As if the Trump administration doesn’t have enough ethics problems, White House Chief-of-Staff Rick Mulvaney announced yesterday that the very best place in America to host a half-dozen world leaders, their retinues, and thousands of media folk, is one of his golf course resorts.
President Trump has awarded the 2020 Group of Seven summit of world leaders to his private company, scheduling the summit for June at his Trump National Doral Miami golf resort in Florida, the White House announced Thursday.
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Trump’s Doral resort — set among office parks near Miami International Airport — has been in sharp decline in recent years, according to the Trump Organization’s own records. Its net operating income fell 69 percent from 2015 to 2017; a Trump Organization representative testified last year that the reason was Trump’s damaged brand.
This is so egregiously self-dealing that, with patient explanations, even some members of his dullard cult may be able to smell the stench.