The newspaper emphasized that this is the first important international journey in the second term of the American leader, and Trump is taking it in the region, “in which his family company has developed significantly recently'The culmination of unethical and even unconstitutional conflicts of US interests (on the one hand – PAP) and their president (on the other – PAP)“.
In this context, the daily recalled recent visits to the region of the sons of the American leader, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who participated in events promoting business projects, such as purchasing cryptocurrencies or luxurious penthouses. However, the most spectacular example of the Hazardous business connections of the WP considered the announcement of the Qatar authorities that during the ongoing visit they would pass a gift for the USA to President Trump – Luxuriously equipped Boeing 747-8 aircraft. On Monday, the American leader appreciated herself to a runny nose proposal. The machine, if handed over, is to be used as the new Air Force One, i.e. the presidential aircraft, and then go to the Presidential Library Foundation.
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WP also reminded that two weeks ago Eric Trump concluded a building contract in Qatar in a luxury sports and recreation complex Trump International Golf Club. The facility, whose cost is estimated at $ 5.5 billion, is to be built in Simaisma on the Persian Gulf, north from the capital of Qatar AD-Dauhy. It was emphasized that it was to be an ultra-luxurious, 18-hole golf course with full facilities. The daily also reminded that last week one of the funds from ZEA announced that he would invest $ 2 billion in World Liberty Financial, in which the family of the US President has majority shares.
WP quotes the historian Douglas Brinkley from the University of Rice, who accused Trump of breaking the recorded behavior of the presidents of the US. “The illegality has not yet been proven (Donald Trump's actions – PAP), but it is the destruction of conventions and norms (…), as well as holy trust that the president will not benefit from financial benefits during the office,” said Brinkley. WP reminded that, according to the US Constitution, the president and vice president are exempt from the provisions regarding the conflict of interest, but at the same time they are not allowed to accept gifts from foreign governments without the consent of the congress.
The newspaper also recalled the position of the White House, according to which allegations of conflict of interest and submitting its own interests over the good of the country are unfounded. “President Trump warns all the rules regarding the conflict of interest and works only in the best interest of the US society,” said in a statement for WP, a spokesperson of the White House Karoline Leavitt.
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According to WP, compared to the first presidential term, Trump is currently devoting a lot more space to economic matters, because in the years 2021-25 the company “The Trump Organization” significantly increased its presence in the Middle East, where it operates, among others in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and Zea.
