A Foreign Government Reportedly Booked Trump Hotel Rooms That Were Never Used | Talking Points Memo

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I like the way your mind works. Meanwhile the IRS is probably pulling up all your past returns. Be prepared to document everything.

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I have a recollection that Saudi Arabia was accused of doing this in the past.

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So it’s like those ghost employee deals for local government corruption, only backwards.

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Not to mention the hotel could easily double-dip and rent that paid-for but unoccupied room out to someone else - who may or may not show up either, come to think of it. Hotels over-book all the time.

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With a bunch of zeros.

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I think he really expects (ed) to operate with no restraints at all and no accountability.

I think the sheer mass of wrongdoing is causing the inescapable sinking of the ship.

One cannot shake a stick in his direction (or that of his minions) without hitting corruption, malfeasance, and general disappointment.

He truly does belong in jail.

It’s so tawdry, common, parochial, basic.

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But but but HUNTER BIDEN and his DAD??? Quick…let me rage tweet!

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Yeah, I wonder how many times over you can charge for unoccupied hotel rooms -rooms you know aren’t going to be occupied, wink…wink? I’m no mathematician, but infinity?

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Nah, I saw the Saudi Prince on 60 Minutes. He seems nice.

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Perhaps they booked the rooms just in case they needed a place to murder a few journalists? And then it turned out that there was no need for further murder; people got the message after Khashoggi. Move on, nothing to see here…

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I have resigned myself to the fact there there will be many, many things that will never see the light of day, and that includes the exact agreements between Kushner and MBS which probably make the Ukraine call sound like a walk in the park. I can only hope and wish that something is revealed that puts Kushner behind the same bars that his father looked out from.

God, what a fucking bunch of crooks.

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@dwward

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They’re gonna need a truck to deliver the Bill of Impeachment to the Senate…

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Zelensky noted that he stayed in Trump Tower

So, whose condo unit was Zelensky using? But it is not necessarily unusual that foreign-owned units luxury buildings are lightly used.

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Crazy Rudy has a deal going where for every 1,000 rooms you book in our hotel, we will condone the live dismemberment of one of our journalists.

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Hey, the same entity could rent them over again too! Or a shell company if you want to make it slightly less obvious to the peons.

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Was the trade group the NRA?

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API. American Petroleum Institute.

Big American Oil Industry trade group.

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Pay to Play. Corruption. Grifting. General assholery.

Whatever you call it, it’s bad for democracy and bad for the country.

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I’m sure In every instance word got to Trump about any government, trade group, company, lobbyist, individual, etc. who had business with the government and rented Trump properties. Same thing for the increases in membership at his golf courses and those using his other properties. He never stopped using his businesses at any cost to others for his personal gain, and his new position as POTUS simply expanded the possibilities to be exploited.

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