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MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 07:03 PM Jan 2018

Trump Tower India: If you buy a flat, we'll fly you to the U.S. to meet Don Jr.

Prospective buyers of luxury apartments in the new Trump Towers project outside India’s capital are being lured with an unusual promise: If you buy a flat, we’ll fly you to the U.S. to meet Don Jr. The offer is now raising ethics concerns, WaPo reports.



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Trump Tower India: If you buy a flat, we'll fly you to the U.S. to meet Don Jr. (Original Post) MelissaB Jan 2018 OP
I cant, I just cant Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #1
What happens to their value when Don Jr is sitting in sing-sing? HipChick Jan 2018 #2
...and if you buy TWO, you don't have to meet ANY of them! nt Buns_of_Fire Jan 2018 #3
I recall that they had to cancel a "coffee with Ivanka" auction Tanuki Jan 2018 #4

Tanuki

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4. I recall that they had to cancel a "coffee with Ivanka" auction
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 07:15 PM
Jan 2018

for ethical reasons. Why would they think this would be ok?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/us/politics/ivanka-trump-charity-auction.amp.html
"December 16, 2016

WASHINGTON — An auction offering a 45-minute private meeting with Ivanka Trump in exchange for a charitable donation was abruptly canceled Friday after questions were raised about the process by ethics experts, who said it appeared to offer bidders special access to the next first family.

The auction had been running for 10 days, drawing 28 bids, the highest of which reached $72,888. The bidders included at least three businessmen who said in interviews that they saw their donation as an opportunity to have coffee with Ms. Trump to press her for information about her father’s plans as president or to try to urge Mr. Trump to take up an issue important to them.

All information on the amounts and names of the bidders disappeared from the internet with no notice on Friday afternoon. The winning bidder would have been an organization called Go Hydrogen..."



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