Donald Trump’s flagship company, for records relating to a $130,000 payment to a former adult-film actress as part of an investigation into Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, according to a person familiar with the matter. The request came in connection with […]