Newsweek: The Trump Organization...MSM Starting To Do Its Job?
After months and months of MSM and Trump talking about the secret evil things the Clinton family and Clinton Foundation did, today Newsweek has a detailed article about dealing of The Trump Organization and its dealings around the world .
Throughout this campaign, the Trump Organization, which pumps potentially hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family’s bank accounts each year, has been largely ignored. As a private enterprise, its businesses, partners and investors are hidden from public view, even though they are the very people who could be enriched by—or will further enrich—Trump and his family if he wins the presidency.
Haven't we heard the same “innuendo” regarding Hillary Clinton and the Foundation? But nothing to back it up with facts. Let's see if there is a there there
The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea foundation:
- Accused of “pay for play”-debunked as there was no “pay” , as contributions were publicly disclosed ANd went to charities.
- International independent auditing company PricewaterhouseCoopers plus the foundation taxes show that around 90% of the contributions goes to Charity
- no member of the Clinton family has received money
- the foundation did not donate to any campaign
- The Clintons and almost the board work for free
Now the Trump Organization
On the other hand, the Trump family rakes in untold millions of dollars from the Trump Organization every year.
Much of that comes from deals with international financiers and developers, many of whom have been tied to controversial and even illegal activities.
None of Trump’s overseas contractual business relationships examined by Newsweek were revealed in his campaign’s financial filings with the Federal Election Commission, nor was the amount paid to him by his foreign partners.
(The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for the names of all foreign en ies in partnership or contractually tied to the Trump Organization.)
Trump’s financial filings also indicate he is a shareholder or beneficiary of several overseas en ies, including Excel Venture LLC in the French West Indies and Caribusiness Investments SRL, based in the Dominican Republic, one of the world’s tax havens.
Does this affect aTrump presidency? Well the tentacles of the organization spread worldwide and it's more then just the different relationship with governments around the world that even if he released his taxes, would not be revealed
The problem of overseas conflicts emerges from the nature of Trump’s business in recent years.
Much of the public believes Trump is a hugely successful developer, a television personality and a failed casino operator.
But his primary business deals for almost a decade have been a quite different endeavor.
The GOP nominee is essentially a licensor who leverages his celebrity into streams of cash from partners from all over the world.
The business model for Trump’s company started to change around 2007, after he became the star of NBC’s The Apprentice, which boosted his national and international fame.
Rather than constructing Trump’s own hotels, office towers and other buildings, much of his business involved striking deals with overseas developers who pay his company for the right to slap his name on their buildings.
(The last building constructed by Trump with his name on it is the Trump-SoHo hotel and condominium project, completed in 2007.)
Now why would somebody want to put Trump on their building or product… Is beyond me.
in the late 90s he began a licensing venture worth South Korean company Daewoo , that company filed for bankruptcy( with a fraud claim proven right ) , CEO fled to North Korea the returned to be tried and jailed.
Trump has said the South Korea should be more independent on military spending and build nuclear arsenal.
Guess who would benefit if US made a policy change with regards to military spending in South Korea…. Yup Daewoo Engeneering and Construction that has a nuclear energy arm.
India has several ties , one example
Last month, scandal erupted over the development, called Trump Towers Pune, after the state government and local police started looking into discrepancies in the land records suggesting that the land on which the building was constructed may not have been legally obtained by Panchshil.
The Indian company says no rules or laws were broken, but if government officials conclude otherwise, the project’s future will be in jeopardy—and create a problem that Indian politicians eager to please an American president might have to resolve.
Through the Pune deal, the Trump Organization has developed close ties to India’s Nationalist Congress Party—a centrist political organization that stands for democratic secularism and is led by Sharad Pawar, an ally of the Chordia family that owns Panchshil—but that would be of little help in this investigation.
Political power in India rests largely with the Indian National Congress, a nationalist party that has controlled the central government for almost 50 years.
(However, Trump is very popular with the Hindu Sena, a far-right radical nationalist group that sees his anti-Muslim stance as a sign he would take an aggressive stand against Pakistan.
When Trump turned 70 in June, members of that organization threw a birthday party for the man they called “the savior of humanity.”
If you read along we see the web grow to Turkey, UAE, Lybia,Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Russia
The dealings of the Trump Organization reach into so many countries that it is impossible to detail all the conflicts they present in a single issue of this magazine, but
a Newsweek examination of the company has also found deep connections in China, Brazil, Bulgaria, Argentina, Canada, France, Germany and other countries.
Never before has an American candidate for president had so many financial ties with American allies and enemies, and
never before has a business posed such a threat to the United States.
If Donald Trump wins this election and his company is not immediately shut down or forever severed from the Trump family, the foreign policy of the United States of America could well be for sale.
Let's see if this sort of investigations and articles generate questions for mR Trump… Or will Hillary continue to be Gored?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/9...-To-Do-Its-Job