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-- 2017 --

July 17: Trump Hotels Hit By 3rd Card Breach in 2 Years
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/07/trump-hotels-hit-by-3rd-card-breach-in-2-years/


September 18:
Trump Tower Moscow, like so many other Russian twinkles in Trump’s eye over the past three decades, did not materialise. But it recently emerged that the conversations continued behind the scenes even after he began his long-threatened campaign for president.

In October 2015, four months into his campaign, Trump signed a “letter of intent” to build a tower in Moscow. Pulling the strings on the abortive deal was Felix Sater, yet another Russian business associate of Trump, who once served time in prison for stabbing a man in the face with a broken cocktail glass.

“I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected,” Sater reportedly told Trump’s attorney in an email. “Buddy our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it … I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/18/trump-in-moscow-what-happened-at-miss-universe-in-2013

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November 24: The rates at Trump hotels are plummeting, and we think we know why ...
https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/travel/2017/11/24/the-rates-trump-hotels-are-plummeting-and-think-know-why/ts2HV7NnhBhl8k28wANFGP/story.html


-- 2018 --

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January 12: Trump’s Hotels Are Getting Yelp-Bombed After His “Shithole” Remark

Yelp is monitoring the hotels' pages for "content related to media reports."

It didn’t take long for people offended by President Trump’s remark that African nations were “shithole countries” to turn the insult back around on his family-owned company’s properties. The Yelp page for the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue has been swamped since Thursday afternoon with one-star reviews calling the 263-room luxury hotel a “shithole.”

“It’s a shithole. The owner is a racist senile old man. Don’t waste your money. #shithole,” reads one review. Another tells readers, “But I hear you can get incredible ‘service’ if you bring in your own Russian hookers to give you the ‘golden treatment.'”
https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/01/12/trump-hotels-yelp-shithole-remark/


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March 6: What happens when a hotel is de-Trumped?

The scene is at once cathartic and symbolic: A worker uses a crowbar to peel the name TRUMP from a hotel in Panama City, Panama—dumping the flimsy-looking letters in a plastic tub and into the back of a Hyundai. The now-viral video shows the de-Trumping of Donald Trump’s Panama City luxury hotel, the third to shed the Trump name since the US president’s inauguration.

The Panama tower was one of 12 properties remaining in Trump portfolio of hotels—properties which his firm mostly manages rather than owning the actual real estate involved. Since taking office, the Trump moniker has also been erased from hotels in Toronto and Manhattan, though the Panama “de-flagging” was the most dramatic—with some Trump Organization staff forced to leave the property in handcuffs (paywall).
https://qz.com/quartzy/1222568/trumps-name-is-being-removed-from-the-trump-international-hotel-and-tower-in-panama-city/

March 9: The Trump Organization has donated $151,470 in foreign government profits at its hotels and similar businesses last year to the U.S. Treasury, an executive said in a statement Friday.

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George Sorial, the executive vice president and chief compliance counsel, said the Feb. 22 voluntary donation fulfills the company's pledge to donate profits from foreign government patronage while Donald Trump is president.

Ethics experts have criticized the pledge Trump made at a news conference held days before his inauguration because it didn't include all his properties, such as his resorts, and left it up to Trump to define "profit." The pledge was supposedly made to ameliorate the worry that Trump was violating the Constitution's emoluments clause, which bans the president's acceptance of foreign gifts and money without Congress' permission.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-org-says-it-donated-151-470-hotel-profits-gov-n855331

June 24: Atlanta attorney buys TrumpHotels.org, plasters it with images of immigrant detention centers

“If Trump himself wants to buy the site, I might be willing to part with it in exchange for 10 years of his tax returns and the termination of 25 NDAs of my choosing,” says Loren Collins
https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/atlanta-attorney-buys-trumphotels-org-plasters-images-immigrant-detention-centers/


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June 28: Government Employees Spend Your Money at Trump Hotels

Shortly before President Trump took office, his lawyer promised Trump would forgo any profits his hotels made from foreign governments. There was no similar pledge for money earned from federal government employees, state officials, or anybody else who might be seeking to curry favor. And a lot of that money is coming from you, U.S. taxpayers.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/trump-inc-podcast-government-employees-spend-your-money-trump-hotels


November 29: When Michael Suomi puts together a hotel room, he’s figuring out a lot of puzzle pieces.

