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demmiblue

(36,742 posts)
Fri May 4, 2018, 09:44 AM May 2018

Trump set to benefit as Qatar buys $6.5m apartment in New York tower

Source: The Guardian

The government of Qatar bought a $6.5m apartment in one of Donald Trump’s New York towers soon after the dismissal of a lawsuit that tried to stop the president benefiting from such deals.

Qatar’s mission to the United Nations signed a deal for the condominium at Trump World Tower on 17 January, according to city records. The purchase means that the Middle Eastern state now owns four units in the building, for which it paid $16.5m.

On 21 December, a federal judge in New York had thrown out a lawsuit from ethics campaigners alleging that Trump was breaching the emoluments clause of the US constitution by collecting tens of thousands of dollars in charges from Qatar each year for the three apartments it already owned in the building.

Qatar’s new acquisition at Trump World Tower, which is in Manhattan’s Midtown East section, coincided with an intense lobbying campaign in Washington by the Qatari government amid a regional crisis that has pitted the Gulf monarchy against Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/04/trump-qatar-buys-apartment-new-york-tower

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Trump set to benefit as Qatar buys $6.5m apartment in New York tower (Original Post) demmiblue May 2018 OP
They are just being blatant now Proud liberal 80 May 2018 #1
The Fox News pundits' heads would literally explode. Initech May 2018 #6
What was its market value? What was the next highest offer? NT mahatmakanejeeves May 2018 #2
Profiting while in office should be taxed at 100%. forgotmylogin May 2018 #3
Is it a bidding war between Saudi Arabia and Qatar? lagomorph777 May 2018 #4
See what a blockade can do? Fullduplexxx May 2018 #5
So now we can run George Soros, or Warren Buffett, Oprah, or any more liberal wealthy person LiberalLovinLug May 2018 #7

Proud liberal 80

(4,167 posts)
1. They are just being blatant now
Fri May 4, 2018, 09:47 AM
May 2018

Because they know his supporters don’t give a shit.

Just imagine if this was the Clintons or Obamas.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
4. Is it a bidding war between Saudi Arabia and Qatar?
Fri May 4, 2018, 10:12 AM
May 2018

Whoever buys the most real estate will win Turd's favor? What if they go to Jared and buy real estate from him?

Turd has flip-flopped on Qatar at least once - will this flip him again?

LiberalLovinLug

(14,153 posts)
7. So now we can run George Soros, or Warren Buffett, Oprah, or any more liberal wealthy person
Fri May 4, 2018, 02:25 PM
May 2018

And promise them that they can still be making money on whatever businesses they are running. That's the new way now. And Republicans can't say boo.

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