DT org's new Dominican deal flouts promise of no new foreign deals

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http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/us-politics/ct-trump-organization-dominican-deal-20170209-story.html


The Trump Organization is returning to a long-dormant licensing deal involving a beachfront luxury resort in the Dominican Republic, testing the limits of Donald Trump's pledge to halt new international Trump-branded projects during his presidency.

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Garten said the deal in the Dominican Republic was never dead even though nothing new has been built or announced in a decade. Garten noted that Trump listed the deal on his 2015 government financial disclosure but said it was not listed on last year's filings because of what he described as a lack of reportable assets associated with the venture.

The effort to grandfather such branding deals demonstrates the flimsiness of Trump's pledge, said Richard Painter, who served as the ethics lawyer for the White House during the George W. Bush administration.

"They can take the tiniest little past involvement in something and then extend it into an enormous new deal," Painter said. "There's no way to distinguish between new business and old business."
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1. And on one to stop them. No