{"id":11195,"date":"2019-10-18T04:21:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T08:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11195"},"modified":"2019-10-18T04:21:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T08:21:15","slug":"2020-g7-to-be-held-at-trump-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11195","title":{"rendered":"2020 G7 to be held at Trump property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if the Trump administration doesn&#8217;t have enough ethics problems, White House Chief-of-Staff Rick Mulvaney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-has-awarded-next-years-g-7-summit-of-world-leaders-to-his-miami-area-resort-the-white-house-said\/2019\/10\/17\/221b32d6-ef52-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced yesterday<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>President Trump has awarded the 2020 Group of Seven summit of world leaders to <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">his private company<\/span>, scheduling the summit for June at his Trump National Doral Miami golf resort in Florida, the White House announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s Doral resort \u2014 set among office parks near Miami International Airport \u2014 has been in <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">sharp decline<\/span> in recent years, according to the Trump Organization\u2019s own records. Its net <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">operating income fell 69 percent from 2015 to 2017<\/span>; a Trump Organization representative testified last year that the reason was Trump\u2019s damaged brand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is so egregiously self-dealing that, with patient explanations, even some members of his dullard cult may be able to smell the stench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if the Trump administration doesn&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11195\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11199,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195\/revisions\/11199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}