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babylonsister

(171,096 posts) Thu Dec 20, 2018, 09:40 AM Dec 2018

Did Donald Trump break his pledge to forgo making new foreign business deals while in office?

And where did the Kushners vacation recently?

Did Donald Trump break his pledge to forgo making new foreign business deals while in office?
It certainly looks like it.
Casey Michel
Dec 20, 2018, 8:00 am

At the outset of his presidency, Donald Trump pledged to refrain from opening any new business deals in foreign countries.

So much for all that.

As a new undercover report from pro-transparency watchdog Global Witness uncovered earlier this week, the Trump Organization has been exploring the construction of a new beachside resort in the Dominican Republic, and local representatives said that a “new development with the Trump Organization” is underway.

According to Global Witness, the development would see the Trump Organization and local partners are considering developing a new resort called “Juanillo Beach” in the Dominican Republic’s Cap Cana district. As a sales representative filmed by Global Witness relayed, the planned resort will have apartments and a commercial area. The representative said that the Trump Organization isn’t merely going to license its name to the project, as it often does — it will also be a partner in the project’s overall development.

“Global Witness went undercover at the Cap Cana resort and discovered that the Trumps are pursuing what appears to be a new deal, in contradiction to Trump’s pledge not to,” the group’s report said.

In statement given to ThinkProgress, a Trump Organization spokesperson said that the Global Witness report was “completely false.”