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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPolice enter lobby of Trump Hotel in Panama, attempt to evict Trump staff
Source: ABC News
Police enter lobby of Trump Hotel in Panama, attempt to evict Trump staff
By AICHA EL HAMMAR and MATTHEW MOSK Mar 5, 2018, 11:28 AM ET
More than a dozen police wearing bulletproof vests entered the lobby of the Trump International Hotel in Panama on Monday morning after weeks of simmering tensions over control of the property.
The Trump Organization manages the hotel in the 70-story tower overlooking the Punta Pacifica Peninsula and the new majority owner has gone to court in the U.S. and Panama to evict the company run by President Donald Trumps sons. The police arrived to carry out the eviction, and Panamanian court officials were present.
I am the owner, said Orestes Fintiklis, who last year obtained control over more than 200 units in the tower, as police and Trump employees pushed and shoved one another. Love and peace!
This was the third visit by police to the property in less than a week. Last week, a man identified as a Trump Hotels employee could be seen hurling another man down a narrow hallway in a video obtained by ABC News.
The ongoing dispute represents an early test for U.S. diplomats navigating international relations in places where the presidents family manages properties or conducts other business ventures, and it comes just days before the scheduled resignation March 9 of the U.S. ambassador to Panama over his personal disagreements with the Trump administration.
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By AICHA EL HAMMAR and MATTHEW MOSK Mar 5, 2018, 11:28 AM ET
More than a dozen police wearing bulletproof vests entered the lobby of the Trump International Hotel in Panama on Monday morning after weeks of simmering tensions over control of the property.
The Trump Organization manages the hotel in the 70-story tower overlooking the Punta Pacifica Peninsula and the new majority owner has gone to court in the U.S. and Panama to evict the company run by President Donald Trumps sons. The police arrived to carry out the eviction, and Panamanian court officials were present.
I am the owner, said Orestes Fintiklis, who last year obtained control over more than 200 units in the tower, as police and Trump employees pushed and shoved one another. Love and peace!
This was the third visit by police to the property in less than a week. Last week, a man identified as a Trump Hotels employee could be seen hurling another man down a narrow hallway in a video obtained by ABC News.
The ongoing dispute represents an early test for U.S. diplomats navigating international relations in places where the presidents family manages properties or conducts other business ventures, and it comes just days before the scheduled resignation March 9 of the U.S. ambassador to Panama over his personal disagreements with the Trump administration.
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Police enter lobby of Trump Hotel in Panama, attempt to evict Trump staff (Original Post)
Eugene
Mar 2018
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FSogol
(45,470 posts)1. Pay close attention, this is what will happen when we evict Trumpy from the WH.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,378 posts)2. Link to David Fahrenthold
NEW: 15 police & a judge have arrived at @realDonaldTrumps hotel in Panama, whose owner is trying to kick out Trump Org. Not sure why yet.
Link to tweet
bluestarone
(16,900 posts)3. Panama people smarter than our Repubs that's for sure
lpbk2713
(42,751 posts)4. Trump's presence is giving the neighborhood a bad image.
Throw the bums out.