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Tuesday, June 13th, 2017

Donald Trump Jr visits Dubai to discuss ‘new ideas’ for real estate empire

Author:     Jon Gambrell
Source:     Independent (U.K.)
Publication Date:     Thursday 18 May 2017 13:04 BST
 Link: Donald Trump Jr visits Dubai to discuss ‘new ideas’ for real estate empire
Stephan:   There are reports that the reason Trump took against Qatar was that the family had been trying to get bankers there to finance a project and Qatar had been uncooperative. The fact that Qatar hosts our most important base in the Middle East where thousands of Americans are deployed was not dispositive against Trump's displeasure. Here's the parallel Dubai narrative in this report. The image that has lodged in my mind is  the United States  ruled by a mafia family.

 

Donald Trump, Jr.

   Donald Trump Jr travelled to Dubai and met a billionaire business partner in the city-state, discussing “new ideas” as the Emirati’s real estate firm still lists possible plans for future joint projects while Trump’s father is in the White House.

The Trump Organization has said it won’t make new foreign deals while Donald Trump serves as America’s 45th president. That didn’t affect the Trump International Golf Club in Dubai’s opening in February, while a previously planned Trump-branded golf course designed by Tiger Woods is still being built nearby.

Both projects are being built by Dubai’s DAMAC Properties, owned by Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani. His company has paid the Trump Organization’s subsidiaries between $1 million to $5 million for the projects, according to a US Federal Election Committee report submitted in May 2016.

 Sajwani’s Instagram account posted a picture Tuesday night showing him with Trump, who now runs the Trump Organization with his brother Eric, at a table covered in a spread of Middle Eastern food and a plate […]

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