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soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 02:37 PM Sep 2020

The Qatari government is paying @realDonaldTrump $135,000 a year for an unused office in a San Franc


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David Enrich
@davidenrich
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Sep 18, 2020
The Qatari government is paying @realDonaldTrump $135,000 a year for an unused office in a San Francisco skyscraper, an apparent violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause, according to a new book by @DanAlexander21.

“One of the Most Significant Potential Conflicts of Interest in American History”: How Everyone...
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David Enrich
@davidenrich
The Qatari sovereign wealth fund decided to lease space in the San Francisco building just as the Trump administration was siding with Saudi in its fight with Qatar.

Soon after, the White House patched things up with Qatar.

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The Qatari government is paying @realDonaldTrump $135,000 a year for an unused office in a San Franc (Original Post) soothsayer Sep 2020 OP
Trying to catch up with Trump's criminal adventures is like watching Whac-A-Mole. OneBro Sep 2020 #1
This one thing alone DonaldsRump Sep 2020 #2
They almost revved up Whitewater II over a an 8 foot slice of Hyde Park backyard greenjar_01 Sep 2020 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author OneBro Sep 2020 #3
No doubt there are hundreds of such arrangements greenjar_01 Sep 2020 #4
What the Hell, Trump owns the old Bank of America building? Brother Buzz Sep 2020 #6

OneBro

(1,159 posts)
1. Trying to catch up with Trump's criminal adventures is like watching Whac-A-Mole.
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 02:57 PM
Sep 2020

Last edited Fri Sep 18, 2020, 04:37 PM - Edit history (1)

Only this game has hundreds upon hundreds of holes and moles on a board the size of a football field.

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
2. This one thing alone
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 02:58 PM
Sep 2020

would have resulted in years of investigations had this happened under President Obama.

Today, it is merely the tiniest of blips.

 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
5. They almost revved up Whitewater II over a an 8 foot slice of Hyde Park backyard
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 03:01 PM
Sep 2020

GOP are shameless hypocrites.

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Brother Buzz

(36,356 posts)
6. What the Hell, Trump owns the old Bank of America building?
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 03:40 PM
Sep 2020

I had a surrealistic experience with that building back in the day; I built a fake bank inside of the bank, way, way down in the basement's 'War Room'.

I drove down a ramp and parked in the basement parking garage, then walked through a sally port with a million cameras on me, then passed through a massive circular vault door to enter an elevator to go down three more levels to the 'War Room'. I was escorted by two serious suits with curly wires plugged into their ears. They pressed a zillion digit code on a door marked 'War Room' (I kid you not), and the mysterious War Room opened up, and the guards disappeared, POOF!

The War Room was a massive room with the largest table I had ever seen, the board of director's table, I guess. All my materials, knock together components, were already prepositioned, so all I had to do was knock it all together, and voila, just possibly the first mock-up of a supermarket storefront bank in the nation.

I can still feel the cameras looking at me.



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