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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/b...house-inc.html
Among other things the guy found is an empty office with a dead houseplant in a building in SF where the Sovereign Wealth Fund run by the Qatari government is the leaseholder, paying a secret amount in a building in which Trump has a 30% stake worth $517M after debt.
The base doesn't care, of course, but make no mistake, when it all gets unraveled (and it will) the story is not going to be pretty.
For those who can't get past the paywall, this pithy quote to wrap it up:
The re-election campaign is another example--he filed for re-election on inauguration day, and has raised more money than anyone. But he also burned through it, such that now Biden has more money to work with. Trump is a spendthrift's spendthrift.
Among other things the guy found is an empty office with a dead houseplant in a building in SF where the Sovereign Wealth Fund run by the Qatari government is the leaseholder, paying a secret amount in a building in which Trump has a 30% stake worth $517M after debt.
The base doesn't care, of course, but make no mistake, when it all gets unraveled (and it will) the story is not going to be pretty.
For those who can't get past the paywall, this pithy quote to wrap it up:
As much as Trump says he loves money, “White House, Inc.” shows that he seems to have a hard time holding on to it. Alexander estimates that if Trump had only done what ethics officials wanted him to do — liquidated his assets when he took office, and invested the proceeds in a nice, boring mutual fund modeled on the S&P 500 — the president now would be about $415 million richer.
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