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applegrove

(118,501 posts)
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 07:40 PM Mar 2017

Trump sons, planning expansion of family business, look to leverage campaign experience

By Jonathan O'Connell, David A. Fahrenthold and Matea Gold

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-sons-planning-expansion-of-family-business-look-to-leverage-campaign-experience/2017/03/04/28e2f44a-fab4-11e6-9845-576c69081518_story.html?utm_term=.6eb827d1324a

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NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s adult sons, who are overseeing a nationwide expansion of the family business during their father’s presidency, are envisioning ways that their experiences from the campaign trail can help them establish a footing in dozens of new markets.

The idea is to move beyond a focus on luxury hotels in big metropolises and build boutique properties in a broader mix of cities, including some the Trump brothers came to know well during more than a year of intensive travel, fundraising and grass-roots networking on the road to the White House.

“I got to see a lot of those markets on the campaign,” Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, told The Washington Post in a recent interview from his office on the 25th floor of Trump Tower. “I think I’ve probably been in all of them over the last 18 months.”

The initial plan is tied to the Trumps’ previously announced new chain, Scion, which is being designed as a less-corporate feeling brand of high-end hotels with a more affordable per-room price point than the Trumps’ five-star properties.

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Trump sons, planning expansion of family business, look to leverage campaign experience (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2017 OP
The whole Klan is utterly korrupt. dchill Mar 2017 #1
They better hurry. Pops is destroying the Trump brand n/t leftstreet Mar 2017 #2
Rotten scoundrels gademocrat7 Mar 2017 #3
Cardboard Condos OneBlueDotBama Mar 2017 #4
Leveraging their campaign experiance? Salviati Mar 2017 #5
Hmmm, campaign experience.....I think that would be LYING with a smile AND a KewlKat Mar 2017 #6

Salviati

(6,008 posts)
5. Leveraging their campaign experiance?
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 08:25 PM
Mar 2017

What are they planning to do? Sell poorly conceived, shoddily made, defective products to Russians?

KewlKat

(5,624 posts)
6. Hmmm, campaign experience.....I think that would be LYING with a smile AND a
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 08:28 PM
Mar 2017

straight face.

Contacting all those foreigners who want their dad's ear....yeah I guess they've gained some campaign experience.

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