The Trump Organization was in talks about Israeli hotels before the Hamas attack last year. It says it wants to resume them in the future, raising questions about the mingling of politics and money in the event of a second Trump term….
“We can’t just sit out in perpetuity, and I won’t,” he added. “I’m not in government; I’m in private industry.”
Eric Trump, who runs the family business, embarked on the negotiations well after his father kicked off his latest presidential bid in November 2022…
The company’s efforts in Israel highlight longstanding ethical concerns about the mingling of the former president’s financial and political fortunes — this time in a warring country at the contentious center of U.S. and global politics.
The former president has made no secret where his sympathies lie in Israel’s conflicts with its neighbors….
The former president has criticized his past Democratic rivals for their family members’ foreign ventures. He has accused Hillary Clinton of trying to “profit from public office” through the family-run Clinton Foundation, and he assailed the overseas business ties of President Biden’s son Hunter, asserting that “Joe Biden is compromised….”
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