T-Mobile acknowledges its patronage of Trump's Washington hotel increased sharply after...

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



T-Mobile acknowledges its patronage of Trump’s Washington hotel increased sharply after announcement of merger with Sprint

By David A. Fahrenthold and Jonathan O'Connell March 5 at 8:00 AM

T-Mobile’s patronage of President Trump’s Washington hotel increased sharply after the announcement of its merger with its Sprint last April, with executives spending about $195,000 at the property since then, the company told congressional Democrats in a letter last month.

Before news of the megadeal between rival companies broke on April 29, 2018, the company said, only two top officials from T-Mobile had ever stayed at Trump’s hotel, with one overnight stay each in August 2017.

But the day after the merger’s announcement, nine of T-Mobile’s top executives were schedule to check in, The Washington Post reported in January. The Post, relying on internal Trump hotel documents, found that T-Mobile executives had reserved at least 52 nights at the hotel since the announcement.

In a Feb. 21 letter responding to questions from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the company for the first time disclosed its total spending at the Trump hotel during that period.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/t-mobile-acknowledges-its-patronage-of-trumps-washington-hotel-increased-sharply-after-announcement-of-merger-with-sprint/2019/03/05/d123be66-3ecb-11e9-922c-64d6b7840b82_story.html

[exboyfil]

1. The T- is for Trump?

/s

[yaesu]

2. well, they are for whomever they can influence to get what they want & this is why presidents

should separate themselves from all business concerns while they are in office, put them trusts, ect... tRump can be easily bribed as many corporations and foreign governments know.

[JohnnyRingo]

3. Was this when T-Mobile people showed up in their...

...corporate t-shirts? If so, they clearly wasn't taking chances that their patronage went unnoticed.

I don't blame T-Mobile, that's just smart business. What Trump does in response is self dealing.

[47of74]

4. The T stands for Trump

As in Trump Mobile

[not_the_one]

5. Someone needs to tally up ALL

of the ill-gotten lucre that turdface has reaped through his hotels, since he was elected.

That includes all the meetings by the RNC or anyone Republican related, plus secret service, or any foreign governments/companies with bills/contracts before turdface, that incurs "room rentals" at the DC hotel and Mar-a-bucko.

There needs to be a dollar number that average Americans can understand as "emoluments".

That is, initially, what his running for president was all about. Building the brand. He had no clue Putin would actually be able to steal it for him. Meanwhile, Putin was financially backing the turd.

Since he did steal it, he just continued to take all he could get, and then some.

And because he is not being allowed to do any damn thing he wants, he will gladly assist Putin in completely destroying our democracy.

That'll teach us....