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Trump Towers buyers in India offered chance to meet Donald Trump Jr., raising ethics concerns
GURGAON, India —
Prospective buyers of luxury apartments in the new Trump Towers project outside India’s capital are being lured with an unusual promise: If you buy a flat, we will fly you to the United States to meet Donald Trump Jr.
The developers of the 600-foot high-rises unveiled a sleek sales office in the New Delhi suburb of Gurgaon last week, claiming they racked up $23 million in sales — more than 20 units — in the first day.
The sweetener?
One of the developers, Pankaj Bansal, told the Press Trust of India that “Donald Trump Jr. will host” the first 100 buyers in the United States.
Bansal, the director of M3M India, one of the partners on the project, declined to comment for this story. But a representative for the project confirmed Bansal’s remarks and added that the specifics of the buyers’ trip — where they would be flown and under what circumstances they would meet Trump Jr. — were still being worked out.
Trump Jr. and the Trump Organization in New York did not respond to emails or telephone calls requesting specifics on their Indian partners’ plan.
The launch of the new towers comes amid rising concerns that President Trump’s children — including Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who are running their father’s business while he serves as president — are using their names to profit from their father’s presidency, and that foreign officials and others may stay in Trump hotels or buy Trump properties in attempts to curry favor or gain special access to the first family.
A study released last week by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) found that the price of the popular “Ivanka Suite” in the Trump International Hotel in Washington, for example, increased from $914 a night last year to $2,134 a night in 2018.
[Ivanka Trump’s whirlwind India tour includes a speech, a palace dinner — and criticism about low-wage workers]
Norman L. Eisen, the co-chairman of CREW and a former Obama ethics adviser, called the Indian developers’ offer “outrageous.”
“They are auctioning off access to the first family in a foreign land. What is to stop a foreign national with interests before the U.S. government from purchasing a flat, or tagging along with someone who did, simply to ask Don Junior to raise some issue or concern with his father?” Eisen said.
The Trump Organization has more business entities in India than any other foreign country, financial filings show, with licensing bringing in estimated payments of between $1.6 million and $11 million since 2014.
Is Trump’s presidency hurting his real estate business?
As with most of its overseas deals, the Trump family has lent its name, technical assistance and advice but has not invested directly in any of its five projects here.
Along with the Trump Towers Delhi NCR (National Capital Region) in Gurgaon, construction on which is expected to begin in three to four months and finish in 2023, the projects include two residential towers in the low-key city of Pune, a tower with a glittering gold facade in Mumbai, a planned office tower in Gurgaon and another residential project in the eastern city of Kolkata.
Some of the Trump partners have been the subject of tax or money-laundering investigations, and at least three have connections to prominent Indian politicians, a scenario that the Center for American Progress called in a report “a breathtaking array of conflicts.”
[Trump company’s partners in India are no strangers to legal entanglements]
M3M, for example, was embroiled in a long-running tax investigation that the company said was resolved in its favor. Kalpesh Mehta, the head of Tribeca Developers, the co-partner on the Gurgaon project, was one of three Indian developers who visited Donald Trump shortly after his election in November whose pictures with the president-elect set off a firestorm on social media.
The luxury real estate market in India is sluggish at the moment, but the Trump Organization says that sales of its more moderately priced units in Kolkata have done well — with the building more than 65 percent sold after a “soft launch” last year.
Last week, employees from Mumbai-based Tribeca Developers gathered outside the new Trump sales office in the Oberoi, Gurgaon — a luxury hotel in a suburb that is home to multinational corporations and small farming villages where cattle still meander along dusty lanes. (The area recently changed its name from Gurgaon to Gurugram.)
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They did not allow a reporter to speak to any prospective buyers, who were ushered in one by one to see a model of the two towers emblazoned with the Trump name. The apartment homes in the project — with private elevators and access to a nine-hole golf course — range in price from about $780,000 to $1.6 million.
A man in business attire who was on hand to see a sales presentation asked a sales representative what the “discounts” were.
She laughed and said that sales have been so good that “we’re not even thinking about discounts at this point.”
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Trump asked Stormy Daniels to spank him with a copy of Forbes Magazine with him on the cover of it
THE.
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FUUUCCCCCKKKK!!!
Trump asked Stormy Daniels to spank him with a copy of Forbes Magazine with him on the cover of it
Stormy Daniels once claimed she spanked Donald Trump with a Forbes magazine
Stormy Daniels Once Claimed She Spanked Donald Trump With a Forbes Magazine
At his request.
Dan FriedmanJan. 18, 2018 4:07 PM
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Last week, the Wall Street Journal triggered a new scandal for President Donald Trump when it reported that his lawyer, Michael Cohen, had paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about a decade-old sexual relationship she had with the future president. Cohen released a statement from Daniels denying she had engaged in any “sexual and/or romantic affair” with Trump. But immediately other accounts emerged challenging that denial.
