Dense, damning stuff. 250 interviews. Tax documents. A vast social-media review. It’s overwhelming how many paths money takes from people looking for partnership, policy, or government contracts into the president’s personal businesses, according to NYT. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
“If there was ever a territory where there’s an open heaven, and pregnant with divine appointments, it’s the lobby of the Trump Hotel,” Mr. Wallnau said in a video. “Every time I go there I have a divine appointment with somebody.”
“If we can support this president by having dinner or staying at the hotel, then we want to do that,” said Sharon Bolan, an evangelist from Dallas who belongs to Mr. Trump’s national faith leaders group and has patronized both Mar-a-Lago and the Washington hotel.
[And for cynical reasons what jumps out at me is how each spokesperson explains having booked an event that literally pays the president. “Low prices.” “Met our needs.” “Long-planned.”]

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