Bizarre legal brawl intensifies at Trump hotel in Panama

[Julian Englis]

Source: The Washington Post

On Monday, Panama’s federal prosecutors said they had opened an investigation into the Trump Organization, after Fintiklis complained that he had been unlawfully blocked from his own property.

With that, this bizarre standoff turned a theoretical concern about the Trump administration — that, someday, the president’s private business might be investigated by a foreign government — into a reality.

“The fear has always been that there would be an international incident involving the finances of the president, and the president would have his loyalties questioned,” said Jordan Libowitz, of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

“What kind of pressure would he be willing to place on them?” he asked, referring to foreign authorities.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/bizarre-legal-brawl-intensifies-at-trump-hotel-in-panama/2018/02/26/ccede22c-1b0e-11e8-98f5-ceecfa8741b6_story.html

[shanny]

1. This could require extra supplies:

[iluvtennis]

2. LOL

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. Have we always been at war with Panama?

Komrat TrumPutin will rush in and save the hostages, unarmed and single-handed! What hostages? Oh, there have to be hostages -- there are brown people in Panama!

I like bizarro world less every day.

[C Moon]

4. If it's not obvious by now, this f@#$@)r is not our President.

Get him the f@^k out of there so we can move on.

[fierywoman]

5. I second your motion!

[NBachers]

6. I can't root for the trump side, but this Fintiklis character doesh't look deserving of my loyalty,

either. I guess I'm rooting for the biggest trump headache.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Why would anyone want to do business with this clown?