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Monday, November 28th, 2016

Potential Conflicts Around the Globe for Trump, the Businessman President

Author:     RICHARD C. PADDOCK, ERIC LIPTON, ELLEN BARRY, ROD NORDLAND, DANNY HAKIM and SIMON ROMERO
Source:     The New York Times
Publication Date:     NOV. 26, 2016
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Stephan:   We, as a nation stand at a crossroads. We have never had a President with such a corrupt history, a man whose personal wealth is so cross-threaded with the nation's wellbeing. It is like something out of the late Roman empire, and it bodes so ill for our country and its future that I do not see how it can go forward. Donald Trump can be either a public President, or a private businessman; it is not ethically possible to be both.
Trump Tower in the Makati City district of Manila is being developed by Donald J. Trump’s business partner Jose E.B. Antonio, who has just been named the Philippines’ special trade envoy to the United States. Credit Hannah Reyes Morales for The New York Times

Trump Tower in the Makati City district of Manila is being developed by Donald J. Trump’s business partner Jose E.B. Antonio, who has just been named the Philippines’ special trade envoy to the United States.
Credit Hannah Reyes Morales for The New York Times

MANILA — On Thanksgiving Day, a Philippine developer named Jose E. B. Antonio hosted a company anniversary bash at one of Manila’s poshest hotels. He had much to be thankful for.

In October, he had quietly been named a special envoy to the United States by the Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte. Mr. Antonio was nearly finished building a $150 million tower in Manila’s financial district — a 57-story symbol of affluence and capitalism, […]

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