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A top executive from Donald Trump's real estate company emailed Russian President VladiA mir Putin's personal spokesman during the U.S. presidential campaign last year to ask for help advancing a stalled Trump Tower development project in Moscow, according to documents submitted to Congress on Monday. The request came in a mid-January 2016 email from Michael Cohen, one of Trump's closest business advisers, who asked longtime Putin lieutenant Dmitry Peskov for assistance in reviving a deal that Cohen suggested was languishing.
As part of the discussions, a Russian-born real estate developer urged Trump to come to Moscow to tout the proposal and suggested he could get President Vladimir Putin to say "great things" about Trump, according to several people who have been briefed on his correspondence. President Donald Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 Summit in Hamburg.
Senior communications adviser Hope Hicks will likely take on the role of White House communications director, according to two sources inside the White House and one outside. Earlier this month, a White House official told CNN there were internal discussions that Stephen Miller, a senior adviser on policy, could be considered for an elevated communications role in addition to his current position.
President Donald Trump has embraced legislation that would dramatically reduce legal immigration and shift the nation toward a system that prioritizes merit and skills over family ties. Trump joined with Republican Sens. David Perdue of Georgia and Tom Cotton of Arkansas to promote the bill, which so far has gained little traction in the Senate.
In April 2016, as Donald Trump was on the cusp of clinching the Republican nomination for the White House, he sold two luxury condos near Manhattan's Central Park for less than half the price his company had said they were worth. The lucky buyer: Trump's son, Eric.
Shortly after Donald Trump won the presidential election, the U.S. official who oversees the lease of his signature Washington hotel offered Trump's company an assessment of a report about its potential conflict of interest: "Nonsense." cleared Trump's company to keep its lease for the Trump International Hotel Washington DC.
President Donald Trump's Washington hotel saw almost $20 million in revenue during its first few months of operation - a period that coincided with his election and inauguration as the 45th president. His Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, which he's visited seven times as president, pulled in millions of dollars more than it had previously.
President Donald Trump retains control of assets that as of April 15 were worth at least $1.4 billion and had generated nearly $600 million in gross revenues in the previous 151/2 months, according to a new financial disclosure released Friday. The report, which the president voluntarily filed with the Office of Government Ethics, underscores the unprecedented financial interests Trump has brought with him to the Oval Office, an arrangement that has generated sharp criticism and spurred legal challenges.
Agency officials told ABC the attempted hacking prompted a meeting with the FBI, CIA, and Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who run the president's billion-dollar real estate and licensing business with sister Ivanka Trump. Eric vehemently denied any hack occurred, insisting that any attempted cyberattack on the president's lucrative business was an impossibility.
In January, Donald Trump and his lawyer Sheri Dillon held a press conference at which they laid out a plan for how the president would distance himself from his businesses. Among the steps they presented was a means to address concerns that foreign governments and leaders may attempt to curry favor with the president by staying at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. This, ethics experts said , would violate the Constitution's Emoluments Clause, which states that government officials cannot "accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."
Donald Trump Jr. traveled 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.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a visit by the Victory Christian Center School from Charlotte, N.C. rocket team, Friday, May 12, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a visit by the Victory Christian Center School from Charlotte, N.C. rocket team, Friday, May 12, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.
James Dodson is a sports writer who has covered golf for decades and has written memoirs of famous golfers. In 2014 he had the pleasure of playing a round with Eric Trump at his father's eponymous golf club in Charlotte, North Carolina.
A top government official overseeing federal buildings - including the historic tower that is home to President Donald Trump's D.C. hotel - is leaving the agency as it endures increasing criticism from congressional Democrats for not addressing a potential lease violation and other concerns stemming from the president's ownership of the project. Some members of Congress worry that Trump could appoint new leaders who will renegotiate the terms of the lease to eliminate any legal entanglements.
Hundreds of anti-Trump protesters waved signs and chanted on the streets of Vancouver on Tuesday while inside the newly completed Trump Tower, smiling members of U.S. President Donald Trump's family snipped through a red ribbon to mark the grand opening of the latest addition to the city's skyline. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, scions of the billionaire real-estate mogul turned politician, were in Vancouver to celebrate the completion of the $360-million hotel and condominium development, which has become a lightning rod for demonstrations against the American leader.
Ask Bernard Groupy, head chef for six months at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, where fancy and expensive Caesar salads are prepared from Parmesan cheese. One day, Trump stalked into the kitchen, screaming to Goupy that one of the guests didn't like the salad and started haphazardly tossing lettuce and tomatoes, forgetting the cheese while shouting "this is how we make a Caesar salad from."
" New documents confirm that President Donald Trump retains a direct tie to his business interests through a revocable trust now being overseen by one of his adult sons and a longtime executive of the Trump Organization. Trump is the sole beneficiary of the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, which is tied to his Social Security number as the taxpayer identification number, according to documents published online by the investigative nonprofit ProPublica.
As soon as he was elected in November, the unprecedented conflicts of interest Donald Trump would bring to the White House generated significant concern from leading ethics lawyers , transparency experts, and even the head of the Office of Government Ethics . After several delays, Trump unveiled his so-called plan to address the conflictsa S-a Swhich included him retaining full ownership of the Trump Organization.
The organizers of a campaign to open a panda pavilion in Central Park have reached out to Donald Trump's sons for help, The Post has learned. Billionaire former mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis, a co-chair of the effort, said he spoke to a representative from the Trump Organization about Donald Jr. and Eric Trump joining the push to import two breedable pandas from China.
President Donald Trump and his hotel and real estate business on Wednesday separately named ethics counselors, the latest step in the president's plan to address conflicts-of-interest concerns that arise from his decision to maintain financial ties to his company. Trump selected Washington attorney Stefan Passantino as his White House ethics adviser, press secretary Sean Spicer said.