Slate’s Jacob Weisberg reported that in 2016, Daniels, whose given name is Stephanie Clifford, told him that in 2006 she and Trump began a sexual relationship that lasted nearly a year. The Daily Beast published a story citing friends of Daniels saying she had told them about a fling with Trump. In Touch published an interview with Daniels from 2011 in which she herself described having a sexual affair with Trump. And Mother Jones has learned that Daniels years earlier talked about having had a sexual relationship with Trump—and in lurid detail. According to 2009 emails between political operatives who were at the time advising Daniels on a possible political campaign, the adult film actor and director claimed that her affair with Trump included an unusual act: spanking him with a copy of Forbes magazine.
In early 2009, Daniels announced that she was considering challenging Sen. David Vitter, the Louisiana Republican who two years earlier had been snared in a sex scandal. Vitter’s phone number was discovered in the records of the so-called D.C. Madam, who ran a prostitution ring in the nation’s capital. Vitter, who now is a lobbyist, was a prominent social conservative who opposed abortion and gay marriage. Daniels, who grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, told reporters she wanted to highlight his hypocrisy. She offered up a potential campaign slogan: “Stormy Daniels: Screwing people honestly.”
Daniels was serious enough about running that she embarked on a May 2009 “listening tour” of the state and held discussions with local political consultants. Those conversations included coming up with possible campaign contributors. According to a May 8, 2009, email written by an operative advising Daniels, who asked not to be identified, Daniels at one point scrolled through her cellphone contacts to provide her consultants with a list of names. The email noted that the potential donors included Steve Hirsch, the founder of an adult entertainment company; Theresa Flynt, the daughter of Hustler’s Larry Flynt; Frazier Boyd, the owner of a strip club chain; and Jenna Jameson, the so-called “Queen of Porn.” Also on the list: Donald Trump.
This email was sent to Andrea Dubé, a Democratic political consultant based in New Orleans. In response, Dubé expressed surprise that Daniels was friendly with Trump. “Donald Trump?” she wrote. “In her cell phone?”
“Yep,” the other consultant replied. “She says one time he made her sit with him for three hours watching ‘shark week.’ Another time he had her spank him with a Forbes magazine.” :MuellerWhat::weebaynanimated:
Dubé and the other consultant confirmed to Mother Jones they exchanged these emails.
The campaign consultant who wrote the email to Dubé tells Mother Jones that Daniels said the spanking came during a series of sexual and romantic encounters with Trump and that it involved a copy of Forbes with Trump on the cover.:comeyholdup:
A fall 2006 cover of Forbes does feature Trump and two of his children, Donald Jr. and Ivanka.
In her seven-year-old interview with In Touch—which was only published this week—Daniels described Trump obsessively watching Shark Week in his hotel room during one of their visits. (In several tweets in 2013, Trump expressed strong views on sharks.) Daniels also noted that the first time she met Trump—at a July 2006 celebrity golf tournament—he invited her to his hotel room and boastfully showed off a magazine cover featuring himself—before they had sex.
Cohen told the Wall Street Journal there had been no affair between Trump and Daniels: “These rumors have circulated time and again since 2011. President Trump once again vehemently denies any such occurrence as has Ms. Daniels.” But Cohen did not address the alleged $130,000 payout—a claim especially serious because it raises the issue of whether the president could be blackmailed or influenced by someone who possessed information about any untoward personal behavior he might have engaged in. So far, Daniels’ only denial of a sexual relationship with Trump has come via the statement that Cohen released in her name.
Cohen did not reply to a request for comment. Neither did Daniels, her lawyer, or her former agent. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded, “Would refer you back to comments given during the campaign on this. We have nothing new to add.”
According to Weisberg, Daniels in 2016 told him that her lawyer, Keith Davidson, had negotiated a hush-money arrangement with Cohen that did not include the real names of the parties, and she said she was concerned Trump was stalling on the deal and would fail to pay her. About a week before the election, Daniels stopped responding to calls and texts from Weisberg.
Fox News last year reportedly spiked a story that included an on-the-record statement from Daniels’ manager at the time, Gina Rodriguez, confirming that her client had engaged in a sexual relationship with Trump.
Daniels is one of several women associated with pornography who have claimed to have had sexual encounters with Trump. In 2016, porn star Jessica Drake said thatTrump had kissed her without her consent and offered her $10,000 for sex. On November 4, 2016, the Journal reported that the National Enquirer, owned by Trump pal David Pecker, paid former Playboy centerfold Karen McDougal $150,000 for the rights to her account of a 10-month-long affair with Trump and then published no story on the purported relationship.
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Stormy Daniels once claimed she spanked Donald Trump with a Forbes magazine
Stormy Daniels Once Claimed She Spanked Donald Trump With a Forbes Magazine
At his request.
Dan FriedmanJan. 18, 2018 4:07 PM
That peepee tape is going to be so offensive. Kids and animals and a naked Trump wearing an Obama mask. The stuff of horror movies.
Funny how that NRA story came out right before this transcript. Chess. Not checkers.
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This is who White America wanted to represent them.
This is who White America wanted to represent them.
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