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blogslut

(38,002 posts)
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 03:37 PM Aug 2018

Someone didn't want a new FBI headquarters across the street from his hotel




Bruce Leshan
?Verified account @BruceLeshan

#BREAKING New GSA Inspector General's report finds the President was involved in scuttling a plan to rebuild the FBI HQ across the street from the Trump Hotel. @wusa9 https://connolly.house.gov/uploadedfiles/gsa_ig_fbi_hq_report.pdf



Gosh. I wonder why?
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Someone didn't want a new FBI headquarters across the street from his hotel (Original Post) blogslut Aug 2018 OP
Revoke the lease. Build FBI HQ inside the Old Post Office. lagomorph777 Aug 2018 #1
+1000000000000000!!! 2naSalit Aug 2018 #4
Best idea I've heard in a long time! kentuck Aug 2018 #8
Too bad, it would have saved a lot of steps... Wounded Bear Aug 2018 #2
blind trust. yeah right. unblock Aug 2018 #3
K&R Solly Mack Aug 2018 #5
I don't know if the old Post Office Pavillion would make an ideal FBI headquarters.... GetRidOfThem Aug 2018 #6
We should be dicks and put the CFPB in there. Volaris Aug 2018 #9
There goes the neighborhood. sweetroxie Aug 2018 #7

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
1. Revoke the lease. Build FBI HQ inside the Old Post Office.
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 03:39 PM
Aug 2018

I loved visiting the Old Post Office before Pres. Turd desecrated it.

It would warm my heart to see it repurposed for something positive.

kentuck

(111,103 posts)
8. Best idea I've heard in a long time!
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 07:24 PM
Aug 2018

He didn't follow the guidelines of the lease anyway. He should lose it.

GetRidOfThem

(869 posts)
6. I don't know if the old Post Office Pavillion would make an ideal FBI headquarters....
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 04:06 PM
Aug 2018

...But I hate, hate, hate it being a Trump hotel. It should be re purposed for something else.

The reason why I don't think it would do a good job for the FBI is because they don't need s a building, they need a campus. I think close in, in the suburbs, just like the CIA, would be appropriate.

Speaking as a D.C. resident...

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