New Delhi – Trump Jr: ‘Nonsense’ That Family’s Profiting From Presidency

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    Son of U.S. President Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr.'s convoy arrives at the construction site of the Trump Tower project in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. While on a visit to India promoting the real estate, Donald Trump Jr. said any talk that his family was profiting from his father's presidency was "nonsense." (AP Photo/Bikas Das)New delhi – Donald Trump Jr. said Wednesday any talk that his family is profiting from his father’s presidency is “nonsense” as he embarked on a highly publicized visit to India to promote real estate deals that bear his family’s name.

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    The eldest son of President Donald Trump is in India to meet the promoters and buyers of Trump brand luxury homes in the country, raising ethical concerns about using the name of the American president to promote business ventures internationally.

    But Trump Jr. told Indian television channel CNBC-TV18 that his family is instead missing out on business opportunities because his father pledged to conduct no new foreign business while he was in office.

    Trump Jr., who along with his brother Eric now runs the Trump Organization, said when critics talk about them “profiteering from the presidency and all this nonsense” they forget about “the opportunity cost of the deals that we were not able to do.”

    “It’s sort of a shame. Because we put on all these impositions on ourselves and essentially got no credit for actually doing that … for doing the right thing,” he added.

    For at least a week before Trump Jr. arrived in India on Tuesday, several major Indian newspapers carried glossy, front-page advertisements with the statement, “Trump has arrived. Have you?”

    The ads promised that buyers who order apartments in a new Trump-brand luxury real estate development in a suburb of the Indian capital by Thursday will get “a conversation and dinner” with Trump Jr. a day later.

    He is expected to visit and promote business in all the Trump-brand projects across four Indian cities. Media access to his events in the country has been limited and only news organizations chosen by his team have had access to him.

    The Trump Organization has licensing agreements with all its Indian business partners. They build the properties and acquire the Trump name in exchange for a fee. With five projects in India, the country is the brand’s largest market outside the United States. A luxury complex is already open in the central city of Pune, with other developments in varying stages of construction in the coastal cities of Mumbai and Kolkata, and two in Gurgaon.

    All the projects were signed before President Trump took office, but promoting even existing business has raised ethics concerns.

    “The president should be putting the public’s interest before his business interests. That can’t happen if his son is flying around the world trying to trade on the fact that his father is sitting in the Oval Office,” said Scott H. Amey, general counsel for the non-partisan Project on Government Oversight in Washington.

    Amey added that several foreign deals touted by the president’s two adult sons have “stretched the definition of what ventures were previously in the works.”

    Trump Jr. has made several visits to India over the years and has repeatedly talked of great business opportunities in the country.


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    6 years ago

    The president should be putting the public’s interest before his business interests. That can’t happen if his son is flying around the world trying to trade on the fact that his father is sitting in the Oval Office.

    Utter stupidity. A presidents son is not allowed to work or sell anything? He has to sit like a golem because his father is president? And yes the Trump name is about branding. When their dad is president it will inevitably affect their brand but os what. Why should they have to sit like a golem? This is their parnasa.

    And furthermore, say it directly enriches his son. why is that wrong? I fargin if his family wants to be rich via selling property in India. No moral conflict if a son wants to get wealthy from his dad. It does not affect me.

    This is classic fake news tacitcs . They create a crime (like collusion or getting hired in the WH when you have shalom beis issues) and then its a given that the crime is wrong and the story is about the crime. Their ain’t no crime or moral wrong mr fake newsters. Now let the Trump’s live. Live and let live.

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    6 years ago

    Well, I think we can all agree that they are not missing a lot of meals.

    ayinglefunadorf
    ayinglefunadorf
    6 years ago

    “create a crime like collusion” so if 15 or more people already indicted for a crime colluding with the to commit the same crime is not a collusion? It was a nice purim-tayreh that colluding itself is not a crime. Purim is soon over. Adar is soon over. Reality starts sinking. Colluding with the enemy to commit a crime (15 indicted)is TREASON as Bannon described it. Unless of course if Putin will send them to the USA to stand trial and they will be find not guilty than the collusion was not a crime. Happy Purim.

    6 years ago

    The Trump crime family only doing what naturally comes to them.

    NJMoshe
    NJMoshe
    6 years ago

    Here is more evidence of self-dealing by the Trump family, now extended to his in-laws. There is no Fake news in this article, just facts, or things labeled as opinion or not sure. But I ahve been waiting for Melania’s press confereence since 2016.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/02/21/the-huge-questions-about-melania-trumps-immigration-history-nobody-will-answer/?utm_term=.a3e16323daf5