“If you tipped a hotel upside down, it would be everything that falls out: nightstands, and headboards, and lounge chairs, and rugs, and wall covering,” says Suomi, the principal in charge of interior design with the New York architecture firm Stonehill Taylor.

And how many of those items are now subject to tariffs?

“It’s pretty much everything,” he says.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-11-29/trump-s-tariffs-cause-headaches-his-own-industry-hotels


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December 3: A federal judge on Monday said lawyers for Maryland and Washington, D.C., can begin issuing subpoenas in a lawsuit that accuses President Donald Trump of using his luxury hotel in Washington to unconstitutionally profit from his political office.

The attorneys general in Maryland and Washington say they plan to serve as many as 20 companies and government agencies with subpoenas by midday Tuesday. It’s the first time a lawsuit alleging a president violated the Constitution's emoluments, or anti-corruption, clauses has advanced to the discovery stage.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/03/subpoenas-trump-hotel-emoluments-1041324


December 6: Saudi-backed lobbyists reportedly booked 500 rooms at Trump's DC hotel after the 2016 election
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/06/saudi-lobbyists-reportedly-booked-500-rooms-at-trumps-dc-hotel.html


December 6: Report: The Saudis Used Unsuspecting Veterans to Funnel Money to Trump

This story begins with a group offering vets free trips (funded by the Saudis) to the capital in order to lobby lawmakers in late 2016. The target of their ire was the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA), which would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue the Saudi government. It became law in September of 2016 when Congress overrode Barack Obama’s veto and the Saudi lobbying effort began shortly thereafter.

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The vets, who were told that the bill would allow other countries to charge U.S. troops for crimes committed overseas, stayed in two non-Trump hotels on their first trips to Washington. But then the organizer found an opening at Trump’s lavish spot in downtown D.C. Michael Gibson, who helped run the trips on behalf of the Saudis, said this had nothing to do with the regime’s trying to curry favor with a new U.S. president. He also said the rooms, which averaged $768 a night at the time, were provided at a discount.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/report-the-saudis-used-veterans-to-funnel-money-to-trump.html

December 18: California Republicans spent big bucks at Trump hotels, golf clubs and resorts

GOP candidates and committees spent more than $3.5 million at Trump properties in 2017-18
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/18/republican-candidates-spend-big-at-trump-hotels-golf-clubs-resorts/


-- 2019 --

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February 15: Trump Organization Halts Its Red State Hotel Expansion Plans

After two years of slow progress, the Trump Organization has officially shelved plans to expand its hotel business in red states.

The two new mid-price hotel chains, Scion and American Idea, were to start in Mississippi and eventually total 39 properties. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who have run the business since their father took office in 2017, blamed political attacks and negative media coverage.
http://fortune.com/2019/02/15/trump-organization-halts-hotel-expansions/

February 17: Maine paid for 40 rooms at Trump hotel for LePage, staff

Newly released receipts reveal nearly a dozen trips to the president's luxury hotel, part of $170,000 in out-of-state travel by the former Maine governor in recent years.
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/02/17/maine-paid-for-40-rooms-at-trump-hotel-for-lepage-staff/


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March 3: Workers in Bali who lost their jobs when a hotel was demolished have called out President Donald Trump over a proposed resort they say is failing to materialize.

Residents of the island’s Beraban village told Australia’s 9News they have been waiting, jobless, for 18 months for the proposed Trump International Collection hotel. But they say construction is yet to begin.

Trump put his name on a proposed luxury resort, Trump International Hotel and Tower Bali, back in 2015. It is set to be built on the site of Pan Pacific Nirwana Bali—a large hotel that was demolished in mid-2017.

The area has been cleared, but 9News reported activity at the site has stalled. Ketut Sujana, 54, one of some 800 workers made unemployed after the demolition, told the outlet he’s had to dig into his pension, sell his car and even ask friends for money to get by.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-trump-hotels-bali-indonesia-mnc-group-1350024


March 5: T-Mobile has spent $195,000 at Trump hotel while lobbying for Sprint merger

Businesses like T-Mobile are "lin[ing] the president's pockets," lawmakers say.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/t-mobile-has-spent-195000-at-trump-hotel-while-lobbying-for-sprint-merger/

-- 2020 --

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